IF THAT HIGH WORLD. 1. If that high world, which lies beyond 2. It must be so: 'tis not for self And striving to o'erleap the gulf, Oh! in that future let us think To hold each heart the heart that shares, With them the immortal waters drink, And soul in soul grow deathless theirs! HE wild gazelle on Judah's hills nd drink from all the living rills s airy step and glorious eye Hay glance in tameless transport by : step as fleet, an eye more bright, Hath Judah witness'd there; nd o'er her scenes of lost delight Inhabitants more fair. The cedars wave on Lebanon, ut Judah's statelier maids are gone! Tore blest each palm that shades those plains Than Israel's scatter'd race; or, taking root, it there remains In solitary grace: cannot quit its place of birth, will not live in other earth. weep for those that wept by Babel's stream, ose shrines are desolate, whose land a dream; ep for the harp of Judah's broken shell; arn-where their God hath dwelt the Godless dwell! I where shall Israel lave her bleeding feet? Des of the wandering foot and weary breast, w shall ye flee away and be at rest! wild-dove hath her nest, the fox his cave, nkind their country-Israel but the grave! ON JORDAN'S BANKS. 1. ON Jordan's banks the Arabs' camels stray, Yet there-even there-Oh God! thy thunders sleep : 2. There where thy finger scorch'd the tablet stone! 3. 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! |