fllO ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



Or rouse your nightly numbers from afar, 

 And on the hamlet pour the waste of war : 

 Nor spare the hoary head, nor bid your eye 

 RcTere the sacred smile of infancy. 

 Such now the clans, whose fiery coursers feed 

 Where waves on Kishon's bank the whispering reed^ 

 And thcir's the soil, where, curling to the skies, 

 Smokes on Gcrizim's mount Samaria's sacrifice. 

 While Israel's sons, by scorpion curses driven, 

 Outcasts of earth, and reprobate of heaven. 

 Through the wide world in friendless exile stray, 

 Remorse and Shame sole comrades of their way. 

 With ilumb despair their country's Avrongs behold, 

 And, dead to glory, only burn for gold. 



O Thoti their Guide, their Father, and their Lord, 

 Lov'd for thy mercies, for thy power ador'd ! 

 If at thy name the waves forsot their force, 

 And refluent Jordan sought his trembling source ; 

 If at thy name, like sheep, the mountains lied, 

 And haughty Sirion bow'd his marble head : — 

 To Israel's woes a pitying ear incline ; 

 And raise from earth thy long-negleftcd vitie ! 

 Her rifled fruits behold the heathen bear, 

 And wild wood-boars her mangled clusters tear. 

 Was it for this she stretch'd her peopled reign. 

 From far Euphrates to the western main ? 

 For this, o'er many a hill her boughs she threw, 

 And her wide arms like goodly cedars grew ? 

 For this, proud Edom slept beneath the shade, 

 And o'er th' Arabian deep her branches play'd 

 O feeble boast of transitory power ! 

 Vain, fruitless trust of Judali's hai)picr hour! 

 Not such their hope, when through the parted main, 

 The cloudy wonder led the warrior train ; 

 Not such their hope, when through the fields of night, 

 The torch of heaven dlffus'd its friendly light : 

 . Not, Avhen fierce Conquest urg'd the onward Avar, 

 And hurld stern Canaan from his iron car : 

 Nor, when five monarch's led to Gibeon's fight, 

 In rude array, the harness'd Amorite : 

 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 : 



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