Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . CEMETERY. FEAST OF ALL SOULS, NAPLES. Of THEUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ANCIENT AND MODERN CAMPANIANS. 37i damp dark passages, and find our eyes dazzled by glorious sunlight. The hedges arecovered with roses, the crimson oleander burns red against the deep blue sky, the leavesof the palm-trees are stirred by a refreshing breeze from the sea, merry children play in. ZAMPOGNARO. the gardens, and their hands are lull of flowers, the golden orange ripens amidst its darkfoliage,—thus it is to-day ; even thus it was in the days when the mustard-seed of theGospel ripene
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . CEMETERY. FEAST OF ALL SOULS, NAPLES. Of THEUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ANCIENT AND MODERN CAMPANIANS. 37i damp dark passages, and find our eyes dazzled by glorious sunlight. The hedges arecovered with roses, the crimson oleander burns red against the deep blue sky, the leavesof the palm-trees are stirred by a refreshing breeze from the sea, merry children play in. ZAMPOGNARO. the gardens, and their hands are lull of flowers, the golden orange ripens amidst its darkfoliage,—thus it is to-day ; even thus it was in the days when the mustard-seed of theGospel ripened in yonder dark caverns, soon to grow into a tree, from whose wood agreat throne was made! A throne whence the destinies of nations were governed with a 3 B 2 372 ITALY. tyranny only to be compared to that of the days of Pagan universal dominion—to thehard and implacable rule of the ancient Caesars. As we have said before, this tyranny runs like a blood-red thread throughout all thewindings of Neapolitan history. The heads of hundreds of rulers, and of many noblemen of the nation, are strung on it as beads upon a rosary ; and with these a bloodyfinger reckons off years and centuries of darkness and despotism. Naples is a tragicspot of earth. And it is well that Nature should strew the soil with roses and with allmanner of flowers so as to overpower the smell of decay which arises fr
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