The Dark before the Dawn.
The ways of Providence are obscure and perplexing, but scenes such as those which Home had witnessed under Kero are not acted on this planet in the most neglected condition of it without retribution. Nero perished miserably, and ou the accursed city which had sinned with him the wrath of Heaven, or destiny, or nature, or whatever it may be called, was uot long in falling. We read in the Kotuau historians of military resolutions of three Emperors enthroned and killed iv less than as many years; of provinces wasted, and cities stormed and burned^ The page before us is stained t^^tftfjHH slayers and slain, uonquer^^^^^^^^H quered, are words, and^^^^^^^^| events recorded 2Jtftffl^^^^^^^^^^| longer any V/^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^M Yet tho^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H dem^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^fl
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3909, 9 July 1881, Page 1
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124The Dark before the Dawn. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3909, 9 July 1881, Page 1
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