Hung on the willows.

"Gush'd the big tear-drops as my soul remember'd

Zion, thy mountain-paradise, my country!

When the fierce bands Assyrian who led us

Captive from Salem

"Claim'd in our mournful bitterness of anguish

Songs and unseason'd madrigals of joyance—

'Sing the sweet-temper'd carols that ye wont to

Warble in Zion.'

"Dumb be my tuneful eloquence, if ever