News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-10-23

came WeeI anu lealthy, and ev
since, It'll gurgle and laughter, tn,
have ru shed down the hill and leapt
from the rocks, tn only cheerful o
ject in al tia' 'es ION oeing these w
ters
Now on this pld n of Jericho the su
is setting making the mountains loo
like balus trades and battlements ,
amber and maroo 1 and gold; and I'll
moon, lust above the crests, seems t,
be a windol Y of he' lven through whicl
immortals Il hight be looking down upor
the scene. Ihfee Ntos as WatchmeI
sit beside tt e camp fire at the door O,
nv tent. ii leir low conversation in 2
strange lang mage all night long a sooth.
ing rather tn an an interruption. lad
a dream that might never to be forgot
ten. that dl cam amid the complete
ruins of Jeric hO. It's past grandeur re-
turned, and L saw the city as it was
when Mark Antony gave it to Cleo
natra and T ierod bought it from her
And I hear, the hoofs of its swift
steeds. and til rambling of its chariots
and the shout of excited spectators in
its amphitheat ire.
A LIZ )VELY REGION.
And there was white marble amid
green groves Of palm and balsam; cold
stone war1netl with sculptured foliage;
hard pillars ut into soft lace; Iliads
and Odysseys in granite; basalt jet as
the night, mo united by carbuncle fam
ing as the mo- ming; upholstery dyed as
though dipped in the blood of battle
fields; robes incrusted with diamonds;
mosaics white as sea foam flashed on
by auroras; gayeties which, the sun
saw by day riyaled by reyels the moon
saw by night; .blasseshe envy against
the sFya)'ce!1ngs staaa lie mid
night heavs as; gralF urreted,
archivolted and intercf nisISed-
N, sa,>su,rliiipstha - ~
| i1I!g!v d! llll We must make an al.
jective and call it Herodic.
The region. i,round, about the city
walls seemedgd 90 Yt.Titsae,s rritl1: cotton
such as ThenTddIyyV describes as once
growing there, and sweet with sugar
cane and luscious with orange and
with such flora as can only grow where
tropical sun kisses the earth. And
| the hour came back to me when in the
midst of all that splendor Herod died,
commanding his sister Salome immedi-
ately after his death to secure the as
sassination of all the chief Jews whom
he had brought to the city and shut
i in, nj for thot
the news came to the audience in the
theatre as some one took the stage and
| announced to the excited multitude:
'Herod is dead Herod is deadl"
Then in my dream all the pomp of
Jericho vanished and gloom was added
to gloom, and desolation to desolation,
and woe to woe, until perhaps the rip
pling waters of the fountain of Elisha
suggesting it-as sounds will sometimes
give direction to a dream-I thought
that the waters of Christ's salvation
and the fountains ''open for sin and
uncleanness' were rolling through that
plain and rolling across that continent
and rolling round the earth, until on
either side of their banks all the thorns
became flowers, and all the deserts gar
dens, and all the novels mansions, and
all the funerals bridal professions, and
all the blood of war was turned into
dahlias, and all the groans became
anthems, and Dante's Inferno" be-
came Dante's "Divina Commedia," and
paradise Lost" was submerged by
paradise Regainei and tears became
crystals and cruel swords came out of
foundries glistening plowshares, and in
my dream at the blast of a trumpet
the Frustrated walls of Jericho rose
again.
And some one told me that, as these
walls in Joshua's time at the sounding
trumpet of doom went down, now
at the sounding trumpet of the Cos
pei they come up again And /
thought Il man appeared at the
door of my tent, and | said, "Who
are you, and from whence have
you Gomez and he said, 81 am the Sa-
marian you heard of at the tavern on
the road from Jerusalem to Jericho as
taking care of the man who fell among
thieves, and | have just come from
healing the last wound of the last I'M
fortunate in all the earth" And | rose
from my pillow in the tent to greet
him, and my dream broke, and real
lied it was only dream, but dream
which shall become a glorious reality
as surely as God is true and Christ's |
gospel is the worlds Catholicon.
GLORY be to the Father, and to the |
Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was
in the beginning, is now. and ever shall |
be. world without end Amen"