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Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing the banners of the king with great honour. Then it pleased the king to raise a small feather from the ground and he commanded it to fly. The feather flew, not
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of which the title is taken from a passage in
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373:“O Ierusalem” (8:02)
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385:“O Ecclesia” (6:11)
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478:References
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259:Production
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