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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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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-tiful capitals of different patterns, and the shafts ofmost elaborate and delicate designs. It may be the 146 BRIGHT DAYS IN SUNNY LANDS monks of Monreale (for these cloisters were part ofthe Benedictine monastery attached to the Cathedral)were joyless like the Franciscans of the succeedingcentury, and like many Dominicans whom I have seenwith bowed heads in various parts of Italy, but, if so,the evidences belie them. In such a place, with suchsurroundings, amid such incomparable beauty, withthe fair heaven of Sicily always a-smile overhead, theycould not have walked those cloisters amid the fra-grance of flowers, the plash of fountains and the lov-ing sunshine, and been so sorrowful and ascetic astheir followers in after centuries. Not poverty and notstarvation, not darkness and not the ugliness and de-formities of a world of sin without, could ever havesapped for them the glories from these cloisters, orstripped from the walls of their Cathedral bright visionsof future immortality.
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IX.—THE ANAPO AND SYRACUSE. ANAPO! The name charms by its melhfluoussyllables. It was known in ancient Greek daysas Anapus/ but geographers prefer Anapo. The great stream of the Anapus/ Theocrituscalled it, nearly three hundred years before Christ.This may mean that it was great in fame, or thatit was a far larger river than at the present day.Now it is a small stream; an insignificant one.But to the ancients, who worshiped it under theforai of a young man, and who regarded it as the hus-band of Cyane, it was almost a sacred river. Its praisesPindar and Ovid were never tired of sounding in pas-toral verse. The Cyane is the name of the streamwhich joins the Anapo a mile from its mouth. TheCyane is clear as crystal; the Anapo is turbid. Neartheir sources both streams flow through exquisitescenery, and it is only in the lowlands where the wash-ings of the soil render the waters muddy. My excursion to the Anapo was on an afternoonfit for communion with the gods. The air was warm,but the

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