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Inc prophets eye was wandering and he stood
As lost in reverie. In long suspense
They looked with growing iearfuness upon


His deep abstraction. Seemed that awful gaze
In Revelations mystic light TO read


The fate Of nations. Heralded ut length


BY sigh profound, thus broke his voice of vail
"As sheep upon the mountains desolate,


saw all Israel lost and shepherdless


Wo waits the wanderers! An, many tcnt
Beneath the vine tree mourns its lord in vain
Who lies uusepuchsred on Gilead's plains
The Widows lamenGton goeth up


From Hamath's entering in to Egypt's stream
Tomorrow, Israel's throne shall lack q king
Tomorrow, and the blood Of Nahoth cries
No more from his dark burial unavenged-
Tomorrow, Ahab shall be ured to doom!'
Hence 10 the prison, prater! Guard away
And be the meat of sore affliction his,
Till Israel, laden with his rophed spoil,
Triumphs, and gives his prophecy the lie"


Now goes the royal mandate forth" To arms! y
Samaras length and breadth, wall, streets, and gates
Bustle with warriors. lron-girded men
In last-formed ranks haste downward TO the plain.
The palace swarms with officers who wait Iways
The monarch's orders; while through the ,hrongec
Stesds, with the speed of wind, and breath of fire,
Hurl the dun chariot with thunder on.
The shouts of legioned myriads, and the olang
Of thousand battle trumpets rend the air;
For the leagued Kings are to the hosts gone Down


Owho may tell the majesty wherewith
Those armies move beneath their monaIchs' eyes
The spears are lifted-banners TO the breeze
Are thrown, and helm and buckler with a blaze
OF splendor meek the sunbeam. Judah holds
The glorious van, and like long live stream,
With measured s,ateliness within gorge
That breaks the mountain Eastward, tribe by tribe
The martial train wheels, flashes, disappears.
The sun is low above Gath Rimmons top,
As the last phalanx passes from the view,
And Of that multitude his latest beam
Sees in the valley lingerer.


Another bright days sunset balhes the hills
That gird Samaria. Their green and gold
Sleep in their soft unsuliied lustre still,
As though Earth knew no grief forcvermora.
All! that is not the voice Of joy that comes
From the walled Capital IL is the wall
OF lone bereavement; for all Israel mouns.
See, struggling DER the mountains back, the wrecks
OF yester-morns illustrious hosts Of war,
lnglorious, fugitive, ashamed, alone,
An soiled with battle, DUST defeat, and blood.
Meath Ephraim's vines the voice Of minstrelsy
And mirih is hushed, and sorrowing maidcns lift
The loud lament" How are the ishty fallen!
Husbands, aud sires, aud sons, and brothers went
To the leagued saush shter forth with pride and song
But an. there dawns no light on their return
And the eye aches with weeping as il looks
Toward fatal Gileads fields wbereon they lie
Weep for the sword Of the uncircumcised
Hath ,hinned the chosen people, Traied and torn
Arc Isreel's banners, and the Syrian
Hath trodden down plumes. Weep, for the throne
Hath lost It's monarch, and the kingless tribes
Mourn valiant Ahab, who shall war ne more
Samaria's pool hath drunk his royal blood"


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