After-thoughts of foreign travel : in historic lands and capital cities . ated his models and gave the final touches tohis statues, he will still be known as one faith-ful to God and man. Florence is sdad to claimhim as her inhabitant, and America is rejoicedto own him as her son. If his ashes shallserve to nourish and render more beautiful thegrass and flowers of a foreign land, his life willcontinue to feed and beautify countless souls ofhis own beloved America, proving that man,noble and exalted, — that epitome of creation,that mind subject to the laws of the universe,that vegetable which c
After-thoughts of foreign travel : in historic lands and capital cities . ated his models and gave the final touches tohis statues, he will still be known as one faith-ful to God and man. Florence is sdad to claimhim as her inhabitant, and America is rejoicedto own him as her son. If his ashes shallserve to nourish and render more beautiful thegrass and flowers of a foreign land, his life willcontinue to feed and beautify countless souls ofhis own beloved America, proving that man,noble and exalted, — that epitome of creation,that mind subject to the laws of the universe,that vegetable which connot live without air,light, and water, that animal born to be nour-ished like other mammalia, that microcosmwhose crown is arched like the vault of heavenand whose eye kindles brighter than the stars,that being little lower than the seraphs and 210 AFTER-THOUGHTS OF FOREIGN TRAVEL. above all other mortals, — cannot die, but aspoet, musician, artist, philosopher, scholar, orfaithful servant of the Most High, is sure tolive in the hearts of men and angels. H ? I!. VIII. MODERN AND ANCIENT ROME. TN nearly the same latitude as Boston andsome live thousand miles to the eastwardis situated the Eternal City. It stands in thecentre of undulating prairie lands, spreadingout in all directions. Far away to the northare the Etrurian Hills and Sabine Mountains;to the east, the Apennines: to the south, theAlban Hills ; and to the west, the MediterraneanSea. These lands are somewhat diversified withswelling downs and woodless ravines, with grassyplats and miry bogs, with crooked streams andsandy knolls, with ancient ruins and scatteredbuildings. The mountains vary from one thousand tofive thousand feet in height. Their summitsare bald and white; their sides are green withgrass, or spotted with pine, chestnut, olive, ormulberry trees. At their bases are situatedseveral villages of historical note. In some ofthese there are costly villas and elegant worksof art. But the Campagna generally
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