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Updated: June 26, 2025
Behind them came the woman, and now upon her face there was only a look of peace. The distracted gaze had gone from her eyes, and she listened without a tremor to the voices of the wailers behind. Twenty yards from the lake, Dicky called a halt Dicky, not the Mudir. The soldiers came forward and put heavy chains and a ball upon the woman's ankles.
Behind them came the woman, and now upon her face there was only a look of peace. The distracted gaze had gone from her eyes, and she listened without a tremor to the voices of the wailers behind. Twenty yards from the lake, Dicky called a halt Dicky, not the Mudir. The soldiers came forward and put heavy chains and a ball upon the woman's ankles.
Then the wailers and the chorus of priests were heard: Chorus I. "Complain, complain, weep, weep, weep, without ceasing, as loudly as ever ye are able." Wailers. "O worthy traveler, who turnest thy steps to the land of eternity, how quickly they are tearing thee from us." Chorus II. "How beautiful is that which is happening to him!
In somewhat later times, we find sorrowing relatives tearing their clothing originally tearing off their clothing and cutting their hair as signs of mourning. The formal lament for the dead was another ceremony upon which stress was laid. It lasted from three to seven days. The professional wailers, male and female, can be traced back to the earliest days of Babylonian history.
Against the picturesque wailers at the ruins of the Temple wall shall be set the no less picturesque peasants sowing the seed, whose harvest is at once waving grain and a regenerated Israel. The stains of sordid traffic shall be cleansed by the dews and the rains. In the Jewish peasant behold the ideal plebeian of the future; a son of the soil, yet also a son of the spirit.
"A coronet of thistle-down, entwined with thistle-leaves," said Zarah. "I know not a slighter thing than your Buckingham! I saw him at your request saw him when, as a man, he should have shown himself generous and noble I stood the proof at your desire, for I laugh at those dangers from which the poor blushing wailers of my sex shrink and withdraw themselves.
Go in peace to Abydos! Go Thou in peace to the Theban West!" Chorus of female wailers. "O our lord, O our lord, Thou art going to the West, the gods themselves are weeping." Chorus of priests. "He is happy, the most revered among men, for fate has permitted him to rest in the tomb which he himself has constructed." Chorus of drivers. "To the West, oxen, ye are drawing the car, to the West!
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