P O E T R Y. 



From Norman blood their loRy line they trace, 

 'I heir lion courage proves their generous race. 

 They, only they, while all around them kneel 

 In sullen homage to the Thracian steel, 

 Teach their pale despot's wanin? moon to fear 

 The patriot terrors of the mountain spear. 



Yes, val'rous chiefs, while yet your sabres shine, 

 The native guard of fccWe Palestine, 

 O ever thus, by no vain boast dismay'd, 

 Defend the birthright of the cedar shade! 

 What though no more for you th' obedient gale 

 Swells the white bosom of the Tyrian sail ; 

 Though now no more your glittering marts unfold 

 Sidouian dyes and Lusitanian gold ; 

 Though not for you the pale and sickly slave 

 Forgets the light in Ophir's -^fealthy cave; 

 Tet^our's the lot, in proud contentment blest, 

 Where cheerful labour leads to tranquil rest. 

 No robber-rage the ripening harvest knows ; 

 And unrestrain'd the generous vintage Hows : 

 Nor less vour sons to manliest deeds aspire, ' 

 And Asia's mountains glow with Spartan Ike- 

 So when, deep sinking in the rosy main, 

 The western Sun forsakes the Syrian plain, 

 liis watyry rays refracted lustre shed. 

 And pour their latest light on Carmel's head. 



Yet shines your praise, amid surrounding gloom, 

 As the lone lamp that trembles in the tomb : 

 For, few the souls that spurn a tyrant's chain, 

 .■\!!d small the bounds of Freedom's scanty reign. 

 As the poor outcast on the cheerless wild, 

 Arabia's parent, clasp'd her fainting child, 

 And v.-ander'd near the roof no more her home, 

 Forbid to linger, yet afraid to roam : 

 My sorrowing fancy quils the i.ai)picr height. 

 And southw ard throws her half-averted sight. 

 For, sad the scenes Judea's plains disclose, 

 A dreary waste of undistinguishM woes : 

 See War untir'd, his crimson pinions spread. 

 And foul Revenge, that tramples on the dead . 

 Lo, where from far the guarded fountaiu:, shine, 

 'J'hy tents, Nebaioth; rise, and Kedar, thine ! 

 'Tis your's the boast to mark the stranger's way, 

 And spur vour headlong chargrrs on the prey, 



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