Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

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THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
"how they become dark? Hast thou never watched
"when sweet water is mingled with bitter, how
"quickly it is destroyed? Hast thou never observed
"how He, Who hath filled the universe, striketh
"terror into the created things which exist in the
"world, terror such as they have never imagined,
"or seen, or heard? Now created things are of
"two kinds, the one kind groweth, and the other
Alexander's "is begotteu; but both of them are created that
ws mother" "they may be destroyed. Hast thou not heard
"that He spake to this world, when He created
"it, saying, 'O thou Mother of death', 'O thou
"Heiress of sorrow'? And hast thou never heard
"or seen that nothing which hath been created
"upon this earth knew what was [laid] upon it
"when it took up its habitation? Hast thou never
"observed, O my mother, that he that hath given
"taketh back again that which he hath given, and
"that that which is pledged must be redeemed, and
"that he that hath redeemed his pledge desireth
"to take it back? O my mother, it is meet that
"everything should weep. The skies should weep
"for their stars, the seas should weep for their
"fish, the air should weep for its birds, the earth
"should weep for that which is born therein and
"for its children, and man should weep at all
"times for his mortal soul, for he disappeareth
"like the twinkling of an eye. O my mother ,
"there., is no place of jefuge_Jrom__death, and I
"know that it lieth in wait for us; but let not
"this cause thee pain, for thou and I must die like