Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79. | | | | Introductory to Syria | | The Wild Gazelle | | Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| | | THE WILD gazelle on Judah’s hills | |
| Exulting yet may bound, | |
| And drink from all the living rills | |
| That gush on holy ground; | |
| Its airy step and glorious eye | 5 |
| May glance in tameless transport by: | |
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| A step as fleet, an eye more bright, | |
| Hath Judah witnessed there; | |
| And o’er her scenes of lost delight | |
| Inhabitants more fair. | 10 |
| The cedars wave on Lebanon, | |
| But Judah’s statelier maids are gone! | |
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| More blest each palm that shades those plains | |
| Than Israel’s scattered race; | |
| For, taking root, it there remains | 15 |
| In solitary grace: | |
| It cannot quit its place of birth, | |
| It will not live in other earth. | |
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| But we must wander witheringly | |
| In other lands to die; | 20 |
| And where our fathers’ ashes be, | |
| Our own may never lie: | |
| Our temple hath not left a stone, | |
| And Mockery sits on Salem’s throne. | | | | |
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