. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . 8CKNK ON THE LITANY. eight hundred foct beneath you, tearing at the very rootsof Lebanon, and rasping out a passage for itself with mightydin and desperate haste. I have sat for houi-s in a sort ofdreamy ecstasy, gazing into this chasm—have let myselfdown from crag to crag until I stood all alone at the bot-tom—have reclined midway up its walls \ipon some pro-jecting shelf, and wntched, now the timid conies creep out 256 THE LAND AND THE BOOK. and sun themselves, an
. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . 8CKNK ON THE LITANY. eight hundred foct beneath you, tearing at the very rootsof Lebanon, and rasping out a passage for itself with mightydin and desperate haste. I have sat for houi-s in a sort ofdreamy ecstasy, gazing into this chasm—have let myselfdown from crag to crag until I stood all alone at the bot-tom—have reclined midway up its walls \ipon some pro-jecting shelf, and wntched, now the timid conies creep out 256 THE LAND AND THE BOOK. and sun themselves, and now the bold eagles going and re-turning to their eyries in the cliffs. There are thousandsof them, and their manoeuvres, particularly when cominghome, are very entertaining. There comes a pair of them,just visible in the blue depths of heaven. See how theysail round and round, in ever-narrowing gyrations, as Mil-tons Prince of Darkness, Down from the eclipticThrew his steep flight in many an aeiy wheel. And now, right over the chasm, they poise themselves a. AN1> NEST. moment; then, like a bolt lYoin the clear sky, down, downthey come, headforemost, with wings collapsed; sinking farbelow their eyrie, they round to in a grand parabola, andthen, wdth two or three backward flaps of their huge pin-ions to check their fall, like the wheels of a steam-boat re-versed, they land in safety among their clamorous children. THE EAGLE—HIS HABITS. 257 Now take tlie glass, and see how thej divide among theirgross and greedy ehicks the prey which they have broughtfrom far. Come to Blat, vain man, and answer thy the eagle mount up at thy command, and make hernest on high? She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, uponthe crag of the rock, and the strong place. From thenceshe seeketh the prey; her eyes behold afar off. Her youngones also suck up blood, and where the slain are, there Moses, in that beautiful ode which he spake in the earsof all the congregation o
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