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The Blue City

beneath the magnolia tree. The garden had never before seemed more beautiful.

"You will never again have to leave the Blue City," she murmured. "Now we can be together until the very sun doth cool."

"What do you mean?" he asked.

And she replied, "Simply that you came into the Blue City with a material body. But now all that is material has been burned away. The spiritual only remains."

As she finished speaking she commenced once more to sing of old longings and young love. Hwei-Ti folded his hands. He was content. He was at peace.

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