Let the great rocks their solitude regain!
No Delphian lyres now break thy noontide rest
With their full chords:—but silent be the strain!
Thou hast a mightier voice to speak th’ Eternal’s reign![259]
[259] This, with the preceding, and several of the following pieces, first appeared in the Edinburgh Magazine.
THE FESTAL HOUR.
When are the lessons given
That shake the startled earth? When wakes the foe
While the friend sleeps? When falls the traitor’s blow?
When are proud sceptres riven,