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Cleopatra

CHAPTER VI
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All was wisdom, prosperity, and peace.
And while I wondered, a glorious Figure, clad in raiment that shone as flame, came from the gates of a shrine, and the sound of music went before and followed after him.

He mounted an ivory throne which was set in a market-place facing the water: and as the sun sank called in all the multitudes to prayer.

With one voice they prayed, bending in adoration.

And I understood that herein was shown the reign of the Gods on earth, which was long before the days of Menes.
A change came over the dream.

Still the same fair city, but other men--men with greed and evil on their faces--who hated the bonds of righteous doing, and set their hearts on sin.


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