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He retired to his camp and in a short ties and spades and laid out an ireat city of Jerusalem

The Maccabee saw all this He stood on the wall above the roar and

frenzy and looked across bleached stretches of sunny, rocky earth

toward the orderly ranks of soldiers, the si war, and understood that peaceful

despatch as deadly

He saw the young general ride down to this circle, disionary, drive it into the earth

When he tossed out the first clay, each of the reat cordon struck his iround And

even as the Maccabee watched, he sa up under his eyes a wall!

He understood Titus alling against a wall; turning upon the Jews

that saainst hirim work, he heard beside him an old

voice say, with terrible conviction: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest

theathered thy

children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her

wings, and ye would not! For the days shall come upon thee, that

thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round,

and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the

ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee