<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358766" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Of Coloured Glass</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am very moved by one detail<br>in the coronation at Vlachernai of John Kantakuzinos<br>and Irini, daughter of Andronikos Asan.<br>Because they had only a few precious stones<br>(our afflicted empire was extremely poor)<br>they wore artificial ones: numerous pieces of glass,<br>red, green, or blue. I find<br>nothing humiliating or undignified<br>in those little pieces of colored glass.<br>On the contrary, they seem<br>a sad protest against<br>the unjust misfortune of the couple being crowned,<br>symbols of what they deserved to have,<br>of what surely it was right that they should have<br>at their coronation—a Lord John Kantakuzinos,<br>a Lady Irini, daughter of Andronikos Asan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Constantine+P.+Cavafy">Constantine P. Cavafy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358766" data-title="Of Coloured Glass de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="I am very moved by one detail in the coronation at Vlachernai of John Kantakuzinos and Irini, daughter of Andronikos Asan. Because they had only a few precious stones (our afflicted empire was extremely poor) they wore artificial ones: numerous pi..."></div> </div> </div>

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