In her wide streets the lonely raven bred, Albion,-still prompt the captive's wrong to aid, Ye sainted spirits of the warrior dead, shore To Acre's walls his trophied banners bore; No joy that sparkles, and no tear that flows![(37) | Th' apostate chief,-from Misraim's subject The blood-red banner floating o'er their van, Not such the numbers, nor the host so dread, Oh day of death! Oh thirst, beyond control, Shall judge the proud oppressor's ruthless sway, There Gaul's proud knights with boastful mien Break forth, ye mountains, and, ye valleys, sing! advance,(45) Form the long line,(46) and shake the cornel lance; No more your thirsty rocks shall frown forlorn, And chides the tardy seals that yet detain And who is He? the vast, the awful form,(53) Lo! cherub hands the golden courts prepare, Lo! thrones arise, and every saint is there;(54) Earth's utmost bounds confess their awful sway, The mountains worship, and the isles obey; Nor sun nor moon they need,-nor day, nor night; God is their temple, and the Lamb their light :(55) And shall not Israel's sons exulting come, Hail the glad beam, and claim their ancient home? On David's throne shall David's offspring reign, And the dry bones be warm with life again.(56) Hark! white-robed crowds their deep hosannas raise, And the hoarse flood repeats the sound of praise; Ten thousand harps attune the mystic song, Ten thousand thousand saints the strain prolong; "Worthy the Lamb! omnipotent to save, "Who died, who lives, triumphant o'er the grave!" Note 16, page 2, col. 1. Thy tents, Nebaioth, rise, and, Kedar, thine! Itic ruins of Estakhar, or Persepolis, the ancient capital of Persia, an account follows of the wild See Ammianus Marcellinus, lib. xiv. p. 43. local traditions just alluded to. Vol. ii. p. 190. Ed. Ed. Vales. The mighty master of the iv'ry throne. Note 24, page 2, col. 2. Through nature's mazes wandered unconfined. Amst. 1735, 4to. Vide also Sale's Koran; D'Herbelot, Bibl. Orient. (article Soliman Ben Dao ud); and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, passim. Note 26, page 2, col. 2. Note 32, page 3, col. 1. 2 Chron. vii. 3. Viewed the descending flame, and blessed the present God. "And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the Lord upon the house, they bowed themselves with their The Arabian mythology respecting Solomon is faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worin itself so fascinating, is so illustrative of the pre-shipped." sent state of the country, and on the whole so agreeable to Scripture, that it was judged improper to omit all mention of it, though its wildness might have operated as an objection to making it a principal object in the poem. Note 25, page 2, col. 2. Note 33, page 3, col. 1. Beat o'er her soul the billows of the proud.. Note 34, page 3, col. 2. Weep for your country, for your children weep. Note 35, page 3, col. 2. And the pale parent drank her children's gore. And Tadmor thus, and Syrian Balbec rose. Palmyra ("Tadmor in the desert") was really built by Solomon, (1 Kings ix. 2 Chron. viii.) and universal tradition marks him out, with great probability, as the founder of Balbec. Estakhar is also attributed to him by the Arabs. See the Romance of Vathek, and the various Travels into the East, more particularly Chardin's, in which, after a minute and interesting description of the majes-been very exalted when they ascribed so large a Note 36, page 3, col. 2. The stoic tyrant's philosophic pride. share to Titus. For the horrible details of his conduct during the siege of Jerusalem and after its capture, the reader is referred to Josephus. When Note 43, page 1, col. 1. Tabaria's stream. Tabaria (a corruption of Tiberias) is the name we learn that so many captives were crucified, that used for the Sea of Galilee in the old romances. δια το πλήθος χωρα τι ενέλειπετο τους σταυροις και σταυροι τοις σωμασιν; and that after all was over, in cold blood and merriment, he celebrated his brother's birthday with similar sacrifices; we can hardly doubt as to the nature of that untold crime, which disturbed the dying moments of the "darling of the human race." After all, the cruelties of this man are probably softened in the high priest's narrative. The fall of Jerusalem nearly resembles that of Zaragoza, but it is a Morla who tells the tale. Note 37, page 4, col. 1. Yon pompous shrine. The temple of the Sepulchre. Note 38, page 4. col. 1. And bade the rock with Parian marble shine. See Cotovicus, p. 179, and from him Sandys. Note 39, page 4, col. 1. The British queen. St. Helena, who was, according to Camden, born at Colchester. See also Howcl's History of the World. Note 40, page 4, col. 1. And pale Byzantium feared Medina's sword. The invasions of the civilized parts of Asia by the Arabian and Turkish Mahometans. Note 41, page 4, col. 1. The wandering hermit waked the storm of war. Peter the hermit. The world has been so long accustomed to hear the Crusades considered as the Note 42, page 4, col. 1. While beardless youths and tender maids assume The weighty morion and the glancing plume. See Vertot. Hist. Chev, Malthe, liv, 1. Note 44, page 4, col. 1. By northern Brenn, or Scythian Timur led. Note 45, page 4, col. 1. There Gaul's proud knights with boastful mien advance. The insolence of the French nobles twice caused the ruin of the army; once by refusing to serve under Richard Coeur de Lion, and again by reproaching the English with cowardice in St. Louis's expedition to Egypt. See Knollee's History of the Turks. Note 46, page 4, col. 1. Form the long line. The line (combat a la haye), according to Sir Walter Raleigh, was characteristic of French tactics; as the column (herse) was of the English. The English at Créci were drawn up thirty deep. Note 47, page 4, col. 2. Whose giant force Britannia's armies led. Sono gl' Inglesi sagittarii ed hanno Tasso, Gierusal. lib. i. 44. Ireland and Scotland, it is scarcely necessary to observe, were synonymous. Note 48, page 4, col. 2. Lords of the biting axe and beamy spear. Note 49, page 4, col. 2. And burst his brazen bonds, and cast his cords away. Psalm ii. 3. cvii. 16. Note 50, page 4, col. 2. Then on your tops shall deathless verdure spring. "I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more the reproach of famine among the heathen."-And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden," &c. Ezek. xxxvi. Note 51, page 4, col. 2. Courts the bright vision of descending power. "That great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God." Rev. xxi. 10. Ar that dread season when th' indignant North And Elbe slept soft beneath his linden shade:— To catch the war-note on the quivering gale, Oh! song of hope, too long delusive strain! Oh! on that hill may no kind month renew There youthful Faith and high-born Courage rest, And, red with slaughter, Freedom's humbled crest;(3) There Europe, soiled with blood her tresses gray, And the far-distant fife that thrilled along the And ancient Honour's shield—all vilely thrown road. Yes, sweet it seems across some watery dell away. Thus mused my soul, as in succession drear Rose each grim shape of Wrath and Doubt and Fear; Defeat and shame in grizzly vision passed, |