Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-05-09


sREusEN,* thou spearhead in my side,
Thy fathers first born, and his shame;
Unstable as the rolling tide,
blight has fal'n upon thy name.
Decay shall follow thee and thine;
Co. outcast of halow'd line
s5fMEos and LryI,t sons ofblood
That still hangs heavy on the land;
Your f1ocks Shall be the robbers food,
Your folds shall blaze beneath his brand.
IN swamp and forest shall We dwell
Be scattered among Israeli
sJrDAu!f All hail, thou priest, thou king!
The crown, the glory, shall be thine
Thine, in the fight, the eagles wing
Thine, on the hill, the oil and WINE.
Thou lion! nations shall turn pale
When swells thy roar upon the gale.
Judah, my son, ascend the throne,
Till comes from heaven the unborn king
The prophsied, the mighty one,
Whose heel shall bruise the serpent's sting
Till earth is paradise again,
And sin is dead, and death is SLAIN!
sWide as the surges, ZEBuLuNH
Thy daring keel shall plough the sea;
Before thee sink proud Sidon's sun,
Thou reaper of the corn and oil,
Lord of the giant and the soil!
Whose banner flames in battles van!
Whose mail is first in slaughter gored!
Thou, subler than the sepent, DAMS
Prince of the arrow and the sword
Woe to the Syrian charioteer,
When rings the rushing of the spear!
'Crush'd to the earth by war and woe,
Cans shall the cup Of bondage drain.
Till bold revenge shall give the blow
That pays the long arrear of pain.
Thy cup shall glow with tyrant gore,
Thou be my son--and man once morei
Loved NAParALT,** thy snow white hind
Shall bask beneath the rose and vine.
Proud ASHER, to the mountain wind
Shall star-like blaze, thy battle sign.
All bright to both, from birth to tomb,
The heavens all sunshine, earth sll bloom!
'JosEpH,tt come near-my son, my son!
Egyptian prince, Egyptian sage,
Child of my first and best loved one
Great guardian fthy fathers age.
Bring EPHHAIM and MANAssEH nigh,
And let me bless them ere die.
Hear me-Thou God of Israeli
Thou, who hast been his living shield
In the red deserts lion dell,
In Egypt's famine stricken field,
In the dark dungeons chilly stone,
In Pharaoh's chain-by Pharaoh's throne.
My son, all blessings be on thee,
Be blest abroad, be blest at home;
Thy nations strength-her living tree,
The well to which the thirsty come;
Blest be thy valley, blest thy hill,
Thy fathers Con be with thee still!
Thou man of blood, thou man of might,
Thy soul shall raven, BEsJAM1N,f+
Thou wolf by day, thou wolf by night,
Rushing through slaughter, spoil, and sin !;
Thine eagles beak, and vultnre's wing
Shall curse the nation with king!'
Then ceased the voice, and all was still;
The hand Of death was on the frame;
Yet gave the heart one final thrill,
And breathed the dying lip one name:
Sons, let me rest by Leah's side =
He raised his eyes to heaven-and died
HAYILAH.
*The privileges of the hst-5o,n pass
ed away from the tribe of Reuben, an
were divided among his brethren. Th
double portion of the Inheritance was q
ven to Joseph--the priesthood to Levi
and the sovereignty to Judah. The trib
never rose into national power, and
was the first which was carried into car
tiyity.
I The massacre of the Shechemites wa
the crime Of the two brothers. For
long time the tribe of Simeon was depre.
sed: and its position on the verge of tn
Amalekites. always exposed 1t to suffe
ing. The Leyites though finall entru.
ted with the priesthood, had no inner
lance in Palestine
t The tribe of Judah was distinguish
ed from the beginning of the nation.
held the van in the march to Palestin,
It was the first appointed to expel III
Canaanites. 1t gave the first Judge
Othnei. 1t was the tribe of David; an.
most glorious Of all titles, was the Frit
of our Lord.
Zebulun was maritime TRIBE
location extending along sea-shure. an
stretching TO the borders Of SiIon, III
tribe of Issaohar were located in Il
country afterwards called Lower Gal
lee; were chiefly tllers of the soil; wei
never distinguished in the military or
vic TRANSACTIONS Of the nation; and
they dwelt among the Canaanites, see
to have hsbtualIy served for hire. Ess
char was characterised as the strong as
"a drudge, powerfule but patient.
s The tribe of Dan were remal kab
for the daring Of their exploits in wa
and not less so for their stratagems.-
Their great chieftain, Sampson, dist
guished alike for strength and subtlet
misht be an emblem Of their qualiti
and history.
Cad, a tribe engaged in contjnu
and memorable conflicts.
= NapbtaIi and Asher inhabited