"Go," said the Lord, "ye conquerors, O'er kindred bones she'll tread, Shall hide but half her dead." But soon shall other pictured scenes When Zion's sun shall sevenfold shine And on her mountains beauteous stand MOORE. ISRAEL. N Sinai's wide desert the tents are outspread, And thy pilgrims, O Israel, are free from their dread; For the hand of thy God was uplifted for thee, And the horse and his rider was dashed in the sea. Then strike the loud cymbal; to him the glad voice From yon cloud-covered mount the dread thunders declare That the Lord has descended in majesty there; The fierce forms of the lightning gleam wild on its height, And Israel bows down with dismay at the sight. But though girt with his terrors, his mercy and care T. J. CLEAVER. A HEBREW MELODY. EXODUS XIV. OUND the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea; Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea; Praise to the Conqueror, praise to the Lord; Of those she sent forth in the hour of her pride? MOORE. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ASSYRIANS. "Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold they were all dead corpses.' -ISA. XXXVii 36. HE Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, And there lay the rider, distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, BYRON. MISSIONARY HYMN. ROM Greenland's icy mountains, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain! What though the spicy breezes Bows down to wood and stone! Shall we, whose souls are lighted Till each remotest nation Has learned Messiah's name! Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, It spreads from pole to pole! HERER. THE MILLENNIUM. UT who shall see the glorious day, When pain shall cease and every tear Then, Judah! thou no more shalt mourn Thy days of splendour shall return, And all be new again. The fount of life shall then be quaffed, In peace by all who come; And every wind that blows shall waft Some long lost exile home. MOORE. THE LAND OF LIBERTY. HERE may that glorious land be found With fame for ever young A fame that filled the Grecian sea, And rang through Roman skies? Oh, ever bright that land must be, The rose-crowned Summer ceaseless shines The holy place of early shrines, The fair, the famed of old: Yet left upon the lands of morn A still unbroken chain. The West,-O! wide its forests wave; But long the setting sun Hath blushed to see the toiling slave Still mighty in their seaward path |