THE WILD GAZELLE. 1. THE wild gazelle on Judah's hills And drink from all the living rills Its airy step and glorious eye May glance in tameless transport by : 2. A step as fleet, an eye more bright, And o'er her scenes of lost delight Inhabitants more fair. The cedars wave on Lebanon, But Judah's statelier maids are gone! 3. 1 More blest each palm that shades those plains Than Israel's scatter'd race; For, taking root, it there remains It cannot quit its place of birth, It will not live in other earth. 4. But we must wander witheringly, In other lands to die; And where our fathers' ashes be, Our own may never lie: Our temple hath not left a stone, And Mockery sits on Salem's throne. OH! WEEP FOR THOSE. 1. OH! weep for those that wept by Babel's stream, Mourn where their God hath dwelt the Godless dwell! 2. And where shall Israel lave her bleeding feet? The hearts that leap'd before its heavenly voice? 3. Tribes of the wandering foot and weary breast, The wild-dove hath her nest, the fox his cave, VOL. V. G ON JORDAN'S BANKS. 1. ON Jordan's banks the Arabs' camels stray, Yet there-even there-Oh God! thy thunders sleep : 2. There where thy finger scorch'd the tablet stone! 3. Oh! in the lightning let thy glance appear! How long by tyrants shall thy land be trod! How long thy temple worshipless, Oh God! JEPHTHA'S DAUGHTER. 1. SINCE Our Country, our God-Oh, my Sire! Demand that thy Daughter expire; Since thy triumph was bought by thy vowStrike the bosom that's bared for thee now! 2. And the voice of my mourning is o'er, 3. And of this, oh, my Father! be sure- And the last thought that soothes me below. 4. Though the virgins of Salem lament, |