Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1846-09-02

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4 sW bat q scene met his gaze The whole
plains was filed with marching columns.
and cilafgin squad 81 wildly eallopif,c
Estneds, while die thunder of cannon afsd
fierce rattle of musketty psnidstw which now
md then: was heard the blast Of thousands
oftrun1pets, and stf6ins of naartial music
filled The sair. The smoke 81 battle vas
rolling farionsly over the hosts, and all was
Confusion and chaos in his sight. Amid
the twenty-seven thousand Turks that cov-
erred the plain and enveloped the enemy
Ikea cloud, and aimed the incessant dis.
charge ofartiliery andSmusketry, Napole-
on could fell where his own brave troops
were struggling by the steady and simalta-
neous yolley which showed where, discip-
line was contending against thewild valor
ofoyerpowering numbers. The constant
flashes from behind the rampant of dead
bodies were like spots Of flame @en the tu.
multuous and chaotic. field. Napoleon de-
|scended from Mount Tabor with his little
band while alsingle twelve pounder, fired
from the heights, told the wearied Kleber
that he was rushing to therescue. Thrown
in confusion and trampled under foot, that
mighty army rolled turbulently back to-
wards the Jordan, where. Murat was anx-
Eionslys waiting TO mingle in the fight =
HDashing with his cavalry among the dis
ordered ranks, he sabred them down with
out mercy, and ragged like lion amid the
prey. This chiyalric and romantic war.
rior declared the sremembrance Of the
scenes that once transpired on Mount Ia
lbor and on these thrice consecrated spots,
came to him in the hottest Of the fight, and
Eneryed him with ten-fold courage. ,sss
/ As the sun went. down over the plains
fof Palestine, and twilight shed its dim rays
over the rent and trodden and. dead GOV
Eered field, q asulphnrous cloud hung around
the summit Of, Mount Tabor. Theassmoke
Iof battle had settled there where once. the
lcloud of glory rested, swhie groanss an,
{shrieks rent the d airs Nazareth, .llordar
4 land ] Mount A1e TabpslI What SPOT fat battle
fields, .sssls t.ss NJ q r5~.S,fs !.
Roll back twenty centuries, and agar
view that hill. The day is. bright ant
beautiful as then, and the same rich orien
tai landscape is smiling nYgthe same sun
/ There is Nazareth with its busy population
-aad the same Nazareth; from which
Kleber marched his army land there isJor-
dan rolling its bright waters along-the
same Jordona along whose banks charget
/ the glittering squadrons Of Murat'scavalry
land there is Mount Tabor-the same Of
which sBonaparte stood with his cannon
and the sane beautiful lplaina where rolle
the smoke pf battle, and struggled thirt.
thousand men in mortal combat. But hov
different is the scene that is passing there
4 The Son of God stands on that height an
casts his eye over the quiet valley throug
which Jordan winds its silver current
\ Three friends are beside Him. They hav
walked together up the toilsome way, an
4 NOW the four stand mere specks in the dis
Etant summit. But the glorious landscap
4 at their feet is forgotten in d sublimer seen
that is passing before them. The son 6
Mary-the carpenter Of Nazareth--th
n wanderer with whom they have ate an
& and drank and travelled on foot many
8 weary league, in all the intimacy Of com
d panions and friends, began to change be
d fore their eyes. Over his soiled and coars
q garments IS spread a strange light steadil
i Frightening into interser beauty, till ths
i form glows with..such splend or that it seem
q to- wayer to and fro and dissolve in the sti
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