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gallop across, a trail of mist dust fol- 

 lowing. A desert caravan crawls close 

 to the horizon, and on the earth the 

 shadows sharpen and the pointed cedars 

 take weird shapes like those which 

 Dore portrayed haunting the Wander- 

 ing Jew. 



All these things of the night pass in 

 a little space, and man may gather and 

 arrange them to suit his needs; for the 

 body, sleep; for the mind, peace; for 

 the soul, a clearer vision. It was 

 night that brought to the hillside shep- 

 herds the vision of the Bethlehem Star. 



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