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THE ECCLESIAZUSÆ.
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been a fertile source of jest and satire in all times, our own included; but there is a wide interval in tone and feeling between the Athenian poet's Choruses of women, and the graceful picture, satire though it be, drawn by the English Laureate, of the
"Six hundred maidens clad in purest white
Before two streams of light from wall to wall."[1]
- ↑ Tennyson's 'Princess.'
