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 and their turbaned leaders are silhouetted black as jet will have faded into purple haze, the evening star will have changed from a rayless speck of silver into a flashing jewel, and the lake of lilac in which it swims will have become blanched and colourless ere that great rose-window through which we have been gazing as into the lighted cathedral of the heavens is itself at last swallowed up in night.