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THE PRAYER OF THE WANDERING JEW.[¹]

(FROM THE “PRINCE OF INDIA.”)

[¹] Copyright, Harper & Bros.

OD of Israel—my God!” he said, in a tone hardly more than speaking to himself. “These about me, my fellow-creatures, pray thee in the hope of life, I pray thee in the hope of death. I have come up from the sea, and the end was not there; now I will go into the Desert in search of it. Or if I must live, Lord, give me the happiness there is in serving thee.

“Thou hast need of instruments of good: let me henceforth be one of them, that by working for thy honor, I may at last enjoy the peace of the blessed—Amen.”

DEATH OF MONTEZUMA.[¹]

(FROM “THE FAIR GOD.”)