THE DESOLATE CITY. 
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ties of the firmament; and if the darkness be upon the deep, 
then its mysteries are eloquent; in its unfathomable caves lie 
wonders that can never cease to inspire glowing thoughts of 
the greatness of the Omnipotent. 
Not such is the Desolate City ; the city of the silent dead. 
Here is nothing to tell of them that dwelt there. The land is 
laid waste, and the earth mourneth and fadeth away. “The 
Lord hath done that which he had devised ; he hath fulfilled 
his word that he had commanded in the days of old : he hath 
thrown down and hath not pitied.” 
Such is Kaisariyeh—once a proud city of the Phoenicians ; 
now all that remains of Cesarea Palestina. 
KAISARIYEH. 
