The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-18


Their joyous eyes and festa adornng
In the season of gadness allure him to stay
Lest the dreams of the sweet night be saddened morning
And the house-top be lone in the evening after,
And the hope of my bosom be taken away.
While the maidens thus singing the night, boy
OF some ten years. who travelled with his family his mother
sisters and brethren to the festival had wandered away from
them with head declined in revere, and mounting steep
rock at the entrance of the valley whence prospect opened
north and west threw himself his knees and prayed
ferventy His face, which beautiful but of unwoned
seriousness turned with divine love and confidence the
wonders of the starry heavens which mrrored in his
earnest eyes, Like the Syrian which he belonged
gentleness almost feminine seemed his characteristics the soft
and spiritual grace that aues there his aspect differed
alike from that of the material Roman and the stubborn
enthusiastic Jew, and like his he seemed disposed
conquer by the power Love- rather than through the love
of Power.
An hour passed. the while he seemed absorbed passion
ate trance of worship The maens had returned to their
TENTS the other groups aso for the night already at its
noon The herbage howered with dew cleaned in the last
long of the setting Presently the silence which
had regned in the rayne broken by distant voice
that of aged patriarch of Gaee who still safe before his
tent singing hymn-a few of which foaed the
stormy airs of dawn the of the heaven-ntoxicaed
boy
AS from the floods of Jordan the ion named with
might,
AS from the dens of Endor prow the panther through the
night
So the wicked athrst for blood but God has given us
power
To the heavens like the eagle in the sunset hour
Though sin and darkness compass me- and grief my soul
bound,
While all the evil land dark and rage the heather round
In prayer my heart shines Heaven high the earth
Withdrawn,
Like great Megddos lonely peak clothed with the burning
dawn,
And while voices watt prayers the Holy One the
Strong,
10 guard his chosen Israel from enemy sin and wrong
From the vast blue Skies from the clustering that form
his wondrous CROWN
God, God, God, God, on his worshipers looks down.
The hymn ceased hours past the pilgrim company slept
and all the valley SILENT for the of its
waters when the boy, who had fallen asleep awoke The
dawn which had at first risen with celestial purity and
radiance had dim and troubled amid dense of
cloud through which four bloody rays in the form of
burned against the urid sky; from which, he gazed,
peal of thunder rolled and passed in endless vibrations
west For space, the boy looked calmly and earnestly
this singular phenomenon which presently vanished The
filling the world with glory, and awakening
life in earth and sky And already the pilgrims astr
in the valley preparing for their journey the SOUTH where
amid the high plains and arid mountains through the
gray clouds the temple and city of Jerusalem.
NOTES.-The Valley of Sweet Waters the resting
arers from he north audedo the most
Of the Rs which IN e
region Jordan swelling aluson the suddennes
the floods Sodom The line
by travellers the present day. Aaon the valley
stays Geal land of for its unduatng TO the
southeast of Gaee Cannon which the lowand
whose shores the Phncans settled their region Phonicia
the land of palms extending the foot Of the Lebanon
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Pm in s
tan seer there when on his Jerusalem The
andhe first village the second houethus Bethany
the house Bethlehem the house
house of fish, Mediterranean was
great their for the Nile Ior this however they
borrowed from the Egyptians
According the Targums
Moses the destruction of the cities of Sodom moah
that told there were giants (bboraia nhabng the
Karnaem the city Of the horned Astooth that city the
Venus the worshped the principle