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A Sketch From Cologne, With A Peep Into Holland.
A SKETCH FROM COLOGNE , WITH A PEEP INTO HOLLAND .
BY -JIBS . WAED . THE sun was glowing brightly as we drove uncier the arch of an- ancient gateway into the streets of Cologne . Over the arch was a gratingand soldiers were at work within the iron bars .
, They were prisoners ; I longed to build up then * window , that looked upon the crowded town , and open one on the other side , where trees waved in the soft summer afr . Where towers and fortifications " deep and wide" now cumber the ground , the Romans had their camp , when Rome was to the world what Great Britain is now .
But once fairly in the streets of Cologne , every classic thought vanishes ; it is an unsightly , filthy place ; and to make matters worse for us , there had been a religious procession some clays before , and the narrow thoroughfares were still strewed with the dead leaves of faded garlands ancl cut paper , which had been scattered in the pathway of the cavalcade ; flags hanging heavy ancl dark in the hot air shut out the light from the sky , ancl acted as fans on the pestiferous atmosphere :
wreaths of egg-shells , neither picturesque nor odorous , were slung across from the tall houses , on the door-steps of which , people , thoroughly idled by the fete , stood gossiping , unmindful of the children who swarmed in the gutters , ancl revelled in the " verdant mud .- " We made our way to the cathedral ; the floor seemed paved with
precious stones of magnitude , for the rays from the setting sun shone through the gorgeous windows , ancl shed such a glory of purple , crimson , blue , amber , ancl scarlet , that it was thoroughly dazzling ; the pillars of the seven aisles literally glowed like gold , ancl here ancl there the shadows falling , the illuminated points between them were thrown out with indescribable
brilliancy . We passed up these aisles of light , and reaching an archway deep in shadow , were startled by a gigantic figure of St . Christopher ; it looked awfully real in the gloom , with its massive limbs and huge head ; and it was a relief to turn from this deadly travestie of the human form , to the chaste grandeur
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Sketch From Cologne, With A Peep Into Holland.
A SKETCH FROM COLOGNE , WITH A PEEP INTO HOLLAND .
BY -JIBS . WAED . THE sun was glowing brightly as we drove uncier the arch of an- ancient gateway into the streets of Cologne . Over the arch was a gratingand soldiers were at work within the iron bars .
, They were prisoners ; I longed to build up then * window , that looked upon the crowded town , and open one on the other side , where trees waved in the soft summer afr . Where towers and fortifications " deep and wide" now cumber the ground , the Romans had their camp , when Rome was to the world what Great Britain is now .
But once fairly in the streets of Cologne , every classic thought vanishes ; it is an unsightly , filthy place ; and to make matters worse for us , there had been a religious procession some clays before , and the narrow thoroughfares were still strewed with the dead leaves of faded garlands ancl cut paper , which had been scattered in the pathway of the cavalcade ; flags hanging heavy ancl dark in the hot air shut out the light from the sky , ancl acted as fans on the pestiferous atmosphere :
wreaths of egg-shells , neither picturesque nor odorous , were slung across from the tall houses , on the door-steps of which , people , thoroughly idled by the fete , stood gossiping , unmindful of the children who swarmed in the gutters , ancl revelled in the " verdant mud .- " We made our way to the cathedral ; the floor seemed paved with
precious stones of magnitude , for the rays from the setting sun shone through the gorgeous windows , ancl shed such a glory of purple , crimson , blue , amber , ancl scarlet , that it was thoroughly dazzling ; the pillars of the seven aisles literally glowed like gold , ancl here ancl there the shadows falling , the illuminated points between them were thrown out with indescribable
brilliancy . We passed up these aisles of light , and reaching an archway deep in shadow , were startled by a gigantic figure of St . Christopher ; it looked awfully real in the gloom , with its massive limbs and huge head ; and it was a relief to turn from this deadly travestie of the human form , to the chaste grandeur