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VICISSITUDES IN ITS DESTINY.
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new episode as a dwelling for the living. "While I was
at work in the neighbourhood I prohibited its occu-
pation, with a view to further excavations close at
hand, on a future occasion ; but I had not cleared the
doorway of the tomb adjoining more than two days
when possession of it was sought, and the simple
operations commenced for converting it into a habi-
tation. So, on this spot, as elsewhere throughout
the Necropolis, the past and the present will be blended
in. a manner almost emblematic, as well as visibly
demonstrative, of the decadence which here divides
them; and life, no longer fruitful of the works of old,
will be content to repose beside the symbols of that
actual death which typifies its degradation.
" TJnd du flickst zwischen der Yergangenheit
Erhaben Trtimmer
Eiir dein Bediirfniss
Eine Hutte, O Mensch !
Geniessest iiber Grubcrn."—Gothe, lhr Wanderer.
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new episode as a dwelling for the living. "While I was
at work in the neighbourhood I prohibited its occu-
pation, with a view to further excavations close at
hand, on a future occasion ; but I had not cleared the
doorway of the tomb adjoining more than two days
when possession of it was sought, and the simple
operations commenced for converting it into a habi-
tation. So, on this spot, as elsewhere throughout
the Necropolis, the past and the present will be blended
in. a manner almost emblematic, as well as visibly
demonstrative, of the decadence which here divides
them; and life, no longer fruitful of the works of old,
will be content to repose beside the symbols of that
actual death which typifies its degradation.
" TJnd du flickst zwischen der Yergangenheit
Erhaben Trtimmer
Eiir dein Bediirfniss
Eine Hutte, O Mensch !
Geniessest iiber Grubcrn."—Gothe, lhr Wanderer.