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In Syria, where the atmosphere is less humid than ours, the whole heavens are said to sparkle at night, as with various-colored gems.

"Cow-boys" was the term applied to the corps of freebooters attached to the British army.

And the gall-drops were poured from the drawn-sword of Death.

According to a Rabbinical tradition, gall-drops fall from the suspended sword of the Angel of Death on the lips of the dying.

The cherubim drooped and the pomegranates lay In the dust with the lamps that had glimmered all day; The censers, and altars, the ashes must claim, Though their unalloyed gold be the gold of Parvaim.

On pillar, and pommel, and chapiter high.

"To wit: the two pillars and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars."

The Cedars of Lebanon thrilled with the wail, That swept, like a torrent, Jehoshaphat's vale.

It is related by Josephus, that when the Jews perceived the conflagration of the Holy House, they broke out into such groans and outcries that all the mountains round about the city returned the echo.

And a strange world came forth from the regions of space And hung like a sword o'er the grave of that race.

According to Josephus "a star resembling a sword stood over the city."

'T is the tenth day of Lous--Jerusalem wail!

The same month and day in which the Temple was burned by the Babylonians, and which, according to an oracle of the Jews, was to be a fatal one in their annals.

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