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Every language in the world has its own phrase, fresh for the stranger's fresh and alien sense of its signal significance; a phrase that is its own essential possession, and yet is dearer to the speaker of other tongues. Easily -- shall I say cheaply? -- spiritual, for example, was the nation that devised the name "anima pellegrina", wherewith to crown a creature admired. "Pilgrim soul" is a phrase for any language, but
"pilgrim soul!" addressed, singly and sweetly to one who cannot be over-