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Cornplanter turns on his heel from the Huron maiden who forgets her blood." When the sun reached its zenith it shone down upon a long line of mounted Indians riding single file along the narrow trail and like a huge serpent winding through the forest and over the plain. They were Wyandot Indians, and Isaac Zane rode among them.
The prophet saw clearly that all the elements of temptation are within man a truth sometimes obscured in later Jewish thought. Milton has also led us astray in identifying the crafty serpent with the Satan of later Judaism.
Within the unending circle of life and death, of love and hatred, of joy and sorrow and remorse which mark the rise and passing of the civilizations, he beheld the sacred ash and pine, and starry lotus afloat upon the face of moonlit waters in which were mirrored the palm and papyrus and acanthus, and stood face to face with the serpent and wolf, the winged horse and sphinx, and the dragon and the griffin when their secret origins and significance were known unto men.
And at this point, my dear Celsus, we may, if we will be candid, make some allowance for these Paphlagonians and Pontics; the poor uneducated 'fat-heads' might well be taken in when they handled the serpent a privilege conceded to all who choose and saw in that dim light its head with the mouth that opened and shut.
The ophidian Shaw had puzzled him again. He had handled Shaw very roughly for a time. He could still feel and he recalled the sensation with great pleasure the thick, slippery neck of the creature, and the way it had squirmed when he got his fingers into it. Yet the serpent evidently bore no malice. Or a searing thought struck Laurie having things his own way, he could afford to be generous.
The property of the freedman Pyrrhus was a flat rock in the northern part of the harbour, scarcely larger than the garden of Didymus at the Corner of the Muses, a desolate spot where neither tree nor blade of grass grew. It was called the Serpent Island, though the inhabitants had long since rid it of these dangerous guests, which lived in great numbers in the neighbouring cliffs.
But the eagle, we are told, paid no heed to the warning. He descended and ate of the young of the serpent. The serpent appeals to Shamash. He tells the sun-god of the cruel deed of the eagle: See, O Shamash, the evil that he has done to me. Thy trap is the distant heavens. Who can escape thy net?
Asked Bulukiya, 'What hath Allah made beneath this sea which containeth the fish?; and the Angel answered, 'Under the sea the Lord created a vast abyss of air, under the air fire, and under the fire a mighty serpent, by name Falak; and were it not for fear of the Most Highest, this serpent would assuredly swallow up all that is above it, air and fire and the Angel and his burden, without sensing it." And Shahrazed perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.
I weep for your depravity, sir, said Mr Pecksniff; 'I mourn over your corruption, I pity your voluntary withdrawal of yourself from the flowery paths of purity and peace; here he struck himself upon his breast, or moral garden; 'but I cannot have a leper and a serpent for an inmate. Go forth, said Mr Pecksniff, stretching out his hand: 'go forth, young man!
There was a darting motion, and Morgan stood pressing the staff down as the serpent leaped into life, writhing, twining, and snapping its body in waves which ran from head to the tail which quivered in the air, sending forth a peculiar low, dull, rattling noise, and seeming to seek for something about which to curl. "I've got him, Master George. Come along now; it's your turn."
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