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 the fair cities of Greece and the inhabitants thereof.

"I have looked at the paintings and I have been dazzled and transported. What is there not upon those walls!

"I have seen, in truth, 'the vision of the world and all the wonder that shall be.'

"I have seen the struggling of the chrysalis-soul and its bursting into light; I have seen the divinity that doth sometime hedge the earth; I have looked at a conception of Poetry and I have heard the thin, rhythmic sounds of shawms and stringed instruments; and I have heard low, voluptuous music from within the temple—human voices like sweet jessamine; I have seen the fascinating idolatry of pagans—and I have seen, pale in the evening by the light of a star, the wooden figure of the Cross; I have leaned over the edge of a chasm and beheld the things of old—the army of Hannibal before