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breathings of primeval life are almost audi- 

 ble, and one feels in a quick and subtle 

 perception the long past which unites him 

 with the earliest generations and the most 

 remote ages. 



Passing out from this brief worship under 

 the arches of the most venerable roof in 

 Christendom, the road takes on a frolic 

 mood and courts the open meadows and 

 the flooding sunshine; green, sweet, and 

 strewn with wild flowers, the open fields 

 call one from either side, and arrest one's 

 feet at every turn with solicitations to 

 freedom and joyousness. The white clouds 

 in the blue sky and the long sweep of these 

 radiant meadows conspire together to per- 

 suade one that time has strayed back to its 

 happy childhood again, and that nothing 

 remains of the old activities but play in 

 these immortal fields. Here the carpet is 

 spread over which one runs with childish 

 heedlessness, courting the disaster which 

 brings him back to the breast of the old 

 mother, and makes him feel once more 

 the warmth and sweetness out of which all 

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