Thy power when link’d, in this, with thy strong brother—Death!

THE POETRY OF THE PSALMS.

Nobly thy song, O minstrel! rush’d to meet

Th’ Eternal on the pathway of the blast,

With darkness round him as a mantle cast,

And cherubim to waft his flying seat.

Amidst the hills that smoked beneath his feet,

With trumpet-voice thy spirit call’d aloud,

And bade the trembling rocks his name repeat,

And the bent cedars, and the bursting cloud.