Middletown transcript., 1899-02-25
IMPORTANT ITEMS IN ARcH Zoology


In 1868 there was discovered in the land
of Moab what is known as the Moabitt
stone containing description by Mesha
king of Moab. of his wars against Israel
An account of battle between Mesha
King of Maob, and Israel is given in Kings
Sd 27.
The translation of number of tablets
and monuments by the Rev. A. H. Sayce,
bearing on the history of the Hititite ma
tion, proved beyond question the power
and extent of this great nation so often re-
feried TO in the sacred narrative
The mummy and coffin of RamesesII( "a. C.
1850, the king of Egypt, and the Pharaoh
who oppressed the Jews. was found near
Thebes in 1871.
The Trans Amarna tablets, giving unde-
niable proof of the extension of literary
culture among the ancients, were discover
ed in 1897. See article by DIR. Sayce, page 4.
The Black 0belisk, which was engraved
about 860-S25 B. c., was discovered in 1916
on the site of ancient Nimrud, nineteen
miles south of Nineveh 1t describes the
payment of tribute by Jehu, who was an
ointed king of Israel in 1884 B. c., to Shall
maneser, king of Assyria, also the defeat
of .'Ahab of Israeli in conjunction with
certain tribes of Syria.
The cyclinder of Sargon, king of Assyria
(722-705 B. c.) was discovered in the library
of Assur-bani-pal at Kuyundjik (Nineveh)
in 1873, and describes the siege and capture
of Ashdod, in the land of the Philistines,
when Hezekiah was king of Judah A con-
firmation.of the account is found in Isaiah
20:1.
WHAT AM 1? TRANSLATED FROM THE TRANscRIT
am a spark of eternity. In the new
morn that dawns above the world, I stretch
the golden strings; lweaye them frorn the
paint them with the iris dew.
For through the mould Of sorrows, there
breaks the music of mountain waterfalls;
their vernal voice and chime now reach me
from every rock and rill, and new flowery
garment is again woven for the earth.
In the new morn that dawns above the
world I tie fresh golden cords of sound-not |
for the pain, not for the old complaint of |
The lonely heart. I send them into the blue |
unrestrained, launch them |
from globe to globe into the farthest space.
From star to star there glistens ofmy strings |
he golden CRATE.
How many dawns, how many twi.lights
,ave passed. Do know it myself? Thro
low many gates of body and of soul have /
inferred into life. as an eternal yoyager, who
$ born daily, now here, now there, from
he sleep of death in the earliest morn.
And them exhausted, departed to the
Vest, thro' the great twilight dusk, which
Il blazing with gold and red as blood, led
ne into the silent fields of blue, upon the
rean1y meadows Of the moon. all heaYing
nth the beating of the wings of Psyche-but-
sr6es, where ] sought my sleep. and my
cad leaning on eternity,s great bosom, 1
ssted after life and before q life.
Myself the gate and myself 1.-The path,
nee more only in this cycle have I issued
ON The Divine Light, Once only blew its
reath for all bodies and souls, once only
IS It in the morning of Day opened Its bo-
I'M Of luminous archetypal thought--and
| subsequent myfiads offorms, before and
1w, were sculpinred by myself.
70! emerge from The eonaaeration Of
cod; I come IN the likeness Of child, /
ho am lion. eranohing for the powers 81
e heayeus and the earth. And / depart
e The night thro' the blood and tbro' The
'in. croucbine q 4 shadoa. for ihe dawn
d for the day.