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Show Word Picture of Jerusalem. The best word-picture of the ancient city of Jerusalem is Pierre Loti's. He went thither on a pilgrimage from Egypt across the desert, along the same line which has been followed by the English forces. "The sun rises, pale, ominously yellow, a . sun of storm, amid threatening clouds," he writes. "Beyond; a large city is gradually grad-ually revealed, on stony and mournful mourn-ful mountains ; through the dust and lashing rain it is not easy to distinguish distin-guish it. Jerusalem, recognizable recog-nizable from all other towns, with Its formidable walls and Its little cupola-covered cupola-covered roofs of stone; Jerusalem, gloomy and high, inclosed within its battlements, under a dark sky. . . ." |