ON JORDAN'S BANKS I. ON Jordan's banks the Arab's camels stray, II. There where thy finger scorch'd the tablet stone ! There where thy shadow to thy people shone! III. Oh! in the lightning let thy glance appear; Sweep from his shiver'd hand the oppressor's spear! How long by tyrants shall thy land be trod? How long thy temple worshipless, Oh God? JEPHTHA'S DAUGHTER. I. 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! II. And the voice of my mourning is o'er, III. And of this, oh, my Father! be sure- And the last thought that soothes me below.1 IV. Though the virgins of Salem lament, When this blood of thy giving hath gush'd, OH! SNATCH'D AWAY IN BEAUTY'S BLOOM. I. OH! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom, Their leaves, the earliest of the year; II. And oft by yon blue gushing stream III. Away! we know that tears are vain, Or make one mourner weep the less? MY SOUL IS DARK. I. My soul is dark-Oh! quickly string Its melting murmurs o'er mine ear. That sound shall charm it forth again : If in these eyes there lurk a tear, 'Twill flow, and cease to burn my brain. II. But bid the strain be wild and deep, For it hath been by sorrow nursed, I SAW THEE WEEP. I. I SAW thee weep—the big bright tear And then methought it did appear I saw thee smile-the sapphire's blaze It could not match the living rays II. As clouds from yonder sun receive Which scarce the shade of coming eve Those smiles unto the moodiest mind THY DAYS ARE DONE. I. THY days are done, thy fame begun ; The triumphs of her chosen Son, The deeds he did, the fields he won, FI. Though thou art fall'n, while we are free III. Thy name, our charging hosts along, Thy fall, the theme of choral song SAUL. I. THOU whose spell can raise the dead, King, behold the phantom seer!" Earth yawn'd; he stood the centre of a cloud: Light changed its hue, retiring from his shroud. Death stood all glassy in his fixed eye; His hand was wither'd, and his veins were dry; His foot, in bony whiteness, glitter'd there, Shrunken and sinewless, and ghastly bare ; |