Encircling foes shall revel in thy spoil,

And with thy carcasses bestrew the soil.

Then shalt thou utter many an inmost groan,

And writhe with tortures thou hadst never known;

But none shall hear thee,-none shall give thee rest, Nor hush the storms that agonize thy breast.

Famine shall strike thee with her with'ring blast,

And goad thee with intolerable fast,

Till famish'd maniacs tear their flesh for food,

And monstrous mothers drink their infants' blood!

Insatiate flames shall thy fond homes destroy,

And purge thine altars of their base alloy;

The dust of death thy furrow'd cheek shall hide,
And the rude ploughshare o'er thy bosom glide,

Till not one weeping ruin shall be found—

One mould'ring record of the faithless ground! *
Thy scatter'd sons shall wander through the earth,

A race of exiles, outcast from their birth:

Each stranger-shore to them shall be unblest,

By God afflicted, and by man opprest;

And every kindred, every tongue proclaim

Their just abasement-their dishonour'd name.†

*For the days shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children with thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another, because thou knowest not the time of thy visitation. Luke, ch. xix. v. 43.

And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from one end of the earth even unto the other, &c. Deut. ch. xxviii. v. 64.

Isr'el shall mourn, and desolation reign

O'er Carmel's fruitful field, and Sharon's flow'ry plain.*

Yet not for ever shall compassion fly

The land that rais'd the cross of Calvary !+

Her wings another olive branch shall bring,
Fresh from the Eden of Eternal Spring.

The day shall come when thou again shalt seek

Thy home, and penitence adorn thy cheek.‡

* Behold your house is left unto you desolate. ch. xiii. v. 35.

Luke,

† In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. Isaiah, ch. lxiii. v. 9.

And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only Zech. ch. xii. v.10.

son.

Some Ananias then shall scale thine eyes,

To see the glorious truths they now despise.
Thy Shepherd slain shall bid his slayers hail! *
Lead his lost sheep to Kedron's fertile vale;

Restore to Lebanon the sacred vine,

The lofty cedar, and the spicy pine;

Thy thirsty springs with living waters fill,

And He that lov'd thee once shall love thee still.+

*He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd does his flock. Jer. ch. xxxi. v. 10.

† And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim. Joel, ch. iii. v. 18.

Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee. Jer. xxxi. v. 3.

Laid in the tomb the Paschal victim slept,

Whilst light-rob'd cherubim his slumbers kept.*
In vain would Death with yet unvanquish'd

power

His flesh corrupt and bid it rise no more ;–
In vain the grave in her dark womb control
With adamantine chains his righteous soul.†

The Lord of Life, omnipotent to save,

Dispell'd the deep-cold slumbers of the

grave;

* And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments. Luke, ch. xxiv. v. 4.

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Psalm xvi. v. 10.

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