The Pilgrim of the Night 27

which is called Nazareth, “the flower-vil-
lage ;” and he showed him the River Jordan
flowing through dark green woods, and
Hermon the high mountain, glittering with
snow (and the snow of that mountain is ex-
ceeding old), and the blue Lake of Gen-
nesareth, with its fishing-craft, and the busy
town of Capernaum on the great road to
Damascus, and Nain where Jesus watched
the little children playing at funerals and
marriages in the market-place, and the wil-
derness where He was with the wild beasts,
and Bethany where Lazarus lived and died
and was brought to life again (and in the
fields of Bethany Isidore gathered a bunch
of wild flowers), and Jerusalem the holy city,
and Gethsemane with its aged silver-grey
olive-trees, and the hill of Calvary, where in
the darkness a great cry went up to heaven:
“Why hast Thou forsaken me?” and the
new tomb in the white rock among the
myrtles and rose-trees in the garden.
There was no place that Isidore had
desired to see that was denied tohim. And
in all these places he saw the children’s chil-
dren of the children of those who had |

looked on the face of the Saviour — men