Smyrna times., 1856-12-17
Legend of the Wandering Jew.

covered head, and long, white beard; wander
ing ceaselessly over the earth. His face is
pale, mark of blood on his forehead, his eyes
burn like sapphires beneath their oblique lids.
With an Eagle.like noscy and blood like lips;
squalid and harsh in features, and clad in a
coarse wooden gown, he ever pursues, with
stuff in hand, his interminable journey. Speak
ing all languages, and traver ing all lands know
ing not the purposes OF God Conserving himself,
and ever driven onward by secret impulse he
is transported from place to place with the
speed of the wind and as the long centuries
came successively to a close, his old age re-
news itself with the vigor of youth, in order
that he may complete the weary round of ages.
The people wonder as he hastens past. Once
or twice only has he paused 10 tell his siory.-
He was OF the Jewish nation, Ahaseurus by
name, and shoemaker by trade. Dwelling in
Jerusalem, he prosecuted our Saviour, and was
of those who cried Cruelty hint" The SEN
tence of death having been pronounced, he ran
to his house, before which Jesus was TO pass on
the way TO Calvary. "Taking his child in his
arms, he stood al the door with ali his family
TO behold the procession. Our Saviour weigh
ed down by the heavy burden of the cross,
leaned for moment against the wall and the
Jew, to show his ZEAL struck the innocent one
with cruel blows, and pointing to the place OF
execution babe hing go on. Thcn Jns6s turn
ing to the unteeling child of Israel said .s.
"Theu refuseth rest TO the Son of God:
| go, for it must needs be; s.. a....-..
But for thee there shall be no rest j., ,.. 81
Or repose until | return. .t. rose
Go forth on thy long journey. s.r ~ s2,h q
| Leave thine own; traverse mountains and seas,
Pausing neither in the cities nor the deserts
/ No where-not even the tomb. 3. .t.a4-r 49,
AS an example in the Universe, and bearing
Every where the heavy weight of my curse,
Much shalt thou long for death, thy deliverance
But shalt MT die until the day of Judgment"
He assists at the crucifxion, and then goes
forth mysterious stranger, whose feet shall
become familiar TO all lands. ~. 3 -, -.
| How, age after age, he longs for the sweets
of death and the repose of the tomb! But in
spite of death be must live on; his dust shall
not mingle with that of his ancestors. He
drags himself from a gloomy cavern of Mount
Carmel, shaking the dust from his beard, grown
even to his knees. Nine grnning skulls are
4 before him. He seizes and hurfs them from
the top OF the mountain, and they go bounding
down from rock TO rock. They are the skulls
of his parents, Of his wife and six small children,
4 all Of whom have been able 10 die; but he can
not He rushes into the flames Of falling Je, u
salem, and attempts to bury himself beneath
the crumbhng ruins of Rome; but in vain.--
Flying from the cities and men, the wanderer
seeks the solitary places of the earth. He
Climbs the everlasting mountains; passing De-
yond the regions of verdure. aud Of dashing
torrents, his feet tread the seas of amethist anc
opal. Above h laI are only peaks shrouded ir
| nlGfG md of Hha darI Rl Is
scars not so high There are no sounds save
the cracking of the glaciers. The soul seem'
almost To tonch' the heavens above. There
surely, the Wandering Jew shall rest?' No -
A pursuing angel u!4sbealhS q sword of ia
ming fire, and 10 the wanderer beholds ones
E in the heavens the drama of the crucihxion.-
: The way from earth to heaven is studied will
nyriads of celestial beings radiant with light
G Before him are all hetnartyrs and saints an'
! sages who have ever lived and died. For
d moment he gazes upon the vision, aud turn
away chased by the sword of flame, aud de
/! mons OF frightful torH. grnsp he ugain wan
G ders over the earth ever with five pieces @
8, copperiin bis poeket, ever with The mark q
L blood upon his forehead. hladdened with tn
Il agony otlife, he throws himself in the crate
!. of Etaa, battie boiiing liquid and stIIphhrou
Il flames burn not. The Asods OF lava vonlit h
Z toE utS nOut 10 uot yet Coines
s. upon the sea, the wind raises its surface int
. mouniain rwaves4-ihe vessel divides aud a
* perish save the Wandering Jew Too lgi
r to sink in the ocean its wives cast him upo
\ 4 tie hated shore. He punges into hundrc
bloody conflicts, withOut sword or shield. "A
: in vain. The leaden balls rain hsrmlessI
= npon him; battle!axesi and scimaiers glahc
y from, his charmed bady.| Where mounte
"A squadrons fight with the fury of dethons--
= casts himself under the feet Of the liorseme
; and -is- unharIned. He says to Nero, a, Tho
a art drunk with blood;" to Christian and Mu
ID sulmaD, ll'Drunk arr thou with blood" The
:, invent the most ahorrbs ifortures for his pui
= ishment, YET injure him not Leaving in Ii
a vain pUrsuit for death the lands that throb wi
> life Industry, 1.-The Wandering Jew treads Il
\. solitary jangles of the tropics. He walks
poisoned air; the fierce lions. andn Aathead'
l7l serpents viii only sport with him as he sha
u tens by: And thus he. wanders; 5so,aIaco
q. 81 "Trayersing mountain and sea.a $40 ban
ds 'Pausing neither in the cities nor the desert
off No where---hot even in the tomb. - -
IL Il DIE -.2.La- .s- - -
N ls0~T An Eastern editor says that a man 9
Nv y, himself into trouble by marrying two wives
~ a A Western editor replies by assuring 4
d. contemporary that q good many men in I'll