There was no flourish of trumpets and drums to send us off, no cheering crowds.

From this time date the diasporae of all the Eastern peoples—Jews, Syrians, Persians, Egyptians—which became so active in proselytizing propaganda in the Roman Empire.

What the anvil? what dread grasp / Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

The transition from Sonoran desertscrub to foothills thornscrub begins on desert inselbergs north of Hermosillo and higher areas east of the Sonoran Desert.