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THE HEAVENLY KINGDOM
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The circuit of each single lawnwith its silvern soil,[1]with its swards, covered with goodly blossom,with its beauteous plants.
Vast though you may deemthe extent of the spacious lawns,a rampart of silver, undecaying,has been formed about each several lawn.
The portals of the walls withoutaround the fortress on every side,with its dwellings soundly placed,affording abodes (?) for many thousands.
Eight portals in a seriesso that they come together around the city,I have not, in the way of knowledge,[2]a simile for the extent of each portico.
Each portal abounding in plants,with their bronze foundations,a rampart of fair clay has been establishedstrongly about each portal.
Twelve ramparts—perfect the boundary (?)of the portals, of the lawns,without counting the three ramparts that are outsidearound the chief city.
  1. ↑ The L. B. reading is fond d'argut futhib, which seems to point to some such meaning as "base," "foundation."
  2. ↑ Reading uncertain.
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