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Where the rivers meet the sea stands the City. The great ships come to her from the four comers of the earth; they wait, straining at the leash, innumerable, along her proud shores. Over bridges that hang, Hke dream-phantoms, high above the waters, through tunnels that plunge deep below the waters, where no living thing ever moved before, she draws in her countless hosts of toil. The sun, lifting his head out of the deep, hangs shields of gold upon the fretted windows of her soaring towers, and flings his javelins of splendour against her domes and pinnacles. In her teeming streets all nations of men traflfic with one another. The rich and the hungry poor are jostled together. Poverty and nakedness stare with wild eyes from her noisome alleys; wealth such as the Orient never knew is daily amassed, daily dispended, in her markets. It is a City of Power, a City of consuming A mbition, a Babel that would ravish heaven of its secret and silence. It is a City of Youth. Like the fabled bird of A rabia, she renews herself in the ashes of her past.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at

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