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A DESCRIPTION OF 
THE GAZELLE. (Antilope Dorcas.) 
The wild Gazelle, on Judah's hills, 
Exulting yet may bound, 
And drink from all the living rills 
That gush on holy ground. 
Its airy step and glorious eye 
May glance in tameless transport by. 
BYRON. 
THE Gazelle is the most elegant of antelopes. The Ara- 
bian poets have applied their choicest epithets to the 
beauty of this animal, and their descriptions have been 
adopted into our own poetry. Byron, in speaking of the 
dark eyes of an eastern beauty, says, 
" Go look on those of the Gazelle." 
When the Persian describes his mistress, she is " an ante- 
lope in beauty," " his Gazelle employs all his soul ;" 
