“A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars, as stars to thec appear, Seen in the Galaxy, that Milky Way, Which nightly, as a circling zone, thou seest Powdered with stars.”

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The sign of the cross, drawn upon the planet Mars, as upon the breast of a crusader. The following Legend of the Cross, and its significance, is from Didron, Christian Iconography , Millington’s Tr. , I 367:⁠—