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So papa and Suleiuard of Arabs; everything else we had already

The rain ceased after the third day; and early in the ate of the city and moved slowly

down the slope of the Kedron valley and up the side of Mount

Olivet

It was my first ride in the environs of Jerusaleht up Yet there was scant

tihts; eyes had to be so busy The valley of the

Kedron! I searched its depths, only to find to the is an emblem of life in Palestine, I suppose

it is the olive They looked sad to e had so little of the fresh cheer of

our green woods Afterwards I thought differently But

certainly the valley of the Kedron was desolate and mournful

in the extreme, as we first saw it Nor was Olivet less so

The echo of forfeited prolory seemed to tenant all those ways and

hillsides I could but think what feet had trod those paths;

what hands of blessing had been held out on these hills;

turned back and rejected, to the utter ruin of those who

rejected them The places of Solomon's splendour and David's

honour, in the hands of the Moslem; or buried beneath the

ruins of twenty desolations And in the hts

which possessed me constantly, came thrills of joy that I was

there So we mounted over the shoulder of the Mount of Olives,