. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . s Bible-day. They brought from mountains, from the brooks and meadows, The myrtle, palm, and pine ;And made them tents, and in the fragrant shadowsRehearsed the Word Divine. There they recalled the seraph-crowned mountain, When God to Sinai told the tales of Meribahs sweet fountain, And pillared cloud and flame. Green grew the white streets of the city beauteous, Each place of palms and pools ;And in those green tents, filled with households duteous, Were
. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . s Bible-day. They brought from mountains, from the brooks and meadows, The myrtle, palm, and pine ;And made them tents, and in the fragrant shadowsRehearsed the Word Divine. There they recalled the seraph-crowned mountain, When God to Sinai told the tales of Meribahs sweet fountain, And pillared cloud and flame. Green grew the white streets of the city beauteous, Each place of palms and pools ;And in those green tents, filled with households duteous, Were Ezras Bible-schools. O glorious days ! — days of the open vision And answers swift to prayer,When walked the priest so near the realms elysian, He breathed immortal air. 259 260 ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN THE LEVANT. Oer Shusans palace drift the sands relentless, And lierbless lie and deep,On that dead plain, where Babylonia tentless Sleeps her immortal sleep. Persepolis is dead, and Judah lonely Sits with discrowned brow ;Of all those scenes, the Bible lessons only Live with the nations now. CHAPTER XII. THE SULTAN AND The Sultan. — Palestine. — A Family that could not be Conquered. HE young mind naturally asks how it is thatthe historic Hebrew race, the moral law-givers of the world, should be so largelyunder the dominion of the MohammedanSultan, and that Palestine should be adependency of the weakest of the Euro-pean powers. The Ottoman Empire, with its prov-inces, corresponds in many respects tothe old Byzantine Empire in the period of her splendor and arose on the ruins of that old empire, and the faith of the FalseProphet became the inspiration of its arts and arms. Mohammed II.(1451-1481), called the Conqueror, was the founder of the greatnessof Turkey. He conquered Constantinople in 1453. Among his am-bitious successors was Selim I. (1512-1520), who conquered Mesopo-tamia, Syria, and Egypt. His son Soliman the Magnificent completedthe conquest of
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