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Show ARABIA. ' Across rwl sultry league of burning land. An arid terror ar.d tiie dread of man, Wearily crawls through aaaa of MUtmnjr sand The straggling groups of a great caravan. With dates and doura from tho Yemen's shora H brave th pitiless desert's fiercest heat; Th thirsty camels totter, faint and sore; The suffering Bodouins dream of cistarus sreot The road is lone, and no refreshing palm Charms the infecund waste with verdaut plumes) The death sun tortured them, the awful calm Angrily hint of imminent simooms! Mecca, the wonder, with its bright, broad walls, Has been the goal that they will never reach. And every hot and savage ray that fails Is doomed their fated skeletons to bleach ! No more shall these poor wanderers behold The holy Caaba and the sacred shrine, Where in a maze of marble and of gold Tho Prophet slumbers in bis rest divine! Nor shall their balsams, myrrh and precious stones Be sold through Djedda's uitrfc-ale baiars, And none will hear the uiueziin when he dronea The throng to mosque below Medinian stars. Shrieking to heedless Allah. sore afraid. By wafts of maddening, cruel heat o'erpowered, In graven of shifting sand they will ba laid. By ravenous swarms of locusts be devoured; While o'er their scorched and withered bodies, strewn In disarray amid deserted tcnta. The Irreproachable and callous moon Will rise in her serene magnificence ! Httsburg Bulletin. . |