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It was far down the afternoon; and when all the spearings of the crimson fight were done: and floating in the lovely sunset sea and sky, sun and whale both stilly died together; then, such a sweetness and such plaintiveness, such inwreathing orisons curled up in that rosy air, that it almost seemed as if far over from the deep green convent valleys of the Manilla isles, the Spanish land-breeze, wantonly turned sailor, had gone to sea, freighted with these vesper hymns. The hour hath come for all light-dreading people, the vesper hour and leisure hour, when they do not--"take leisure. The bells are going for daily vesper service, and he must needs attend it, one would say, from his haste to reach the open Cathedral door. |
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