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That word offends thee , and I go Back to the place from which I came , Yet hear thou first what future woe Awaits thy kingdom and thy name .
The veil is lifted from my eye And things to come I see as nigh ^ The vision of my God is clear As in yon heav ' n the sun is bright ; Mistrusting monarch ! trembling hear
What bursts upon my raptur'd sight : " Thro' the gloom of the future I see thee afar , O Jacob , beam forth as a world-lighting star , And the sceptre of Israel , exalted in might , The borders and children of Moab doth smite ; It ruleth o ' er Edom and stretcheth to Seir , The mountains and rocks bow before it in fear ,
Its empire is wide , and resistless its sway , It strikes to the dust all the idols of clay , And the blaze of its glory o ' er earth is so bright , Its foes melt away , like the mist , in its light . Lo I Amalek lifts himself up in his pride ,
A . giant in strength o ' er the earth is his stride , And his head is exalted in triumph so high , All the bright hosts of heav ' n he seems to defy : But Amalek falls in his pride and his lust , Like a tow ' r by the lightning struck flat to the dust , And the bnit of destruction his throne has cast down , And in ruins for ever it lies with his crown 1
An eagle that builds his high nest on a rock , The Kenite seems rais'd above ruin ' s dread shock , And strong in his dwelling-place , near to the sky , Looks down on his foes with a fear-scorning eye ; But woe to the Kenite ! tho' loftily plac'd , Desolation his dwelling doth fearfully waste .
Who pompously marches in warlike array , Destruction behind him , before him Dismay ? 'Tis Asshur the mighty—ah ! what do I see ? He leadeth thee captive , O Israel , thee : — Alas ! who shall live when the hand of thy God Shall hold o ' er His people His chastening rod ? He will not destroy thee—from many a coast
Ships of war sally forth , each arm'd with a host ; On swift wings of vengeance to Eber they haste , And now what is Asshur ?—a desolate waste : Wide o ' er the sad ruins , low wheeling their flight , Discordantly scream the dark vultures of night , * And , whilst they carouse on the flesh of the prey , Scare far from that desert man ' s footsteps away I The vision departs—and my eyes see no more The scenes they beheld so distinctly before ; ¦ ' — . —— i ''
* We are informed in Gee . x . 11 , that Asshur built Nineveh . Hence Assyria , of which that city was the capital , is sometimes called in Scripture language Asshur or Afisur : as in Ezra iv . 2 , Esar-haddon is called l < King of Assur . " The destruction of Aashur , therefore , foretold by Balaam ,, was the destruction of the Assyrian empire , when Nineveh was entirely destroyed . To the utter ruin and desolation of this once apleudid city 1 allude iu the lines to which this note refers ; borrowing the imagery ot Nahum Hi . 3 , 7 > and Zeph . ii . 13 , 14 .
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366 . poetry . — The Encampment of the hn % elites in the Plains of Moa b *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1826, page 366, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2549/page/50/
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