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We are here in the sweet silence of a summer morning, eighteen hundred years after such a scene, and able mentally to catch some glimpse of it; some echo of the storm that has left behind it so ineffaceable a mark.
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Hoar evokes the tranquility of a summer morning while contemplating the historical significance of a past event.
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