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A Cathedral Singer, by James Lane Allen
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Title: A Cathedral Singer
Author: James Lane Allen
Release Date: March 16, 2005 [EBook #15385]
Language: English
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A Cathedral Singer
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A Cathedral Singer
BY JAMES LANE ALLEN
Author of "The Sword of Youth," "The Bride of the Mistletoe," "The Kentucky Cardinal," "The Choir Invisible," etc.
WITH FRONTISPIECE BY SIGISMOND DE IVANOWSKI
NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1916 Copyright, 1914, 1916, by THE CENTURY CO.
Published, March, 1916
TO PITY AND TO FAITH
A Cathedral Singer
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Slowly on Morningside Heights rises the Cathedral of St. John the Divine: standing on a high rock under the Northern sky above the long wash of the untroubled sea, above the wash of the troubled waves of men.
It has fit neighbors. Across the street to the north looms the many-towered gray-walled Hospital of St. Luke--cathedral of our ruins, of our sufferings and our dust, near the cathedral of our souls.
Across the block to the south is situated a shed-like two-story building with