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boards laid across them. The ceilings of the rooms are adorned with paintings ; and the light is admitted through windows made of grates or lattices of wire. There are, likewise, many niches in the wall, lled with Chinese idols; and a variety of o aments em bellishing the whole, renders it one of the most beau tiful structures in the empire. It has now stood above 350 years, and yet appears to have su ered but little from the wasting hand of time.
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VISION OF BALTASSAR.
THE king was on his throne,
The satraps thronged the hall;
A thousand bright lamps shone O'er that high stival.
A thousand cups of gold, In J1idah deem'd divine
Jehovah's vessels hold The godless heathen's wine !
In that same hour and· ball, The ngers of a hand
Came rth against the wall, nd wrote as if on sand:
The ngers of a man ; A solitary hand
long the letters ran,
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And traced tbem like a wand.
