Something of its OTcrYhehr&tg aw
f nlnees you may eetlmate from Sr fact
that the sun which- shines in the heav
ens coma not endure it; the sun
which unflinchingly looked upon the
delugo that drowned the world, which,
without blinking, looked upon the ruins
of earthquakes which swallowed Lisbon
and Caraccas, and has looked unblanch
cd on the battlefields of Arbela, Blen
heim, Megiddo and Ksdraelon, and all
the scenes of carnage that have ever
scalded and drenched the earth with
human core that sun could not
look
upon us teeut.. x
its face a veil of cloud. It withdrew,
It hid itself. It said to the midnight
I resign to thee this spectacle upon
which I have no strength to gaze; thou
art blind, oh, midnight ! and for that
reason I commit to thee this tragedy 1"
Then the night hawk and the bat flew
by, and the jackal howled In the
ravines.
Now we follow our Chieftain as they
carry his limp and lacerated form amid
the flowers and trees of a garden, the
gladioluses, the oleanders, the lilies, the
geraniums, the mandrakes, down fiva
or six steps to an aisle of granite where
he sleeps. But only a little while he
sleeps there, for there is an earthquake
m all that region, leaving the rocks to
this day in their aslant and ruptured
state declarative of the fact that some
thing extraordinary there happened.
