Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-01-12


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Gree there. be fesl asleep and woks
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near Q city. There VAS no sign of
life. and he raisei himself slowly
and advanced toward the open gate.
When he reached the open gate
and entered into the city whose lofty
spires and beautiful gilded domes
\ had been dimly visible for so long.
he felt cold SILVER of apprehension
creep over him. This, then, was the
tabled city of the Indian legends, and
such a thing had existed in actual
reality. He tried to remember fully
the old traditions, but they escaped
his memory. Still he advanced, and
as he did so all fear was lost in ad-
miration and establishment. The
streets were paved with solid blocks
of silver, and the houses were of the
purest marble, and friezes of gold
let in, and all most beautifully
sculptured and adorned. All along
the streets, on either side, were
lamps were lighted and their light
was thrown downward by brilliant
diamond refectors. Day and night
were the same in this cave, and no
sun shed his warming light, nor moon
gave her pale, melancholy rays, nor
stars ever shed their dewy tears in
sympathy for the sorrows of earth.
Yet flowers bloomed, trees bore the
most luxurious fruit, and the earth
gave forth rich increase in this strange
land.
The houses all had porticos and
many columns, all futed and carved
in the most exquisite manner. One
column alone contained more than
five thousand faces all representing
infants laughing, crying, sick, dying,
dead and angelic; each one per-
feet master-work in itself. Temples
grander and fairer than ever adorned
Athens in her palmiest days; noble
monuments and marvellous evidences
of art and patient labor, together
with the most lavish profusion of
precious metals and jewels of price
made this a dream begotten in a
fevered imagination from the tabled
Arabian Nights stories.
Blackburn wandered on and on,
bewildered b. the beauty around him
and too much dazzled by the wonder.
full city to note the absence of human
beings in the streets. He heard,
several times, o sound between a
human sigh and serpent's hiss, and
soft rustling among the rich shrub
berry which EMPOWERED every house,
but 80 absorbed was he that he
thought no more of it, and always
passed on and on, ever attracted by
new beauties and dazzling surprises.
He went up one street and down
another, and found in every one new
marvels to admire and new glories to
contemplate. He wondered where
the part of the city was wherein the
merchants dwelt, for in oil the streets
he had vet traversed he had not yet
seen anything resembling q store
where any of the rich fabrics he saw
floating from the windows of the
pAlacs-like dwellings that he had
passd, nor Of jewels, nor even those
thlnxs which Eortals are wont %
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