II.
"It told the triumphs of our king,
It wafted glory to our God;
It made our gladden'd valleys ring,
The cedars bow, the mountains nod;
Its sound aspired to heaven and there abode!
Since then, though heard on earth no more,
Devotion and her daughter Love
Still bid the bursting spirit soar
To sounds that seem as from above,
In dreams that day's broad light cannot remove."
[70] Murray's Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Asia, vol. iii. p. 130.
[71] Chateaubriand, Itinéraire, tom. i. p. 380. Volney's Travels, vol. ii. p. 335.
[72] Itinéraire, tom. ii. p. 385.
[73] Travels, vol. iv. p. 289.
[74] The original presents one of the most animated and musical passages in the Gerusalemme Liberata:—
"Ma quando il sol gli aridi campi fiede Con raggi assai fervente, a in alto sorge, Ecco apparir Gerusalem si vede! Ecco additar Gerusalem si scorge! Ecco da mille voci unitamente, Gerusalemme salutar si sente!"—Canto iii. stan. v. 2.
[75] Travels in Egypt and Syria, vol. ii. p. 303.
[76] Notes on Egypt, &c. p. 274.