The City Rises Up

' And so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus'. If as the shores of Asia lessened upon his sight, the spirit of prophecy had entered into the heart of the weak disciple who had turned back when his hand was on the plough, and who had been judged, by the chiefest of Christ's captain's, unworthy thenceforward to go forth with him to the work, how wonderful would he have thought it, that by the lion symbol in future ages he was to be represented among men!...
Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

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nadsat orange
nigel o'connor