The darkling prison-house of mankind burst 1),
Ere Peace can visit them, or Truth let in
Her wakening day-light on a world of sin!
But then, celestial warriors, then, when all

Earth's shrines 2) and thrones before our banner fall;
When the glad slave shall at these feet lay down
His broken chain, the tyrant lord his crown,
The priest his book, the conqueror his wreath 3),
And from the lips of Truth one mighty breath 4)
Shall, like a whirlwind, scatter in its breeze 5)
That whole dark pile of human mockeries 6); }-
Then shall the reign of Mind 7) commence on earth,
And starting fresh, as from a second birth 8),
Man, in the sunshine of the world's new spring,
Shall walk transparent 9), like some holy thing 10)!
Then, too, your Prophet from his angel brow 11).
Shall cast the Veil, that hides its splendours now,
And gladden'd 12) Earth shall, through her wide expanse,
Bask in the glories of this countenance 13)!

"For thee, young warrior, welcome! thou hast yet
Some tasks to learn, some frailties to forget,
Ere the white war-plume o'er thy brow can wave; -
But, once my own, mine all till in the grave!«
The pomp 14) is at an end, - the crowds are gone
Each ear and heart still haunted 15) by the tone
Of that deep voice, which thrill'd 16) like Alla's own!
The young all dazzled 17) by the plumes and lances,
The glittering throne, and Haram's half-caught 18) glances;
The old deep pondering 19) on the promised reign.

1) dies Schwert muss erst das dunkle Kerkerhaus der Menschheit sprengen. 2) Tempel; Altäre. 3) Kranz. 4) Odem. 5) Hauch. 6) den ganzen finstern Bau des Menschenwahnes. 7) Geist; Vernunft. 8) Und frisch erwachend, als würde er neu geboren. 92 durchsichtig. 101 1 gleich einem heiligen Wesen. 11) Engelstirn; Engelsangesicht. 12) entzückt; beglückt. 13) Sich Sonnen in den Strahlen dieses Angesichts. 14) Festlichkeit, 15) bebt. 16) gellte; durchdringend war. 17) geblendet. 18) halb 19) grübelnd.

erspäht.

Of peace and truth; and all the female train 1)nk jodi
Ready to risk their eyes, could they but gaze 2)
A moment on that brow's miraculous blaze 3)!

But there was one among the chosen maids Who blush'd behind the gallery's silken shades, One, to whose soul the pageant of to-day Has been like death; you saw her pale dismay 4) Ye wondering sisterhood, and heard the burst Of exclamation 5) from her lips, when first She saw that youth, too well, too dearly known, Silently kneeling at the Prophet's throne.

Ah, Zelica! there was a time, when blist Shone o'er thy heart from every look of his; When but to see him, hear him, breathe the air In which he dwelt, was thy soul's fondest prayer! When round him hung such a perpetual spell 6), Whate'er he did, none ever did so well.

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Too happy days! when, if he touch'd a flower,
Or gem of thine, 't was sacred from that hour;
When thou didst study him till every tone,
And gesture, and dear look became thy own, do
Thy voice like his, the changes of his face.
In thine reflected with still lovelier grace,
Like echo, sending back sweet music, fraught
With twice the aerial sweetness it had brought 8)! 10
Yet now he comes brighter than even heart road
E'er beam'd before, but ah! not bright for thee;
No dread 9), unlook'd-for 10), like a visitant fi
From the other world, he comes as if to haunt 11)
Thy guilty soul with dreams of lost delight 12),
Long lost to all but Memory's aching sight 13):

1) Weiberschaar. 2) schauen. Flamme. 4) Furcht. 5) Angstgeschrei. 6) steter Zauber. 7) Edelstein; Kleinod. svoll doppelt süssen Wohllauts, als es brachte. 9) schrecklich; furchtbar. 10) unerwartet; unverhofft; unerwünscht. 11) quälen. 12) entschwundene Lust. 13) Schmerzensblick.

Sad dreams! as when the Spirit of our Youth
Returns in sleep, sparkling with all the truth
And innocence once ours, and leads us back,
In mournful mockery 1), o'er the shining track 2)
Of our young life 3), and points out every ray
Of hope and peace we 've lost upon the way!

Once happy pair! in proud Bokhara's groves,
Who had not heard of their first youthful loves 43?
Born by that ancient flood 5), which from its spring
In the Dark Mountains swiftly wandering,
Enrich'd by every pilgrim brook that shines
With relics 6) from Bucharia's ruby 7) mines,
And, lending to the Caspian half its strength,
In the cold Lake of Eagles sinks at length;
There, on the banks of that bright river born,
The flowers, that hung above the wave at morn,
Bless'd not the waters as they murmur'd by
With holier scent 8) and lustre, than the sigh
And virgin glance of first affection cast
Upon their youth's smooth current as it pass'd!
But war disturb'd this vision - far away
From her fond eyes, summon'd to join the array
Of Persia's warriors on the hills of Thrace,

The youth exchanged his sylvan dwelling-placed 17.
For the rude tent and war-field's deathful clash 9),
His Zelica's sweet glances for the flash

Of Grecian wild-fire 10), and Love's gentle chains
For bleeding bondage 11) on Byzantium's plains.

"

1) mit argem Gaukelspiel; mit arger Täuschung. 2) lichte Bahn. 3) Jugendzeit. 4) Jugendliebe. 5) Der Amu, welcher in dem Belur-Tag oder schwarzen Gebirge entspringt, und genau von Osten nach Westen laufend, sich in zwei Arme theilt, deren einer sich ins kaspische Meer, und der andere in den Aral-Nahr oder Adlersee ergiesst. " 6) Reste. 7) Rubin. 8) Duft. 10) wildes Griechen

9 des Schlachtfelds mörderischer Kampf. feuer. 11) blutige Knechtschaft,

Month after month, in widowhood of soul 1) DAR Drooping 2), the maiden saw two summers roll

Their suns away
but ah! how cold and dim 3) bet
Even summer suns, when not beheld with himlensen of
From time to time ill-omen'd 4) rumours came
(Like spirit-tongues, muttering the sick man's name 5),
Just ere he dies); at length, those sounds of dread
Fell withering on her soul, Azim is dead!" G

Oh grief, beyond all other griefs, when fate is
First leaves the young heart lone and desolate 6)
In the wide world, without that only tie 7)
For which it loved to live or fear'd to die
Lorn 8) as the hung-up lute, that ne'er hath spoken
Since the sad day its master-chord 9) was broken!

Fond maid, the sorrow of her soul was such,
Even reason blighted 10) sunk beneath its touch;f
And though, ere long, her sanguine spirit rose 11)
Above the first dead pressure 12) of its woes, od dru
Though health and bloom return'd, the delicate chain
Of thought 13), once tangled 14), never clear'd 15) again.
Warm, lively, soft as in youth's happiest day,

The mind was still all there, but turn'd astray 16); -
A wandering bark, upon whose pathway shone rot 30
All stars of heaven, except the guiding one!

Again she smiled, nay, much and brightly 17) smiled,
But 't was a lustre, strange, unreal 18), wild;
And when she sung to her lute's touching strain 19),
'Twas like the notes, half ecstasy, half pain,
The bulbul 20) utters, ere her soul depart,

When, vanquish'd by some minstrel's 21) powerful art,
She dies upon the lute whose sweetness broke her heart!

Wow) Witwenthum der Seele. 2) sich abhärmend. 3) trübe. 4) betrübend. 5) Gleich Geisterzungen des Kranken Namen flüsternd. 6) einsam und trostlos. 7) Band. 8) verlassen; stumm. 9) die höchste, reinste Saite. 10) welk. 11) ihre Lebenskraft sich hob. 12) Todesdruck.13) des Denkens zarte Kette. 14) verwirrt. 15) entwirrte sich. 16) irrte umher. 18) unstät. 19 ergreifendes Saitenspiel. 20) » die

17) schön.

Nachtigall. "

21) Sänger.

"

Such was the mood 1) in which that mission found Young Zelica, that mission 2), which around

The Eastern world, in every region bless'd
With woman's smile, sought out its loveliest,
To grace that galaxy of lips and eyes 3),
Which the Veil'd Prophet destined for the skies!
And such quick welcome as a spark receives
Dropp'd on a bed of autumn's wither'd leaves,
Did every tale of these enthusiasts 4) find

In the wild maiden's sorrow-blighted 5) mind.
All fire at once the maddening zeal she caught 6);
Elect of Paradise 7)! blest, rapturous thought 8);
Predestined bride 9), in heaven's eternal dome,
Of some brave youth ha! durst they say " of some?“
only object traced
of the one, or
In her heart's core 10) too deep to be effaced:
The one whose memory, fresh as life, is twined
With every broken link of her lost mind 11);
Whose image lives, though Reason's self be wreck'd,
Safe 'mid the ruins of her intellect!

No

Alas, poor Zelica! it needed all

The fantasy which held thy mind in thrall 12),
To see in that gay Haram's glowing maids
A sainted colony for Eden's shades;

Or dream that he, - of whose unholy flame
Thou wert too soon the victim, — shining came
From Paradise, to people its pure sphere

With souls like thine, which he hath ruin'd here!
had not Reason's light totally set,

No

And left thee dark, thou hadst an amulet
In the loved image, graven on thy heart,

1) Stimmung. 2) Sendung; Botschaft. 3) Um jene (Milchstrasse) glänzende Versammlung von Lippen und Augen zu schmücken. Schwärmer. 5) sorggeknickt; vom Gram vernichtet.

6) ergriff sie den Wahn. Erkorene Edens. seliger, ent

zückender Gedanke, 9) bestimmte Braut. 10 im Innersten ihres Herzens. 11) verschlungen mit jedem gesprungenen Glied des wirren Geistes. 12) die deinen Geist gefesselt hielt.

MOORE'S LALLA ROOKH.