Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79. | | | | Syria: Shechem (Nablous) | | Shechem | | Nicholas Michell (1807–1880) |
| | (From Ruins of Many Lands)
YET hallowed be the land where Joseph sleeps, | |
| And Jacob’s Well, tradition guards and keeps. | |
| Though gone the shrine which graced the holy hill, | |
| Green wave the woods on high Gerizim still: | |
| Soft pipes the lonely bird at dying day, | 5 |
| Where incense rolled, and priests were wont to pray, | |
| And Ebal, towering north of Shechem’s vale, | |
| Lifts its wild rocks, and echoes back the tale; | |
| Each knoll in emerald mantle seems arrayed, | |
| And countless rills make music through the shade. | 10 | | | |
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