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"He who has seen a city in the skies / Knows he may never cool his tired eyes / At the fair waters of that Paradise. / But the one moment when he thought his feet / Would enter that dream-city, was so sweet / That he can bear the noonday and its heat. " / -- ALICE HERBERT.
The sky was clear and starry; the night was swept by the strong, clean current of the March wind, as the three men stepped out into Collis Square.