When wearily we wander, asking Of earth and heav'n, where are they, Beneath whose smile we once lay basking, Blest, and thinking bliss would stay? Hope still lifts her radiant finger Alas, alas! doth Hope deceive us? Shall friendship-love-shall all those ties That bind a moment, and then leave us, Oh, if no other boon were given, To keep our hearts from wrong and stain, "WAR against Babylon!" shout we around,1 Be our banners through earth unfurl'd; Rise up, ye nations, ye kings, at the sound"War against Babylon!" shout through the world! 1 "Shout against her round about.”. Jer. 1. 15. 2 2 "Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms," &c. &c.— Jer. li. 27. O thou, that dwellest on many waters,1 Thy day of pride is ended now; And the dark curse of Israel's daughters 2 Make bright the arrows, and gather the shields, " Swarm we, like locusts, o'er all her fields, "Zion" our watchword, and "vengeance" our cry! Woe! woe!-the time of thy visitation 3 Is come, proud Land, thy doom is castAnd the black surge of desolation Sweeps o'er thy guilty head, at last! War, war, war against Babylon! "Oh thou that dwellest upon many waters, . . . . thine end is come." - Jer. li. 13. 2 "Make bright the arrows; gather the shields. . . . set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon." — Jer. li. 11, 12. 3 "Woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation!" Jer. 1. 27. T INDEX. A hunter once in that grove reclin'd..... A Lottery, a Lottery........ Angel of Charity, who, from above...... Page 31 257 208 259 90 As down in the sunless retreats of the Ocean 255 "A Temple to Friendship," said Laura, enchanted... 29 Bright be thy dreams-may all thy weeping... 52 Bright moon, that high in heav'n art shining.. 199 Calm as, beneath its mother's eyes.... Calm be thy sleep as infants' slumbers !.......... 100 158 Come, fill round a bumper, fill up to the brim........ 108 "Come, if thy magic Glass have pow'r........ 228 Come, listen to my story... 61 Come list, while I tell of the heart-wounded Stranger....... 234 Come, maids and youths, for here we sell...... 159 Come, May, with all thy flowers...................... 117 Come not, O Lord, in the dread robe of splendour....... 253 Come, play me that simple air again...................... 216 |