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• The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.

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  Eye, Dark, Differences

  Bayard Taylor (2015). “The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.64, The Floating Press

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• Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.

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  War, Hands, Mountain

  bayard taylor “views a-foot”

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• Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.

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  Cities, Foundation, World

  Bayard Taylor (2015). “The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.106, The Floating Press

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• Eccentricity is developed monomania.

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  Eccentricity

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• Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.

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  Ocean, Glee, Swelling

  BAYARD TAYLOR (1855). “POEMS OF HOME AND TRAVEL.”, p.123

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• I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Hands

  Bayard Taylor (1855). “The Lands of the Saracen: Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain”, p.154

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• Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.

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  Song, Perfect, Higher

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.162

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• London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

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  Atmosphere, World, London

  Bayard Taylor (1869). “Views Afoot; Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.306

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• When May, with cowslip-braided locks,
  Walks through the land in green attire.
  And burns in meadow-grass the phlox
  His torch of purple fire:
  And when the punctual May arrives,
  With cowslip-garland on her brow,
  We know what once she gave our lives,
  And cannot give us now!

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  Fire, Land, Purple

  Bayard Taylor (1883). “The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor”

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• Love is better than Fame.

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  Love, Love Is, Fame

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• The loving are the daring.

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  Love, Engagement, Daring

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.246

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• And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds,
  Is one with Prayer.

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  Prayer, Deeds, Virtuous

  Bayard Taylor (1856). “Poems”

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• There may come a day
  Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth,
  And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!

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  Success, Art, Desire

  Bayard Taylor (1867). “The Picture of St. John”, p.220

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• From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.

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  Wind, Fire, Desire

  Bayard Taylor (1857). “Poems of the Orient”, p.86

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• Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.

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  Taken, Character, Giving

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• Labor, you know, is prayer.

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  Prayer, Labor, Knows

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• Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.

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  Hope, Past, Night

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.9

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• The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

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  Perfection, Unattainable, Aim

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• The source of each accordant strain
  Lies deeper than the Poet's brain.
  First from the people's heart must spring
  The passions which he learns to sing;
  They are the wind, the harp is he,
  To voice their fitful melody,--
  The language of their varying fate,
  Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,--
  The talisman which holds inwrought
  The touchstone of the listener's thought;
  That penetrates each vain disguise,
  And brings his secret to his eyes.

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  Lying, Hate, Spring

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.111

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• Departed suns their trails of splendor drew
  Across departed summers: whispers came
  From voices, long ago resolved again
  Into the primeval Silence, and we twain,
  Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same,
  As in a spectral mirror wandered there.

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  Summer, Mirrors, Self

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• I know I am--that simplest bliss
  The millions of my brothers miss.
  I know the fortune to be born,
  Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.

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  Brother, Missing, Bliss

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• But still I dream that somewhere there must be
  The spirit of a child that waits for me.

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  Dream, Children, Childhood

  Bayard Taylor (1863). “The Poet's Journal”, p.80

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• Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.

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  Charm, Verses, Wooing

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