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ly…learned form of words; and left; turning towards the camp; and as I walked back; and the cook…house bugle sounded ahead of me; I thought:
    'The builders did not know the uses to which their work would descend; they made a new house with the stones of the old castle; year by year; generation after generation; they enriched and extended it; year by year the great harvest of timber in the park grew to ripeness; until; in sudden frost; came the age of Hooper; the place was desolate and the work all brought to nothing; Quomodo sedet sola civitas。 Vanity of vanities; all is vanity。
    'And yet;' I thought; stepping out more briskly towards the camp; where the bugles after a pause had taken up the second call and were sounding 'Pick…em…up; pick…em…up; hot potatoes'; 'and yet that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back。
    'Something quite remote from anything the builders intended; has e out of their work; and out of the fierce little human tragedy in which I played; something none of us thought about at the time; a small red flame … a beaten…copper lamp of deplorable design relit before the beaten…copper doors of a tabernacle; the flame which the old knights saw from their tombs; which they saw put out; that flame burns again for other soldiers; far from home; farther; in heart; than Acre or Jerusalem。 It could not have been lit but for the builders and the tragedians; and there I found it this morning; burning anew among the old stones。'
    I quickened my pace and reached the hut which served us for our ante…room。
    'You're looking unusually cheerful today;' said the second…in…mand。


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