Such, in brief, is the story of Zenobia. You must read for
yourselves the record of her later years, as it stands in
history, if you would know more of her grandeur in her days of
power, and her moral grandeur in her days of defeat.
And with Zenobia fell Palmyra. Centuries of ruin and neglect have
passed over the once fairy-like city of the Syrian oasis. Her
temples and colonnades, her monuments and archways and wonderful
buildings are prostrate and decayed, and the site even of the
glorious city has been known to the modern world only within the
last century. But while time lasts and the record of heroic deeds
survives, neither fallen column nor ruined arch nor all the
destruction and neglect of modern barbarism can blot out the
story of the life and worth of Bath Zabbai, the brave girl of the
Syrian desert, whom all the world honors as the noblest woman of
antiquity--Zenobia of Palmyra, the dauntless "Queen of the East."
HELENA OF BRITAIN:
THE GIRL OF THE ESSEX FELLS.
[Afterward known as "St. Helena," the mother of Constantine.]
A.D. 255.
Ever since that far-off day in the infancy of the world, when
lands began to form and rivers to flow seaward, the little river
Colne has wound its crooked way through the fertile fields of
Essex eastward to the broad North Sea.
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