"The Prophets' Paradise" by Robert W. Chambers

"If but the Vine and Love Abjuring Band
Are in the Prophets' Paradise to stand,
Alack, I doubt the Prophets' Paradise,
Were empty as the hollow of one's hand."

-from "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", translated by Edward FitzGerald.

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0:00 The Studio
2:11 The Phantom
2:51 The Sacrifice
3:46 Destiny
4:32 The Throng
5:43 The Jester
6:55 The Green Room
7:31 The Love Test

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The pictures used are:

The Studio: "Blue Drawing Room at the Yusupov Palace" by Jonathan (iceninejon), used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/).

The Phantom: Ghost girl wallpaper from Wallpaper Cave

The Sacrifice: "Sea of White Poppies" by Christopher_Hawkins, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/).

Destiny: Bridge Gate, Toruń, Poland, by Mike Peel ((www.mikepeel.net), used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en).

The Throng: An illustration by Harry Clarke for Poe's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" (1923), for the story "The Man of the Crowd".

The Jester: An illustration by Arthur Rackham for "Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination" (1935), for the story "Hop-Frog".

The Green Room: Pipo de Clown by Gebruiker: Bvspall (On the set of Pipo the Clown (VARA, 1973). Image and Sound archive, catalog number 73521 kb 1, photo number 8), used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Netherlands license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/deed.en).

The Love Test: A photo of the Hope Diamond, by David Bjorgen, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en).

To follow along: https://gutenberg.org/files/8492/8492-h/8492-h.htm#THE_PROPHETS_PARADISE