Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-13
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San MARrO VENELiA,
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And here Title marble slab imbsdded
IN tho wall tells us tho secret OF us oeso n
ton Allah Bismillah. God is great.
1902. Venetian and Turk each are gone
IN their turn, DISCERNING their guns hu
leaving tacir dead alone under the biue
SKY and the scorching suu, 60 waste away
and diaappear with the walls about tnra''
Within Che second wall lay the remains
of medieval CoriDth--a confused ne3p o.
broker STONE and plaster. extending al
most 10 the summit of the mountain.
Beyond tris we came across rellc 81 NO
hammclan rule. little fountain spflnglnS
from The rock. whose overflow formed
workable little oasis of green stretching
down the mountain side, STRIKING con-
trast 30 fhe brown parched plateau. Not
many rods away some doyOUt Mussulman
bad collected ten httle marble columns
from tho rains, all Of different color and
different size. and with them bail made
shrine. pointing, % the tohanlincdan r.
hgian directs. toward Mecca. The pillnrs
first erected To- Zeus and tho twelve GODS
then serving the early Christians. after.
wards the followers of the prophet OK
Allah. are deserted at last. Others ha@e
not been So fortunate even as these. II -
saii that twenty wears ago there stood IN
the yilicqr OF C&str thirteen handsome
columns. a temple OF PoseldOn. I'm Singla
night they eH disappeared. The natives
bad aug them up and carted them away To
serve rs the foundation for the village
church.
Aht,le more climbing tool, us to the
summit q stony peak directly overlooking
the eastern shore. Ii was Kschylus, l
think. Who tells of the Watchman standing
for .en LONG Years upon the hill of Argos.
wet with the deWs of every night, watch
ing for Jhe signa-hres which were to an
bounce she fall of Troy and the 'mbaika-
ticu of the GrcciGn hosts on their return;
wonder If such another witchman did
not stand h"re, whore the blue Kge3n
rolled underneath his feet, fading slowly
into the distant horizon mics away.
But Gr1as was farther AWAY than
ever thn poet imagined. III. signal
fires might have buued for many
q LONG week. md thewal chmcu never nave
seen them. They say that Jurng tnu war
OF Independence tine Crock garrison used
go make cat bv ieht the bCacon-llEht
Burning on che top ~, Lycabctios. hnra pv
Athens. bat We could not SEQ So tax m the
daytime. DE .horc> of Salaais ana
lginA stood In Cur WY. gradually hl'nt-
inc In the mist with the shore Of Elous'e.
On the other side the Cuff of Conh'n
wound ia and out like p river. and was lost
90 view behind the claim Mountains p'-
mind which stood iIymcttus and Parna-eus.
Cornth. beneath us looked libe toy 1i-
lace. white % the southwark We olmiy
undo ont the plains %. ArWe9. and belinl
them ,he now-cappol range, of Arcadia,
the Greek SWitZorLmd.
Beautiful indeed ~erc they I'll. Ing don
bly beautiful through he thousand nal
| lowed sssociations connected 0th them
bv the thousand scenes of historic ne
| tere-t and by the thou and monumen1f
of ancient aft and pieudor which cover
he country over remnants If @ glorious
nast. upon which velovc 90 dwell, o. upon
/ Inc mcmorv of departed friends or tbe
vanished scenes Of happy childhood
sweet IN, .noUrnful TO tne soul
lot are Thy aklc+ o. bue, ily crnc n- wiz;
e9cei nrc tly sroycs, Cnl vorlanl arc my
fields,
Tnino n,.vo ripe ga whom Ninorya SMILED,
And .fIh.5 ucyei wealth Ntmo.tus iif "a.
Ihore no bhho bee his fragrant fortress
bui.d'.
TIE FREQ. born wanderer o. thy mountain ar
Apau0s.Hl shy long, long summer guds'
Sau 10 bis boom nJelis MAJ .leS glare;
ant. Glory. Freedom .at, bat Nature snli 10