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Seraphita

CHAPTER IV
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THE CLOUDS OF THE SANCTUARY.
There are pageants in which all the material splendors that man arrays co-operate.

Nations of slaves and divers have searched the sands of ocean and the bowels of earth for the pearls and diamonds which adorn the spectators.

Transmitted as heirlooms from generation to generation, these treasures have shone on consecrated brows and could be the most faithful of historians had they speech.

They know the joys and sorrows of the great and those of the small.


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