State Library of NSW
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(32)side of the street like sepulchres rudely opened, their vaulted brickwork smashed through by high explosive shellsNarrow business places and shops, once neat and trim and bright-faced in their little world of commerce, are now blurred and shapeless parts of the general chaosAgain the [indecipherable] characteristic feature of ruin is noticeable. The fronts of buildings, from doorstep to parapet, have been wholly shattered down, leaving apartments of their several floors and toy-like attics open to the glare of day with its searching beams of gold, and to the soft dull silver of night with its burnished twinkling points:- the stars.
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