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. A child's book of warriors . he wahf) tower andli/t(.ng ^is arms io heavenchanted in a loud voice!Xet 9odanse andfet ^is enemies ie scattered^ How They Saved Nisibis the forlorn hope of Sapor shrieked and perished underthe dark cloud of the zimb-fliy. The sultan leaped from his high throne. Deathto thee, God of the Romans! he cried, and bendinghis bow, shot an arrow into the heavens. Then hemounted the great Horse of the Sun and fled, leavingtwenty thousand slain under the towers of Nisibis. In that year Jacobus slept in Christ, and the city,weeping, buried him in his raiment of goat-skin; b
. A child's book of warriors . he wahf) tower andli/t(.ng ^is arms io heavenchanted in a loud voice!Xet 9odanse andfet ^is enemies ie scattered^ How They Saved Nisibis the forlorn hope of Sapor shrieked and perished underthe dark cloud of the zimb-fliy. The sultan leaped from his high throne. Deathto thee, God of the Romans! he cried, and bendinghis bow, shot an arrow into the heavens. Then hemounted the great Horse of the Sun and fled, leavingtwenty thousand slain under the towers of Nisibis. In that year Jacobus slept in Christ, and the city,weeping, buried him in his raiment of goat-skin; butEphrem the Deacon lived to an old age white as thealmond-blossom, and left many hymns and songsand glowing discourses, which may still be read inprinted tomes of Latin, Greek, and Syriac. Andthough himself lowly of spirit, it was he who madethe fair young daughter of the Governor of Edessapromise that never again should she enter a littercarried by slaves, for, said he, The neck of manshould bear no yoke save that of 51
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