Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . VII. THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAH. 1. While Asshur, the dying giant, lay in thethroes of dissolution, the last ebb of animationfeebly surging in Nineveh, the still throbbing heart,—a stir, as of returning life, passed over the remoterprovinces as the pressure of the iron hand that heldthem down relaxed in death. Of the number wasSyria. Once more the procession of familiar namespasses before us : Hamath and Judah and Damas-cus, Moab and Ammon and Edom, spectres offo
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . VII. THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAH. 1. While Asshur, the dying giant, lay in thethroes of dissolution, the last ebb of animationfeebly surging in Nineveh, the still throbbing heart,—a stir, as of returning life, passed over the remoterprovinces as the pressure of the iron hand that heldthem down relaxed in death. Of the number wasSyria. Once more the procession of familiar namespasses before us : Hamath and Judah and Damas-cus, Moab and Ammon and Edom, spectres offormer greatness, roused into a brief spell ofenerg)b\a draught of that wine of fur\, whichthe last of Jerusalems prophets was bid to cause allthe nations to drink that the}- might reel to andfro and be inad, one with another (Jeremiah, XXV.).I\gypt too, with wounds scarce healed, and totteringstill, but undaunted and aggressive as ever, appearsonce more, for the last time, in Asia, on the scenewhich she had swept triumphant through so manycenturies, but was now to abandon, stricken andcrestfallen, like an actor hissed off the sta
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