Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-12-10
The following are battle scenes under the
walls of Jerusalem:

They seemed moving continent of fame.
The following are battle scenes under IL
walls of Jerusalem:
- "saIathiel aud Lysander led the van:
G God and Napthali" loud behind them rang
Mhere'er hey charged, decades were overthrown;
A fierce they moved, fell slaughter marched before;
Manlus beheld, and rushed, not without fear,
: To meet the chief, and stop his bloodca eer:
Both pumes we're waving as they nearer tend
Il When on the right the prince espied friend
Brine down by numbers, in un. quail strife,
: And few to avenge him, or to save his life.
Around hi, fallen friend wide space he made
| ManIius, meanwhi e. released from dangerous war,
Rushed midst The Jewish ranks with sword and spear;
, At his loud voice, Romes bravest with him join,
Great Manlius IT ct mad Dathan' wild career,
And through his giant body hurled his spear:
, His weighty fachiOn next the hero drew,
And on the common mass in vengeance few:
: Elias Simon, lothian and a crowd
OF valiant Jews, lay weltering in their blood
Marked out the heroe Of this heightened fight:
Here Phiasas, burning with Priest-l zeal,
Through brave young Fabius plunged the shining stee
= There Judeas, red with slaughter, ragged along,
Demo pos essed, and more than mortal strong:
He met SemprOnius and each chief addressed
semPronius wounded fell, and then tide
OF Johns gr Z-alots spread destruction vice.
The Roman ranks those dreadful cha ges thin,
The cohorts, weary, faint half overcome,
Receded sloWIy-ROmaus could not
AS when from heaven the fierce electric fash,
Midst thundeT's roar spreads the tail mountain ASH
n
Awed for some moments, from their sports refrain,
| Then to thei games return, with added Yell
So paused both armies when Rome's hero fell;
Rushed 'gainst each o err, furious to engage
Glory and triumph urg= the Hebrew on,
And grief and vengeance fred the powers Of Rome.
! The Jewish ram-horns, which tumbled down
! The walls and ramparts Cf the acCursed town,
| Rang shrilly DER the fields up 0 the sky:
! The imperial clarion and lou trump reply
Loud deafening shouts with the dread clamor join,
! F i wide the air aud up the cOucays climb:
! Then VoHying new, cOnvulsing all the air,
The encounterng storms Of darts and gitteTnE spear;
| Sword STROKES on helmets and the brazen shields;
DESCENDANT music brayed around the fields.
Fne cohorts tim sm as in %s Of foo
Beneath their shields conjoneI, they still moved
On6Token' hold g all the space hey won.
While yctory's scales hung trembling as in doubt
Above the bloody feIdsl-As when pine
On Taurus Top, wooded Apennine
Whose mighty trunk and branches upward rise,
Straight towards the zenith, TOW eing TO the les:
Should wOodmen the huge trunk with steel surround,
And on each side infict an equal wound,
Long time the comic top, trembling on high,
Seems uncertain 10 which vale 10 lie;
SO wavered both the hosts, and victorys scale:
Shrieks, shouts, and clarions rent the upper air;
Below, deep groan5 and blood and wild despair"
As Indifferent as this may be justly esteem
ed, it is the best we could find in his shines of
battle" The speeches of the leaders, on both
sides, are generally commonplace One of
these put into the mouth of Josephus, in at
tempting to describe the sublime spectacle of
the crossing the Red Sea by the children of
Israel, proceeds thus:
Wv. When hemmsd by mouna,ds the lef and right,
When al our fathers trembe in despair,
The sea before, and Pharaoh in their rear,
God said, by Moses, March: at his command
The raging sea rolled back on either hand,
And paved spaco way for i-rae : host,
Through which they passed safe TO the opposing coast"
Take the rhymes away and this would be
stupid prose. "God said, by Moses, March -
and they marched. OF piece with this, is
feeble reference to the overwhelming majesty
of Christ and his heavenly char 4cter and at
tributes, in GRAFTON by Jairus:
Jesus Of Nazareth whom you crucifed
Claimed to christ and for thai claim he died.
50 full Of wid1 m, dignity and grace;
With what vas, humble power, he walked thI. clOd,
And worked "a with the hrger Of a God
When remember, dead and dying men
His word touch restored to health again;
And at his death procured by perjured crimesD
What awful wonders what tremhedoIs signs -
Dead saints arose, and through the city went;
The Temples vail from top to bottom rent
While the earth shooS, a. in dread alright,
And An, the un's radiance darkened into night
Hen come Il vengeance, should he agpearl
no testify they saw hin rise 20 heaven,
Also declare, he had pronounced this doom
That Of the Teuple's buildings a stone
Should on another lie, that's not cast down;
While want and should desoate your iowa"
The eighth and last book of the poem is
a "Vision"-opening with the sale and dis
persion of the Jews, and continuing with a
running history of the progress of the Church, |
aud the march of Science thereupon. Ben
Asaph standing somewhere within the con-
fines of the third century, looks forward
through the dim vista of the slow-coming Fu-
ture, describes and sings of the miraculous
signs and wonderful deeds of Constantine the
Great-of the Prophet Mahomet-the Man of
Sin-the Church of Rome-the Crusades-
the lnquisition-the Pope, Tetze and Luther
of gunPowder, printing, steam and the tel
ograph-and what is marvelousy strange, he
sings them by name. In this he surpasses all
he prophets, Intervening the details of time.
md name aud place, and circumstance into
be flowing texture Of his splendid and aston
shing apocalypse. We take it to be extreme
y fortunate for Ben Asaph, that his first
translator should have lived after all his
roPhesies had come to pass, aud fortunate for
he Translator, that he was distinguished
,nn of the land in which the later events
ere fulfilled. We have already extended
lr quotations beyond the merit Of the work,
ut We must crave an extension of patience
j the part of our readers, and that we may !
D no injustice to the "Christiau Jew, " to pre-
mt his song If the printing press, steam and 6
e telegraph. The first, thus: D
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