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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER H. Morning Scenes?Deacon Goodman.s Account of this New World?Colloquy concerning this World in contrast with Earth?Breakfast?Servitors descrihed? Peter receives a Message from his Angel to hasten to the Metropolis to hear a new Oratorio by Handel, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven?The Mcsseoger tells the Story of his Life. Our travellers arose with the song of earliest birds, and met each other on the terrace leading to the grounds bordering on the lake. The morning breeze was just waking the waves to life. If the sunset was glorious, the rising sun, whose coming was foretold by the reflected light from the vast zone circling this world, was magnificent, and filled their souls with emotions of sublimity which kept them silent. They were brought down from heaven to earth by the song of birds, whose plumage was paradisiacal, while their notes, running through the sweetest inflections, won their admiring attention. And looking round they were delighted to see flowers of unknown fragrance, and new combinations of hues; and above and around were trees of great height and beauty of foliage whosependent boughs, far drooping, waved gracefully over them. How beautiful was an exclamation ever rising to their lips. While thus occupied, Deacon Goodman and wife joined them, and after morning salutations, Mrs. Jay asked the deacon to tell them something about this lovely world. We are told, madam, that this is a very ancient world, and has been peopled many cycles of centuries. It is one of worlds of Beauty aud Art, or, as my son has it, of the True and the Beautiful in Art. If you have circled it before alighting here, you have seen its many and vast cities, filled with glorious temples and edifices devoted to galleries of paintings and sculpture, and museums of natur...
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