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Updated: July 24, 2025
And when in his death-thirst he craved for water, she clomb down again, and drew from the well in her shoe, for she had nought else: and there sat she, all that woeful night, giving him to drink, bathing his brows, covering his wounds, whispering holy and loving words.
In thousands of churches, amid gold and gems and altars fragrant with perfume, are seen the crown of thorns, the nails, the spear, the cup of vinegar mingled with gall, the sponge that could not slake that burning death-thirst; and in a voice choked with anguish the Church in many lands and divers tongues prays from age to age, "By thine agony and bloody sweat, by thy cross and passion, by thy precious death and burial!" mighty words of comfort, whose meaning reveals itself only to souls fainting in the cold death-sweat of mortal anguish!
They are fond of intoxication, but are not yet broken to ardent spirits: I have seen a single glass of trade rum cause a man to roll upon the ground and convulsively bite the yellow clay like one in the agonies of the death-thirst. They would do wisely to decline intercourse with Europeans; but this, of course, is impossible there is a manifest destiny for them as for their predecessors.
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