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Where now thy might , which all those kings subduNd ? No martial myriads muster in thy gate ; K o suppliant nations in thy Temple wait ; No prophet-bards , thy glittering court * among , Wake the full lyre , and swell the tide of
song : But lawless Force , and meagre Want ^ is there ; And the quick-darting eye of restless Fear ; Whi-e cold Oblivion , ' mid thy ruins I * j aid , Folds his dank wing beneath the ivy shade .
Ye Guardian Saints I yc warrior-sons of heav ' n ! To whose high care Judasa ' s state was givn ! O , wont of old your nightly watch to keep , A host of gods , on Sion * s tow * ry steep I If e ' er your secret footsteps linger still
By Siioa ' s fount , or TaJbor ' s echoing hill , If e ' er your song on Salem ' glories dwell , And mourn the captive land you lovM so well ; ( For oft ,, ' tis said , in Kedron ' s palmy vale , Mysterious harpings swell the midnight
gale , And , blest as balmy dews that Hermon cheer , Melt in soft cadence on the pilgrim ' s . ear ;) Forgive , blest spirits , if a theme so high Mock the weak notes of mortal
minstrelsy ! Yet , might your aid this anxious breast inspire With one faint spark of Milton ' s seraph fire , Then should my Muse ascend with bolder flight , And wave her eagle-plumes exulting in the light .
O happy once in heaven ' s peculiar love , Delight of men below , and saints above I Though , Salem now the spoiler ' s ruffian hand Has loos'd his hell-hounds o ' er thy wasted land ; Though weak , and whelm * d beneath the
storms of fare , Thy house is left unto thee desolate ; Though thy proud stones in cumbrous ruin fall , ' And seas of sando ' crtop thy mould ' ring w » I ! ;
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Yet shall the Muse to Fancy ' s . ardent view Each shadowy trace of faded pomp t 6 * new : And as the Seer on Pisgah ' s topnioit brow With glist ' ning eye beheld the plain
below , With prescient ardour drank the scented gale , And bade the opening glades of Canaam hail ; Her eagle-eye shall scan the prospect wide , From Carmei ' s cliffs to Almotana * * tide 2
The flinty waste , the cedar-tufted hill , The liquid health of smooth Ardcni ' a * rill ; The grot , where , by the watch-fire * * evening blaze , The robber riots , or the hermit prays ; Or , where the tempest rives the hoary stone , The wintVy top of giant Lebanon .
Fierce , hardy , proutl , in conscious freedom bold , Those stormy seats the warrior Druses hold j From Norman blood their lofty line they trace , Their lion courage proves their gene * rous race .
They , only they , while all around them kneel In sullen homage to- the Thracian steel , Teach the pale despotY waning moon to fear The patriot terrors of the mountain spear *
Yes , valorous chiefs , while yet your sabres shine , The native guard of feeble Palestine , O ever thus , by no vain boast dismay'd , Defend the birthright of the cedar shade f What , though no more for you th' obedient gale , Swells the white bosom of the Tyriaja sail :
****** y Though now no more your glittering marts unfold S id on i an dyes and Lusitanian gold ; Though not for you the pale and sickly slave Forgets the light in Opjiir ' s wealthy
cave ; Yet your * s the lot , in proud contentr ment blest , Where cheerful labour lead * to tranquil rcftt .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1806, page 556, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1729/page/52/
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