"
So the mother and her Child sang together with low voices:
"In peace will I both lay me down and sleep,
For thou, Lord, makest me dwell in safety."
The tune and the words quieted the Boy. It was like a bit of home
in a far land.
II
THE GILDED TEMPLE
The next day was full of wonder and excitement. It was the first
day of the Feast, and the myriad of pilgrims crowded through the
gates and streets of the city, all straining toward the enclosure
of the Temple, within whose walls two hundred thousand people could
be gathered. On every side the Boy saw new and strange things:
soldiers in their armor, and shops full of costly wares; richly
dressed Sadducees with their servants following; Jews from far-away
countries, and curious visitors from all parts of the world; ragged
children of the city, and painted women of the street, and beggars
and outcasts of the lower quarters, and rich ladies with their
retinues, and priests in their snowy robes.
The family from Nazareth passed slowly through the confusion, and
the Boy, bewildered by the changing scene, longed to get to the
Temple.
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