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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO MISSION, CALIFORNIA
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THADE WARK - NEG U. 3. PAT CFR
Earthquake has rent, man has despoiled, time
has renounced the Mission San Juan Capistrano,
yet its pure nobility survives, indestructible. The
tower has fallen, the sanctuary is bare and
weather-beaten, the cloisters of the quadrangle
are roofless, and the bones of forgotten padres lie
beneath the roots of tangled shrubbery; but the
bells still hang in their rawhide lashings and the
cross rises, white against the sky. The mission
dominates the valley. Go where you will, the
eye turns to the colossal fragment, a forlorn but
vital thing, broken, crushed, and yet undying.
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