It unites for me two elements of moving interest: a vivid fact from the ancient world, recorded in the music of the ancient tongue.

All day the words rang in my head, even as at Rome I have gone about murmuring to myself: "_Aedificabo ecclesiam meam_." What a noble solemnity in this Latin speech! And how vast the historic significance of such monumental words! Moralize who will; enough for me to hear with delight that deep-toned harmony, and to thrill with the strangeness of old things made new.
It was Sunday, which at Reggio is a day or market.

Crowds of country-folk had come into the town with the produce of field and garden; all the open spaces were occupied with temporary stalls; at hand stood innumerable donkeys, tethered till business should be over.
The produce exhibited was of very fine quality, especially the vegetables; I noticed cauliflowers measuring more than a foot across the white.

Of costume there was little to be observed--though the long soft cap worn by most of the men, hanging bag-like over one ear almost to the shoulder, is picturesque.

The female water-carriers, a long slim cask resting lengthwise upon their padded heads, hold attention as they go to and from the fountains.