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The City of Delight

CHAPTER XII
11/23

But we went to the synagogues where He taught; we went out upon Olivet to Gethsemane where He suffered in the Garden; we climbed that hill to the south from which He looked upon the City and wept over it, and prophesied this hour.

Then we sought the ravine where Judas betrayed Him with a kiss, and afterward Urban led me over the streets by which He was taken first to Annas and to Caiaphas and thence to Pilate and to Herod.

After that, by the Way of the Cross to Golgotha; from there to His Tomb.

And when we had seen the Guest-chamber and stood upon the Place of the Ascension, I needed no further instruction." The boy had forgotten his guest.

By the rapt light in his eyes, the Maccabee knew that the boy was once more journeying over the stones of the streets of the Holy City, or standing awed on the polished pavements of its lordly interiors, or on the topmost point of her hills with the broad-winged wind from the east flying his long locks.
"_If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy_," the Maccabee said, half to himself.
The boy heard him, but his patient's words merged with the dream that held him entranced.


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