Chapter III: Part I: Brusa to Diarbekr

"It avails not, time nor place--distance avails not,
I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or
ever so many generations hence.
Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt;
Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of
a crowd;
Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the
bright flow, I was refresh'd;
Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift
current, I stood, yet was hurried."...

BY DESERT WAYS TO BAGHDAD