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Identifier: wanderingheroes00pric (find matches)
Title: Wandering heroes
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Price, Lillian Louise, 1865-
Subjects: Heroes
Publisher: New York, Boston (etc.) Silver, Burdett and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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elastic in hisstride. Tis Moses, cried Tirzah, joyfully, andJoshua ! Along a winding foot-path they de-scended, till, reaching the hillock near Rachel andTirzah, Moses paused, standing motionless, hisarms, clasping the tablets, folded over his breast.Tirzah watched his face gathering wrath, as hiseye swept over the whirling, shouting dancers.He started directly into their midst, and they partedright and left to let him pass. The clashing ofcymbals ceased, and the silence of death fell uponthem, till one could hear the sweep of the windupon the trees of the mountain side. Then Tirzah heard the sonorous voice of Mosesspeaking to the people, and at last high abovehis head he held the tables of stone before he flungthem from him with a mighty crash. They brokein pieces, and with them was destroyed all Godslaw which He had given to Moses upon the mount. Next he laid his hands upon the golden calf,and wrenching it loose, swung it into the fire. Oh ! cried Tirzah, terror-stricken, I fear to
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Moses. Statue by Michaelangelo. MOSES. 65 go into the tents this evening,-for his anger willutterly consume us. But it was not so, for when the little hand-maid of Zipporah served him at supper, he lookedkindly upon her, and spoke gentle words to her.Next morning he went once more up into themountain, and the cloud of God rested upon it.This time, when he returned with other tabletsof Gods commandments, he did not break themin pieces, but put them reverently into the Arkof the Covenant, to be a law to all the people;and the second time when he came among themhe found no golden idol, and his face shone. Sucha glory of light shone from his face that Tirzahfell upon her knees and hid hers. After that the tents were struck, and the wan-dering in the desert began again. It lasted in all,forty years, and Tirzah was grown to be a tallwoman with children of her own, when at last theIsraelites came out of the wilderness near to the riverJordan, and to the promised land of Canaan. NowTirzahs da

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