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Very sad to each of us it is when time and the sorrows of "this unintelligible world" carve furrows upon our own countenances, but when the visage of the globe shrivels and wrinkles with the lapse of ages then the greatness of the disaster touches the whole race. Sicily, whose history is so full of blood and tears, has been the victim of the greatest natural tragedy that man's chronicles record because of this line drawn by Time upon our planet's faceyet it leaves her still so fair, so poignantly lovely, that pilgrims of beauty willforgetting this slight blemishstill journey to see the sweetest remnant of the world's youth. Happily 10Messina, the one city injured, was the one city where travellers rarely paused. All the others remain unmarred and are still exactly as they were when this chronicle of their ancient beauty and charm was set down...
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