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Nevertheless they often wept in Never for change and passing away, mourning catastrophes in other worlds, and they built temples sometimes to ruined stars that had fallen flaming down from the Milky Way, giving them worship still when by us long since forgotten. NEVERTHELESS THEY OFTEN WEPT IN NEVER FOR CHANGE AND PASSING AWAY MOURNING CATASTROPHES IN OTHER WORLDS AND THEY BUILT TEMPLES SOMETIMES TO RUINED STARS THAT HAD FALLEN FLAMING DOWN FROM THE MILKY WAY GIVING THEM WORSHIP STILL WHEN BY US LONG SINCE FORGOTTEN
Little steps of onyx ran all this way and that. With cobbled agates were its streets a glory. Through small square panes of rose-quartz the citizens looked from their houses. To them as they looked abroad the World far-off seemed happy. Clad though that city was in one robe always, in twilight, yet was its beauty worthy of even so lovely a wonder: city and twilight were both peerless but for each other. Built of a stone unknown in the world we tread were its bastions, quarried we know not where, but called by the gnomes _abyx_, it so flashed back to the twilight its glories, colour for colour, that none can say of them where their boundary is, and which the eternal twilight, and which the City of Never; they are the twin-born children, the fairest daughters of Wonder. Time had been there, but not to work destruction; he had turned to a fair, pale green the domes that were made of copper, the rest he had left untouched, even he, the destroyer of cities, by what bribe I know not averted. THER LIGHT ALL THE DOMES WERE OF COPPER BUT THE SPIRES ON THEIR SUMMITS WERE GOLD LITTLE STEPS OF ONYX RAN ALL THIS WAY AND THAT WITH COBBLED AGATES WERE ITS STREETS A GLORY THROUGH SMALL SQUARE PANES OF ROSE QUARTZ THE CITIZENS LOOKED FROM THEIR HOUSES TO THEM AS THEY LOOKED ABROAD THE WORLD FAR OFF SEEMED HAPPY CLAD THOUGH THAT CITY WAS IN ONE ROBE ALWAYS IN TWILIGHT YET WAS ITS BEAUTY WORTHY OF EVEN SO LOVELY A WONDER CITY AND TWILIGHT WERE BOTH PEERLESS BUT FOR EACH OTHER BUILT OF A STONE UNKNOWN IN THE WORLD WE TREAD WERE ITS BASTIONS QUARRIED WE KNOW NOT WHERE BUT CALLED BY THE NOMES ABICS IT SO FLASHED BACK TO THE TWILIGHT ITS GLORIES COLOR FOR COLOR THAT NONE CAN SAY OF THEM WHERE THEIR BOUNDARY IS AND WHICH THE ETERNAL TWILIGHT AND WHICH THE CITY OF NEVER THEY ARE THE TWIN BORN CHILDREN THE FAIREST DAUGHTERS OF WONDER TIME HAD BEEN THERE BUT NOT TO THE DOMES THAT WERE MADE OF COPPER THE REST HE HAD LEFT UNTOUCHED EVEN HE THE DESTROYER OF CITIES BY WHAT BRIBE I KNOW NOT AVERTED
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