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Nor , when five monarchs led to Gibeon ' s fight , Ip rude array , the harnessed Amoritc : Yes—in that hour , by mortal accents stay'd ,
The lingering Sun his fiery wheels delay * d ; The Moon , obedient , trembled at the sound , Curb'd her pale car , and check'd her mazy round !
Let Sinai tell—for she beheld his might , And God * s own darkness veil'd her mystic height : / He , cherub-borne , upon the -whirlwind rode , And the red mountain like a furnace
gj ow'd : ) . Let Sinai tell—but who shall dare recite His praise , his power , —eternal , infinite ? Awe ^ tmck I cease ; nor bid my strains aspire , Or serve his altar with unhallow ' d fire . Such were the cares that watch'd o ' er Israel ' s fate , And suck the glories of their infant
state . Triumphant race f and did your power decay ? Failed the bright promise of your early day * No ;—by that sword , which , red with heathen gore , A giant spoil , the stripling champion bore :
By him , the chief to farthest India known , The mighty master of the ivory throne ; In heaven ' s own strength , high towering o * her foes Victorious Salem ' s lion hanner rose ; Before her footstol prostrate nations lay , And vassal tyrants crouch'd beneath her
sway . ~ -And he , the warrior sage , whose restless mind Through nature ' s mazes wander'd unconfined ; Who every bird , and beast , and insect kne ~ w > And spake of every plant that quaffs the dew ;
To him were known—so Hagar ' s offspring tell—The powerful sigill and the starry spell ; TJic midnight call , hell ' s shadowy legion s dread ,
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And sounds that bttftt _ t 3 ie slumbeft c # the dead . Hence all his might ; for , who could these oppose ? And Tadmor thus , and Syrian Balbee rose . Yet e ' en the works of toiling Genii fall , And vain was Estakhar ' s enchanted wall .
In frantic converse with the mournful wind , There oft the houseless Santon rests re * clin'd ; Strange shapes he ^ views , and drinks witl * wondering ears The voices of the " dead , and songs of other years .
Such , the faint echo of departei praise . Still sound Arabia ' s legendary lays ; And thus their fabling bards delight tt tell How lovely were thy tents , O Israel !
For thec his ivory load Behcmotk bore , And far Sofala teem'd with golden ore $ Thine all the arts that wait on wealth ' * increase , Or bask and wanton in the beam of peace . When Tyber slept beneath the cypress
gloom , And silence held the lonely woods of Rome ; Or ' ere to Greece the builder ' s skill was known , Or the light chissel brushed the Parian stone ; Yet here fair Science nurs'd her infant
fire , Fann'd by the artist-aid of friendly Tyre . Then tower'd the palace , then in awful state The Temple rear'd it ' s everlasting gate . Ko workman steel , no ponderous axe $ rung ; Iuike some tali palm the noiseless fabric
sprung . Majestic silence !—then the harp awoke , The cymbal clang ed , tfee dcep-voic \ i trumpet spoke ; And Salem spread her suppliant armi abroad , View'd the descending flame , arid blesi' 4 the present God , / 2 V bs concluded in cur ntxt . l
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1806, page 558, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1729/page/54/
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