And, borne in chains from Cambria's mountains bleak',

Rais'd virtue's generous blush on Cæsar's cheek.

But ah! full many a dark and stormy year
She dropp'd o'er Albion's isle the patriot tear.
Retir'd to mountains, from the craggy dell
She caught the Norman curfeu's tyrant knell :
Sad to her view the baron's castle frown'd

Bold from the steep, and aw'd the plains around:
She sorrowing heard the papal thunders roll,
And mourn'd th' ignoble bondage of the soul:
She blush'd, O Cromwell, blush'd at Charles's doom;
And wept, misguided Sidney, o'er thy tomb.

But now reviv'd, she boasts a purer cause,
Refin❜d by science, form'd by generous laws;
High hangs her helmet in the banner'd hall,
Nor sounds her clarion, but at honour's call:

1 Vide Tacitus's account of Caractacus at the throne of Claudius.

Now walks the land with olive chaplets crown'd,
Exalting worth, and beaming safety round:
With secret joy and conscious pride admires
The patriot spirit, which herself inspires ;
Sees barren wastes with unknown fruitage bloom; ¦

Sees Labour bending patient o'er the loom;

Sees Science rove through academic bowers;
And peopled cities lift their spiry towers:
Trade swells her sails, wherever ocean rolls,

Glows at the line, and freezes at the poles :

While thro' unwater'd plains and wondering meads

Waves not its own th' obedient river leads.

But chief the godlike Mind, which bears impress'd Its Maker's glorious image full confess'd:

Noblest of works created; more divine

Than all the starry worlds that nightly shine;
Form'd to live on, unconscious of decay,

When the wide universe shall melt away:

The Mind, which, hid in

savage breasts of yore,

Lay, like Golconda's gems, an useless ore,

Now greatly dares sublimest aims to scan;

Enriches science, and ennobles man a;

Unveils the semblance, which its God bestow'd,

And draws more near the fount, from whence it

flow'd.

GEORGE RICHARDS, B. A.

ORIEL COLlege.

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PALESTINE.

SYNOPSIS.

LAMENTATION over the miseries of Palestine-The guardian angels of the land invoked-Subject proposed-Present appearance of the country, with its present inhabitants geographically described, beginning from the north-The Druses, from their situation and importance, first noticed-Contrast between the inhabitants of mountain and plain-Saracens and Bedouins (Nebaioth and Kedar)-Modern Jews-their degraded state of banishment-Appeal to the Almighty in their behalf, founded upon his miraculous interpositions of old-Their former greatness-David-Solomon-His splendour-Popular superstitions respecting him-Improved state of the arts among the Jews-Their Temple-Firmness of the Jews under misfortunes-derived principally from their hopes of the MessiahHis advent-miracles-crucifixion-Consequent punishment of the Jews, in the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, and total desolation of the country-Scenes of Christ's sufferings, however, continued to be venerated-Pilgrimages-Holy Sepulchre Empress Helena-Crusades-Nations which em