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CH. III THE LAMP OF POWER 137
England! But we have other sources of power, in the imagery of our iron coasts and azure hills; of power more pure, nor less serene, than that of the hermit spirit which once lighted with white lines of cloisters the glades of the Alpine pine, and raised into ordered spires the wild rocks of the Norman sea; which gave to the temple gate the depth and darkness of Elijah’s Horeb cave;1 and lifted, out of the populous city, grey cliffs of lonely stone, into the midst of sailing birds and silent air.
1 [1 Kings xx. 8, 9.]
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