DESOLATION.
Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.—Proverbs, iii. 25.
And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?—Isaiah, x. 3.
O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name.—Daniel, ix. 18.
How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!—Jeremiah, l. 23.
Let us seek some desolate shades, and there
Weep our sad bosoms empty.
Shakespere.
My desolation does begin to make
A better life.
Shakespere.
God hath created nights
As well as days to deck the varied globe;
Grace comes as oft clad in the dusky robe
Of desolation, as in white attire.
John Beaumont.
’Tis well to be a mourner, well to feel
My glad hope die;
And sicken at the tears that daily steal
O’er the dimmed eye,
If this strong desolation should reveal
Where my sins lie.
E. L. Montague.
I sometimes deem their pleasant smiles
Still on me sweetly fall,
Their tones of love I faintly hear
My name in sadness call.
I know that they are happy
With their angel plumage on,
But my heat is very desolate,
To think that they are gone.
Park Benjamin.
But this was like those sudden blasts that
Unlook’d for, wonder on the face of spring;
And worst woe for the heart, whose early fate
Leaves it so young, and, oh, so desolate.
Miss Landon.