"_Ay, there are some good things in life, that fall not away with the rest,_ _And of all best things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best._" And so the great Act draws near--the "high midsummer pomp" of Patriotism and Regality and Religion--the "one far-off divine event" to which the whole social creation has moved since the day was appointed and the preparations began. A thousand pens will picture the Coronation as it actually occurs. Writing in advance, I can only contemplate it as a magnificent ideal, and describe it as it strikes not the eye and ear but the heart, the imagination, and the historic sense.…
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