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The Court of Belshazzar; A Romance of the Great Captivity
The Court of Belshazzar A Romance of the Great Captivity Author:Earl Williams General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1918 Original Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Subjects: Jews Babylon (Extinct city) Iraq Babylon History / Ancient / General History / Jewish History / Middle East / General History / Military / Iraq War (2003-) History / Holocaust Juvenile Fiction... more » / Religious / Jewish Religion / Judaism / General Social Science / Jewish Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III THE OTHER CASKET NO race, unless it was the Hellenes, ever was endowed with deeper capacities for common enjoyment than the Jews -- and Bilhan was a Jew. He had lived two-thirds of his life in Babylon, and sickened of it, and bribed his way to Jerusalem, bringing memories., Heman knew that Bilhan had no faith in the Restoration, but he knew the Aramaic tongue, and finely he taught it to Ariel, out in the pastures, under the sycamores. The words tasted good in his mouth. And now his pupil was about to go away to Babylon -- that Babylon which he had loved with a love which never quite went out. Heman was hardly gone from the chamber when Bilhan was bending over Ariel, pouring into his ears such things as they had never heard: "To Babylon, boy, to Babylon! With that face and that form of thine! To Babylon, and for what, did I hear thee say? Ah yes, to help old Daniel free the Jews. Listen, thou child of the green hills; thou knowest no more of Babylon than the mole of the vale knoweth of the snow on Tabor's crown. To Babylon! That, son, is a city. Drop all Jerusalem into it -- Jerusalem is lost, and Babylon still is Babylon. Songs, feasts, wine, dances, filling the nights and the days! Watch, or some pair of rosy lips will steal the vows from thine before ...« less