Awake, O sun! that I may view Thy splendour shed (nor grieve the less) O'er vales of Kedar bathed in dew, And Chebar's balmy wilderness! Soon thou wilt smile in beauty bland Sing! sing!-How shall I sing My tabor has no strain nor string There lies engraved thy temple fair, Jehovah in thy strength awake! Think not of us, so far removed, And as a garment cast away— Think on our fathers once beloved; Must David's house like grass decay? Return, and set thy people free, And captives yet shall sing to thee! JACOB AND LABAN. “ Depart ye,—depart ye,— For shame, ere the morrow! Alone let me weep, In anguish and sorrow, For her whom so long I've loved with fond duty; For all I have lost Of sweetness and beauty. "These seven long years I've served hardly for her; Yet they seemed but a day, For the love that I bore her! The chill hour of midnight Oft watching has found me, While the wolf and the lion Were prowling around me. Shame on the gift! shame on the giver. Woe, woe, now and for ever!" "Cheer thee, boy !—cheer thee, boy! Blame not her willingness; Bound to obey, And swayed by her lovingness. Striplings may woo, But age must beware of them; Laws must be framed, And strangers must care for them. "Love's like the young rose ; Pulled, it will fade and die : Love's like the diamond; Hardly won, valued high : For seven years more, She will kinder and dearer grow; Thine shall thy love be, When thou hast won her so." "Blest be the boon! blest be the giver Joy, joy, now and for ever!" THE ROSE OF SHARON. OH! saw ye the Rose of the East Ye daughters of Judah, how blest To breathe in the sweets of my Rose ! Come, tell me if yet she's at rest In her couch, with the lilies inwove? Or if wantons the breeze with her breast? For my heart it is sick for my love. I charge you, ye virgins unveiled, That stray 'mong the pomegranate trees, By the roes and the hinds of the field, That ye wake not my love till she please! "The garden with flowers is in blow, And roses unnumbered are there; Then tell how thy love we shall know, For the daughters of Zion are fair." A bed of frankincense her cheek, And wreath of sweet myrrh is her hand; Her eye the bright gem that they seek By the rivers and streams of the land: Her smile from the morning she wins; Her teeth are the lambs on the hill; Her breasts two young roes that are twins, And feed in the valleys at will. As the cedar that smiles o'er the wood; As the moon that in glory you see 'Mid the stars and the planets above; Even so among women is she, And my bosom is ravished with love! Return with the evening star, And our couch on Amana shall be ; From Shinar and Hermon afar Thou the mountains of leopards shalt see. O Shulamite! turn to thy rest, Where the olive o'ershadows the land; As the roe of the desert make haste, MAIDEN OF JESHIMON DUET. 1st voice. 2d voice. 1st voice. O LIVES One love-spark in your breast, Vanity! Lenity! 2d voice. 1st voice. 2d voice. Both voices. 2d voice. 1st voice. Levity! Wormwood and gall! Suavity! 1st voice. 2d voice. Once full happy and blithe were we,- Long I loved, and loved you dear,- Both voices. Then all nature seemed completer, |