Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1827-11-28

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Toward he far land Jehovah gave,
While strains from %Israel's harps ascend,
First heard by Siloa's distant wave!
See the pale mails Of J idah dancing
Ia many a tone and palmy bower.
Their glorious eyes, with dark fire glanciug,
Beneath their own rich sunsets hour;
1 fa,ies--li fales-the dream is DER;
see grey 1almor's roofs no more.
Ayain-again! in other yenrs,
On Todmor's ire behold arise
The youn. Palmyra; bright Tho renrs
Her marble crown in eastern skies.
Long had she slept IN din rcpose,
Scorre or forgo. by empires round;
When, like a newborn star. she rose,
Frightening the wastes rsn";est hound:-
Commerce h.. tn breathel it, quickening breath
Der those lone san,is on Syia's ploir;
She rose from darkness AMI from death;
Alas. masn fcent in vain!
Svon the Ear sons Ot very lGnl
Nix in her mars, u variei throng.
A, wave on wave o'ersweeps the strand,
They crowl her splendid streets along:
To bre III ;, for gold, her distant air,
Iaiian and Greek forsook their home;
And Mlthra's votary greeted there;
he servant OF the gods D. Rome.
Now through the b~uzz,ny mart, drags on
TO cumbrous length some burthen'd yain;
Now, from his chafing barb, anon,
An Arab macks the stranger train:
THIS beautiful auI naughty steed
Curves his fac neck, and champs the wind
And .hows, even thus, with what free speed
lie flung the wilderness behind.
Next winds the heightened caravan,
Laden with ey'ry precious store,
By Nature gwen, or wrought by man,
On many a far and layoured shore.
Rich In Ina spices there are mixed
Vita treasures ofths eastern bee;
And costly vases breathe betwixt
Cams from the incense bleeding tree:
Sweet dates from many n grove Of palm:
Grapes summed on many a distant vine,
Are blcnt with amber aud with balm.
With uu wronsht goii, and perfumcd wine
There too. the wonders ofthe loom,
That weaves the purple wealth Of Tyre,
Are piled DER Baskets which i,hume
Rare gems, like drops Of "rystalled fire.
Moy,os IN long and docile lie.
Like their own kindred sands in hue,
The c,me,s. toward their vel ONE shrine,
File the voluptuous ubu BE- through.
Fair was the sccrc that ne. around
Tn weary ,caveller's Frightening eye;
Oar to ms ~ia:ntius eirt the sound
Ofini,y waters w,.bliny nth:
on. ac'cr can music hr atae 80 sweet,
M. not the music Of .hc sphere,
As t,ose cool toucs when first they greet
The lesort pilgrims ieve.el earl
Nor heard alone thosef fnuntaios well,-
o.. Cleaning through f 'tocnlns shades,
Clear as they lei, their rocky cell,
They gushrd. or fell in bright cascades,
Tn, ,u ,hifadeles, DO wers, in whose ric.. gloom
The a~aecnly role Of Syria rearei
He, incensed crown, aud every bloom
Tha, gems the 0owery East appeared.
There. Der their oe e the waters flashed,
Fiineing The soul Of freshness rounl-
Herr. into sculptured cisterns lashei,
Keviviny, by their shine and sound,
The camcls, "a around they stood,
Draining the fresh and sparkling wave,
Their crey forms i. aged in the food.
which deep thor sultry nostrils lave,
While near, beneath some lofty palm.
Whose green shade tremb.es on the tile,
The same sweet sounds their drivers cam
To slumber at the fountain-side.
Day wanes, ami in the sunsets glow
The radiant hills Of Syrin rise;
And yoldenly the plains below
Catch the deep glory OF the skies;
Magnificent Ito parting sun
Ilnmes the pnc, the l'ne, the tower,
Or rests in loving light upon
The green crest Of the glowing bower,
IIish On whose still and summer coughs
The Orc IT'S bnrning nightingale
Pymn, 10 his crimson love his VOWS,
Aud bids her otour sighs exhalc,
W, til solened sounds the waters iail;-
o. the c.l y s,any air the cries
or toll and trade have died, and all
Is hushed into a quiet voice,
A still, vide hum THAT brea,hes Of peace,
Add we'll besecms the gentle hour,
When for a while life's iaoors cease.
And evening brings her golden dover.
sJo,ephus asserts that both Tadmor and Palmyra
-... .,cn,scat,op. VIZ. the place ofpalms.