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Ulysses

man starves while they are grassing their royal mountain
stags or shooting peasants and phartridges in their purblind
pomp of pelf and power. But their reign is rover for rever
and ever and ev ...

(Prolonged applause. Venetian masts, maypoles and festal
arches spring up. A streamer bearing the legends Cead Mile
Failte and Mah Ttob Melek Israel Spans the street. All the
windows are thronged with sightseers, chiefly ladies. Along the
route the regiments of the royal Dublin Fusiliers, the King’s own
Scottish Borderers, the Cameron Highlanders and the Welsh
Fusiliers standing to attention, keep back the crowd. Boys from
High school are perched on the lampposts, telegraph poles,
windowsills, cornices, gutters, chimneypots, railings, rainspouts,
whistling and cheering the pillar of the cloud appears. A fife and
drum band is heard in the distance playing the Kol Nidre. The
beaters approach with imperial eagles hoisted, trailing banners and
waving oriental palms. The chryselephantine papal standard rises
high, surrounded by pennons of the civic flag. The van of the
procession appears headed by John Howard Parnell, city marshal,
in a chessboard tabard, the Athlone Poursuivant and Ulster King
of Arms. They are followed by the Right Honourable Joseph
Hutchinson, lord mayor of Dublin, his lordship the lord mayor of
Cork, their worships the mayors of Limerick, Galway, Sligo and
Waterford, twentyeight Irish representative peers, sirdars, grandees

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