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THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS, [chap, xxvm
wonder that its fame spread even over the barbarian world and
found immortality in Homer's song.
For many a day after I had seen it, and even to this hour,
glimpses of Thebes mingle with my reveries and blend them-
selves with dreams, as if that vision had daguerreotyped itself
upon the brain, and would remain there for ever.
THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS, [chap, xxvm
wonder that its fame spread even over the barbarian world and
found immortality in Homer's song.
For many a day after I had seen it, and even to this hour,
glimpses of Thebes mingle with my reveries and blend them-
selves with dreams, as if that vision had daguerreotyped itself
upon the brain, and would remain there for ever.