One vast world-page remains unread;
How shine the stars in Chaldea's sky,
How sounds the reverent pilgrim's tread,
How beats the heart with God so nigh!-
How round gray arch and column lone
The spirit of the old time broods,
And sighs in all the winds that moan
Along the sandy solitudes!

In thy tall cedars, Lebanon,

I have not heard the nations' cries,
Nor seen thy eagles stooping down
Where buried Tyre in ruin lies.
The Christian's prayer I have not said,
In Tadmor's temples of decay,
Nor startled with my dreary tread,

The waste where Memnon's empire lay.

Nor have I, from thy hallowed tide,
O, Jordan! heard the low lament,
Like that sad wail along thy side,

Which Israel's mournful prophet sent!
Nor thrilled within that grotto lone,

Where deep in night, the Bard of Kings Felt hands of fire direct his own,

And sweep for God the conscious strings.

I have not climbed to Olivet,

Nor laid me where my Saviour lay, And left his trace of tears as yet

By angel eyes unwept away;

Nor watched at midnight's solemn time, The garden where his prayer and groan, Wrung by his sorrow and our crime,

Rose to One listening ear alone.

I have not kissed the rock-hewn grot,
Where in his Mother's arms he lay,

Nor knelt upon the sacred spot

Where last his footsteps pressed the clay;

Nor looked on that sad mountain head,
Nor smote my sinful breast, where wide
His arms to fold the world he spread,
And bowed his head to bless and died!

PALESTINE.

BLEST land of Judea! thrice hallowed of song, Where the holiest of memories pilgrim-like throng; In the shade of thy palms, by the shores of thy

sea,

On the hills of thy beauty, my heart is with thee.

With the eye of a spirit I look on that shore,
Where pilgrim and prophet have lingered before;
With the glide of a spirit I traverse the sod
Made bright by the steps of the angels of God.

Blue sea of the hills!-in my spirit I hear
Thy waters, Genesaret, chime on my ear;
Where the Lowly and Just with the people sat
down,

And thy spray on the dust of his sandals was thrown.

Beyond are Bethulia's mountains of green,
And the desolate hills of the wild Gadarene;
And I pause on the goat-crags of Tabor to see
The gleam of thy waters, O dark Galilee!

Hark, a sound in the valley! where, swollen and strong,

Thy river, Ŏ Kishon, is sweeping along;

Where the Canaanite strove with Jehovah in vain, And thy torrent grew dark with the blood of the

slain.

There down from his mountains stern Zebulon

came,

And Napthali's stag, with his eye-balls of flame,
And the chariots of Jabin rolled harmlessly on,
For the arm of the Lord was Abinoam's son!

There sleep the still rocks and the caverns which rang

To the song which the beautiful prophetess sang, When the princes of Issachar stood by her side, And the shout of a host in its triumph replied.

Lo, Bethlehem's hill-site before me is seen,
With the mountains around, and the valleys be-
tween;

There rested the shepherds of Judah, and there
The song of the angels rose sweet on the air.

And Bethany's palm-trees in beauty still throw
Their shadows at noon on the ruins below;
But where are the sisters who hastened to greet
The lowly Redeemer, and sit at his feet ?

I tread where the TWELVE in their way-faring trod,
I stand where they stood with the CHOSEN OF

GOD

Where his blessing was heard and his lessons were taught,

Where the blind were restored and the healing was wrought.

Oh, here with his flock the sad Wanderer cameThese hills he toiled over in grief, are the sameThe founts where he drank by the wayside still flow, And the same airs are blowing which breathed on his brow!

And throned on her hills sits Jerusalem yet, [feet; But with dust on her forehead, and chains on her

For the crown of her pride to the mocker hath

gone,

And the holy Shechinah is dark where it shone.

But wherefore this dream of the earthly abode
Of Humanity clothed in the brightness of God?
Were my spirit but turned from the outward and
dim,

It could gaze, even now, on the presence of Him!

Not in clouds and in terrors, but gentle as when,
In love and in meekness, He moved among men;
And the voice which breathed peace to the waves
of the sea,

In the hush of my spirit would whisper to me!

And what if my feet may not tread where He stood, Nor my ears hear the dashing of Galilee's flood, Nor my eyes see the cross which He bowed him to

bear,

Nor my knees press Gethsemane's garden of prayer.

Yet loved of the Father, thy Spirit is near
To the meek, and the lowly, and penitent here;
And the voice of thy love is the same even now,
As at Bethany's tomb, or on Olivet's brow.

Oh, the outward hath gone!-but in glory and power,

The SPIRIT Surviveth the things of an hour;
Unchanged, undecaying, its Pentecost flame
On the heart's secret altar is burning the same!

EZEKIEL.

CHAPTER XXXIII. 30-33.

THEY hear thee not, O God! nor see•
Beneath thy rod they mock at thee;
The princes of our ancient line
Lie drunken with Assyrian wine;
The priests around thy altar speak
The false words which their hearers seek,
And hymns which Chaldea's wanton maids
Have sung in Dura's idol-shades,

Are with the Levites' chant ascending,
With Zion's holiest anthems blending!

On Israel's bleeding bosom set,
The heathen heel is crushing yet;
The towers upon our holy hill
Echo Chaldean footsteps still.

Our wasted shrines-who weeps for them?
Who mourneth for Jerusalem ?

Who turneth from his gains away?

Whose knee with mine is bowed to pray? Who, leaving feast and purpling cup, Takes Zion's lamentation up?

A sad and thoughtful youth, I went
With Israel's early banishment;
And where the sullen Chebar crept,
The ritual of my fathers kept.
The water for the trench I drew,
The firstling of the flock I slew,
And, standing at the altar's side,
I shared the Levites' lingering pride,
That still amidst her mocking foes,
The smoke of Zion's offering rose.

In sudden whirlwind, cloud and flame,