Courier Post · 19 July 1915
CP-1915-002
The Tents of the Arabs
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... :: • THE TENTS OF THE ARABS.
Longfellow wrote many popular lines, but few better known than "And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And silently steal away," It Is not a remarkable stanza, but it Sentimental young caught the ear. people chose it for their graduating es- says and paragraphers referred to per- those who lay hands on their neigh- bors' fowls, as folding their tents like the Arabe, and as silently stealing away.
Hard times in Palestine have caused many Arabs to start for North or South America., Longtellow did not forecast the Arab pitching his tent I near the Bronx, or on the shores of Lake Michigan, or along the Gulf of Mexico, or at the Panama-Pacific Ex- position.
Travel does not worry the Arab, but it may surprise him to learn there are communities in this republic which would bar out the ca
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"The Tents of the Arabs," Courier Post, 19 July 1915. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1915-002. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1915-002
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