The Hawaiian gazette., 1873-06-11
ne Wandering Jew.


3 few moments of repose on the doorsteps
Of Saiathiel, the Jew, that barbarous man,
with insnltiBglanguage, drove Him away,
who, struggling TO continue His journey,
became overpOwered by the weight of
His cross, faltered, and fell to the earth !;
vet without uttering a groan, He arose
again and went on His way. The Saviour
of the world, condemned to death by
man, and made to carry the instrument of
His torture on His back, was a sight
which should have paled the cheek of His
prosecutors; but they reviled It they
Knocked Him
The Avenging Angel appeared before
S4lsthiel and said:
Thou hast refused a resting-place TO
the Son OF Man. Cruel wretch! All
rest on earth shall be refused TO thee in
return. A dark demon, let loose from
he'll for the purpose, shall drive thee from
cline TO cline Salathiel, even the hope
Of death, and the repose of the tomb shall
be withheld"
These words were Missed into the ear
Of the Jew, and he fell upon the earth as
If he had been struck by lightning.
Nearly two thousand years passed
away. vet Salathiel was still pursued by
demon over the whole face of the earth.
One day he arrived near the cavern of
Mount Carmel, and shaking the dust from
his long beard, he took skull from a
heap Of human bones piled up near him
and threw il from the mountain 1t rolled
and bounded, and striking against the
rocks below, was shivered to pieces. 1t
was my fathers said Salathiel.
Any parents, my friends, my acquaint-
ances. my wife and children all persisted.
All, they could die; but /. the doomed,
cannot die. The judgment of Heaven
froWns over my head-my guilty head
and life, which to all else is blessing, to
me Is q curse.
Jerusalem fell by the Roman power:
fire consumed the city: palaces crumbled
20 the ground, and the temples were as
torches to the maddened soldiery; men,
women. and children were butchered-all,
AL, but me alone l courted every dan
ger, defed legions Of Romans; Irushed
upon their spears, but an invisible hand
warded their points from me; was their
conqueror instead of their victim. Rome,
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10 her that might be buried beneath her
rains: the Colossus was broken and pros
trated, but it could not crush me, though
the wise and the great, the good and
the powerful, were all destroyed with her.
Nations, empires, and kingdoms rose
and fell before me; / alone remained
alive Pestilence swept over the land;
snuffed the tainted breath of the dying,
and Rugged the dead in my arms. That
which was death TO all, to me was but
narcotic. slept in the charnel-house,
awoke refreshed Death passed me in
dread
An avalanche fell through the air, and
swept me into the sea. thought death
had pitied me, and / laughed as was
carried into the foaming waters: but the
surges threw me back again on the shore,
and the poisonous cup of human existence
was put again, with all its bitterness, to
my lips
1 went to the edge of the crater of
Etna, and sprang into its profound abyss,
and, bowling with madness and despair,
fell into the burning lava; but the noun
tain would not grant me an asylum in
the midst of its consuming bosom; it
threw me up again upon this sinful earth;
and though the flames of the eruption set
fire to whole districts, of country, though
the highest spires of the greatest cities
disappeared beneath the liquid lava, be-
fore me the flame and lava stayed their
work of destruction. A forest caught
the fames-in the midst of delirium and
distraction, l rushed among the burning
trees Hot rosin fell drop by drop upon
nv burning limbs; the fire ragged around
me; the heat dried my bones, and the
flames tormented me with their kissing
fury. Death brandished his scythe over
me; / bent my head to receive the blow,
but at that moment he caught my fixed
gaze, and fed to destroy the good and
the happy. Death was no longer the
oonQueror-he feared me
q joined the standards of the mighty
warriors of the earth-th desolators
of the land, the conquering heroes, the
mighty butchers of the human race-and
followed them in all their wars. sought
the thickest of the fight, where blood |
flowed in rivers, where men were swept |
away like dry sand before the hurricane,
where destruction piled hundreds upon
hundreds; yet was left alone. braved
the Gaul and the Norman; l defed the
hordes of Germany; but their darts and
their lances broke like dry reeds against
my body. The scimetar of the Saracens |