the marvellous ruin that High Robber Chief Lord Elgin stole
and carted off to London, and still keeps the British Museum acting as
"fence"; how wide and long and spacious was the superb chamber that held
the statue the gods loved--none of these things interested me--do not
now. What I saw was an epoch in stone; a chronicle telling the story
of civilization; a glove thrown down to posterity, challenging the
competition of the world.

And with this came a feeling of reverence so profound, so awe-inspiring,
so humbling, that I caught myself speaking to Panis in whispers--as one
does in a temple when the service is in progress. This, as the sun sped
its course and the purple shadows of the coming night began to creep up
the steps and columns of the marvellous pile, its pediment bathed in the
rose-glow of the fading day, was followed by a silence that neither of
us cared to break. For then the wondrous temple took on the semblance
of some old sage, the sunlight on his forehead, the shadow of the future
about his knees.

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