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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: than light can flash. We passed sun after sun. They drew near,
they grew into enormous, flaming Glories round which circled
world upon world. They became small, dwindled to points of light
and disappeared.
We found footing upon some far land and passed a marvelous
white city wherein were buildings with domes of crystal and
alabaster, in the latter of which were set windows made of great
jewels; sapphires or rubies they seemed to me. We went on up a
lovely valley. To the left were hills, down which tumbled
waterfalls; to the right was a river broad and deep that seemed
to overflow its banks as does the Nile. Behind were high
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