The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 247
oly church, in which the trees and thebuoyant clouds were the pillars, flowers and grassthe velvet carpeting, and heaven itself the largecupola. Tlie red colors above faded awaj^ as thesun vanished, but a million stars were lighted, amillion lamps shone ; and the kings son spreadout his arms toward… … had reached the spot just as soon as the son ofthe king had done. They ran toward each other,and stood together, hand in hand, in the vastchurch of nature and of poetry, while over themsounded the invisible, holy bell ; blessed spiritsfloated around them, and lifted up their voices ina rejoicing…
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