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Title: Syria from the saddle
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Terhune, Albert Payson, 1872-1942
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Publisher: New York : Silver, Burdett and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the singing,weird and unnatural as it sounded, coming from thesleeping valley beyond the town, seemed part of thescene I was trying to revive. But I remembered almostimmediately having heard that a band of pilgrims go tothe village of the Good Shepherds in the plain below,each Christmas morning after the midnight mass, andreturn singing to Bethlehem. The chant drew near, and as the pilgrims reached theoutskirts of Bethlehem all the chimes in the Church ofthe Nativity rang out. The town, so still ten minutesbefore, now re-echoed with the sweet clangor of bellsand with a hundred singing voices. High in their openbelfry I could see the black bells tossing wildly to andfro against the paler sky; and through the squarecame the pilgrims, their chant rising louder and moresolemnly as they passed between the double line of tallbuildings. Then, when the long dark line had wound downthe street, the chant died slowly away and the bellsstood still, leaving the night as lonely and silent asbefore.
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SYRIA FROM THE SADDLE. 257 Next morning we revisited the church, and then wenton to the village of the Good Shepherds. From thehigh ground behind the city a little patch of blue waterbetween two hills was visible to eastward — a cornerof the Dead Sea; and beyond it a level line of brownhills — the Mountains of Moab — stood flushed by theearly sunlight. Before leaving the town we visited Davids Well, — the well of Bethlehem which is at the gate. Fromthis spring the three strong men, having broken throughthe lines of the Philistine army, drew water — andtook it and brought it to David: but David would notdrink of it but poured it out to the Lord. The several mouths of the well are kept sealed nowa-days and the space around them is walled in. I was anxious to reach Jerusalem in time for Christ-mas dinner at the New Grand Hotel, so we left Beth-lehem early in the afternoon. M. Gelat had been waited on by a delegation of guests,who had threatened that unless such a Christmas dinn

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