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  • The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon,"
    And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved
    From wild America to Bosphor's waters,
    And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines
    Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me,
    And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue,
    And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul,
    Sitting amid their ruins.

    Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.171