The innocents abroad; . heir looped and windowed raggedness withvines. We shall remember St. Peters : not as .one sees itwhen he walks the streets of Rome and fancies all her domesare just alike, but as he sees it leagues away, when everymeaner edifice has faded out of sight and that one dome loonissuperbly up in the flush of sunset, full of dignity and grace,strongly outlined as a mountain. We shall remember Constantinople and the Bosporus—thecolossal magnificence of Baalbec—the Pyramids of Egypt—the prodigious form, the benignant countenance of the Sphynx—Oriental Smyrna—sacred Jerusalem—Dam
The innocents abroad; . heir looped and windowed raggedness withvines. We shall remember St. Peters : not as .one sees itwhen he walks the streets of Rome and fancies all her domesare just alike, but as he sees it leagues away, when everymeaner edifice has faded out of sight and that one dome loonissuperbly up in the flush of sunset, full of dignity and grace,strongly outlined as a mountain. We shall remember Constantinople and the Bosporus—thecolossal magnificence of Baalbec—the Pyramids of Egypt—the prodigious form, the benignant countenance of the Sphynx—Oriental Smyrna—sacred Jerusalem—Damascus, the Pearlof the East, the pride of Syria, the fabled Garden of Eden,the home of princes and genii of the Arabian Nights, the old-est metropolis on earth, the one city in all the world that haskept its name and held its place and looked serenely on whilethe Kingdoms and Empires of four thousand years have risento life, enjoyed their little season of pride and pomp, and thenvanished and been forgotten !. JUN ?*?«? !3 LB N 04
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