National Ruin
T. DeWitt Talmage
Rev., 18: 10
"Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come."
On cis-Atlantic shores a company of American scientists are now landing, on their way to find the tomb of a dead empire holding in its arms a dead city, mother and child of the same name-Babylon. The ancient mounds will invite the spades and shovels and crowbars, while the unwashed natives look on in sur- prise. Our scientific friends will find yellow bricks still impressed with the name of Nebuchadnezzar, and they will go down into the sarcophagus of a monarchy bur- ied more than two thousand years ago. May the ex- plorations of Rawlinson and Layard and Chevalier and Opperto and Loftus and Chesney be eclipsed by the present archaeological uncovering.
But is it possible that this is all that remains of Babylon? A city once five times larger than London, and twelve times larger than New York, Walls three hundred and seventy-three feet high, and ninety-three feet thick. Twenty-five burnished gates on each side, with streets running clear through to corre- sponding gates on the other side. Six hundred and twenty-five squares. More pomp and wealth and splendor and sin than could be found in any five mod- ern cities combined. A city of palaces and temples. A city having within it a garden on an artificial hill four hundred feet high, the sides of the mountain ter- raced. All this built to keep the king's wife, Amyitis, from becoming homesick for the mountainous region in which she had spent her girlhood. The waters of the Euphrates spouted up to irrigate this great altitude into fruits and flowers and arborescence unimagina- ble. A great river running from north to south clear through the city, bridges over it, tunnels under it, boats on it. A city of bazaars and of market-places, unrivaled for aromatics and unguents and high-mettled horses, with grooms by their side, and thyme wood, and African evergreen, and Egyptian ...
T. DeWitt Talmage
Rev., 18: 10
"Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come."
On cis-Atlantic shores a company of American scientists are now landing, on their way to find the tomb of a dead empire holding in its arms a dead city, mother and child of the same name-Babylon. The ancient mounds will invite the spades and shovels and crowbars, while the unwashed natives look on in sur- prise. Our scientific friends will find yellow bricks still impressed with the name of Nebuchadnezzar, and they will go down into the sarcophagus of a monarchy bur- ied more than two thousand years ago. May the ex- plorations of Rawlinson and Layard and Chevalier and Opperto and Loftus and Chesney be eclipsed by the present archaeological uncovering.
But is it possible that this is all that remains of Babylon? A city once five times larger than London, and twelve times larger than New York, Walls three hundred and seventy-three feet high, and ninety-three feet thick. Twenty-five burnished gates on each side, with streets running clear through to corre- sponding gates on the other side. Six hundred and twenty-five squares. More pomp and wealth and splendor and sin than could be found in any five mod- ern cities combined. A city of palaces and temples. A city having within it a garden on an artificial hill four hundred feet high, the sides of the mountain ter- raced. All this built to keep the king's wife, Amyitis, from becoming homesick for the mountainous region in which she had spent her girlhood. The waters of the Euphrates spouted up to irrigate this great altitude into fruits and flowers and arborescence unimagina- ble. A great river running from north to south clear through the city, bridges over it, tunnels under it, boats on it. A city of bazaars and of market-places, unrivaled for aromatics and unguents and high-mettled horses, with grooms by their side, and thyme wood, and African evergreen, and Egyptian ...
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