Truly a fearful vengeance did Charles take, in that terrible battle which he fought the next day against the Emir of Babylon come from oversea to help his vassal Marsile, when the sun stood still in heaven that the Christians might be avenged on their enemies; in the capture of Saragossa and the death of Marsile, who, already mortally wounded, turned his face to the wall and died when he heard of the defeat of the emir; but when vengeance was taken on the open enemy Charlemagne thought of mourning, and returned to Roncesvalles to seek the body of his beloved nephew. "Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race", - Maud Isabel Ebbutt

That this is so can be clearly seen from the Babylon of the present day, to which the holy things of the Word, of the church and of worship, are means, and supremacy is the end. "Spiritual Life and the Word of God", - Emanuel Swedenborg

The history of Babylon is fraught with sadness. "Remarks", - Bill Nye

To us this might be Babylon after the desert! "The Happy Foreigner", - Enid Bagnold