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There was no costumery in that procession, no color, no tinsel, no brilliancy; yet it was the greatest spectacle and the most gracious and exalting and beautiful that has come within my experience. It was because it had a history back of it and because it was a symbol and stood for something, and because one viewed it with the spiritual vision, not the physical. There was not much for the physical eye to see, but it revealed continual areas��� limitless horizons to the eye of the imagination and the spirit. A procession to be valuable must do one thing or the other���clothe itself in splendor and charm the eye or symbolize something sublime and uplifting, and appeal to the imagination. As a mere spectacle to look at, I suppose that the Queen���s procession will not be as showy as the Czar���s late pageant; it will probably fall much short of the one in Tannh��user in the matter of rich and adorable costumes, in the number of renowned personages on view in it. It will probably fall short of some that have been seen in England before this. And yet its major function���its symbolic function���I think, is that if all the people in it wore their everyday clothes and marched without flags and music it would still be incomparably the most memorable and most important procession that ever moved through the streets of London. HYLAND 3