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receives alike the prince and peasant. Others also 

 followed, great in their day, and filled while living with 

 busy schemes, hut of whom, as years were added, scarcely 

 a trace remained. Where knees bent in prayer, and the 

 white-robed priest chanted the high requiem, a broken 

 stone figure, recumbent on a lichen-dotted stone, points 

 out a warrior's resting-place ; and perchance a mound 

 thrown up, with broken slabs of richly-sculptured marble, 

 indicate that some one who had figured greatly in past 

 ages lay there ; again, a broken crosier, or a pilgrim's 

 staff, tell of years spent in wanderings, and in prayer. 



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