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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: various
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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orsakes Ravenna, which liveson with an unholy charm, like one reallydead, kept in a semblance of life bywitchcraft. The sea has ebbed from it,life has ebbed out of it, splendor andpower have forsaken it; it remains thelovely and unhappy ghost of itself. Thestreets themselves are as if cut out of theground; they have the color and chill feelof the earth; the sun rarely soaks intothem; one seems to be walking in a citydug up out of ruins. There is a strange,shivering silence everywhere; in theseroughly paved streets on which there isso rarely a sound of wheels or of foot-steps; in these vast and solid houses, frombehind whose bars and shutters so fewfaces look out; in these empty squares;these sumptuous churches with closeddoors, opened for curious strangers; these 620 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. great gateways shutting in the city uponitself. And light, when it comes into thecity, is itself disquieting. Sometimes,after a days resignation or dull wait-ing, Ravenna begins to awaken, like a
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Sepulchre of Theodoric the Great (Sixth Century) convalescent, as the afternoon brightenstowards sunset. Seen from the walls, thecolors of the sky seem to soak down uponthe city; it flushes, seems to respond tothe light. Standing in the Piazza Byronat sunset, one sees the red walls of thechurch of S. Francesco as if flamingagainst a sky from which the fires ofsunset are reflected; every leaf of thelittle tree that stands in the corner of thesquare burns with a separate flame, andthe red glow extends to the tomb ofBraccioforte, where Dante lies buriedamong the sarcophagi. Ravenna is full of ancient monu-ments, which seem to last on, after sounthinkably many centuries, like veryold people, blind and deaf, and feeble inhands and feet, who still sit by the hearth of their oldhomes, dressed inancient finery, andtolerating the youthof the world withan impeccable cour-tesy. They fright-en the younger peo-ple a little, who feeltheir own flimsymodernness, and ayouth which is notlikely to grow

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