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The Innocents Abroad
Part 5 of 6

CHAPTER XLVIII
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These authors write pictures and frame rhapsodies, and lesser men follow and see with the author's eyes instead of their own, and speak with his tongue.

What the pilgrims said at Cesarea Philippi surprised me with its wisdom.

I found it afterwards in Robinson.

What they said when Genessaret burst upon their vision, charmed me with its grace.

I find it in Mr.Thompson's "Land and the Book." They have spoken often, in happily worded language which never varied, of how they mean to lay their weary heads upon a stone at Bethel, as Jacob did, and close their dim eyes, and dream, perchance, of angels descending out of heaven on a ladder.


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