my guides and lead me to another court, the name of which

I need not even speak; we know it, and have known it for many years. In the sweet morning light we do not see the wounds which time and decay have here inflicted; we see the court in all the unimpaired beauty of its early days; it seems to us as perfect as when the builders inscribed in ornamental characters round its arches, "May lasting power and glory imperishable be the inheritance of the master of this palace."

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ENTRANCE TO THE HALL OF THE AMBASSADORS Photograph by Harlow D. Higinbotham