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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 565

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A legend of the Mosque of St. Sophia h^N ni e ■ j° fli nt … Justinian, by men called Great and Wise,Had built full many a bri dge and wharf and town,But most of all the churches he had reared,Not for Gods glory, but his own renown;For each new temple meant new taxes laidAnd tithes from starvingpeasants hardly wrung,Till there were muttered curses, low and…

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