A voice of weeping heard and loud lament;
From haunted spring, and dale

Edg'd with poplar pale,

The parting genius is with sighing sent;
With flow'r-inwoven tresses torn

185

Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint;

And the chill marble seems to sweat,

195

While each peculiar Pow'r foregoes his wonted seat.

XXII.

Par List 1392-520

(Number)

Peor and Baälim Chem Por lus Liter name (Nu
Forsake their temples dim,

With that twice-batter'd God of Palestine; Dagon
Philise

183 weeping] Matthew, ii. 18. "In Rama was there a
voice heard, lamentation and weeping.'

Warton Jeria XXX] 15
185 poplar pale] Hall's Satires, ed. Sing. p. 93. The
palish poplar;' and 169, and palish twigs of deadly poplar
tree.' Virg. Ecl. ix. 39. • Candida populus.'

191 Lars] Lemures, et Larvas, et Empusas.' Miltoni

Prolus. p. 80. a equivales of hoogoblin

197 Peor] See B. Martini Var. Lectiones, p. 131, 132.

195 Not an uncommon

робут

-25 1-9

Voyd Joger, I 480 at death of Julius Caesar prody a new te encants. 27.

Et moestum illacrymant templis ebur, craque sudant So Guicciard in tell. (I. 105) that before the French invlision of Italy in 1998 aure, in molte lughalten Cudate

174

Jelite De Düsteris

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS,

calls her reina And mooned Ashtaroth,
coli mater Deum Heav'n's queen and mother both,

Now sits not girt with tapers' holy shine;
The Lybic Hammon shrinks his horn,

200

beckym 12-14 In vain the Tyrian maids their wounded Thammuz (den)

mourn.

XXIII.

And sullen Moloch fled,

Hath left in shadows dread

His burning idol all of blackest hue;
In vain with cymbals ring
They call the grisly king,

In dismal dance about the furnace blue:
The brutish Gods of Nile as fast,

Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis haste.

210

XXIV.

Wht with thing

Nor is Osiris seen

In Memphian grove or green,

[loud:

a

Plutarch

copper

Trampling the unshow'r'd grass with lowings
Nor can he be at rest Typhon accordes & 216
Within his sacred chest, up his brother whim in
Nought but profoundest hell can be his shroud; the Nile

In vain with timbrell'd anthems dark

The sable-stoled sorcerers bear his worshipp'd ark.

200 mooned] Milton added this word to our language. Todd.
215 Trampling] Benlowes's Theophila, p. 287.
'Of wide hornd oxen trampling grass with lowings loud.'

100 de Per Fort M speak of these spirits that

of Baalin & Astaroth

"Lad feneral namb

these male

Hose feminine". — Achteroth, therefore a mistakes for

whom the Phoenicians called
Astarte, queen of heaven, with Crescent horns

236f

And we favies that do run
By the triple flecates them
From the presence of the fune
Following darkness like a dream

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

175

XXV.

He feels from Juda's land

The dreaded Infant's hand,

The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyn;
Nor all the Gods beside,

Longer dare abide,

Not Typhon huge ending in snaky twine:
Our babe, to show his Godhead true,

225

[crew.

Can in his swaddling bands control the damned

XXVI.

So when the sun in bed,

Curtain'd with cloudy red,

Pillows his chin upon an orient wave,

The flocking shadows pale

Troop to th' infernal jail,

230

Each fetter'd ghost slips to his several grave;

And the yellow-skirted Fayes

[maze.

Fly after the night-steeds, leaving their moon-lov'dith marsa

or simply home of the might

231 chin] T. Warton has not remarked the use of this word in old poetry; when it brought with it no associations of familiarity or burlesque. Chapman's Hom. II. p. 113, 'Both goddesses let fall their chins.' Odyss. p. 303. 310, Jove shook his sable chin.' The Ballad of Gil Morrice, 158, 'And kiss'd baith mouth and chin,' 169, 'And syne she kiss'd his bluidy cheeke, and syne his bluidy chin.' And Percy's Reliques, iii. 57, 'Our Lady bore up her chinne.'

232 shadows] M. Bowle refers to Mids. Night Dream, act iii. sc. ult.

And yonder shines,' &c.

226 syphon, Gyntian god hit or Sure, brother enemy of Ozores. sort of dead. & vid Gyption monument they exted in various wast. like forms, sometime, a crocodile

last born that

wh appeared to funde the wise men at x's birth

XXVII.

But see the Virgin blest

Hath laid her Babe to rest,

[ing;

240

Time is our tedious song should here have end-
Heav'n's youngest teemed star
Hath fix'd her polish'd car,

[ing;

Her sleeping Lord with handmaid lamp attend-
And all about the courtly stable
Bright-harness'd Angels sit in order serviceable.

EREWHILE of music, and ethereal mirth,
Wherewith the stage of air and earth did ring,
And joyous news of heav'nly Infant's birth,
My Muse with Angels did divide to sing ;
But headlong joy is ever on the wing,
In wintry solstice like the shorten'd light
Soon swallow'd up in dark and long out-living night.

5

244 harness'd] Exodus, xiii. 18. The children of Israel
went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.' Newton.
divide] Spens. F. Queen. iii. i. 40.

And all the while sweet music did divide
Her looser notes with Lydian harmony.*

Hor. Od. i. xv. 15.

Imbelli cithara carmina divides.' Warton.

II.

For now to sorrow must I tune my song,
And set my harp to notes of saddest woe,

Which on our dearest Lord did seize ere long, 10
Dangers, and snares, and wrongs, and worse than
Which he for us did freely undergo : [80,

Most perfect Hero, tried in heaviest plight

Of labours huge and hard, too hard for human

wight!

" of Carlyle's Hero-worship. The preater Hero is one whom we name not here

III.

He sovereign priest stooping his regal head, 15
That dropp'd with odorous oil down his fair
Poor fleshly tabernacle entered,

eyes,

His starry front low-roof'd beneath the skies:
O what a mask was there, what a disguise!

Yet more; the stroke of death he must abide,
Then lies him meekly down fast by his brethren's
side.

IV.

These latest scenes confine my roving verse,
To this horizon is my Phœbus bound;
His god-like acts, and his temptations fierce,
And former sufferings other where are found; 25
Loud o'er the rest Cremona's trump doth sound;
Me softer airs befit, and softer strings
Of lute, or viol still, more apt for mournful things.
26 Cremona's trump] Vida's Christiad.