Never in all these seven hundred years has one of us looked up at this Rose without feeling it to be Our Lady's promise of Paradise. (Henry Adams)

Never in all these seven hundred years has one of us looked up at this Rose without feeling it to be Our Lady's promise of Paradise.

Henry Adams

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