text:  Thus it is and therefore it is that Paradise has vanished; Luz is gone; Jacob's ladder is found only as an apparition in the clouds; the true cross survives no more among the Roman Catholics than the true ark is mouldering upon Ararat; no scholar can lay his hand upon Gethsemane; and for the grave of Moses the son of Amram mightiest of lawgivers though it is somewhere near Mount Nebo and in a valley of Moab yet eye has not been suffered to behold it and "no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day