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As in the night when the Star of Love first rose upon his vigil it had stopped over the door of "a legended tomb," so now again was his pathway closed. Turn which way he would, the tomb of Virginia seemed to frown upon him. He remembered his promise to her that upon no other daughter of earth would he look with the eyes of love.
His thoughts lapsed into dreams dreams of aisle and cloister, arches and legended panes.
Here was the Bazaar, and yonder, far away on the southern border of Tennessee, its wasted ranks still spruce in their tatters, the battery; iron-hearted Bartleson in command; its six yellow daughters of destruction a trifle black in the lips, but bright on the cheeks and virgins all; Charlie on the roster though not in sight, the silken-satin standard well in view, rent and pierced, but showing seven red days of valor legended on its folds, and with that white-moustached old centaur, Maxime, still upholding it in action and review.
Those who to-day are prone to decry football as a rough and brutal sport which it no longer is might at least reverse their opinions of the present game, could they have spent a certain lurid afternoon in the fall of '87 at Jarvis Field where the elevens of Harvard and Princeton fought a battle so sanguinary as to come down to us through the years legended as a real crimson affair.
Girt by mountain and sea, by haunted fountain and sacred grove, shaped and adorned by the master hands of Pheidias and Polygnotus and filled with the breath of passion and song by Euripides and Plato, Athens, famed alike for the legended deeds of heroes and gods and for the feats of her human sons in council, art, and war, is a name, to those who have felt her spell, more familiar and more dear than any of the few that mark with gold the sombre scroll of history.
Her touches went everywhere over that cold face, and she moaned little syllables that had no meaning. He lived, but it seemed to her that she had found him at the legended gates of death. "Miss Kate!" said Morgan desperately. "You murderer!" "You don't think that I did that?" "It happened in your place you had given Dad your word!" Still she did not turn her head. "Won't you hear me explain?
Baltimore, with its memories of Virginia Baltimore where he had come up out of the grave to the heaven of her love, and where had been first constructed the most beautiful of all his dreams the dream of the Valley of the Many-Colored Grass, in which he and she and the Mother had lived for each other only! In Baltimore again he found his way stopped by the vision of "a legended tomb."
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