The scene which he had witnessed had left the mind of Lycidas in an excited and feverish1 state. The cooling breeze which whispered amongst the leaves of the olives, and the solitude2 of the secluded3 place where Pollux had left him, were refreshing4 to the young Greek's spirit. He threw himself on the grass beneath one of the trees, leant against its trunk, and gazed upwards5 at the stars as, one by one, they appeared, like gems6 studding the deep azure7 sky.
"Are these brave spirits now reigning8 in one of these orbs9 of beauty?" thought the poet; "or are the stars themselves living souls, spirits freed from the chains of matter, shining for ever in the firmament10 above? I must know more of that Hebrew religion, and seek out those who can initiate11 me into its mysteries, if it be lawful12 for a stranger to learn them."
And then the thoughts of Lycidas turned to his poem, and he tried to throw into verse some of the ideas suggested to his mind by the martyrdoms which he had witnessed, but he speedily gave up the attempt in despair.
"Poetic14 ornament15 would but mar13 the grand outlines of such a history," he murmured to himself; "who would carve flowers upon the pyramids, or crown with daisies an obelisk16 pointing to the skies!"
Gradually sleep stole over the young Greek, his head drooped17 upon his arm, his eyelids18 closed, and he slumbered20 long and deeply.
Lycidas was awakened22 by sounds near him, low and subdued23, the cautious tread of many feet, the smothered24 whisper, and the faint rustle25 of garments. The Athenian opened his eyes, and gazed from his place of concealment26 behind the thick branching stem of the olive on a strange and striking scene.
The moon, full and round, had just risen, but the foliage27 of the trees as yet obscured most of her light, as her silver lamp hung near the horizon, casting long black shadows over the earth. Several forms were moving about in the faint gleam, apparently28 engaged in some work which needed concealment, for none of them carried a torch. Lycidas, himself silent as the grave, watched the movements of those before him with a curiosity which for a time so engrossed30 his mind as to take away all sense of personal danger, though he soon became aware that the intrusion of a stranger on these mysterious midnight proceedings31 would not only be unwelcome, but might to himself be perilous33.
The group of men assembled in that retired34 spot were evidently Hebrews, and as the eyes of Lycidas became accustomed to the gloom, and the ascending35 moon had more power to disperse36 it, he intuitively singled out one from amongst them as the leader and chief of the rest. Not that his tunic37 and mantle38 were of richer materials than those of his comrades; plain and dusty with travel were the sandals upon his feet, and he wore the simple white turban which a field-labourer might have worn. But never had turban been folded around a more majestic39 brow, and the form wrapped in the mantle had the unconscious dignity which marks those born to command. The very tread of his sandalled feet reminded the Athenian of that of the desert lion, and from the dark deep-set eye glanced the calm soul of a hero.
"Here be the place," said the chief, if such he were, pointing to the earth under the branches of the very tree against the trunk of which, on the further side, the temple of Lycidas was pressed, as he bent40 eagerly forward to watch and to listen.
Not a word was uttered in reply; but the men around, after laying aside their upper garments, set to work to dig what appeared to be a wide trench41. The leader himself threw off his mantle, took a spade, and laboured with energy, bringing the whole force of his powerful muscles to bear on his humble42 toil43. All worked in profound silence, nor paused in their labour except now and then to listen, like men to whom danger had taught some caution.
Whilst the men went on with their digging, Lycidas strained his eyes to distinguish the outlines of a group at some paces' distance, which doubtless, though separated from them, belonged to the same party as those so actively44 employed before him. Two forms appeared to be seated on the ground in a spot evidently chosen for its seclusion45; one of them was clothed in dark garments, the other was shrouded46 in a large white linen47 veil. Other figures in white seemed to be stretched upon the ground in repose48. Lycidas watched this silent group for hours, and all remained motionless as marble, save that ever and anon the dark female figure slightly swayed backwards49 and forwards with a rocking motion, and that several times the veiled head was turned with a quick movement, as of alarm, when the breeze rustled50 in the olives a little more loudly than usual, or bore sounds from the city to the woman's sensitive ear.
Meanwhile the work of digging proceeded steadily51, and the mound52 of earth thrown out grew large, for the arms of those who laboured were strong and willing, and no man paused either to rest or to speak save once. It was almost a relief to Lycidas to hear at last the sound of a human voice from one of those phantom-like toilers by night. He who spoke53 was the fiercest-looking of the band, with something of the wildness of Ishmael's race on features whose high strongly-marked outlines showed the Hebrew cast of countenance55 in its most exaggerated type.
"There's more thunder in the air," he observed, resting for a minute on his spade, and addressing himself to him whom Lycidas had mentally named "the Hebrew prince," on account of his commanding height and noble demeanour, and the deference56 with which his order had been received.
No answer was returned to the remark, and the wild-looking Jew spoke again,--
"Have you heard that Apelles starts to-morrow for Modin, charged with a mission from the tyrant57 to compel its inhabitants to do sacrifice to one of his accursed idol-gods?"
"Is it so? then ere daybreak I set out for Modin," was the reply.
"It may be that the venerable Mattathias would rather have you absent," observed the first speaker.
"Abishai, when the storm bursts, a son's place is by the side of his father," said the princely Hebrew; and as he spoke he threw up a spadeful of earth from the pit which Lycidas doubted not was meant for a grave.
Again the work proceeded in silence. The moon had risen above the trees before that silence was once more broken, this time by the leader of the band,--
"It is deep enough now, and broad enough; go ye and bring the honoured dead."
The command was at once obeyed. All the men present, excepting the chief himself, who remained standing58 in the grave, went towards the group which has been previously59 mentioned. Interest chained Lycidas to the spot, though it occurred to his mind that prudence60 required him to seize this favourable61 opportunity of quietly making his escape.
The Greek remained, watching in the shadow, as on the rudest of biers, formed by two javelins62 fastened by cross-bars together, the swathed forms of the dead, one after another, were borne to the edge of the pit. They were followed by the two female mourners that had kept guard over the remains63 while the grave was being prepared. The first of these was a tall, stately woman, with hair which glistened64 in the moonbeams like silver, braided back from a face of which age had not destroyed the majestic beauty. Sternly sad stood the Hebrew matron by the grave of the martyred dead; no tear in her eyes, which were bright with something of prophetic fire. So might a Deborah have stood, had Sisera won the victory, and she had had to raise the death-wall over Israel's slain65, instead of the song of triumph to hail the conquerors66' return.
The other female form, which was smaller, and exquisitely68 graceful69 in its movements, remained slightly retired, and still closely veiled. Lycidas remarked that the eyes of the leader watched that veiled form, as it approached, with a softened70 and somewhat anxious expression. This was, however, but for some moments, and the Hebrew then gave his undivided attention to the pious71 work on which he was engaged.
Still standing in the grave, the chief received the bodies, one by one, from the men who had borne them to the place of interment. He took each corpse72 in his powerful arms, and unaided laid it down in its last resting-place, as gently as if he were laying down on a soft couch a sleeper73 whom he feared to awaken21. Lycidas caught a glimpse of the pale placid74 face of one of the shrouded forms, but needed not that glimpse to feel certain that those whose remains were thus secretly interred75 by kinsmen76 or friends at the peril32 of their lives, were the same as those whose martyrdom he had so indignantly witnessed. The Athenian knew enough of the Syrian tyrant to estimate how daring and how difficult must have been the feat54 of rescuing so many of the bodies of his victims from the dishonour77 of being left to the dog or the vulture. The devotion of the living, as well as the martyrdom of the dead, gave an interest to that midnight burial which no earthly pomp could have lent. The spirit of the young Athenian glowed with generous sympathy; and of high descent and proud antecedents as he was, Lycidas would have deemed it an honour to have helped to dig that wide grave for the eight slaughtered78 Jews.
The burial was conducted in solemn silence, save as regarded the Hebrew matron, and her deep thrilling accents were meeter requiem79 for the martyrs80 than the loudest lamentations of hired mourners would have been. As the chief received each lifeless form into his arms, the matron uttered a short sentence over it, in which words of the ancient Hebrew spoken by her fathers blended with the Chaldee, then the language commonly used by the Jews. Her thoughts, as she gave them utterance82, clothed themselves in unpremeditated poetry; the Athenian could neither understand all her words, nor her allusions83 to the past, but the majesty84 of gesture the music of sound, made him listen as he might have done to the inspired priestess of some oracle's shrine85.
"We may not wail86 aloud for thee, my son, nor rend87 our garments, nor put on sackcloth, nor pour dust upon our heads. He who hath bereaved89 thee of life, would bereave88 thee even of our tears; but thou art resting on Abraham's bosom90, where the tyrant can reach thee no more.
"Thou art taken away from the evil. Thou seest no longer Jerusalem trodden by the heathen, nor the abomination of desolation set up in the sanctuary91 of the Lord.
"Even as Isaac was laid on the altar, so didst thou yield thy body to death, and thy sacrifice is accepted.
"As the dead wood of Aaron's rod, cut off from the tree on which it had grown, yet blossomed and bare fruit; cut off as thou art in thy prime, thy memory shall blossom for ever.
"The three holy children trod unharmed the fiery92 furnace seven time heated. He who was with them was surely with thee; and the Angel of Death hath bidden thee come forth93, naught94 harmed by the fire, save the bonds of flesh which thy free spirit hath left behind.
"To touch a dead body is counted pollution; to touch thine is rather consecration95; for it is a holy thing which thou hast freely offered to God."
With peculiar96 tenderness the matron breathed her requiem over the seventh body as it was laid by the rest.
"Youngest and best-beloved of thy mother; thou flower of the spring, thou shalt slumber19 in peace on her bosom. Ye were lovely and pleasant in your lives, in your deaths ye are not divided."
It was with calm chastened sorrow that the last farewell had been spoken as the bodies of the martyred brethren had been placed in their quiet grave; but there was a bitterness of grief in the wail of the Hebrew woman over their mother, which made every word seem to Lycidas like a drop of blood wrung97 from the heart of the speaker.
"Blessed, oh, thrice blessed art thou, Solomona, my sister, richest of mothers in Israel! Thou hast borne seven, and amongst them not one has been false to his God. Thy diadem98 lacks no gem--thy circle of love is unbroken. Blessed she who, dying by her martyred sons, could say to her Lord: Lo, I and the children whom Thou hast given me;" and as the matron ended her lament81, she tore her silver hair, rent her garments, and bowed her head with a gesture of uncontrollable grief.
All the bodies having been now reverentially placed in the grave, the chief rose from it, and joined his companions. Abishai then thus addressed him:--
"Hadassah hath made her lament. Son of Phineas, descendant of Aaron the high-priest of God, have you no word to speak over the grave of those who died for the faith?"
The chief lifted up his right hand towards heaven, and slowly repeated that sublime99 verse from Isaiah, which to those who lived in that remote period must have seemed as full of mystery as of consolation,--"Thy dead shall live! My dead body shall they arise! Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew the dew of herbs, and the earth, shall cast out the dead."[1]
The sound of that glorious promise of Scripture100 seemed to rouse Hadassah from her agonizing101 grief; she lifted up her bowed head, calm and serene102 as before. Turning to the veiled woman near her, she said, "We may not burn perfumes over these our honoured dead, but you, Zarah, my child, have brought living flowers for the burial, and their fragrance103 shall rise as incense104. Cast them into the grave ere we close it."
Obedient to the command of her aged29 relative, the maiden105 whom Hadassah had addressed glided106 forward to the brink107 of the grave, and threw down into it a fragrant108 shower of blossoms. The movement threw back her veil, and there flashed upon Lycidas a vision of loveliness more exquisite67 than the poet had ever beheld109 even in his dreams, as the full stream of moonlight fell on the countenance of the fairest of all the daughters of Zion. Her long dark lashes110 drooped, moist with tears, as she performed her simple act of reverence111 towards her dead kinsmen; then Zarah raised her eyes with a mournful sweet expression, which was suddenly exchanged for a look of alarm--she started, and a faint cry escaped from her lips. The maiden had caught sight of the stranger crouching112 in the deep shadow, her eyes had met his--concealment was over--Lycidas was discovered!
[1] Isaiah xxvi. 19. It will be observed that interpolated italics are omitted.
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