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Cleopatra

CHAPTER VI
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He, the Avenger, hurled himself with a shout upon the Monster who had usurped the throne, and they closed in battle, and, struggling ever in a strait embrace, passed upward to the skies.
Then came picture after picture.

I saw Powers and Peoples clad in various robes and speaking many tongues.

I saw them pass and pass in millions--loving, hating, struggling, dying.

Some few were happy and some had woe stamped upon their faces; but most bore not the seal of happiness nor of woe, but rather that of patience.

And ever as they passed from age to age, high above in the heavens the Avenger fought on with the Evil Thing, while the scale of victory swung now here now there.


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