To mock our Faith thus impiously!
For Israel’s Lord is still our God!
And Israel’s outcast tribes shall turn
Back to these hills our fathers trod,
And fallen Judah cease to mourn.
False Seer! thy words I heed them not—
Those stars are dim thine eyes have sought.”
. . . . . .
Darkness o’er the Eternal City!—gloom
O’er her thousand palaces! and Night,