processions

saluted everywhere saluting

reviewing processions of minions

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We must attain the night

Before endless processions

Of lamps

religion. The following curious description of one of these

tumultuary processions, in 1679, was extracted by Ralph, from a

very scarce pamphlet; it is the ceremony referred to in the

Which every elf and fay had come to see:

When bright processions took their airy march

Beneath the curved moon's triumphal arch.

With the show of the States themselves as of crape-veil’d women standing,

With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night,

With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea of faces and the

Myriads of counter processions

crossing and recrossing, regaining