66 And Saul can answer now alas! his fate To shield his friend, and warm with love no more. Esdraelon, Plain of. PLAIN OF ESDRAELON. SDRAELON'S plain still boasts its myrtle bowers, ESDR Golden with corn, or carpeted with flowers: How like a sainted mind that seeks the skies, And passed in dreams his martyr life away. Jasmine's white bells and henna's yellow bloom Breathe out their sweets till rocks e'en drink perfume; In viewless clouds those odors mount the air, And Tabor stands like some rich altar there. Nicholas Michell. Galilee. GALILEE. UT now in beauty and in light we see BUT The hills and vales of far-famed Galilee. Though man may walk no more, as in old time, Nicholas Michell. Galilee (Tabaria), the Sea of. SEA OF GALILEE. LOW moves our skiff o'er still Tabaria's tide, Through whose clear azure fish are seen to glide; Abrupt and steep the girdling mountains frown, Gigantic shadows stealing darkly down. No murmuring crowds move busy on the shore, We fain would speak, but language may not find. Though man may now desert yon silent strand, On yon fair Mount that blessed discourse was given |