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Hoary Carmel, witness thon, 



And lift in conscious pride thy brow ; 



As Avhen, upon thy cloudy plain, 



Baal's prophets cry'd in vain ! 



Thoy gash'd their flesh, and leap'd, and cry'd, 



From morn till ling'ring even-tide. 



Then stern Elijah on his foes, 



Strong in the luiglit of lleav'n, arose ! — 



They died : — He, on the altars rent, 



As the blaclining clouds and rain 



Came sounding from the western main, 

 §tood, like the Lord of fate, alone and eminent, 



IV. 



What triumphs yet remain ? 



"VVas it a groan ? — a hero* fell. 

 On Egypt's plain 

 More loud the shouts of battle swell ! 



Host meet host Mith direr crash, 



Another + pours the red vindictive flash 



Of battle. Mourn, proud Gallia, mourn 

 Thy distant sons scatter'd or slain ; 



Wliilst from their gory grasp is torn 



The ensign hail'd " invincible,'' in vain! 

 What mystic monument J, to day restored. 

 Is wrested from the mosque's oblivious gloom ? 



It is thy hallow'd tomb, 

 Scandcr §, the conqueror of the world, ador'd 

 A God to farthest Caucasus : the son 

 Of Ammon, who the crown of glory won, 



Immortal, who the seas subdu'd ; 



And said, (when on the sandy solitude 



The hcw-form'd city's || glearay turrets rose) 



" Roll commerce here, till time shall close 

 *' The scene of things." Their course long ages keep ; 

 Another** bears the sceptre of the deep ! 

 O'er wider seas 



The sails of commerce catch the breeze j 

 Thy city's battlements are rent, 



And 



• Sir Ralph Abercrombic. 



t Lord Hutchinson. 



j Amon" the Egyptian antiquities now in the British Museum, there is a moist 

 singular monument, of the rarest and most valuable marble, tlie green Brecbia, res- 

 cued, by the activity of Mr. Clark, the celebrated traveller, from the French ; and 

 supposed by him, for many cogent reasons, to be the tomb of the founder of Alex^ 

 andria. His arguments have great weight; but whether they are well founded or 

 not, the circumstance is. at least, highly poetical. 



§ The Arabic name of Alexander. 

 ; II .Mexandria, 



»» England, 



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