After You Have Once Seen It, The
Remembrance Remains With You, Like A Tune From Mozart, Which He
Seems To Have Caught Out Of Heaven, And Which Rings Sweet Harmony
In Your Ears For Ever After!
It's a benefit for all after life!
You have but to shut your eyes, and think, and recall it, and the
delightful vision comes smiling back, to your order!
- The divine
air - the delicious little pageant, which nature set before you on
this lucky day.
Here is the entry made in the note-book on the eventful day:- "In
the morning steamed into the bay of Glaucus - landed at Makri -
cheerful old desolate village - theatre by the beautiful sea-shore -
great fertility, oleanders - a palm-tree in the midst of the
village, spreading out like a Sultan's aigrette - sculptured
caverns, or tombs, up the mountain - camels over the bridge."
Perhaps it is best for a man of fancy to make his own landscape out
of these materials: to group the couched camels under the plane-
trees; the little crowd of wandering ragged heathens come down to
the calm water, to behold the nearing steamer; to fancy a mountain,
in the sides of which some scores of tombs are rudely carved;
pillars and porticos, and Doric entablatures. But it is of the
little theatre that he must make the most beautiful picture - a
charming little place of festival, lying out on the shore, and
looking over the sweet bay and the swelling purple islands. No
theatre-goer ever looked out on a fairer scene.
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