What this ancient edifice has looked down upon in the centuries during which 3 has stood on the banks of the Huangpu would be well worth recording, could we but do it. So long has it towered above the monastery and temple and the clusters of divellings that surround them, it has become part of the very country itself, It is a land~ mark that has guided the weary steps of the traveller for a thousand years. It is bound up with the very lives of the people—it ix part of their re Kingdoms and etipires have come and gone singe its head was first roared Jagainst the azure sky. Armies have marched and counter marched, cine Sk a guide. Warg hav red round it; leaving it cot ana austere, Tt has seen the arrow give place to the whistling bullet; ite tiles have been shaken by' the iundet of artillery, but it stands there, without perceptible change, Just as it has always stood, epitomiz= me the hoary country of which it the hall mark,
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