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Title: Bright days in sunny lands
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Honeyman, A. Van Doren (Abraham Van Doren), 1849-1936
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Plainfield, N.J., Honeyman and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ls. These are so majestic, theimpression they make upon you is so intense, thatreligious awe takes possession of your whole frame.Christ, the Virgin and the Apostles at the one end;Christ coming to Judgment at the other: those are thesubjects; the beginning of Christianity, the end ofthe world. At this first visit I found some of themosaics were dropping out and the children were of-fering them for sale to strangers. There are othercurious things in this Cathedral—the delicately carvedpulpit and its staircase, for example; but the readermust look over Chapter.I of the first volume of Ruskins* Stones of Venice to learn of them. Of course I then ascended the Campanile, put therelater, say between the years looo and iioo, and lookedoff on the wide extent of seascape. The old doorwas first unlocked; the steps that go round and rounda circle were then climbed; and at a hundred feet fromthe ground I found myself sniffing the salt air of thelagoons again. It comes over you all at once that
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TORCELLO— MOTHER OF VENICE 257 while the tower stands—and you hope it will standforever!—somebody could, if he would, enjoy on everysingle day from this crooning nest a spectacle rare inthis world, and full of singular emotions; a spectacleof water, towers, sailboats, sunrises, sunsets: yet noone sees them from week to week, or month to month,save an occasional tourist. Exactly beneath are thechurches, the baptistery and the museum (a small build-ing which I had omitted to mention) ; they are hud-dled up close together as kine frightened by an ap-proaching storm, as if the builders builded when indire distress and sought comfort from proximity. Be-side that greensward before these structures is the so-called marble throne of Attila, a misnomer ofcourse, for want of a better designation. It is the seat—located elsewhere, originally, but doubtless then asnow under the blue sky—where the early Tribunes satand held their court. So much for what is left of the earUer ages. Saveth

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