Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Camille Pissarro The Harvest 1882 painting

Camille Pissarro The Harvest 1882 paintingCamille Pissarro The garden at Pontoise 1877 paintingCamille Pissarro Louveciennes The Road to Versailles painting
respectful silence by an immense crowd, the um was put in a catafalque and carried towards Rome on the shoulders of the Guards' officers. The battalion standards were undecorated, as a sign of public calamity, and the axes and rods were borne reversed. As the procession, many thousands strong, passed through Calabria, Apulia and Campania, everyone came flocking, the country people dressed in black, the knights in purple robes, with tears and loud lamentations, and burned offerings of perfumes for their dead hero's ghost.
We met the procession at Terracina, about sixty miles southeast of Rome, where Agrippina, who had walked dry-eyed and marble-faced, without a word to anyone all the way from Brindisi, let her grief break out afresh at the sight of her four fatherless children. She cried to Castor:
"By the love you had for my dear husband swear that you will defend the lives of his children with your own, and avenge his death! It was

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