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 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES
 
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 J E P H T H A H, 
 
 AND 
 
 OTHER POEMS. 
 
 BY 
 
 GEORGE PRYME, ESQ., M.A., M.P. 
 
 PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 
 AND LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. 
 
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 1838.
 
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 IN THE COUNTY OF EDINBURGH. 
 
 My dear Hope, 
 
 I inscribe this little volume to you, not 
 merely as a testimony of my regard, and of our 
 long- continued friendship, but chiefly from the 
 recollection of the gratification which I received, 
 and the advantage which I derived, from our 
 literary intercourse in early life. 
 
 Yours ever sincerely, 
 
 George Pryme. 
 
 Cambridge, April 5, 1838. 

 
 PREFACE 
 
 TO JEPHTHAH. 
 
 The subject of this poem is Jephtliah ; not Jeph- 
 thah's daughter. Her sufferings and her fete have 
 absorbed all the sympatliy of the reader, and have 
 engrossed all the attention of the writers, who have 
 adopted this [)athetic story. Thus the hero of tJie 
 piece has been forgotten ; for, if 1 except a i'ew 
 retrospective lines in the prize poem of Smedley, I 
 know of no one who has tried to delineate his charac- 
 ter. The author of the book of Judges describes cir- 
 cumstantially her conduct, but rather with reference
 
 VI PREFACE. 
 
 to her father's feehngs than to her own. He does 
 not even record her name ; and he mentions not her 
 existence till she becomes the object of a vow con- 
 nected with the success of the arms of Israel. He 
 was writing the history of his nation, and when 
 Jephthah was called forth in a dangerous emergency 
 to rescue it from impending ruin ; a short account 
 is given of his previous life just sufficient to show 
 who he was and why his aid was invoked. There 
 is no formal description of him, as Hume or Ro- 
 bertson would have drawn ; but the few touches 
 which incidentally appear are forcible and expres- 
 sive. Every word has its import. They shadow 
 out a magnificent outline, which I have attempted 
 to fill up. 
 
 His feelings during exile are not described by the 
 sacred historian ; but the bitterness of his answer 
 to the elders, who offered him the command of the 
 armies, shows what they must have been. We may 
 discern a man of high talent and distinguished
 
 PREFACE. VU 
 
 bravery unjustly driven into banishment; conscious 
 of his own powers ; brooding over his wrongs ; rest- 
 less and discontented for want of opportunity to 
 gratify his intense love of distinction. But ho 
 seeks not, like Alcibiades or Coriolanus, to indulge 
 this feeling, and satiate his revenge by joining the 
 enemies of his country. He retires to the desert, 
 inflicting no injury; offering no disturbance to 
 the welfare of Isriiel. He remains there long 
 enough for a daughter to be born to him, and 
 to arrive at maturity, when a crisis in the affairs 
 of Jiis native country opens to him a career of 
 glory brighter than he could ever have expecied. 
 His whole subsequent conduct shows a mind deeply 
 devoted to the success of his enterprise, actuated 
 by that mixture of motive from which i'ew men 
 are exempt ; by a patriotism not quite disinterested 
 — by an ambition far from selfish. 
 
 I have endeavoured to complete the picture by 
 supplying the minute shades and probable incidents, 
 without deviating from related facts. I have pre-
 
 via PREFACE. 
 
 sumed the death of Jephthah's wife and of his 
 father, as no mention is made of them after his re- 
 cal. I have represented his followers as accom- 
 panying him, because it seems unlikely that they 
 would wish to remain without their leader ; or that 
 he should omit to avail himself of their services, and 
 to procure for them a safe and honourable return ; 
 I have described the periodical visit of a caravan 
 to his abode ; because the country to which he with- 
 drew lay in the line between Tyre and Babylon or 
 Nineveh. But I have not ventured on the intro- 
 duction of a betrothed lover, which adds such 
 powerful effect to the Antigone of Sophocles, and 
 which Buchanan has done in his elegant but feeble 
 Latin tragedy. 
 
 In what way the vow was performed has been 
 the subject of a controversy which can never be 
 decided. Each view of the case seems beset with 
 difficulties. The common translation of the Bible 
 represents her as being sacrificed for a burnt-offer- 
 ing. But Dr. Randolph, late Professor of Theo-
 
 PREFACE. IX 
 
 logy at Oxford, in a sermon devoted to this sub- 
 ject, maintains a contrary opinion. He contends 
 that verse thirty-one may be thus translated : 
 " Whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house 
 to meet me shall surely be the Lord's ; and I will 
 offer to him a burnt-offering." The concluding 
 verses, if we omit the punctuation, which is a modern 
 invention, and the words printed in italics, which 
 have no place in the original, will run thus : " She 
 returned to her father who did with her to his vow 
 which he had vowed and she knew no man and it 
 was a custom in Israel the daughters of Israel 
 went yearly to lament [or to talk with] the daughter 
 of Jephthah the Gilcadite four days in a year." I 
 will not off"end the reader by a long section of 
 Hebrew criticism. Those who have curiosity to 
 investigate the question may see one side of it 
 ably advocated in the sermon of Randolph, and the 
 other in Michaelis's Commentaries on the Laws of 
 Moses, vol. ii. p. 269.
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 JEPHTHAH. 
 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Prologue .... 
 
 1 
 
 Canto I.— The Chieftain 
 
 5 
 
 II.— The Embassy 
 
 ]9 
 
 III.— The Warfare . 
 
 3.9 
 
 IV.— The Sacrifice 
 
 67 
 
 Epilogue . ... 
 
 91 
 
 FRAGMENTS. 
 
 
 Consolations of Time 
 
 . 97 
 
 Lost Opportunity 
 
 . 100 
 
 Intolerance 
 
 . 102 
 
 Love of Glory 
 
 . 104
 
 XU CONTENTS. 
 
 Page 
 
 Extracts from the Conquest of Canaan . .107 
 
 Ode to Trinity College, Cambridge . . .119 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 
 
 Introduction to Cottingham Castle . . 143 
 
 On Cottingham Castle . . , . 147 
 
 To Mrs. Thomas Robinson . . .152 
 
 On the ancient Oaks at Crix , . .155 
 
 " Late comes the Boon" . . , .161 
 
 Note to page 87 , . . 163
 
 PROLOGUE. 
 
 Round Europe's northern shores in ceaseless course, 
 Encroaching or receding, flows the main : 
 
 From age to age, with unabating force, 
 
 Its varying currents tear the cultur'd plain : 
 Headland and rocky cliff oppose in vain ; 
 
 And tower and town become its lasting spoil, 
 Embalm'd beneath the limpid wave. Again 
 
 In wide alluvion grows the fertile soil. 
 
 To man's dominion left ; for man's eternal toil. 
 
 B
 
 2 PROLOGUE. 
 
 So change the fashions, institutes, and forms, 
 
 Of Europe's active sons. The dark inroad 
 Of regal craft, or democratic storms. 
 
 By turns the social edifice corrode. 
 
 The painted habitant of cave and wood 
 Becomes the feudal chieftain. Onward still 
 
 He rears the lengthening line of bright abode; 
 To human effort gives magician's skill. 
 And moulds the stubborn elements to work his will. 
 
 But Time has passed with no reforming hand 
 
 O'er the dull range of Asiatic sway. 
 So flows the wave upon the Western strand 
 
 Of their vast, tideless, land-encircled bay. 
 
 The sons of Ishmael roam the waste to-day : 
 And he, the father of historic lore, 
 
 Might earth revisit, Persia's realm survey, 
 Arabian tent or Scythian horde explore, 
 And draw the picture now, he drew in days of yore.
 
 PROLOGUE. 3 
 
 And e'en that sever'd race in Egypt bred, 
 
 In deserts trained, and o'er a plenteous land 
 Throughout their long eventful manhood spread, 
 
 Restless in ease, subjection, or command ; 
 
 Till now , when want of scope restrains their hand ; 
 When war and faction may no more inspire ; 
 
 They hold communion with no Gentile band ; 
 But ever sway'd by boundless, vague desiie, 
 In eager quest of wealth still show their wonted fire. 
 
 R 2
 
 CTanto tfje Jfirst. 
 
 THE CHIEFTAIN. 
 
 " Quo nos cumque feret mclior fortuna parente 
 Ibimus O Socii comitesque." 
 
 HoR. Od. 
 
 O;' Qvfxhv KaTeSwv, trarov avdpcoTruv aKeeivoiv. 
 
 IIoM. Ii.. ■/.. 202. 
 
 " He fed upon the core 
 Of his sad bosom, flying all 
 The loth'd consorts of men." 
 
 Chapman's Hom. II. p. 08.
 
 JEPHTHAH. 
 
 CANTO I. 
 THE CHIEFTAIN. 
 
 Time had just ting'd his raven locks with grey 
 And chas'd some freshness from his cheek away : 
 But Jephthah's blood still urged its rapid course ; 
 His sinewy arm retained its youthful force : 
 Years had enfeebled no corporeal power ; 
 lilunted no sense ; brought on no sickening hour. 
 Yet all around him mark'd his alter'd mien ; 
 And saw not now that chief they once had seen ;
 
 8 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 They saw no more the brow of gathering gloom, 
 The viewless eye, the torpor of the tomb ; 
 Nor quick emotion agitate his frame, 
 Come unprovoked, and vanish as it came : 
 The workings of some passion deep and strong 
 To those who join'd him late, or knew him long, 
 Alike inscrutable. Success had shed 
 Her brightest beams around his haughty head : 
 Year after year his widening sway had grown ; 
 And, all the desert yields, had been his own : 
 All the wild pleasures of that roving life ; 
 The keen excitement of victorious strife : 
 The vivid glow which enterprise bestows ; 
 The frequent interval of soft repose : 
 Thro' their long day, the pure etherial gale, 
 Unpent in walled mansion, to inhale 
 Noon's grateful languor ; morn's athletic hour ; 
 And the safe heights of patriarchal power. 
 He grasp'd the cup, but drank not. To his lip 
 Its odour sickly ; bitter seemed the sip.
 
 I.] THE CHIEFTAIN. 9 
 
 In manhood's bloom, impatient of repose, 
 He leads his eager followers on their foes. 
 The combat comes : his skill controls the fight ; 
 His voice, his valour, animate, incite. 
 Tlie meed is theirs, of danger, and of toil ; 
 Enlarged dominion, and redundant spoil. 
 Why shrinks he from their loud acclaim ? and shuns 
 The rare carousals of Arabia's sons I* 
 Why 'mid the maddening hours of conquest spring 
 Unbidden thoughts to plant a secret sting ? 
 As if he felt in Victory's purple glow- 
 Some mental simoom o'er his bosom blow.f 
 
 * In one respect the manners of the Arabs appear to have 
 changed, — " Their feasts are simple and sober." So their new 
 religion dictates ; but they are differently described in the 
 curious romance of Antar, which bears internal evidence of 
 being written during the lifetime of Mahomet, but before the 
 extension of his religion over the deserts of Arabia. — See 
 Antar, vol. i. p. 51, 53, 55, and 61, &c. 
 
 t The simoom is thus described by Bruce : " I saw from the 
 south-east, a haze come, in colour like the purple part of the 
 rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy 
 twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from
 
 10 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 War's stirring scenes, its busy cares, are gone, 
 And time in smooth tranquillity glides on. 
 The quiet labors of the herdsman's lot, 
 The chase, the martial sport, delight him not. 
 Apart he roams — they mark his hurried mien ; 
 The sudden pause, tho' nought would intervene ; 
 His unclos'd lips' firm fixture ; piercing eye 
 Intently fixed on boundless vacancy : 
 Till oft, as tho' some vision met his gaze. 
 Unwonted transport o'er his features plays. 
 If then he smile, the only smile that e'er 
 Relaxed the settled lineaments of care ; 
 It comes not o'er him as the glowing ray 
 Which gilds the cloud in summer's stormy day ; 
 But like autumnal moonbeam, coldly bright. 
 Denoting absence of more genial light. 
 
 the ground. It was a kind of blush upon the air, and it 
 moved very rapidly." Though he took the usual precaution of 
 falling on his face and pressing it into the sand, he did not re- 
 cover from the pestilential effects of inhaling the vapor, till 
 long afterwards. — Travels, vol. iii. p. 357, 4to. edit.
 
 I.] THE CHIEFTAIN. 11 
 
 That smile has vanish'd ; deeper gloom succeeds ; 
 His brow still saddens ; and his heart still bleeds. 
 
 Whence these emotions ? None presume to ask ; 
 They scrutinize — they argue. — Vain the task. 
 Each fresh attempt some other effort foils : 
 Conjecture baffled, on itself recoils ; 
 Till in this sage conclusion all agree, 
 " 'Tis his fixed habit ; his infirmity." 
 
 Thus passed the fierce meridian of his day ; 
 But eve approaching sheds a tempered ray. 
 Less and less frequent come those wayward fits ; 
 Till on his visage stern composure sits. 
 The change revives their wonder ; prompts again 
 Their wish to search the cause, or soothe the pain. 
 They deem'd that years had sooth'dhis secret woes, 
 And calm'd his stormy thoughts to late repose. 
 
 Time heals all mental wounds, as poets show : 
 And cool Philosophy would j)rove it so. 
 The bitter change of outward circumstance. 
 Folly's sad sequence, Fortune s dire mischance,
 
 12 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 Or Friend's ingratitude, the heart may wring. 
 And fix a deep, but not a cureless sting. 
 Time's gentle pinions fan the tortur'd breast 
 And lull its throbbing pangs to lasting rest. 
 
 One wound he never heals ; his quiet course 
 Inflames, not soothes, ambition's baffled force ; 
 Shows but the image of receding chance, 
 Of dread oblivion's undisturb'd advance. 
 That passion, nurtur'd once in youth's wild hour, 
 Exerts in manhood overwhelming power : 
 Checked by no failure ; cool'd by no delay ; 
 It shows in age no token of decay : 
 Reason's last effort, memory's latest trace 
 At former visions grasp with vain embrace. 
 
 That wound was Jephthah's. Mark'd from early 
 youth 
 For courage, talent, energy, and truth ; 
 By birth exalted, spurious tho' the claim ; 
 Hence must he found, and not inherit, fame ; 
 Yet vainly thought he that a father's care 
 Would yield him all he ask'd : occasion fair.
 
 I.J THE CHIEFTAIN. 13 
 
 His brethren, envious of superior worth, 
 And proud of lawful lineage, drove him forth. 
 The sword his wealth. No portion in that hour 
 Save his strong arm, and bosom's stronger power. 
 To Gilead's hills he bade a long adieu, 
 As Tobe's rough deserts rose upon his view ; 
 Rais"d the black standard, emblem of his lot; 
 The world forsook, but not its hopes forgot. 
 
 Around him gathered an adventurous band, 
 Rejecting all control, but his command ; 
 They whom misfortune's iron hand oppress'd. 
 Whose rights were not enforc'd, or wrongs redress'd ; 
 Whom debts entangling trammels circled round, 
 Or fancied merits ill requital found :* 
 
 * " There were gathered vain men unto Jephthah, ami 
 went out with him." Judges xi. 3. I have taken an ampler 
 description of the classes, who must have composed his fol- 
 lowers, from the account of those who resorted unto David 
 under like circumstances at the cave of Adullam, " and every 
 onethat was in distress, and every one that wasin debt, and every 
 one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him, and 
 he became a captain over them." 1 Samuel xxii. "2. By the
 
 14 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 And oft would Arabs quit their native horde, 
 Seek his retreat, and own him for their lord. 
 His flocks increas'd ; his tented city spread ; 
 And Hebron's rocky vales their harvests shed.* 
 
 Here was some scanty food for glory : here 
 Was genius call'd for ; tho' confin'd the sphere. 
 To rule his lawless host ; their march to guide ; 
 And o'er their little counsels to preside •. 
 From Ishmael's sons their pastoral wealth to guard ; 
 Or from the robber tear his bad reward ; 
 Superior numbers baffle, or defeat. 
 And then to trackless fastnesses retreat. 
 Yet, when the novelty had pass'd away, 
 This petty warfare, this contracted sway. 
 
 Mosaic law the debtor was liable to be sold by his creditor. 
 See Michaelis' Commentaries on the Laws of Moses, vol. ii. 
 p. 162. 
 
 * " We saw the setting sun gild the five thousand tents which 
 covered the plain as far as the eye could reach. Surrounded 
 by camels, horses, and flocks, which concealed the earth, never 
 had I seen such a spectacle of power and wealth. The emir's 
 in the centre was one hundred and sixty feet long." — La- 
 martine's Pilgr. to Holy Land, vol. iii. p. 220.
 
 1.] THE CHIEFTAIN. 
 
 u> 
 
 But served to mark the contrast of his state, 
 And rouse disdain at such obscurer fate. 
 
 In this seclusion from the social league, 
 Its open turbulence, and dark intrigue. 
 No wi-eck of Canaan's parted grandeur lies, 
 No signs of Israel's coming glory rise. 
 To stir associate thought. There needed none ; 
 His mind was feeding on itself alone. 
 Hence those vain musings on the changeless past ; 
 Those dark forebodings o'er the future cast : 
 That cold abstraction from all common cares ; 
 Neglect of joys, which every bosom shares. 
 Save when some brighter day-dream would intrude ; 
 Smooth his stern brow, and for a space delude : 
 Show what in other scenes he might have done ; 
 Or what from chance or change might yet be won. 
 As he who long becalm'd on tropic seas, 
 Impatient watching for the morning breeze. 
 In feverous fancy views a verdant field 
 Replete with all his native regions yield,
 
 16 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 And for a while enjo3's the unreal scene, 
 Till reason's thankless dictates intervene. 
 
 One known affliction only mark'd his life 
 When hectic sickness seized his blooming wife. 
 From Yemen's dark-eyed damsels he had sought 
 A partner of his couch ; but not his thought. 
 One lovely daughter to his arms she gave ; 
 And in the desert found an early grave. 
 He lov'd her calmly ; with composure mourn 'd ; 
 And to his wonted feelings soon return'd. 
 
 No human sympathy his bosom cheer'd ; 
 Among them, but not of them, on he steer'd 
 His solitary course o'er life's vast tide, 
 No land before him, and no mark to guide : 
 He mus'd on what they knew not ; or if known, 
 On what their minds no kindred thoughts would own. 
 Fervent and faithful all around him stood. 
 But svvay'd by ruder thought of ill and good. 
 Men well content to seize the proffer'd joy, 
 Nor spurn the gold when mix'd with coarse alloy.
 
 1.] THE CHIEFTAIN. 17 
 
 Life's richest years were thus consum'd in vain. 
 With Httle to achieve, and nought to gain. 
 Hope still recedes ; as age advancing shows 
 The hateful image of obscure repose. 
 And darker clouds seem'd closing o'er his head, 
 While not a ray its cheering influence shed. 
 His feelings, wearied by their wayward course, 
 Assumed at length a sterner, steadier force. 
 He grasped the gloomy certainty of fate ; 
 And met its hard decree with look sedate. 
 His long-devoted friends rejoiced to see 
 This outward change, this seeming apathy ; 
 And fancied his deep lineaments betray 
 The trace of passions that had past away. 
 Past, as volcanic streams o'er fertile plains, 
 Leaving their deep indelible remains. 
 The heedless peasant feels no treacherous heat- 
 No smoking fissure yawn beneath his feet. 
 He treads unscathd the crater's rocky heap ; 
 Sees oer its summit vegetation creep : 
 
 c
 
 18 JEPHTHAH. [canto I. 
 
 And thinks those fires, which tortur'd earth and sky, 
 Have sunk at last in still security. 
 But in those crumbling wrecks effete and cold, 
 The philosophic eye would still behold 
 Some latent seeds of subterranean heat. 
 With quick combustion's raging power replete. 
 So ceased the signs of Jephthah's mental fire, 
 The fierce emotion, not the strong desire. 
 Ambition's heavy slumber, not its death, 
 Oppressed his bosom. Tho' no heaving breath, 
 No low faint murmur thro' the stillness broke ; 
 Nor feeble start, of quickening impulse spoke ; 
 Yet might the nice observer of the mind 
 In his calm visage note some trace behind ; 
 Some symptoms, few and feeble, yet distinct, 
 Of deeply-seated passion not extinct.
 
 €mto fbt ^fcontr. 
 
 THE EMBASSY. 
 
 ..." Quod optanti Divum promittere nemo 
 Auderet ; volvenda dies en attulit ultro." 
 
 ViRG. ^N. xi. 
 
 ..." This kind auspicious hour bestows, 
 What scarce a God could promise to thy vows." 
 
 Pitt. 
 
 C2
 
 CANTO II. 
 THE EMBASSY. 
 
 In long repose had rested Jephthah's band ; 
 And simple plenty bless'd their barren land. 
 The damsel fearless sought the distant well ; 
 And loiter'd there her evening tale to tell. 
 The camel far amid the brakes retir'd ; 
 His patient energies no more requir d, 
 And guarded only by his bell, attain'd, 
 The leafy food which other flocks disdain'd. 
 The ox securely scratch'd* the scanty soil : 
 Unwasted harvests met the reaper's toil : 
 
 * " The whole power of those instruments (Efrj'P'i^" *nd 
 Syrian ploughs) seem to extend little further than to scratch
 
 22 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 For dread of Jephthah's name prevail'd afar, 
 And stayed the ravage of internal war. 
 The cymbal sounded only to the dance, 
 Against the pillar lean'd the bloodless lance ;* 
 Save when in martial games the comrades cope. 
 Or chase the light gazelle, and nimble antelope. 
 
 Yet not to sports or indolence resign'd, 
 Sank the rude virtues of the warrior's mind ; 
 
 the earth, rather than what in Britain would be called plough- 
 ing." — Calmet's Diet, of the Bible, Fragments, p. 225. 
 
 * " The pillar is a straight pole, eight or ten feet high, and 
 three or four inches thick, serving, not only to support the 
 tent, but being full of hooks fixed there for the purpose, 
 the Arabs hang upon it their clothes, baskets, saddles, and 
 accoutrements of war." — Shaw's Travels, p. 287, folio edition. 
 Holofernes made the like use of it. — Judith xiii. 16. 
 
 This custom survived the adoption of more substantial 
 dwellings. The author of the Odyssey alludes to it in men- 
 tioning the palace of Ulysses at Ithaca, 
 
 "^yxos fxiv p' eo-Trjce (pepwv Trphs Kiova ixaKpiw. 
 
 A. 127. 
 
 " Exin quae mediis ingenti adnixa columnar 
 TEdibus adstabat, validam vi conripit hastam. 
 
 ViRG. ^N. xii. .03.
 
 11.] THE EMBASSY. 23 
 
 Nature in kindness had enough denied 
 To quicken industry, to banish pride. 
 Alike the cares of herd and grain were shar'd ; 
 The game pursued, the general food prepar'd.* 
 Of various nations, ranks, and creeds compos'd. 
 On them one common object fate impos'd. 
 The stranger Hebrew, native Canaanite, 
 In friendly league forgot their deadly spite : 
 The restless Arab, the Phccnician cool, 
 Learnt other lessons in this arduous school. 
 Thus manners gave and caught a motley hue, 
 Each older usage blending with the new : 
 And thus religion, strong in those who swerve 
 From all its duties, yet its name preserve ; 
 Who blindly substitute tenacious zeal 
 For inward piety, they never feel, 
 Commingled much. The son of Israel prone 
 For Sinai's God, to bow to God of stone, 
 
 * " It is no disgrace here (in Arabia) for persons of the 
 Jiighest character to busy themselves in what we should reckon 
 menial employments." — Shaw's Travels, p. 301.
 
 24 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 Far from his temple and impressive rite, 
 
 Imbib'd some taint from all that met his sight. 
 
 The dark idolater reluctant saw 
 
 A purer worship and a wiser law ; 
 
 Confess'd their sacred source : but yielded still 
 
 Divided homage to the powers of ill.* 
 
 No wonder then, if slight the difference grew, 
 
 'Twixt Jewish heathen, and the heathenish Jew. 
 
 Their chief alone had followed undefil'd 
 The strict observances and precepts mild : 
 Had gaz'd — intensely gaz'd thro' opening skies, 
 On brighter prospects shown to favor'd eyes — 
 On that foredoom'd event, whose coming cast 
 Its mystic influence o'er the distant past ; 
 Revers'd the withering curse of Adam's race. 
 And backward shed its full atoning grace ; 
 Tho' then in far futurity conceal'd, 
 By glimpses indistinct, but half reveal'd ; 
 
 * " So these nations feared the Lord, and served their graven 
 images." — 2 Kings xvii. 41.
 
 II.} THE EMBASSY. 25 
 
 Until Messiah, victor o'er the grave, 
 
 To those dim visions form and substance gave. 
 
 Hence would he mourn at each apostate fault ; 
 Their fears excite, their holier hopes exalt; 
 But forced no bridle on the recreant mind, 
 For them no sacred shibboleth design'd. 
 
 In all but one extensive central tent,* 
 Was sober gaiety and full content ; 
 Unless a wish arose for stirring strife 
 To give some quickening zest to placid life. 
 They envied not the world they left behind, 
 Tho' casual tidings rous'd each curious mind ; 
 When some fresh rover join'd the warrior band ; 
 Or Tyrian merchants, from their busy strand. 
 Sought his dark banner o'er the trackless waste, 
 And took short solace after dangers past ; 
 
 * " This tent (of a Bedouin chief) is seventy-two feet long, 
 and as many wide : it is of black horse-hair, and divided into 
 three partitions." — Lamartine's Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, 
 vol. iii. p. 190. " The emir's tent in the centre was one hun- 
 dred and sixty feet long," — lb. p. 2'20.
 
 26 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 Well pleased to find among those lawless tribes, 
 One chief unstain'd by rapine, blood, or bribes. 
 
 Secure beneath the shadow of his power, 
 They snatch'd the enjoyment of the passing hour ; 
 Partook the feast with ready welcome shar'd, 
 From newly-slaughter'd kid, or lamb prepar'd. 
 The curdled milk, or that enlivening juice 
 Of Syrian vine, the strangers would produce : 
 Detail'd the fresh events in Israel's land, 
 The changes wrought by Time's disturbing hand : 
 With tales of eastern lore beguil'd the night, 
 Of fairy palace, and magician's might ; 
 Or lesser credence gain'd, whene'er they told 
 Of marbled floors, and domes of burnished gold ; 
 Of terrac'd gardens on Euphrates' side, 
 And all the vast array of regal pride, 
 Where Istakhar's eternal columns rise,"^ 
 Or Babel's tower that vainly sought the skies. 
 
 * Called by the Greeks Persepolis. Numerous columns, the 
 remains of vast edifices of unknown antiquity, remained en- 
 tire wlien Chardin visited it about a century ago.
 
 II.] THE EMBASSY. 
 
 27 
 
 And oft with more contemplative delight 
 They watch'd the lofty specks of brilliant light ; 
 Mark'd their slow motions thro' the cloudless 
 
 blue, 
 While neither tree nor hill perplex'd the view ; 
 Show'd how the learning of Chaldaean sage, 
 Tradition's rays, and deep research of age, 
 Arrang'd the constant orbs, and from afar 
 Foreshow'd the varied path of wandering star ; 
 Educing thence the change of human things, 
 Impending wars, or coming fate of kings. 
 Then thank'd their God, who plac'd those lights on 
 
 high, 
 Whene'er the sun had sunk beneath the sky ; 
 Who form'd the vaster moon's renewing face. 
 The short divisions of the year to trace. 
 
 Thus for a while were toil and care represt. 
 Till thirst of gain o'ercame the love of rest ; 
 When onward journeying with innumerous trains 
 They sought the glories of far eastern plains.
 
 28 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 Voluptuous Nineveh's extensive walls, 
 
 Or stately pomp of Babylonian halls. 
 
 From whose rich realms and crowded marts they 
 
 bore, 
 The costly bales of India's spicy shore. 
 Her gems, her treasures of the sandal grove, 
 And brilliant webs that looms of Persia wove ; 
 Exchanging vestures of empurpled hue, 
 Bright as the ray that glitters in the dew. 
 Remotest Ophir's gold, and feather'd toys. 
 For mans sharp avarice, woman's lighter joys. 
 And that fam'd balm of Gilead's shady plains, 
 Unfailing soother of corporeal pains. 
 To Jephthah's morbid mind they brought no 
 
 balm ; 
 Their tidings but disturb'd his moody calm ; 
 Recall'd those early days, when hope was young ; 
 When every nerve to loftier aim was strung. 
 
 Then would his artless daughter think he mourn'd 
 For those brij^ht vales to which he ne'er returned.
 
 II.] THE EMBASSY. 29 
 
 And strike at evening hour her simple lyre, 
 To soothe the feverous sorrows of her sire. 
 
 1. 
 
 They tell me of lands, where the streamlet is 
 flowing 
 Exhaustless and clear, in its deep-bosom'd 
 bed: 
 Where the tree throws its shade ; the gay flow 'ret 
 is blowing ; 
 And freshness and verdure around them are 
 spread. 
 
 2. 
 
 Of lands, where the vine pours its gladdening 
 
 treasures ; 
 
 The bee's luscious stores in profusion are found ; 
 
 And the fervor of thirst, but enhances their 
 
 pleasures. 
 
 While fruits ever fragrant and cooling abound.
 
 30 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 3. 
 
 Tho' dreary the region that circles our dwelling ; 
 
 And simple the viands these deserts afford ; 
 Yet the strong tide of health in each bosom is 
 swelling, 
 
 And gives a keen zest for our temperate board. 
 
 4. 
 
 Yet sparkling and pure is the current of feeling, 
 That springs in this bright unadulterate air : 
 
 No semblance of kindness and calm is concealing 
 The snares that a rival may darkly prepare. 
 
 5. 
 
 Amid spacious abodes, the rich inmate reposes 
 On couches of cedar, in silken attire ; 
 
 But the thorn will be felt, when we grasp at the 
 roses ; 
 And luxury leads but to restless desire.
 
 11.] THE EMBASSY. 31 
 
 6. 
 
 We know not the dread of disaster and danger ; 
 
 No fortified wall for protection we see ; 
 But true to each other, and kind'to the stranger, 
 
 We roam the wide waste, independent and free. 
 
 Her gentle solace never flowed in vain, 
 Tho' widely wandering from his source of pain, 
 in childhood she had grieved to see his grief, 
 Not askd its hidden cause, but aimd relief; 
 Had watch'd beside his couch in mute suspense ; 
 Brought the sweet flower to charm his languid sense ; 
 Arranged his scatter'd hair, caress'd his hand, 
 And sooth'd distress she could not understand. 
 Her riper youth his grief would fondly share ; 
 Less infantine, not less devote her care. 
 15red in the desert, with no kindred soul 
 To train her wishes or their course control. 
 She shrank from contact with each ruder mind. 
 And her chief intercourse to him confin'd
 
 32 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 In singleness of heart towards her sire 
 Was center'd every pleasure, fear, desire ; 
 While he, bereft of other earthly hope. 
 Gave to parental fondness ampler scope. 
 
 Thus years had past, when growing rumors spread 
 Of hostile force on Israel's frontier led ; 
 Of foray made by restless Ammonite, 
 The vain pursuit, or unsuccessful fight. 
 
 To her alone, amid this solitude. 
 The stranger's foot unwelcome would intrude : 
 For Jephthah lent an ever-anxious ear ; 
 And question'd much what tortur'd him to hear. 
 Inquiring each surmise and fact again; 
 Probing his wound, tho' writhing with the pain. 
 
 She now with fond and vague alarm espies 
 Unwonted marks of agitation rise. 
 The flush which o'er his cheek a moment strays, 
 The upward glance, which bitter thought betrays ; 
 The Hp's convulsive quiver soon at rest, 
 Give signs of inward anguish ill supprest.
 
 II.] THE EMBASSY. 33 
 
 The storm has burst — fresh ill the tale inspires 
 Of Israel's ruler gather 'd to his sires ; 
 How Ammon's sons, in mightier force arraj'd, 
 Would Gilead's unresisting vales invade. 
 Long dormant feelings now regain their force, 
 And tear his bosom in tempestuous course. 
 
 " Here," he exclaims, " had I a country still ; 
 Here were the chance each warmest wish to fill. 
 But opportunity ne'er comes— no ray 
 Breaks thro' the evening of my gloomy day ; 
 Nor in the dim horizon I discern 
 Presage of aught, for which my heart would yearn. 
 Hope as delusive as the dry mirage,* 
 No more the thirst of glory can assuage. 
 My sun is setting, not again to rise : 
 While the brief twilight of these sultry skies 
 
 * " When any part of these deserts is sandy and level, the 
 horizon appears at a small distance to be a collection of waters." 
 —Shaw's Travels in Syria, IVili. Diodonis, in his account of the 
 African deserts, mentions the same phenomenon. 'HSe (x'^pa) 
 
 D
 
 34 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 Just serves to show how Httle Fortune gave ; 
 And light proud Jephthah to his nameless grave. 
 Nameless 'twill be ; for this obscure command 
 Must vanish, as the track upon the sand. 
 It leaves no lasting fruit of Wisdom's reign ; 
 No nation's safety gain'd on battle plain. 
 
 " Without a lineage — o'er my youthful head 
 No lustre from ancestral rank was shed — 
 First of my race and last — no son succeeds 
 To ask in vain his Father's glorious deeds. 
 'Tis well — that early prayer, unheard above, 
 Still leaves a daughter's unrepining love. 
 Some feebler mind may now my country guide, 
 And backward roll invasion's rushing tide : 
 In her enduring records live enshrin'd. 
 The lasting admiration of mankind. 
 I have no page in Israel's annals — I 
 Must live inglorious, unremember'd die." 
 
 Hiairapos oicra koI ffiravl^ovcra vufxaTia'uav iiSaroov, tV irp6(T0'il/tv 
 exe* ■JTe\dyei Trapfupsprj, lib. iii.
 
 II.] THE EMBASSY. 35 
 
 A messenger approaches — swift his pace; 
 And earnest import marks his eager face. 
 By Gilead's delegated elders sent, 
 Precursor of their visit to his tent. 
 
 Before him soon the humbled elders bend, 
 His searching eye and changing looks attend. 
 In youth's gay vigour had they known him long ; 
 Seen his high bearing in the martial throng ; 
 That calmly pensive mood in which he plann'd 
 Deeds of undaunted heart and potent hand : 
 That early comeliness and beaming eye, 
 Which met applause with careless ecstasy ; 
 That unrepress'd delight, when he received 
 His meed of honour in tlie fight achieved ; 
 That kindly look which each inferior found ; 
 Contempt of envy when a rival frown'd, 
 Now chang'd to keener not less generous traits ; 
 The lightning's evening gleam, not morning's genial 
 rays. 
 
 With timid voice of late defeat they tell; 
 Of civil broils beyond their power to quell ; 
 
 d2
 
 36 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 That all to him have turn'd for late relief, 
 And crave his guidance as their martial chief. 
 
 The cm-ling lip that show'd, amid their suit, 
 His mind was speaking, though his tongue was mute. 
 Feelings that now seem'd firmly fix'd, and now 
 Chasing each other o'er his quivering brow, 
 Perplex'd their thoughts, as eagerly they strain'd 
 To catch some token of their wish attain'd. 
 
 Hope from her long dull trance was wildly waking, 
 Joy's new-born beams upon his soul were breaking ; 
 And mingled now with deep resentment shone, 
 As Jephthah thus exclaimed, in haughty tone : 
 
 " Misfortune those, whom wisdom cannot reach, 
 May feeble prudence and late justice teach. 
 Say, can the sons of my departed sire 
 With their pure birth-right to your rule aspire ? 
 Their's was the meed of favour ; exile, mine ; 
 My virtues doom'd their own reward to shine. 
 
 " In the full spring of prosperous strength ye 
 grew. 
 Nor long neglected Jephthah rose to view,
 
 n.] THE EMBASSY. 37 
 
 Till now, dissolv'd in grief, dismay, and doubt, 
 While discords urge within, and foes without ; 
 Ye come, at length, to seek in manhood's wane 
 Him, whose fresh energies with fierce disdain 
 Ye spurn'd injurious. — Deign ye now to crave 
 That, where he might not tread, his arm should fore- 
 most save?" 
 
 To whom the Elders — " Therefore have we shown 
 Shame at thy wrongs, and anguish for our own. 
 Forsake thy roving troop ; our armies lead ; 
 And rule o'er Gilead's land unrivall'd head." 
 
 One moment's pause — Then Jephthah's solemn 
 voice 
 Declard the final issue of his choice. 
 
 " 1 claim no kindred in your alter'd land. 
 No friend to stretch the gratulating hand.* 
 
 * " We received them after the fashion of the Bedouin 
 Arabs, taking their right hand, and raising it to the forehead." 
 — La Borde's Journey through Arabia Petra;a, 12.5. 
 
 '0( 5', ws Zuv ^fivovs tSoy, a6p6oi ^\6ov orraiTfr 
 XepcTiv T ricnrd^ovTo' 
 
 Ody.s. r. :u.
 
 38 JEPHTHAH. [canto 11. 
 
 Yet your's is still my country ; and your God 
 
 Has shewn the light by which my feet have trod. 
 
 Amid these deserts I have wasted life, 
 
 Or spent its efforts in ignoble strife, 
 
 Commander of this daring cliivalry. 
 
 Outlaws of Israel, faithful still to me ; 
 
 Inur'd, in spite of danger, toil, and pain, 
 
 Thro' summer heat, and equinoctial rain, 
 
 Where your weak files would faint, in arms to meet. 
 
 And rush to fight, unconscious of defeat. 
 
 With them I come. But say, when ye have brought 
 
 Me home again ; when the brief warfare's fought ; 
 
 If God deliver to my hand your foes. 
 
 Shall Jephthah rule your land in late repose? 
 
 Or one bright course of martial glory past. 
 
 Again to thankless privacy be cast ?" 
 
 Once more they answer'd— " We have urged in 
 truth 
 The wish of Gilead's manhood, age and youth. 
 High Heaven is witness ; wield with us the sword; 
 And be thy meed according to thy word."
 
 (£anto tj^e ®t)irij. 
 
 THE WARFARE. 
 
 Ets uiwvos SpioTos, afiweadai irepi irarprjs' 
 
 HoM. II. M. 243. 
 
 " Without a sign his sword the brave man draws ; 
 And asks no omen, but his country's cause." 
 
 POI'K. 
 
 " Vincet amor patriae laudumque immensa cupido." 
 
 ViRG. ^N. vi.
 
 CANTO III. 
 THE WARFARE. 
 
 In Israel's army discord and alarm 
 Perplex each bosom, paralyze each arm. 
 Retiring close before the invading foe, 
 They just resist, but not return the blow. 
 
 Long had the impending danger gather'd force ; 
 As light incursion's desultory course 
 Wave after wave in dire succession roll'd 
 O'er ripening harvest, and defenceless fold ; 
 Awhile receding, soon to burst again 
 With deeper inroad thro' the wasted plain. 
 
 Their aged ruler, prudent, gentle, just. 
 And fit in tranquil times for arduous trust ;
 
 42 JEPHTHAH. > [canto 
 
 To nurse the fresh resources of the state ; 
 To make it safely blest, or slowly great ; 
 With feeble hand the ravage had represt ; 
 And sunk, mature in years, to timely rest. 
 He left the land by struggling factions rent, 
 Till those who blam'd his rule, its loss lament. 
 
 Among their equal chiefs and equal minds 
 No master spirit strong ascendance finds. 
 All eager aim at power, while none obey ; 
 Or plan the warfare for the coming day. 
 One point of union had misfortune taught. 
 The call that Jephthah's guiding hand be sought. 
 Yet how to soothe resentment cherished long ; 
 Or kind requital ask for bitter wrong. 
 
 In doubtful thought impatient, oft they turn 
 To watch their elders' long-delayed return. 
 At length on eastern hills their anxious gaze 
 Afar discerns the sun's declining rays 
 In brighter gleam reflected. Soon appear 
 The belted horseman with his polished spear.
 
 in.] THE WARFARE. 4 
 
 " Not these our elders," bursts the desperate cry, 
 
 " 'Tis some new force to join our enemy." 
 
 But straight amid the advancing group they hail 
 
 The sable banner waving in the gale ; 
 
 And forward rush, by hope or envy led, 
 
 To view their fresh allies, and future head. 
 
 As winds the strange array, each curious eye 
 Intent along the cavalcade would pry ; 
 And mark the rugged form, the wild attire. 
 That hide a dauntless heart, and warrior's fire. 
 
 A bow and quiver well replete they bear; 
 Long slender lance, and curving falchion wear ; 
 Weak in defensive armour, they relied 
 On active arm to ward the stroke aside ; 
 On rapid movement to perplex the foe ; 
 Impetuous shock, and unexpected blow. 
 
 A turban low, in lightest folds entwin'd. 
 Leaves their dark locks dishevell'd by the wind : 
 An ample cloak across the shoulders flung, 
 Is round the waist in leathern girdle strung:
 
 44 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 The stirrup used for spur in flight or chase, 
 And flexile greave the leg and heel encase ; 
 While goatskin sleek, or chacal's shaggy hide 
 Is oft in rude accoutrement applied. 
 This common garb for warfare all assume ; 
 Yet keep some remnant of each old costume : 
 And coarse the texture, various is the hue, 
 That forms the vesture of this motley crew. 
 The steed of nice proportion shows his power 
 For onward course, or battle's steadier hour ; 
 Tho' meagre, sleek ; tho' fierce, obedient still, 
 And fondly faithful to his master's will. 
 
 In dusky roughness seems each bony cheek 
 Of sunny toil and simple fare to speak : 
 Thin, yet compact, appears the sinewy frame. 
 And darkly flash their eyes of subtle flame.* 
 The lip o'ershadow'd by its native hair 
 Gives tone of fierceness to their reckless air. 
 
 " Their deep-set dark eyes sparkle from under their bushy 
 black eye-brows, with a fire unknowni in our northern climes." 
 — Burckhardt's Notes on the Bedouins, vol. i. p. 52.
 
 III.] THE WARFARE. 45 
 
 Undignified yet arrogant their brow ; 
 
 Not seeking, but conferring favour now, 
 
 Secure in conscious strength and Jephthah's fame, 
 
 Unwilling homage carelessly they claim ; 
 
 And glance with slight regard, or deep disdain, 
 
 On soldiers drawn from town or cultur'd plain. 
 
 The wanderer now rccall'd to martial power 
 With quiet exultation greets the hour ; 
 Tho' deeper feelings mingled influence find. 
 As vivid recollections crowd his mind. 
 At former foes triumphant glance he sends ; 
 Or coldly recognizes ancient friends ; 
 Who coldly look'd on him, when fortune frown'd, 
 A boon refus'd, or kindly claim disown'd. 
 
 With fix'd regard the native Arabs gaze, 
 As Israel s wealth, and myriad host amaze : 
 Yet think of that magnificent array, 
 How slight the force in danger's troubled day. 
 
 While the trim Hebrew, vain of outward show, 
 And fancied good, which social forms bestow,
 
 46 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 Had smil'd contemptuous on this ruder band, 
 And view'd with thankless doubt its Ufted hand; 
 Were there not somewhat in each brow that quells 
 The rising scorn, and lighter thought dispels. 
 Thus ill at ease they meet the trying scene ; 
 Hail the deliverance, but dislike the mean. 
 Perhaps they felt that Heaven's avenging power 
 Inflicted penance e'en in pitying hour ; 
 But still indignant that the fickle crowd 
 To graven images the knee had bow'd. 
 When, turning from his fiercer wrath, he heard 
 The prayer, reluctant penitence preferr'd ; 
 He smote their pride, and for deliverer gave 
 The spurious offspring of a foreign slave ; 
 For strong alliance and supreme command, 
 A banish'd rover with his outlaw band. 
 
 Among them one stern veteran rode along. 
 Not rais'd by stature from the common throng, 
 No richer garb or armour caught the eye ; 
 Yet none requir'd to ask, " Is Jephthah nigh ?"
 
 in.] THE WARFARE. 47 
 
 The troop in silence mov'd, too full the mind 
 For steady thought to form, or utterance find : 
 Till one, who long his words had ill supprest, 
 At length an elder warrior thus addrest. 
 
 " Behold again our chieftain's altered mien. 
 His energetic hand and brow serene. 
 While all at this unlook'd for change rejoice. 
 No tone of exultation swells his voice, 
 Tho' his the great reward : no haughty look 
 Asserts the rank a rival ill may brook." 
 
 " We never knew," his comrade thus replied, 
 " Between ourselves and him the difference wide. 
 To freedom bounding, just escaped from ill. 
 With all that moderate wishes might fulfil ; 
 Enough for us the chase, the feast, the spoil. 
 The freeman's effort, not the workman's toil. 
 In the dull twilight fluttering near the ground, 
 Whate'er we humbly sought was quickly found. 
 He took a noonday flight, and from the sky 
 Cast o'er a vast expanse his longing eye ;
 
 48 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 With ravenous feeling saw afar the prey 
 Elude his grasp, and glide in clouds away : 
 Then stoop'd to earth, his plumage wet with dew, 
 And dwelt among the flock of feebler view. 
 I know hira now, the eagle of the waste. 
 Alike at present, and throughout the past. 
 Once more amid his native element, 
 With unblench'd eye he keeps his bold ascent. 
 His pride may not be seen. Too deep the source 
 For hasty glance to mark its innate force ; 
 And far too high his eminence to need 
 Assertion of that rank which all concede. 
 I envy not his life of grander aim, 
 Incessant chasing of the phantom fame. 
 Heart-sickening failure, hazardous emprise. 
 All that torments, and nought that satisfies." 
 
 Cold was the greeting of the approaching chief 
 With Israel's captains, and their parlance brief; 
 He grasp'd the reins that lay without a hand, 
 And straight assum'd the functions of command.
 
 Ill,] THE WARFARE. 49 
 
 To Ammon's king a haughty message sent, 
 " What rights demand you, what offence re- 
 sent, 
 That thus in hostile guise your bands are led 
 Within our land the waste of war to spread ?" 
 Jephthah's dread name had reach'd the invading 
 host ; 
 Cool'd their hot courage, check'd their ready 
 
 boast ; 
 But pride of numbers, long success, and shame, 
 Torbade to quit their half-accomplish'd aim. 
 What nation ever wanted fair pretence 
 For meditated wrong, or past offence ? 
 And thus the King of Ammon's children said, 
 " When your forefathers first in arms array d 
 From long Egyptian bondage broke away 
 To fix in Canaan's realm usurping sway, 
 They seiz'd in fraud ; and hold by lawless 
 
 force. 
 Those regions lav'd by Jordan's ample course ; 
 
 K
 
 50 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 From where swift Arnon's westward stream de- 
 scends ; 
 And Jabbok's neighbouring fount its waters 
 
 sends, 
 Thro' southern plains their devious course to take, 
 Then sink amid the pestilential lake. 
 These fair domains in justice now restore ; 
 And Ammon's sons will vex your land no more.'' 
 
 Again the heralds bear his prompt reply :* 
 " Where MoUb's watery meads extended lie ; 
 
 * I have ventured to versify this able state-paper of 
 Jephthah, in reply to the causes of war alleged by the king 
 of Amnion ; and I have somewhat amplified it by aid of the 
 more detailed accounts of the events given in the books of 
 Moses. (See Numbers, ch. 21 — 23.) It is not easy to see the full 
 force of the reasoning without reference to a map ; but the 
 substance of it is, that the Israelites had cautiously abstained 
 from passing without leave the boundaries of the Ammonites 
 or others whose territories were not given to them by divine 
 command — that the lands in question were in possession of 
 Sihon, king of Heshbon, who made unprovoked war upon 
 them, was subdued, and his country seized and retained by 
 right of conquest. He then, as Matthew Henry quaintly ex-
 
 Ill,] THE WARFARE. 51 
 
 Or Ammon's soft declivities ascend, 
 
 Did Israel ne'er by spoil or march offend. 
 
 But when o'er Egypt's eddying sands they 
 
 came, 
 Led by the dusky cloud, and nightly flame ; 
 Thro' the Red Sea with feet unmoisten'd past, 
 And pitch'd their tents in Kadesh' rocky waste ; 
 By these portents was no presumption taught : 
 In peaceful mood was onward passage sought ; 
 Not then thy race had been renounced by heaven. 
 Nor in thy land our heritage was given ; 
 For Lot and Esau's sons found favour still 
 Before the Lord, tho' rebels to his will.* 
 Hence did we ask but land whereon to tread ; 
 By day the march ; by night the tented bed ; 
 
 presses it, pleads the statute of Limitations, and says that if 
 the Ammonites had any just claim, they ought to have 
 preferred it at first, instead of acquiescing for three hundred 
 years, and then, without notice, invading the country to re- 
 gain possession. 
 
 * See Deuteronomy, chap. ii. ver. ID. 
 
 E 2
 
 52 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 Not thro' the fields or vineyards would we stray ; 
 Nor touch the tempting wells beside our way ; 
 Without the price nor food nor water taste, 
 'Till their remotest boundary were past. 
 From Edom this we vainly sent to crave ; 
 And Moab's rulers harsh refusal gave. 
 In Kadesh then was fix'd our drear abode 
 To wait the time ordain'd by Jacob's God. 
 
 " It came at length : the banner was outspread ; 
 Our chosen race the warrior prophet led ; 
 Heaven's inspiration in his high command, 
 Jehovah's edicts in his holy hand. 
 With cautious abstinence we circled round 
 Ammon's far border, Moab's eastern bound. 
 For Arnon's stream a well-known barrier glides, 
 And from the wilderness 3'our realm divides. 
 Within that wilderness we pitched our tent ; 
 To Heshbon's heights a messenger was sent ; 
 Where Sihon o'er his Amorites bore sway, 
 And asked, what you denied, a peaceful way.
 
 III.] THE WARFARE. 53 
 
 But Sihon gathered all his armed force ; 
 
 And met at Jahaz Israel's onward course : 
 
 He met, and sank beneath our conquering sword, 
 
 In mad resistance to Jehovah's word. 
 
 Then Heaven deliver"d to our firm command 
 
 His fenced cities, and his subject land : 
 
 These regions now in arms thou would'st redeem, 
 
 From Arnon's rugged course to Jabbok's stream ; 
 
 From Jordan's bank to where the desert hides 
 
 All trace of verdure in its sandy sides. 
 
 " Say, would'st not thou with steady grasp en- 
 fold 
 Whate'er thine idol Chemosh gives lo hold? 
 And shall not we the lands as firmly keep, 
 From which our God the vanquish'd foe may 
 
 sweep ? 
 What boots it, if in earlier times we trace 
 These regions torn from thee by Amor's race ? 
 Amor's they were in undisturb'd domain. 
 When Israel's rule supplanted Sihon's reign
 
 •'>4 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 With US in fresh possession feebly fixt, 
 Our scatter'd bands with native myriads niixt, 
 Did Balak, king of Moab, ever wage 
 Or threaten war for this lost heritage ? 
 And art thou greater than that potent king? 
 Some new discover'd title dost thou bringc ? 
 Or have three hundred years of adverse sway 
 Refresh'd thy claim, or worn its flaws away ? 
 Why sought ye not in former times the fight ? 
 Fixt your dominion, or proclaim'd your right ? 
 Ye tried it not ; within your bounds ye kept ; 
 In silent acquiescence have ye slept ; 
 Till Israel's weakness show'd the tempting prize ; 
 And wrongful hands support your longing eyes. 
 Therefore from you, not us, proceeds the wrong, 
 To God the judgment of our cause belong." 
 
 The words of reason meet no willing ear ; 
 Nor turn the king of Ammon's sons from war. 
 
 To Jephthah then the heavenly spirit came. 
 In holy guidance of his arduous aim ;
 
 III.] THE WARFARE. 55 
 
 That spirit which in Israel's chiefs of old 
 Inspir'd the wise, or erring thought controll'd: 
 Yet would the frail resolve of wayward man, 
 With rash presumption taint the wisest plan : 
 For other's weal the splendid meed attain, 
 But blend his own reward with lasting pain. 
 
 By march circuitous his force he leads 
 O'er Gilead's rising slopes, and verdant meads ; 
 To where Manasseh's rougher hills extend. 
 And Mizpeh's towers in massy strength ascend ; 
 Mizpeh, that from her rocky height commands 
 In long prospective Ammon's border lands : 
 Inures his new-form'd levies to fatigue ; 
 Of jealous bands cements the recent league ; 
 Imparts that discipline by short delay, 
 Which turns the tide of battle's dubious day : 
 And then with firmer hope, and ampler power. 
 Assails his foes in unexpected hour. 
 
 Yet ere they mingle in the bloody field. 
 To heavenly power his fervent heart appeal'd ;
 
 66 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 " God of my fathers, if thy will accord 
 That Ammon's sons may sink beneath my sword ; 
 Then shall it be, that when in peace I turn 
 Once more to visit my remote sojourn, 
 Whate'er to greet my near approach shall come 
 Forth from the threshold of my former home, 
 To thee devoted shall its life be given ; 
 7\nd burning sacrifice ascend to heaven." 
 
 On Mizpeh's lofty tower the watchman stands, 
 And views afar the Ammonitish bands. 
 They draw fresh hope from Jephthah's wise delay ; 
 And seek — at random seek — the trying day. 
 
 At length his gather'd host he forward leads, 
 Prepar'd for hardier toil and bolder deeds. 
 From Gilead's hills the well-appointed force 
 To Reuben's borders holds its steady course ; 
 Advancing now, and now declining fight ; 
 He keeps the hostile army full in sight ; 
 Till on a rising slope he takes his stand. 
 And gives for close encounter prompt command.
 
 111.] THE WARFARE. 57 
 
 Along the right extends a deep ravine, 
 In which the summer streamlet's scarcely seen ; 
 Tho' strongly foams its equinoctial course, 
 And tears the craggy banks with torrent force. 
 Beneath, the tall acacia rears its head ; 
 And tangled brakes adown the sides are spread. 
 Close on its brow he plac'd that active band. 
 Drawn from the glens of Judah's eastern land : 
 Where the rude goatherd and the hunter wild, 
 ('limb o'er the cliffs in rude disorder pil'd ; 
 A band prepar'd to combat on the steep. 
 Where lowland foot might vainly strive to keep. 
 
 Those hardy troops the next position take, 
 Who cleave the light blue wave of northern lake. 
 By Hermon's sloping hills encircled round, 
 Where copious dews refresh the thirsty ground. 
 Tho' near their sides the spoiler ne'er had come ; 
 Nor daniier hover'd o'er their mountain home ; 
 They quit the pliant sail and slender oar ; 
 Leave their dry nets to whiten on the shore ;
 
 58 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 Or change the shepherd's hook for heavier spear ; 
 And seek with ready step the distant war. 
 
 Behind them range in well-dispos'd array, 
 They who from crowded cities take their way. 
 Of phant Hmb, and penetrating thought, 
 The toiling artisan to war is brought. 
 From Jericho repos'd in pahny bowers,* 
 And younger Salem's yet unshaken towers. 
 These form the western wing, expert and light. 
 To move along the varying edge of fight. 
 
 The central phalanx shows the sturdy swains 
 From Gilead's woodland slopes and fruitful plains ; 
 Robust and fierce as Bashan's bulls, that rove 
 Thro' pastures rich, and ever shady grove ; 
 Manasseh's parted tribe ; and Gad, who shar'd 
 Those early fruits which Israel's war prepar'd ; 
 Who held this outpost of the conquer'd land ; 
 Alternate taking sword and plough in hand ; 
 
 * " And the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm- 
 trees." — Deut. xxxiv. 3.
 
 III.] THE WARFARE. 59 
 
 Content such goodly heritage to gain, 
 They well renounc'd their unexplor'd domain ; 
 Nor deem'd magnificent, because unknown, 
 What other tribes o'er Jordan's banks might own. 
 With these were mingled that accordant train, 
 Who dwelt in Galilea's verdant plain : 
 Compact and firm, in martial movement slow, 
 They stem the shock, and aim the steady blow. 
 
 The hardy dwellers on the barren coast 
 Form the left wing of Israel's marshall'd host ; 
 Of slight, yet sinewy frame, they seem allied 
 To Jephthah's troop, that combats at their side. 
 That troop still holds its wonted course of war ; 
 Protects the flank, or hovers in the rear ; 
 Each mantle folded closely round the breast ; 
 Each girdle fasten'd, and each spear in rest ; 
 With gentle touch they guide their steeds of fire ; 
 And wheel where'er the turns of fight require.* 
 
 » " The oriQ;inal inhabitants of Southern Talestine seem to 
 have had no horses, but the king of llazor in the northern
 
 60 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 Oppos'd to them the warlike bands advance, 
 Who wield with vigorous arm the massy lance. 
 These the long range of iron mountains sends, 
 That far as MoLib's northern tract extends : 
 A race appropriate to their region's name; 
 And glorying in the fierce marauder's fame. 
 
 The stouter habitants of Amnion's fields, 
 And those, whom MoJib's lower region yields, 
 Allies of old in friendly phalanx close ; 
 And deep and firm the central host compose. 
 
 Adverse to Israel's right the squadrons stand. 
 Who march'd from southern Edom's wealthy 
 
 land. 
 No fancied wrongs provok'd her sons to arms ; 
 But Israel's growing power had spread alarms ; 
 
 jjart came against Joshua with horses and chariots very 
 many." Josh. xi. 4. And again, just before the time of 
 .Tephthah. Judges iv. 3. But the Israelites did not use ca- 
 valry or chariots till tlie time of King David and Solomon. 
 I have therefore given them on to Jephthah's troop. — See 
 Michaelis's Commentaries on the Laws of Moses, ii. 463, &c.
 
 Ill] THE WARFARE. 61 
 
 Inspir'd the dread of Canaan's conquer'd state ; 
 And woke their strong hereditary hate. 
 
 At early dawn the loud discordant drum 
 Proclaims that Ammon's forces onward come : 
 While silver trumpet's slow and doleful sound,* 
 Calls Israel's armies to the champaign ground. 
 Her time-worn veterans near the camels stay. 
 Alike unfit to meet the furious fray ; 
 Guards of the camp ; spectators of the fight ; 
 They catch each passing gleam of sound or sight. 
 
 The war-note ceases, as the squadrons spread ; 
 And nought is heard but quick continuous tread. 
 In silence each proceeds ; for on the breast 
 Of bravest warrior sad reflections rest ; 
 On that lov'd home he ne'er again may meet, 
 On those, who ne'er his blest return may greet ; 
 Till active conflict hurries every thought 
 To that sole end, for which the fight is fought. 
 
 * See Calmet'8 Dictionary of tlie Bible ; Fragments, vol. ii. 
 pp. 125 and 229.
 
 62 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 But soon the tramp of man and horse subsides, 
 And the sharp ring of meeting armour grides ; 
 The shriek, the groan, more frequent interpose ; 
 And voices rising, as the combat glows. 
 The shining spears, that-late had mov'd erect, 
 Are hurl'd or levell'd to their dire effect : 
 Helms rise or fall in undulating wave, 
 As sink the feebler and prevail the brave. 
 
 Along the dark ravine the mountaineer 
 In ambush creeps, ere foeman deem him near ; 
 Then hurls him struggling headlong down the 
 
 steep 
 With heavy crash that echoes thro' the deep ; 
 Or downward rolls, by force superior prest. 
 Till bush or jutting crag his course arrest. 
 
 From Amnion's host their iron chariots rush ; 
 Break the close ranks ; and yielding squadrons 
 
 crush ; 
 Till sidelong comes the well-directed spear, 
 And strikes the warrior from his lofty car.
 
 III.] THE WARFARE. 63 
 
 These mingled sounds one thrilling discord form ; 
 Sure indication of that human storm — 
 Then gradual sink ; all but the buzzing tone 
 Of frequent voice, or deeply lengthen 'd groan. 
 While feebly languishes tlie doubtful fight ; 
 As moves the sun thro' his meridian heisrht. 
 What cloud of dust beneath the sultry sky 
 Moves from the sandy knolls, that eastward lie ? 
 Yet wider, lower, than the pillar'd sand ; 
 'Tis the quick charge of Jephthah's mounted band. 
 Full upon Amnion's unprotected right 
 They burst in plenitude of martial might ; 
 Bear down the files, that in amazement stand. 
 Or vainly raise the desultory hand. 
 While Israel's lines by fresher hope inspir'd, 
 Resume the deadly strife with arm untir'd. 
 Yet well the foe sustain'd the losing day ; 
 Awhile prevailing oft in desperate fray. 
 And still, as Israel's sword in fatal fall, 
 Made ghastly breaches in that living wall,
 
 64 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 Forth from the rear undaunted warriors stept, 
 To filJ the place their comrades vainly kept. 
 Till baffled, spiritless, in broken rank. 
 They sought unwilling flight, or wounded sank. 
 
 On flows the stream of war : the furious race 
 Of quick avoidance and vindictive chace. 
 But er a stiller scene the sun is set 
 Where first in mutual shock the torrents met. 
 
 Yet ere to " cold obstruction" and decay 
 The wreck of mortal fabric pass away, 
 What varied sufferings rack their closing hours ; 
 Inflame the mind, or deaden all its powers. 
 No tumult glows, nor other sound is heard, 
 Than scream and flutter of the ravenous bird, 
 That wheels from high to seize the plenteous feast 
 By man prepar'd for this unbidden guest. 
 The step of those along the plain who wind 
 In eager search of them they fear to find ; 
 The feeble moan, the armour's ringing sound. 
 Where one essays to crawl along the ground,
 
 III.] THE WARFARE. 
 
 Unconscious where, yet dreading to remain, 
 Tho' with each motion throbs the wound again : 
 Or struggles from beneath th' incumbent heap, 
 Where friend and foe in hateful union sleep; 
 Or yet enough oi" ebbing life retain 
 To feel disquietude and added pain. 
 Some long impatient for the dewy eve 
 Their fever's growing fury to relieve. 
 
 The son of Isriiel who victorious fought, 
 Feebly consoled by patriotic thought, 
 Beside him sees a lov'd relation kneel 
 To mourn the wounds bej^ond his power to heal. 
 The fierce invader, desperate of relief, 
 Yields to no feeling of unmanly grief; 
 But faintly seeks to strike his wounded foe. 
 Who sunk beside him from the mutual blow. 
 
 Silent, not tranquil ; motionless in life, 
 His veteran comrade mourns the fruitless strife ; 
 The baffled hope of plunder that allur'd ; 
 His toil and agonies in vain endur'd. 
 
 F
 
 66 JEPHTHAH. [canto III. 
 
 On flows the stream of figlit — the faint, the 
 strong, 
 In desultory tumult borne along. 
 E'en from Aroer's walls to Minnith's tower 
 Where twenty cities rose in ample power ; 
 Far as the purple vineyards' southern plain. 
 The land was strewn with myriads of the slain ; 
 Till hot pursuit and slaughter sated cease ; 
 And humbled Ammon asks ignoble peace. 
 
 END OF CANTO III.
 
 (JTanto tbe jpourtft. 
 
 THE SACRIFICE. 
 
 f2
 
 Tovro 5e y' ecrrl t^ Ka\ov a(pa\fp6v 
 Kal rh <piK6TifJiOV 
 
 T\vKv fiev, \vTrei 5e irpoa-iffTdfievov 
 Tore fjLif ra Bfcov oiiK opdwOevr 
 ^Averpexj/e fiiov. 
 
 EuRip. Iphig. in Aul. 21. 
 
 " This honor is on slippery summer seated : 
 And thirst of glory, sweet in its first slaking, 
 Drains at the last a cup of bitterness. 
 Sometimes our sacred rites not well adjusted 
 Subvert the bliss of life." 
 
 G. P. 
 
 AiSwfjn (Toofia rovixhi> 'EAAaSi 
 0u6t'* (KTropOetTe- ravru yap fxvy\fi.it6. fiov 
 Kal TTiuSfs ovToi, Kal yd/ioi, Kal S6^' ijj})' 
 
 Id. 1397. 
 
 " I give my life to Greece. 
 Complete the sacrifice ; lay Troy in ruins ; 
 For these shall be my monumental stones ; 
 And these my nuptials, children, and renown.'' 
 
 G. P.
 
 CANTO IV. 
 THE SACRIFICE. 
 
 Thro' Jephthah's half-deserted tents the day 
 In melancholy sameness wears away. 
 No more the tale and wild Arabian song, 
 In careless glee the milking hour prolong. 
 The maids and matrons force a feeble smile, 
 As wonted tasks the tedious hours beguile. 
 While childhood, ever restless, brisk and gay. 
 Intently drives its desultory play : 
 Yet pauses oft, and asks with anxious face, 
 Why stay so long their fathers at the chase ; 
 And youth unequal yet to wield the spear, 
 In mimic fight displays the love of war.
 
 70 JEPHTHAH, [canto 
 
 Age was there none ; for in that recent band 
 The young and vigorous only took their stand. 
 
 In one fair bosom other feelings roll 
 Their secret course and animate her soul : 
 Well had she marked her sire's impressive tone ; 
 His brightening brow, his smile before unknown ; 
 Drunk his confiding words with eager ear, 
 While joy and wonder check'd her parting tear. 
 In sure presage of lasting bliss she waits 
 For fame and honor shown by favoring fates : 
 Till the swift messenger from Gilead brings 
 The tale of conquest o'er confederate kings, 
 And Jephthah's near approach. Her fancy draws 
 The picture of a nation's proud applause 
 In those bright colors fit alone to paint 
 The future scene unting'd with earthly taint : 
 And for herself the yet unharbor'd thought , 
 From quickly realizing visions caught, 
 Of princely splendour ; and that envied state 
 Of matron honor with no vulgar mate ;
 
 IV.] THE SACRIFICE. 71 
 
 The hope that from her progeny may spring 
 The promis'd Shiloh, Judah's heavenly king. 
 
 Warm'd by the view, she dares for once to swerve 
 From narrow rule of feminine reserve ; 
 And forward leads the dark-eyed maiden train 
 To meet the conqueror on the distant plain. 
 A robe of purest purple clasped with gold, 
 And silken vest her slender form enfold. 
 Some Tyrian merchants journeying o'er the waste 
 Had brought these tokens for protection past. 
 But then her father deem'd the gorgeous dress 
 Unfit to shine amid the wilderness : 
 So had they lain as early visions lay, 
 Untouch'd, unnotic'd, thro' his clouded day. 
 
 In joyful march the warrior troop return 
 On one last visit to their wild sojourn ; 
 And then, in blind delusion blest, again 
 To take that rank their conquering swords regain ; 
 To quit the careless life they long had led, 
 For stately mansion, and a restless bed ;
 
 ''- JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 The city's splendor, and the gloomy mind ; 
 
 The vain regret for joys they left behind ; 
 
 The tempting cares of civilized pursuit; 
 
 The brilliant blossom, and the bitter fruit. 
 
 With prouder step, and gayer thought they tread, 
 
 Their country's new-rais'd sovereign at their head. 
 
 Amaz'd he sees th' approaching female band. 
 
 Bright timbrels glancing in each lifted hand : 
 
 In stately dance their graceful forms are flung : 
 
 While thus in descant wild his daughter foremost 
 
 sung.* 
 
 1. 
 
 O praise ye the Lord with the timbrel and song, 
 For protecting his chosen from insult and wrong. 
 Far and oft o'er their borders the Moabite past ; 
 And vainly they mourn'd for his havoc and waste ; 
 
 * This song, which I have attributed to Jephthah's daugliter. 
 is chiefly taken from that of Deborah. — Judges, chap. v.
 
 IV.] THE SACRIFICE. 73 
 
 As they fled from his course in fatigue and 
 
 affright, 
 Thro' the heats of the noon, or the dews of the 
 
 night. 
 Not a shield nor a spear among thousands was 
 
 seen, 
 Nor a semblance remain'd of what Israel had been. 
 
 The noise of the archers was heard at the well ; 
 
 Rut no damsel return 'd of the foray to tell, 
 
 In captivity doom'd for an Ammonite Lord, 
 
 To weave his rich vesture, and garnish his board. 
 
 Thro' thickets and by-paths the traveller crept, 
 
 While the highways and champaign by foemen 
 
 were swept : 
 For no chieftain arose who with martial array, 
 Could have chas'd from their fields the despoiler 
 
 away.
 
 74 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 3. 
 
 From the turrets of Salem the watchman espied 
 The marauders advancing in boldness and pride ; 
 For between them had Jordan in vain interpos'd 
 His wide flowing stream by deep barriers enclosd ; 
 As the lion retires from the waters that swell 
 O'er the bushes and banks where he wonted to 
 
 dwell ;* 
 So the chief that alone could have chas'd them 
 
 away, 
 Was doom'd from his country in exile to stray. 
 
 4. 
 
 No more at the hamlet might herdsman abide ; 
 And the husbandman ploughed with his sword by 
 his side, 
 
 * " Behold he shall come up, like a lion from the swelling 
 of Jordan." — Jeremiah xlix. 19.
 
 IV. 1 THE SACRIFICE. 75 
 
 As they sought for the shelter that cities com- 
 mand, 
 
 The villages ceased in the desolate land. 
 
 The hare on the hearth-stone, the wolf in the 
 shed, 
 
 And the chacal had made in their ruins his 
 bed ; 
 
 While the hand that could save, and the head that 
 could guide. 
 
 Were rejected by Gilead's injustice and pride. 
 
 They have turn"d from the gods, they in madness 
 
 ador'd ; 
 They have seen their sole hope in resuming the 
 
 sword. 
 But why 'mid his sheepfolds did Ephraim remain, 
 W'hen the tents of his brethren were crowding the 
 
 plain ?
 
 76 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 Full dearly the forfeit of falsehood he'd pay, 
 Nor escape from the proof which his accents be- 
 tray.* 
 And where was the warrior of wisdom and fire, 
 Who could muster their hosts, and to combat in- 
 spire ? 
 
 They thought of the chief, who the desert had trod; 
 In humility hastened to Jephthah's abode. 
 The hero relented ; he marshall'd the fight ; 
 'Twas his prudence and skill gave them courage 
 and might. 
 
 * The men of Ephraim had shown reluctance to oppose 
 the Ammonites ; they were therefore distrusted bj Jephthah, 
 and not summoned to join his array. At this they affected 
 great indignation •, rose in arms ; and attacked the men of 
 Gilead. The real grievance probably was, that they obtained 
 no share of the booty. Jephthah defeated them, and detected 
 the fugitives who denied their tribe, by their provincial pro- 
 nunciation of the word " Shibboleth." — Judges, ch. xii.
 
 IV.] THE SACRIFICE. 77 
 
 Wlien the combat had slackened his warriors ad- 
 vance, 
 
 'Twas the strength of their sinew, the point of their 
 lance, 
 
 That turn'd the still wavering fate of the day, 
 
 And chas'd from their land the despoiler away. 
 
 7. 
 
 Now shall Israel exult in his glories again, 
 
 For his sons that are sav'd, and the foe that is 
 
 slain ; 
 And rC' echo the song of deliverance and glee. 
 From the sands of the desert to those of the sea. 
 For the arm of the exile hath shielded his breast, 
 And torn the gay plume from the Ammonite's 
 
 crest. 
 As the king of the vultures he stoop'd to his prey, 
 But the desert's strong eagle has chas'd him 
 
 away.
 
 78 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 As ceas'd the strain, her timid eye she rais'd, 
 Then mute and fearful on her father gaz'd : 
 Fornot the pride of triumph mark'd his brow ; 
 But signs of anguish unperceiv'd till now ; 
 Emotions half supprest amid the song, 
 That rous'd and bore his glowing thoughts along. 
 Yet bursts the torrent with redoubled force, 
 When sinks the mound that stay'd awhile its course ; 
 So Jephthah gave his stifled feelings vent, 
 Clench'd his firm hand, his gather'd mantle rent. 
 
 " Low hast thou brought my now unenvied head, 
 And crush'd the hope that o'er mine offspring spread. 
 O wherefore first would thine vmbidden feet 
 O'erstep the tents our homeward march to meet ? 
 My hasty lip has breath'd the fatal vow ; 
 Nor change, nor ransom, laws divine allow. 
 Devote to God, thy blameless life is cast, 
 And all our future darkens like the past." 
 
 Gay woman mounts on Fortune's swelling tide, 
 Inflam'dby joy, and overborne with pride ;
 
 IV.] THE SACRIFICE. 79 
 
 In giddy transport crowds redundant sail, 
 And steers unsteady to the favouring gale. 
 Yet come the storm, or sudden, or foreseen, 
 She meets the dark reverse with dauntless mien ; 
 Sustains and soothes the partners of her woe, 
 While man's stern courage quails beneath the blow ; 
 With patient bosom stems the threatening blast, 
 And calmly, firmly, struggles to the last. 
 
 So felt and acted in that trying hour 
 The desert's child, with more than manly power ; 
 Her blooming cheek assum'd a pallid hue ; 
 But calm her features, and her tears v/ere few, 
 As meekly thus she said, " Mine honoured sire, 
 If urg'd by glory's hope, or patriot fire ; 
 If from thy lips the fatal words have sped, 
 That mark my life, or rank me with the dead ; 
 If God hath heard, and listen'd to thy call, 
 My head shall seal the price of Ammon's fall," 
 
 One supplicating look to Heaven she cast. 
 One thought on prospects just percciv'd and past,
 
 80 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 And then resum'd — " This simple boon concede, 
 Ere yet my dreadful sentence be decreed ; 
 Two fleeting moons for thy lost child allow, 
 Untouch'd, unfetter'd, by the deadly vow, 
 To roam o'er mountain heights and blooming vales, 
 Endear'd to early thought, in Gilead's tales. 
 There with these lov'd companions to lament 
 That hopeless lonely lot which fate has sent : 
 And summon courage for my dreary task : 
 'Tis all thou now canst give, or I may ask." 
 " Go," said her sire, his languid head he bent. 
 Took her cold hand, and led her to the tent. 
 
 A day's short journey bears the destin'd maid 
 To scenes in nature's loveliest garb array'd,* 
 
 * " We continued our journey over this elevated tract," (the 
 Eastern part of Gilead,) " continuing to behold with surprise 
 and admiration a beautiful country on all sides of us ; its plains 
 covered with a fertile soil ; its hills clothed with forests ; at 
 every new turn presenting the most magnificent landscapes 
 that could be imagined. Among the trees the oak was fre- 
 quently to be seen." — Buckingham's Travels in Palestine, 327.
 
 IV.] THE SACRIFICE. 81 
 
 As yet her eye had dwelt but on the plain ; 
 Its dusky verdure, and degenerate grain ; 
 The turbid stream, or dry deserted bed ; 
 And rocks in dull unvarying whiteness spread. 
 Yet when on westward journey mov'd the band. 
 And caught some glimpse of Gilead's fairer land ; 
 Of hills in dimly purpled grandeur seen, 
 Or ting'd at eve with edge of golden sheen : 
 She long'd the boasted regions to behold 
 Which that attractive barrier might unfold. 
 
 Of untried joys expectance may deceive ; 
 And o'er defective good the heart may grieve ; 
 But nature's wilder beauty ne'er betrays 
 The hopes that bold imaginings may raise. 
 
 Thus for a space the wide and winding vale. 
 The soothing influence of the scented gale ; 
 The curling oak expanded o'er her head. 
 The palm and vine in native boldness spread, 
 The river rushing thro' the stony steep ; 
 The narrow glen, precipitous and dee}); 
 
 G
 
 82 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 Dispel the pangs yet indistinctly known, 
 And fill her heart with transport not its own. 
 She shuns the mention of impending fate, 
 And deems reflection cannot come too late. 
 Her faithful damsels, as the hills unfold 
 The swelling eminence or rocky hold, 
 With searching eyes explore the varying view. 
 That shows at every turn an aspect new. 
 But the full stream of feeling that supplied 
 Her soul with high resolve and filial pride, 
 Was ebbing fast away, when ceas'd the care 
 Her sire's embitter'd hours to soothe and share. 
 And active memory, never long represt, 
 Stirs each dark image slumbering in her breast. 
 At first the form is indistinctly view'd. 
 And quickly shunn'd, as quickly would intrude. 
 Till the stern phantom shows his plainer shape, 
 Besets her steps, and suffers no escape. 
 Full on the mental vision bursts anew 
 Her future lot, in dark yet clearer hue.
 
 IV.] THE SACRIFICE. 83 
 
 Each form of varied ill she well surveys, 
 Bends on the dread resolve a torpid gaze ; 
 Beholds the wreck of plans matur'd in vain, 
 Shrinks from the sight, yet turns to look again. 
 With agitated step and faltering gasp 
 She clasps those hands no other hand shall clasp. 
 Till now familiar with each aspect grown, 
 To some secluded glen she roams alone. 
 Whose woody sides o'er-arching throw a gloom 
 Thro' noon-tide hour, unchequer'd as her doom ; 
 And there unseen, on mossy bank reclin'd. 
 Pours her unceasing sorrows to the wind. 
 
 1. 
 
 Ye waters, that obscurely gush 
 from out your cavern'd cell. 
 
 And slowly gathering onward rush 
 Thro' this sequester'd dell. 
 
 G 2
 
 84 JEFHTHAH. [CANTO 
 
 2. 
 
 Tho* brake or rock oppose your course, 
 
 Ye hasten as ye may ; 
 And ceaseless urge, with gentle force, 
 
 Your pure and devious way. 
 
 3. 
 
 Till with some nobler stream allied 
 By nature's great command, 
 
 In mingled usefulness ye glide 
 Throughout the cultur'd land. 
 
 4. 
 
 So, form'd from childhood's feeble state 
 Through youth's unsullied years, 
 
 The matron seeks her honour'd fate. 
 In social hopes and fears.
 
 IV.] THE SACRIFICE. 85 
 
 5. 
 But mine the stream awhile that flows, 
 
 Its surface bright expands ; 
 Then sinks in dark and useless close, 
 
 Beneath the barren sands. 
 
 When fresh affliction o'er the mind prevails, 
 When fear of change dismays, and doubt assails, 
 Benignant consolation gently press'd 
 May raise the languid, soothe the feverish breast ; 
 Till the worn spirit takes a firmer mood, 
 In silence and seclusion seeks to brood ; 
 The shattered fragments of the wreck obtains, 
 Regards not what is lost, but what remains ; 
 And slowly bends its energies to meet 
 That altered lot, which offers no retreat. 
 
 So pass'd in musing on the fixt decree. 
 On all that might have been, or now must be. 
 The respite brief. Yet each succeeding day 
 Wore somewhat of the edge of ill away, 
 And o'er the future pour'd a mellowing ray; 
 
 }
 
 86 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 Show'd in rich lustre, tho' its beams were cold, 
 A nation's praise to distant ages told. 
 Too soon its close, yet tedious seem'd the course, 
 But reason, duty, pride, resum'd their force ; 
 And down to Gilead's ruling city came 
 The ready victim to paternal fame. 
 Firm is her step, and undisturb'd her mien ; 
 No sigh nor plaint is heard ; no tear is seen ; 
 No strong emotion on her brow appears. 
 Though blighted hopes had done the work of years. 
 And with her come, to see, not share her fate, 
 The lov'd companions of her virgin state- 
 Sweet had their solace been, but now it throws 
 The bitterness of contrast o'er her woes. 
 
 Gilead's stern elders, eager for resolve, 
 Lest Heaven their new-cemented power dissolve ; 
 Stifling alike compunction's feeble qualm, 
 And pity's sigh, preserve unvaried calm. 
 
 In truer sympathy, beside her stand 
 The faithful ranks of Jephthah's ancient band ;
 
 IV.] THE SACRIFICE. 87 
 
 With cloak ungirded, with inverted spear, 
 
 Their rugged features scarce suppress the tear. 
 
 For deep within the fiercest bosom Hves 
 
 Some gentler feeling, early nature gives ; 
 
 Relic of what man's fall has not debas'd. 
 
 Nor scenes of crime or hardihood effac'd.* 
 
 The fount remains, tho' fortune's withering wind 
 
 Exhaust the stream, or hardship's frost may bind. 
 
 Not e'en the life these lawless rovers sought, 
 
 Extinguish'd every source of kindly thought. 
 
 They would have lov'd their chief— his fixt reserve 
 
 Check'd all communion, but the zeal to serve ; 
 
 And love that glows but in reflected rays, 
 
 Subsided into awe, respect, and praise : 
 
 Yet on his infant daughter they would gaze ; 
 
 Till came a feeling soften'd and refin'd, 
 
 A fair oasis in the desert mind, 
 
 Expanding with the damsel's opening bloom, 
 
 Now deeply mourning o'er her pending doom. 
 
 • See note at the end of the volume.
 
 88 JEPHTHAH. [canto 
 
 Her sire receiv'd her with no sire's embrace ; 
 In mute compunction view'd her alter'd face ; 
 Each keener mark of anguish well supprest ; 
 And firmly thus the assembled crowd addrest : — 
 
 " Elders of Gilead, priests and warriors, now 
 We meet to perfect this disastrous vow. 
 Here must it be, for Ephraim ever wrong, 
 Weak for alliance, in resistance strong, 
 Refus'd the call to combat on our side, 
 Yet murmurs at his share of prey denied ; 
 From Shiloh's altar bars the sacred rite. 
 And moves against his brethren to the fight. 
 No matter where — alike its ills invade 
 The childless parent and the widow'd maid. 
 Her I devote to God — for her expand 
 The portals op'd by no returning hand. 
 
 " My path of life has been in darkness thrown. 
 And hopeless aspirations for renown. 
 It came at length, in unexpected hour, 
 The day of glory, and the life of power ;
 
 IV.] THE SACRIFICE. 89 
 
 Beyond or manhood's thought, or dream of youth, 
 Each air-drawn vision came in settled truth ; 
 A splendid gleam of contrast to the past, 
 Shot o'er the sky, but shone too bright to last. 
 One cloud of heathen darkness crost my mind, 
 The first, the last,— but left its blight behind. 
 Withering alike the branches and the stock, 
 It leaves me on a high and barren rock. 
 Amid ambition's toils the breast has room 
 For hours of deepest loneliness and gloom ; 
 Wlien filial love, and all that home endears, 
 (Sole solace of my late inglorious years,) 
 Might yield relief, in grandeur vainly sought. 
 From anxious effort, and exhausting thought. 
 This have I lost ; and from her grasp have hurl'd 
 All the bright prospects of her opening world. 
 Whate'er my deeds, my honours, and my fame. 
 No future warrior e'er may boast my name. 
 The founder of iiis line. No more I hold "\ 
 
 The hallowed hope, all other breasts enfold, ,> 
 
 That he whose glorious coming is foretold J
 
 90 JEPHTHAH. [canto IV. 
 
 Offspring of mine may rise. No nuptial day 
 Again shall yield the chance I cast away. 
 Here on myself this penance I impose, 
 To move in solitude to life's dull close : 
 To feel no solace of domestic joy — 
 Yet much remains, which fate may not destroy- 
 Not unaton'd have been mine early wrongs. 
 Not unrenowned my name in Gilead's songs, 
 And sacred chronicles. To me belongs 
 The glorious meed of Israel's rescued land ; 
 His quiet fields, and prosperous command. 
 
 " Israel, be thou my child. For thee my care, 
 (None other now remains my breast to share,) 
 For thee my hopes arise : to guide thine arm 
 In peaceful labours and through war's alarm ; 
 In all that prudence strengthens, valour gains, 
 I dedicate what yet of life remains." 
 
 END OF CANTO IV.
 
 EPILOGUE TO JEPHTHAH. 
 
 1. 
 
 The realm that Jephthah sav'd, asserts no more 
 
 A place among the nations. Chiefs in vain 
 By conquest or delivering warfare soar, 
 
 And fading rank in memory's roll attain. 
 
 For soon the good, if aught of good remain, 
 By future chiefs as restless, proud, or cold, 
 
 Is crush'd in fiery vengeance, or disdain. 
 The tide of power to other shores is roll'd. 
 And leaves no vestige, save the splendid tale that's 
 told.
 
 92 EPILOGUE 
 
 2. 
 
 Nor aught survives, but desolate remains, 
 From earlier effort of mechanic might. 
 
 Memphis and lone Palmyra's gorgeous fanes 
 Were wrung from toil of thousands, to delight 
 The vanity of names now lost in night. 
 
 The Pyramids have felt oblivion's wand, 
 
 Tho' yet unscath'd by time or tyrant's spite, 
 
 Those monuments of ancient folly stand 
 
 To mark the vanish'd wealth of that degenerate land. 
 
 3. 
 
 Yet is not glory worthless ; nor the thirst 
 Of everliving fame ; tho' some have soil'd 
 
 The virtue with its kindred vice accurst. 
 Napoleon, Alexander, Caesar, toiled 
 For self ; therein was every motive coil'd ; 
 
 Tho' in the ruin their ambition wrought 
 Some ill were swept away. But undefil'd 
 
 By mean resolve have patient warriors fought. 
 
 And statesmen, sages, bards, mankind's pure welfare 
 sought.
 
 TO JEPHTHAH. 93 
 
 4. 
 
 Man's moral grandeur fades not. They who bind 
 In public gratitude their chief reward ; 
 
 Or bear with obloquy, content to find 
 The meed which after ages shall award, 
 No more by falsehood, error, envy marr'd, 
 
 Leave in example or enduring good, 
 
 Results unperishing. So Jephthah warr'd ; 
 
 For Israel's weal renounced the ties of blood, 
 
 And all parental hope and tender thought withstood. 
 
 END OF JEPHTHAH.
 
 F II A (i M E N T S.
 
 The four following pieces were written as part 
 of the poem of " Jephthah." A judicious literary 
 friend, Henry Crabb llobinson, suggested that they 
 were too digressive ; and advised their removal. 
 The partiality of an author forbade me to deprive 
 them of existence ; but I have banished them to 
 another part of the volume.
 
 FRAGMENTS. 
 
 CONSOLATIONS OF TIME. 
 
 * * * * 
 
 The drooping exile, long and vainly sighs 
 For vales endear'd by youth's enchanting ties ; 
 Till years, familiar make each foreign scene. 
 And early feelings fainter intervene. 
 From his torn heart-strings other fibres shoot, 
 And thro' those later regions twine their root. 
 
 In sad bereavement, the survivor mourns, 
 And each attempted solace wildly spurns ; 
 
 H
 
 98 FRAGMENTS. 
 
 One source of bliss for ever seems destroy'd ; 
 The sever'd branch has left a dismal void ; 
 But future shoots o erspread the vacant space : 
 And years obliterate each seeming trace. 
 
 The pang of hopeless love, and longer far, 
 Remains the widowed feeling of despair 
 In him, who touched by that intenser fire. 
 Which souls congenial only can inspire, 
 Had met a soft return from her he sought, 
 Bask'd in her smile, and shar'd her fondest thought ; 
 And then had watch'd, in youth and beauty's bloom. 
 His heart's sole treasure sink into the tomb. 
 His bliss is closed. The mind of finer tone 
 No second reign of passion e'er can own. 
 Alike its force, in slight, or in return. 
 The flame once cherished, there will ever burn.* 
 
 * Long after \vTiting these lines, I met in Moore's Life of 
 Byron with a confirmation of my sentiments from one who had 
 felt, what I only could conjecture, the disappointment of the 
 first affection. Speaking of the illusion of this first passion. 
 Lord Byron in one of his letters says, " It is one for which no
 
 CONSOLATIONS OF TIME. 99 
 
 His bliss is clos'd ; the zest of life is o'er, 
 And hope and transport flush his brow no more. 
 But Time to sad remembrance moulds the pain ; 
 And prompts the thought they yet may meet again. 
 
 joys, no honours, no gifts of fortune, not even wisdom itself, can 
 afford an equivalent, and which, when it has once vanished, 
 returns no more." — Vol. ii. p. 270, n. 
 
 1 knew Miss Chaworth before her marriage with his rival. 
 She was not beautiful, but there was a soft expression of counte- 
 nance and an innocent simplicity of manner which prevents my 
 feeling any surprise at the intensity and duration of his affec- 
 tion. The portrait in the illustrations of Byron gives a very 
 imperfect representation of her. 
 
 h2
 
 100 FRAGMENTS. 
 
 LOST OPPORTUNITY. 
 
 Yet did not foil'd ambition's deadliest sting 
 That ever-festering recollection bring 
 Of opportunity neglected, lost ; 
 Of honor, not by fate, but folly crost. 
 He, to whom Fortune's varying wheel has shown 
 A chance of good, he seiz'd not for his own, 
 With earnest ceaseless penitence revolves 
 That high distinction lost by weak resolves ; 
 Recals the past, and builds on it again 
 A structure vast, magnificent, and vain ;
 
 LOST OPPORTUNITY, 101 
 
 Gloats on the scene with fancy's straining eye. 
 Then views the contrast of reality ; 
 Remorse without attendant guilt endures ; 
 A secret taint, which every joy obscures : 
 Still by his unforgiving self alone, 
 lieproach'd for what he never can atone.
 
 102 FRAGMENTS. 
 
 INTOLERANCE. 
 
 Kings did not then, by mad ambition driven, 
 Usurp the high prerogative of Heaven ; 
 And dare ordain what others should beheve ; 
 What thoughts abjure ; what ordinance receive : 
 And to what creed they hold, or choose to urge, 
 Compel by dungeon, scaffold, sword, or scourge. 
 Or that refin'd device of later date, 
 When forms of faith became affairs of state ; 
 When man by passion fired, or lucre led,* 
 Stamps his red mark on each dissentient head ; 
 
 * " I believe," says Paley, " that religious motives have 
 had no more to do in the formation of nine-tenths of the in-
 
 INTOLERANCE. 103 
 
 Proclaims him thence unfit for pubUc trust ; 
 
 And treads his hopeless victim in the dust : 
 
 With insult then explains the wrong away ; 
 
 " We grant you life, and limb, and leave to pray ; 
 
 Here is no persecution," loud they cry : 
 
 May God forgive their gross hypocrisy ! 
 
 tolerant and persecuting laws, which in different countries 
 have been established upon the subject of religion, than they 
 have had to do in England with the making of the game laws. 
 These measiu'es, although they have the Christian religion for 
 their subject, are resolvable into a principle, which Christianity 
 certainly did not plant ; that they who are in possession of 
 power do what they can to keep it." — Evidences of Chris- 
 tianity, part iii. ch. 7.
 
 104 FRAGMENTS- 
 
 LOVE OF GLORY. 
 
 * * 
 
 5. 
 
 And, animated by that heavenly ray, 
 
 Hampden with temper'd energy had fought 
 In field and senate his triumphant way : 
 
 Unshaken Washington, whose guiding thought 
 Cast into shade what Rome or Greece had taught ; 
 Fayette, who nurtur'd thro' his lengthen'd course, 
 The Transatlantic scion he had brought : 
 And Fox ; and Brougham, fertile in resource, 
 Stretch'd their strong arms against Corruption's 
 torrent force.
 
 LOVE AND GLORY. 105 
 
 Those nobly seiz'd occasion when to act ; 
 
 This made it for himself on hope forlorn ; 
 Then bursting forth in panoply compact 
 
 Of reason and of knowledge, laught to scorn 
 The soldier's sword against them idly borne.* 
 
 Moving before the spirit of his age, 
 He drew it on to meet a second morn 
 Of freedom ; and evok'd, in sure presage, 
 A more than magic power her righteous war to 
 wage. 
 
 * " There have been periods when the country licarcl with 
 dismay that " the soldier was abroad." That is not the case 
 now. Let the soldier be abroad : in the present age he can 
 do nothing. There is another person abroad, a less digni- 
 fied, in the eyes of some an insignificant person, whose labors 
 have tended to produce this state of things. The school- 
 master is abroad." — Brougham's Speech on the formation of 
 the Duke of Wellington's Administration.
 
 EXTRACTS 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 CONQUEST OF CANAAN. 
 
 A CAMBRIDGE PRIZE POEM, A.D. 1809.
 
 EXTRACTS 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 CONQUEST OF CANAAN 
 
 Hush'd was the tumult, hush'd the busy hum 
 Of Israel's host ; each fainter murmur sunk 
 In awful stillness ; as the long array 
 Had reach'd the bank of Jordan's ample stream. 
 Absorpt in mute suspense, with eager eye 
 Sichem's rich vales and vine-clad hills they view ; 
 Yonder Samairia's craggy rocks appear 
 Fading in distance, here the western plain
 
 IJO EXTRACTS FROM THE 
 
 Shaded with palms,* beneath whose tufted heads 
 Strong Jericho's wide-circling walls are seen 
 In stately grandeur ; while each object gains 
 A mellow'd radiance from the setting sun. 
 Fir'd with keen ecstacy, declining Age 
 Feels o'er his withered cheek the flush of youth 
 Return. The warrior leaning on his lance, 
 Each nerve iaipatient quivering for the fight, 
 In fancy strikes the heathen to the dust- 
 While blooming maids and way-worn matrons 
 
 gaze 
 With mixt surprise and joy. The novel scene, 
 To those unused to aught but dreary wilds 
 And rock-pil'd plains, seems like the sudden work 
 Of magical delusion. Every breast 
 Glows with a livelier transport of delight, 
 From the strong contrast of remember'd ills. 
 
 For long had been their toilsome pilgrimage ; 
 Since, from Egyptian bondage disenthrall'd, 
 * Deut. xxxiv. 3.
 
 CONQUEST OF CANAAN. Ill 
 
 Borne by Jehovah's hand on eagles' wings,* 
 
 And brought into his guidance, they explor'd 
 
 Their anxious course. Annid the trackless waste 
 
 Reluctant lingering, had they sojourn'd long 
 
 In restless inactivity ; by power 
 
 Invisible, resistless, there detain'd. 
 
 For them no vineyards pour'd their luscious juice : 
 
 No ripening harvests wav'd : the varying year 
 
 No varied produce yielded : Nature gave 
 
 No cool refreshing stream, no interchange 
 
 Of hill and verdant valley to regale 
 
 The wearied eye, nor close-embowering grove 
 
 The sun's meridian ardor to abate. 
 
 No shelter but the feeble tent repell'd 
 
 Night's drenching dews, or winds that moist and 
 
 keen 
 Pierc'd every aching nerve. Slow want consum'd 
 The languid frame. Tho' skies abundant shower'd 
 
 * " I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto 
 myself." — Exodus xix. 4.
 
 112 EXTRACTS FROM THE 
 
 Ambrosial food, the pearly manna palld 
 
 Upon the sickly taste, assuaging scarce 
 
 Hunger's corrosive pangs.* The burning earth's 
 
 Bright surface gleaming with reflected rays 
 
 DifFus'd intolerable day. No shower 
 
 It's genial moisture shed. The scanty well 
 
 Dried up, no more reliev'd insatiate thirst. 
 
 In vain they caught the southern breeze, that 
 
 thick 
 And sultry but augmented inward heat. 
 Calm rest forsook their burning limbs : yet oft 
 They heard in restless dreams the grateful sound 
 Of murmuring rills, or saw redundant Nile 
 Eluding near approach ; and struggling woke 
 To sad reality. Oft as by day 
 Their eye roam'd o'er the expanse of glittering 
 
 sand 
 And undulating air ; in vain conceit 
 They view'd afar enticing waters roll ; 
 * Numb. xi. 6, and xxi. 5.
 
 CONQUEST OF CANAAN. 113 
 
 And half-delirious with fierce drought, pursu'd 
 The fleeting semblance. Oft too, when the spring 
 Seem'd to reward at length their weary search 
 With eager ecstacy they scoop'd the stream 
 To slake the clammy lip ; straight with disgust 
 Recoiling, cast the bitter draught away.* 
 
 tt- tIF * 'P 
 
 O'er the wide plain they urge their destin'd 
 course ; 
 Not unexpected, hong had Fame convey 'd 
 To guilty Canaan's heaven-devoted race 
 Some faint and mystic rumours of their fate. 
 Long had they mark'd the " living cloud of war," 
 On their wide confines hovering, like the storm. 
 That rises from the desert's eastern verge. 
 Nor had they heard without confus'd dismay, 
 That the fam'd Prophet called to curse their foes. 
 By Inspiration's ardent power possest, 
 Reluctant cried, " How goodly are thy tents, 
 
 • Exodus XV, 23. Shaw's Travels, p. 379. 
 
 I
 
 114 EXTRACTS FROM THE 
 
 O Jacobs that 4n fair array, like groves 
 
 Of cedar or lign-aloes by the stream 
 
 Are planted : who can count thy myriad host ? 
 
 That, as the famish'd lion, late arous'd 
 
 From grim repose, shall crouch not till he seize 
 
 His helpless prey, and crush it to the dust 
 
 With force resistless."* Oft some transient pang 
 
 Of busy conscience might have touch'd their breasts 
 
 'Mid scenes of guilty joy : but man, vain man ! 
 
 Thinks justice long deferr'd will ne'er arrive. 
 
 And sinks again to revelry and ease. 
 
 To Canaan's farthest verge the tidings spread, 
 Borne with the speed of terror and dismay. 
 Silent, appall'd they stand, unconscious where 
 To seek defence : or from carousals lewd. 
 And impious midnight orgies start aghast ; 
 And with tumultuous hurry rush to war. 
 Vain is the martial preparation : vain 
 The awful pomp of sacrifice ; or shrieks 
 * Numbers, xxiii. and xxiv.
 
 CONQUEST OF CANAAN. 115 
 
 Of infant victims, that to ^Nloloch rise 
 
 From blazing furnaces ; in vain advance 
 
 To gorgeous shrines the virgin's loose-rob'd train, 
 
 Tear their bright hair, and stain with purple streams 
 
 Their vermil cheeks. Nor crested helm, nor spear, 
 
 Nor all the dread habiliments of war 
 
 Aught can avail. 
 
 * * # * 
 
 Thro' conquer'd realms the torrent forward rolls 
 Resistless ; desolation marks its track ; 
 O'er wasted plains and walled cities sweeps, 
 Bursts their strong gates, and crushes them to dust. 
 
 Yet, ere she sink beneath the whelming tide. 
 One last convulsive struggle Canaan makes. 
 As Nature oft, ere ebbing life retire, 
 Collecting all her latent energies. 
 Strong effort makes against the strong disease ; 
 Regains a gleam of renovated health 
 To light the faded eye, and nerve the arm ; 
 Then sinks at last beneath its fatal power.
 
 116 EXTRACTS FROM THE 
 
 So from despair arous'd, the sinking land 
 Exerts a feverous strength, again collects 
 The relics of the sword, Unus'd to war 
 The peasant issuing from his last retreat, 
 The time-worn veteran, and the beardless youth, 
 With maddening valour struggle but to die. 
 
 With songs of triumph Judah rends the sky. 
 Soon from the ruins stately structures rise, 
 In brighter glory spacious cities shine. 
 Bend their long walls, and rear their dome-capt 
 
 towers. 
 Yet, Judah, must thy late descendants know. 
 Worse ills than Canaan felt ; tho' countless flocks 
 Thro' fertile pastures rove ; and o'er thy plains 
 Luxuriant harvests wave ; tho' peopled* hills 
 Glow with the purple radiance of the vine : 
 Tho' Ophir's riches crowd thine ample ports ; 
 Thy stubborn pride, thy gross idolatries, 
 
 * The hills of Judea were and are istill more populous and 
 cultivated than the plains. — See Shaw's Travels, p. 368.
 
 CONQUEST OF CANAAN. 117 
 
 Provoke the vengeance of offended Heaven. 
 The heathen relics harass thy repose. 
 With force resistless Eastern armies sweep, 
 And lead to distant realms thy captive tribes ; 
 Long with Euphrates' waters doom'd to mix 
 Their bitter tears, in sad remembrance mourn 
 For Zion's hill, for Salem's dear abode, 
 And on the willow hang their tuneless harps- 
 Behind, a darker cloud of woes succeeds ; 
 The Roman eagle hovers o'er his prey, 
 And tears thy vitals with ferocious swoop. 
 
 Ill-fated race ! a name alone remains 
 Of all thy dread magnificence and strength. 
 To thee no home, no native country spreads 
 Her proud endearments, gives and claims alike 
 Protection ; but thro' every various clime 
 Dispers'd, thou long must roam ; a race proscrib'd, 
 Tho' destin'd yet for bliss, and late return 
 To lands again assign'd thee for thine own ; 
 While barbarous hordes possess thy hallovv'd seats.
 
 118 THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN. 
 
 And Salem sitting in the palm-tree's shade,'*' 
 
 Disconsolate laments her slow decay. 
 
 Ages on ages roll away, and still, 
 
 Thy bitter cup of misery is full ; 
 
 Still dost thou drain the unexhausted draught ; 
 
 And still it mantles to thy pallid lips. 
 
 * Judea is typified in some coins of Vespasian, one of which 
 is in my possession, by a disconsolate woman sitting under a 
 palm-tree. — See Occonis Imper. Roman. Numism., ed. Franc. 
 Mediobarbi, &c. p. 110, &c. Amst. 1717.
 
 ODE 
 
 TO 
 
 TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 " Return the thoughts of early time, 
 And feelings rous'd in life's first day. 
 Glow in the line and prompt the lay." 
 
 Scott's Marmion, Introd. iii. 
 
 " What are the gay parterre, the chequer'd shade. 
 The morning bower, the evening colonnade, 
 But soft recesses for uneasy minds 
 To sigh unheard in to the passing winds ?" 
 
 Pope.
 
 This Ode was written during a second residence in 
 Trinity College, of which I was then Fellow ; when 
 a long state of bad health had compelled me to re- 
 tire from the profession of the law, which I was 
 pursuing in London. The last stanza was added 
 just before I quitted the College, on my marriage. 
 One species of merit I may venture to claim ; that it 
 presents not a tissue of imaginary thoughts, but an 
 unadorned picture of real sentiments — of the con- 
 trasted impressions excited by the same scenes 
 under different circumstances.
 
 ODE 
 TO TRINITY COLLEGE. 
 
 Ye towers, for learning's shelter rear'd, 
 Ye groves, to science long endear'd, 
 Amid whose fostering shades, intent 
 On arduous schemes, the years I spent 
 From ripening youth to manhood's bloom 
 That mark of life the future doom : 
 Again your ever dear retreats 
 My heart with equal kindness greets.
 
 124 
 
 ODE TO TRINITY COLLEGE. 
 
 Yet not again shall e'er return 
 Those transports of delight, 
 
 Which in my breast were wont to burn, 
 Whene'er ye met my sight. 
 
 II. 
 
 For well can faithful memory paint 
 
 The bosom's varied sentiment ; 
 
 When, with firm health, and soul on flame. 
 
 From Yorkshire's northern hills I came, 
 
 Beneath a milder clime to court 
 
 The Muses in their lov'd resort. 
 
 The mountain breeze each nerve had strung ; 
 
 Each sense in keen expectance hung : 
 
 Each feeling of the high-toned soul 
 
 Had yielded to the strong control. 
 
 And own'd the influence stern and rude 
 
 Of nature's wildest solitude.
 
 ODE TO TRINITY COLLEGE. 125 
 
 III. 
 
 Then, as delighted and amazd, 
 Insatiate on these scenes I gaz'd, 
 Oft have I said, " Where Bacon caught 
 The first faint gleam of manly thought, 
 That broke on that benighted age 
 To guide the wanderings of the sage : 
 Where Newton traced the secret cause 
 Of moving worlds, and nature's laws : 
 Where Dryden touched his potent lyre. 
 With inspiration's earliest fire ; 
 Ere want the unwilling strain had marr'd. 
 Or courts debased the venal bard : 
 
 IV. 
 
 " Here may the ardent youth gain force 
 In emulation's generous course ; 
 Ambition's stern resolve may brace, 
 Ere yet he start in life's long race ;
 
 128 ODE TO TRINITY COLLEGE. 
 
 Feel in success that eager joy, 
 
 Which repetition cannot cloy, 
 
 Which prompts but to some higher aim, 
 
 And spurns the past for future fame. 
 
 Or, if the bold attempt should fail, 
 
 May learn to stem the adverse gale ; 
 
 Pause but a moment, nor in vain. 
 
 Redoubled enei'gy to gain ; 
 
 And urging his ingenuous toil, 
 
 At length the vanquish'd victor foil. 
 
 " And here may he, whom choice shall guide 
 To venture on the world's rough tide, 
 Amid forensic strife to steer 
 Of fame and wealth the grand career ; 
 And here the embryo statesman learn 
 To reason, argue, and discern, 
 Right to maintain, and wrong descry. 
 Thro' the dark maze of sophistry ;
 
 ODE TO TRINITY COLLEGE. 127 
 
 And seek those fountains, that dispense 
 The richest streams of eloquence: 
 Or turn, where history supplies. 
 How infant nations slowly rise ; 
 By what progressive means attain, 
 In arts, and arms, and wealth to reign ; 
 To revel in luxurious pride ; 
 While hidden seeds of ruin glide 
 Thro' each fine fibre, and at length 
 Corrode the unwieldy specious strength. 
 Till long corruption have subdued, 
 And made them fit for servitude. 
 " Or oft may mark, amid the gloom 
 
 Of empire hastening to its doom. 
 
 Some patriotic genius strive 
 
 His country's greatness to revive ; 
 
 Recall with force regenerate 
 
 Each latent virtue of the state. 
 
 And for awhile arrest its fate. 
 
 Or, if in vain his potent hand 
 
 Be stretch'd to help a sinking land,
 
 128 ODE TO TRINITY COLLEGE. 
 
 O'erwhelming difficulties brave, 
 And perish where he could not save. 
 
 VI. 
 
 " Such was the lot of later Rome, 
 When Vice insulted Fi-eedom's tomb ; 
 When the fierce Goth his myriads led, 
 And unresisted ravage spread. 
 Then Belisarius dar'd alone 
 Safety's cold dictates to disown, 
 Rous'd a degenerate race to arms, 
 And steel'd their breasts to war's alarms 
 Bursting on the astonish'd foe, 
 Struck, e'er he felt, the fatal blow ; 
 Tore from his savage grasp the prey, 
 And chased him from her realms away. 
 
 " Fir'd by the tale, he spurns repose ; 
 The young enthusiast's bosom glows 
 To guide his country thro' the storm. 
 Corrupted senates to reform.
 
 ODE TO TRINITY COLLEGE. 129 
 
 To disconcert Napoleon's scheme, 
 And Europe's prostrate states redeem. 
 
 VII. 
 
 " Here he, whose placid humble thought 
 No higher station ever sought, 
 Than calm and competence can give ; 
 Content in useful ease to live ; 
 With modest radiance to shine 
 Unsullied guide to truth divine ; 
 For that great mission may prepare. 
 And learn its mandates to declare, 
 Unfold the hopes to mortals given, 
 And point the narrow path to heaven. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 " And he, whom eager thirst may urge 
 To pierce beyond the utmost verge 
 
 K
 
 130 ODE TO TRINITY COLLEGE. 
 
 Of former science, or explore 
 The rich remains of classic lore ; 
 Whose mild ambition ne'er would aim 
 Beyond the meed of learned fame, 
 May here with social ease vuiite 
 What in retirement can delight." 
 
 IX. 
 
 And oft, when in more pensive mood, 
 I pace the cloister's solitude, 
 Among the columns, that sustain 
 The roof's extensive ponderous plane ; 
 As thro' the sculptur'd iron gates 
 The eye at distance penetrates. 
 Where Cam, that scarcely seems to flow, 
 Reflects the moon-beam's silvery glow ; 
 While just beyond, the clustering trees 
 Are mov'd not by the gentle breeze. 
 That from the limes on balmy wings 
 Their soporific fragrance brings ;
 
 ODE TO TRINITY COLLEGE. 131 
 
 The massy fabric seems to stand 
 A palace in some fairy land. 
 When all is wrapt in calm profound 
 Save where the bat would flit around ; 
 And the lone owl would silence break 
 With harsh but not unpleasing shriek ; 
 Or distant flute's soft plaintive note 
 Dejection soothe, and yet promote. 
 
 X. 
 
 Then sadder thoughts would intervene, 
 Attemper'd to the solemn scene. 
 " And here," I've said, " should wayward fate 
 Each fairer prospect dissipate ; 
 Should health or energy too frail 
 Exhausted in the conflict fail ; 
 Here may the heart-sick exile come, 
 Within this kind congenial gloom. 
 
 k2
 
 132 ODE TO TRINITY COLLEGE. 
 
 Far from the world's tumultuous crowd, 
 His baffled schemes and hopes to shroud." * 
 
 XL 
 
 Yet little fear'd I in those hours, 
 When sway'd by fancy's mystic powers 
 Imaginary scenes I drew, 
 So soon to prove the presage true ; 
 To find my short career was run 
 Ere the keen race seem'd well begun ; 
 The withering grasp of slow disease 
 On the firm frame resistless seize; 
 The throbbing brow and pallid cheek 
 Flush with the hectic's fitful streak ; 
 O'er each acuter sense to feel 
 Benumbing languor faintly steal ; 
 
 * " And shroud within Saint Hilda's gloom 
 Her blasted hopes and withered bloom." 
 
 Scott's Marmion,
 
 ODE TO TRINITY COLLEGE, 133 
 
 Till every vision fancy drew 
 Takes that same wan and sickly hue : 
 Till the exhausted spirit droops 
 Amid the wreck of shatter'd hopes ; 
 And turns reluctant in despair 
 To seek a sad retirement here. 
 
 XII. 
 
 Vain thought ! With the chang'd medium change 
 To colours fresh and semblance strange 
 Both moral and material things, 
 Ting'd by the passions' hidden springs. 
 
 Vain thought ! The torn distemper 'd mind 
 In solitude no cure can find : 
 Tho' soft seclusion for awhile 
 Intensest anguish may beguile ; 
 Tho' memory fondly love to trace, 
 Past joys associate with the place,
 
 134 ODE TO TRINITY COLLEGE. 
 
 Where life's unclouded morning shone, 
 Yielding a pleasure long unknown. 
 Yet soon those kind illusions fade, 
 Soon is each object disarray 'd 
 Of that delusive blandishment, 
 Which young imagination lent. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 Soon on the listless senses pall 
 The festal pomp of feudal hall, 
 The organ's swell, and full-ton'd choir, 
 The vista stretch'd to distant spire, 
 Thro' opening glades the turrets seen, 
 The willowy stream, that winds between ; 
 The cool majestic colonnades. 
 Lawns ever green, and fragrant shades 
 Impervious to the scorching heats : 
 These seem but soft and dull retreats ;
 
 ODE TO TRINITY COLLEGE. 135 
 
 Where the forlorn recluse may brood 
 On fever'd day-dreams that intrude, 
 Chase the faint rays of dawning peace, 
 And cease not but when life shall cease. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Yet oft some feeble transient fire 
 Would momentary hope inspire, 
 That the bold spirit still may try 
 To soar from dull obscurity ; 
 And oft would friendship's soothing balm 
 Attempt the bitter pang to calm ; 
 Each hackneyed topic would suggest. 
 That e'er was urged to mind distrest ; 
 Expatiate on the charms of ease, 
 And refuge from the world's rough seas ; 
 How time each keen regret would soothe, 
 And make life's rugged journey smooth.
 
 13(5 ODE TO TRINITY COLLEGE. 
 
 XV. 
 
 Ah ! no, the fleeting dream is gone ; 
 The friendly sophistry o'erthrown. 
 What charms can indolence present 
 To those on enterprise intent ? 
 Ask the toil-harden'd mountaineer, 
 Inur'd to chase the rapid deer 
 Froni early dawn to evening's close, 
 And then upon the hill repose ; 
 If in some narrow castle pent, 
 He e'er could deign to feel content ; 
 Tho' beds of down, and regal state, 
 And luxury his call await. 
 Would he not fret with useless rage, 
 Like captive lion in his cage ? 
 And say, he found the coarse repast 
 More grateful to his eager taste
 
 ODE TO TRINITY COLLEGE. 137 
 
 By mountain stream ; more sound the sleep 
 He snatch 'd upon the craggy steep ? 
 
 Can time's Lethaean influence 
 Unfailing remedy dispense ? 
 Yes, time may seem the wound to heal, 
 Its deep-struck fibres may conceal ; 
 But if incautious touch should graze 
 The treacherous surface it displays ; 
 The latent venom from below 
 With rankling virulence will flow. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 Nor yet of those who here sojourn 
 Alone my gloomy lot I mourn : 
 On closer view the thin disguise 
 Is pierced by disenchanted eyes. 
 
 Here the unfriended churchman pines, 
 And half the bliss of life resigns,
 
 138 ODE TO TRINITY COLLEGE. 
 
 Bound by those harsh monastic rules,* 
 The last remains of popish schools. 
 Entire exclusion less aggrieves 
 Than doubt that lures, delays, deceives, 
 For then the willing votary knows 
 At once the good that he foregoes. 
 But here, with sanguine love elate, 
 Condemn'd the lingering years to wait ; 
 Sickening in tedious indolence, 
 Hope long deferr'd, and slow suspense ; 
 He sees each fascinating grace 
 Fade from his mistress' angel face : 
 Till, when the late preferment comes, 
 Inveterate discontent benumbs 
 Those finer feelings youth might prove. 
 And friendship takes the place of love. 
 
 * " Socios Collegiomm maritos esse non permittimus." 
 
 Stat. Acad. Caxt.
 
 ODE TO TRINITY COLLEGE. J 39 
 
 XVII. 
 
 Yet more unhappy, who disdains 
 To seize the good that still remains. 
 Mark his sunk eye ; not that the mien 
 Of waning years, resign'd, serene. 
 Like ancient captive, loath to roam 
 From dungeons, time has made his home ; 
 He deem'd too much of life gone by, 
 Fate had dissolv'd each early tie, 
 And left no wish, but here to die ; 
 In walls no social circle cheers, 
 Which habitude alone endears. 
 For him no relatives assuage 
 The sure infirmities of age ; 
 No tender cares disease beguile. 
 And make e'en sickness wear a smile : 
 His old associates are gone ; 
 And here, unheeded and alone.
 
 140 ODE TO TRINITY COLLEGE. 
 
 The remnant of his cheerless days 
 In selfish apathy decays. 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 Fair scenes, adieu ! ye once had power 
 To fascinate youth's ardent hour ; 
 Awhile ye soften'd later woes, 
 And lull'd the mind to short repose. 
 The charm is gone : yet ne'er shall fade 
 The strong attachment ye convey 'd ; 
 And still, whene'er ye meet my eye, 
 Shall fond remembrance prompt a sigh. 
 Fair scenes, adieu ! ere yet too late, 
 Resolv'd to try a different fate. 
 Her waken'd votary Wisdom calls. 
 To quit in haste these charmed walls ; 
 In less recluse abodes to live ; 
 And seek content, ye cannot give.
 
 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
 
 WRITTEN FOR THE ALBUM OF 
 
 MISS PHILOTHEA THOMPSON, 
 
 OF 
 
 COTTINGHAM CASTLE, YORKSHIRE. 
 
 A.D. 1821. 
 
 The ancient and magnificent castle of Cottingham, 
 which covered two acres of ground, formerly be- 
 longed to the Lords de Stuteville. The possessor, 
 in the time of King John, entertained that sove- 
 reign at his mansion, and then obtained a licence to 
 fortify it. By the marriage of an heiress it after- 
 wards passed into the family of Wake. 
 
 There is a tradition that King Henry the Eighth
 
 144 COTTINGHAM CASTLE. 
 
 was enamoured of the beautiful Lady Wake ; and 
 that when at Hull he sent a message to Lord Wake, 
 intimathig his intention of visiting him the next 
 day at the castle. But in the intervening night it 
 was burnt to the ground. This was done by the 
 steward, in obedience to his master's command ; 
 or, as some say, by the lady herself. The King 
 offered to give two thousand pounds towards re- 
 building it, but the donation was for obvious reasons 
 probably declined, as the castle remained in ruins. 
 
 The present mansion is a modern edifice, built in 
 the castellated style, by the late Thomas Thompson, 
 Esq., M. P. for Midhurst. His youngest son, 
 Charles William, from early youth, had educated 
 himself for the profession of a soldier. After gra- 
 duating at Cambridge, he entered into the Sicilian 
 regiment, and then into the foot- guards. His re- 
 giment joined the British army in Spain, under 
 the Duke of Wellington. After crossing the Py- 
 renees, he fell in the last battle that took place, 
 before the downfal of Napoleon.
 
 COTTINGHAM CASTLE. 145 
 
 I have seen a dungeon like that alluded to in 
 stanza 3, which was some years ago discovered at 
 Bolton Castle in Wensleydale. In clearing away 
 the rubbish from a dungeon sufficiently dismal to 
 satisfy any ordinary feelings of cruelty or revenge, 
 a square opening was discovered in the floor with a 
 groove as for a trap-door. Below was a small 
 damp apartment cut in the solid rock, without any 
 other orifice for light or air. A ring or staple still 
 existed in the wall, to which the captives had pro- 
 bably been chained. 
 
 The " Convent of Cotingham," as it is styled 
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 ON COTTINGHAM CASTLE, YORKSHIRE, 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 THOMAS THOMPSON, ESQ. 
 
 1. 
 
 Gone are those envied days of feudal state. 
 
 When, on the warrior chieftains frequent call 
 His gathering crowds of ready vassals wait, 
 
 Or swell the splendor of his gothic hall; 
 
 Where lance and shield adorn the sculptur'd wall, 
 And gorgeous banners wave those arms among ; 
 
 While knight and baron, squire and vassal, all 
 At once around their different tables throng, 
 Partake the plenteous feast, and list the minstrel's 
 song. 
 
 l2
 
 148 COTTINGHAM CASTLE. 
 
 2. 
 
 Gone are the days of grave monastic state, 
 
 When the fair convent oft we might espy, 
 To the lorn pilgrim opening friendly gate, 
 
 Or way-worn traveller that journeyed nigh : 
 
 A calm retreat for early piety, 
 Or him, whose blasted hopes had late unbound 
 
 In his torn bosom every worldly tie. 
 The ruins of those cells no more are found, 
 And Stuteville's strong towers are levelled with the 
 ground. 
 
 3. 
 
 I mourn them not — for with that feudal state 
 And barbarous magnificence, are gone 
 
 Hereditary strife, blood-thirsty hate, 
 
 The dark low dungeon with its captive lone 
 Enchain'd to narrow walls of dripping stone ; 
 
 When the proud lord, alike of lawless power 
 Tyrant and victim, safety found alone
 
 COTTINGHAM CASTLE. 149 
 
 For the chaste inmate of the female bower, 
 Amid the burning wreck of his own hall and 
 tower. 
 
 4. 
 And with the convent's stately shrines are gone 
 
 Their fancied miracles and heathen taint ; 
 The foreign accents breath'd to block of stone, 
 
 Or soul of wild enthusiast termed a saint. 
 
 Gone are those rules the God of love that paint. 
 Delighting in the sufferings of mankind ; 
 
 And pleased by every well-devis'd restraint. 
 That stifles all our duties to our kind, 
 Rending each kindred claim around the heart en- 
 twin'd. 
 
 5. 
 
 I mourn them not ; for fairer turrets rear 
 
 Their gothic heads o'er tracts of field and flood ; 
 
 While late refinement dwells within ; and here 
 Their lord (who in the senate long had stood.
 
 150 COTTINGHAM CASTLE. 
 
 Join'd with tliat generous band of wise and 
 good, 
 That fought fair freedom's leaguer'd rock to save, 
 
 And strong Corruption's wide misrule withstood) 
 Finds surer calm than cell or cowl e'er gave ; 
 And looks with firmer hope to bliss beyond the 
 grave. 
 
 6. 
 
 The votary may retire with banner furl'd, 
 
 Well pleas'd the doubtful combat to refuse ; 
 But here Philothea shrinks not from the world, 
 
 Whose grosser vanities she well eschews ; 
 
 And pious as the nun, her task pursues, 
 In all that brightens bliss or dries the tear : 
 
 Each filial fond attention still renews 
 To her whose sense refin'd, and faith sincere. 
 Have youth and health adorn'd ; will age and 
 sickness cheer.
 
 COTTINGHAM CASTLE. 151 
 
 7. 
 
 And from these walls hath issued to the war, 
 
 One who their kind allurements could forego, 
 With heart as brave, and motive purer far 
 
 Than boasted age of chivalry might show. 
 
 His thirst of all, that knowledge could bestow. 
 Strategic lore and scientific light; 
 
 His love of freedom; the romantic glow 
 That flush'd his soul on Roncesvalle's height. 
 Have sunk on Gallia's plain immers'd in early 
 night.
 
 TO MRS. THOMAS ROBINSON 
 
 ON HER RETURN FROM INDIA. 
 
 -iVRITTEX FOR HER ALBUM, A.D. 1826. 
 
 1. 
 
 In fresh remembrance, lady, gleam 'd thine eye 
 Of quick intelligence, thy form and mien 
 
 Of overawing grandeur ; and the high 
 
 Endowments of thy mind ; tho' long unseen, 
 Tho' half the globe was interpos'd between. 
 
 New ties have bound thee to that eastern shore ; 
 Yet did no sigh for England intervene. 
 
 No wish to hear the western ocean's roar, 
 
 And see thy country, kindred, early friends once 
 more.
 
 LINES TO A LADY. 153 
 
 Again we greet thee in thy native land. 
 
 But where the wonted smile? the roseate 
 streak ? 
 Affliction hath past oer thee ; and the hand 
 
 Of India's sun hath touch'd thy faded cheek. 
 
 And hither comest thou, the solace weak 
 Of faintly renovated health to find ; 
 
 Again beneath those sultry skies to seek 
 Him, who still owns thy hand, thy heart, thy mind ; 
 And leave the remnant of thine offspring far be- 
 hind. 
 
 3. 
 
 Did lucre lure him to that withering clime ? 
 
 Or glory call him to the battle plain ? 
 Runs he the course of rapine, fraud, or crime, 
 
 Some dregs of injur 'd India's wealth to drain ?
 
 154 LINES TO A LADY. 
 
 He went, ambassador of Heaven, to train 
 The heathen to his Saviour's pure commands. 
 
 And give the Indian more than worldly gain. 
 His warfare stretches o'er no earthly lands : 
 His wealth is not contain'd in mansions made with 
 hands.
 
 STANZAS 
 
 ox THE 
 
 ANCIENT OAKS AT CIIIX, ESSEX, 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 SAMUEL SHAEN, ESQ. 
 
 Why dwells the mind with more serene delight 
 
 On mouldering relics of an age o'erpast, 
 Than scenes of freshest verdure can excite ; 
 
 Or structure elegant, entire, and vast ? 
 
 Is it that other days their shadows cast ; 
 And thus in dim resemblances return ; 
 
 That vanish'd superstitions seem to last ; 
 Customs revive ; extinguish'd passions burn ; 
 And voice of sage or hero breathe from out their urn?
 
 156 STANZAS ON THE 
 
 Thus do we slight the beauteous bowers that 
 spread 
 
 Their soft protection from the noonday sky ; 
 The shrub that waves its gaily blossom'd head ; 
 
 Lawn, path, parterre, in rich variety ; 
 
 All that the smell, sight, taste, can gratify 
 With fragrance, flower, and fruit of other lands : 
 
 From these we turn to where the oak on high 
 His branches curving to the ground expands ; 
 And still in withering pride the waste of Time 
 withstands. 
 
 3. 
 
 No other hand may touch their hallow'd shoots ; 
 
 But his hath left the wounds of many a year 
 And scars indelible. The wreathed roots 
 
 Shew their deep cavities. Above appear
 
 ANCIENT OAKS AT CRIX. 157 
 
 The dry grey boughs, Uke antlers of the deer : 
 While others, stricken with disease, display 
 
 Amid the sombre green their foliage sere : 
 The fallen branch lies mouldering as it may 
 Beside the trunk, that sinks in more august decay. 
 
 4. 
 
 I turn to gaze upon the oaks of Crix, 
 
 To muse upon the scenes they could unfold ; 
 And vainly strive their origin to fix, 
 
 When oldest records note them then as old. 
 
 With mental eye the Druids I behold 
 In long array ; the snow white mantle spread ; 
 
 The sever'd branch enwrapp'd within its fold ; 
 To grassy altar human victims led ; 
 While in those gloomy rites a nation's fate is read. 
 
 5. 
 
 These pass away ; and on the summit lights 
 The Roman eagle with his gory beak.
 
 158 STANZAS ON THE 
 
 Beneath his wing the fierce centurion smites 
 The baffled native, resolute tho' weak. 
 He mounts again his southern nest to seek, 
 
 And vanishes from view. In minghng rush 
 
 Dane, Briton, Saxon, mutual vengeance wreak : 
 
 Till comes the Norman, each alike to crush ; 
 
 And in sepulchral calm their quenchless discords 
 hush. 
 
 6. 
 
 The feudal chieftain offers unoppos'd 
 
 His human sacrifice to pride or hate. 
 More frequent than the Druid's ; though disposd 
 
 With less of solemn pomp to grace their fate. 
 
 The churchman moves in more than princely 
 state ; 
 And with unearthly weapon cows the bold, 
 
 His kingdom of this world to subjugate : 
 The collar'd bondman tends for each the fold ; 
 The roebuck ranges wild ; the outlaw forms his hold.
 
 ANCIENT OAKS AT CRIX. 159 
 
 But mingling with these unattractive forms 
 
 Comes many a group of gaiety and grace. 
 Short sunny gleams relieve the frequent storms : 
 
 Wild chivalry the oppressor oft may chase ; 
 
 While intervening time as well as space 
 Softens each harsher feature we pourtray ; 
 
 Yet in each pleasure lurks of ill the trace, 
 In bloody tournament, in festal fray, 
 And mental darkness mixt with virtue's fairest 
 ray. 
 
 8. 
 
 Yet kindly come these visions of the past ; 
 
 And kindly their realities are fled. 
 The feudal trunk its vigorous leaves hath cast ; 
 
 And feebly strives to rear its canker'd head :
 
 160 STANZAS, Sec. 
 
 The tree of knowledge rises in its stead. 
 Each shoot to firmness adamantine grows ; 
 
 Deep strikes the root, and wide the branches 
 spread ; 
 Time's temper'd scythe with futile effort mows ; 
 And Tyranny's sharp axe is shiver 'd with its 
 blows.
 
 " LATE COMES THE BOON." 
 
 1. 
 
 Late comes the boon I panted for in youth, 
 And sought in manhood, tho' vv ith distant aim ; 
 
 'I'ill o'er my bosom came the bitter truth, 
 
 That slow disease had marr'd the languid frame 
 Eor full enjoyment or pursuit of fame. 
 
 Yet still I gaz'd upon the rainbow's hue, 
 
 And thought to reach it when on earth it came ; 
 
 Hut tho' it far receded from my view, 
 
 My restless heart refus'd to breathe a last adieu. 
 
 M
 
 162 LATE COMES THE BOON. 
 
 i> 
 
 Late comes the boon — I grasp it with delight. 
 
 Tho' half a century hath press'd my head ; 
 Returning health hath somewhat of the light 
 
 And spring of early youth within me shed. 
 
 Mine be the prayer by young Achilles sped. 
 No grovelling late existence I desire. 
 
 Quickly may waste the oil by which 'tis fed ; 
 But pure and brilliant be the lamp's late fire 
 Afar perceiv'd and felt ; then all at once expire. 
 
 A. D. 183.3.
 
 NOTE 
 
 To Page 87, line 6. 
 
 This remark is gener.al, and applies to persons whose life has 
 been more calculated to stifle pure and kindly feelings than 
 that of the followers of Jephthah. Its justice may perhaps be 
 doubted by some, and can only appear from instances which 
 are occasionally observed. That mentioned by Dr. Moore, in 
 his journal of a Residence in France, a.d. 1792, is so well 
 known that I need not extract it at length. " Two men 
 covered with blood, who had been employed in killing the 
 prisoners, and attended in expectation of the signal for des- 
 patching M. Bertrand, seemed surprised, but not displeased, 
 at the unusual order" (for his release.) In conducting him 
 through the court of the prison, they inquired if he had any 
 relatives to whose house he wished to go. On his answering 
 in the affirmative, they urgently entreated permission to be 
 present at the interview. He reluctantly assented. They 
 accordingly accompanied him ; " were witnesses to the happi- 
 ness they all manifested ; refused the money which M. 
 Bertrand offered, declaring that they were already paid for
 
 164 NOTE. 
 
 accompanying him in the only way they desired." — Mooters 
 ■Journal of a Residence in France, Oct. 26th, 1792. 
 
 Another instance of this moral phenomenon was related to 
 me by tlie barrister to whom it occurred. A man who had 
 led a life of robbery and j)rofligacy, was indicted at the 
 Huntingdonshire assizes for the murder of the aged rector of 
 an adjoining parish. It was perpetrated on a summer's 
 forenoon at his parsonage, while the rest of the family were 
 absent at the hay-field. On the trial three counsel appeared 
 for the prosecution, none for the prisoner. The judge, Baron 
 Alexander, suggested to a barrister present to watch the de- 
 fence. He did so ; strenuously argued several points of 
 law; and weakened by his cross-examinations the evi- 
 dence, which was entirely circumstantial. The judge summed 
 up favoural)ly for the prisoner. While the jury were with- 
 drawn, and there was reason to expect an acquittal, the pri- 
 soner sent the gaoler to his counsel to thank him for his efforts 
 during the long trial, and to state that he had no money to 
 otter, but begged him to accept his watch. It was of course 
 declined. The prisoner was convicted, and afterwards con- 
 fessed tlie crime. 
 
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