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... either our cupboard of food , Or cabinet of pleasure . " Keats . George Herbert . " And they three passed over the white sands between the rocks , silent as the shadows . " Coleridge . 9 1 . Grand Cairo . " THE camels are ready.
... either our cupboard of food , Or cabinet of pleasure . " Keats . George Herbert . " And they three passed over the white sands between the rocks , silent as the shadows . " Coleridge . 9 1 . Grand Cairo . " THE camels are ready.
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... , and relieving the slim minarets that played , fountains of grace , in the brilliant air . It was a great metropolis , but silent as Venice . Only the ha - ha of the donkey - boys , the guttural growl of the CHAPTER PAGE I-GRAND CAIRO.
... , and relieving the slim minarets that played , fountains of grace , in the brilliant air . It was a great metropolis , but silent as Venice . Only the ha - ha of the donkey - boys , the guttural growl of the CHAPTER PAGE I-GRAND CAIRO.
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... silence of the sun . I read another passage in the wintry letter I held , and remembered Berlin , Europe , and the North , as spirits in paradise recall the glacial limbo of the Inferno . " The camels are ready , " said the sententious ...
... silence of the sun . I read another passage in the wintry letter I held , and remembered Berlin , Europe , and the North , as spirits in paradise recall the glacial limbo of the Inferno . " The camels are ready , " said the sententious ...
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... silence profounder than that of the ocean . It is impossible not to feel here , as elsewhere in the East , that the national character and manners are in- fluenced by the desert , as those of maritime races by the sea . This fateful ...
... silence profounder than that of the ocean . It is impossible not to feel here , as elsewhere in the East , that the national character and manners are in- fluenced by the desert , as those of maritime races by the sea . This fateful ...
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... silence of the inte- rior you will see the strange spectacle of a house of God made also a house of man . There congregate the poor and homeless , and ply their trades . At nightfall , as some rich pilgrim turns away , he orders the ...
... silence of the inte- rior you will see the strange spectacle of a house of God made also a house of man . There congregate the poor and homeless , and ply their trades . At nightfall , as some rich pilgrim turns away , he orders the ...
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75 cents Arabian Arabs Armenian Artoosh Baalbec bazaar beautiful Bedoueen blue cafés Cairo camels caravan chibouque Christian church Commander court Damascus dark Dead Sea desert desolation dome donkey door dream East Eastern Egypt ELIAS LOOMIS eyes faith fancy feel flashing flowers forever gardens gate genius Golden Sleeve grace green heart hills holy horizon horses Howadji hushed imagination JACOB ABBOTT Jerusalem Khadra land landscape Lebanon Leisurlie look luxury MacWhirter marble Mecca melancholy minarets mind Mohammad Alee morning mosque Mount Mount of Olives mountains Muezzin musing Muslin Nazareth night odor olive oriental Pacha Palestine palms passed paused picturesque pilgrims plain poet Pomegranate Prophet remember rode romance Rome rose sand Saracens shadow Shekh sherbet Shiraz silence singing smile smoke splendor suddenly sweet Syrian Täib temple tent thought tomb trees twilight vague valley vols walls warm wind wonder
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Page 211 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 9 - For us the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow. Nothing we see but means our good, As our delight, or as our treasure ; The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure.
Page 181 - And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Page 159 - Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
Page 251 - Ah! Then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile Amid a world how different from this!
Page 264 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care. And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day. Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 62 - AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him...
Page 153 - For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord) make his paths straight.