Miss Beauchamp's War in Salonika, item 21

• March 14, 2018 12:33:08 Jessica Adkins

  2.

  Known by a number only, it stood without a nameless

  until the right name, unsought, a name was given found

  for it in the thankfulness of those who profited came for water in

  hot, the dry weary heat dust-laden days after the fire

  and found it sweet & wholesome still. "Allah has
  

  destroyed our wells", they said, " but it has pleased

  him to spare this one, and we are never

  refused the water we seek, it is the House of

  Benediction, so indeed it was is, and remainsed. 

  
  

  Beyond the high walls of the garden, can be seen

  but one minaret, white against a group of giant

  cypress trees; the silence is broken only by the 

  murmuring of doves in the fig tree, distant but 

  vaucous chattering of jackdaws in the cypress; and at

  sunset the voice of the blind muezzin from the

  minaret calling the faithful to prayer.

  The voice rises and dies away, floating over the

  town is taken up in faint echoes from the other

  mosques below, then ceases altogether; the rustle of

  hurrying footsteps in the paved streets shows that the

  call has been heard, and answered - 

  
  

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