LV. THE RIGHT USE OF PRAYER. THEREFORE When thou wouldst pray, or dost thine alms, Do thus, vaingloriously; the common streets That man communion with his God might share Avail not ere a voice to prayer be given The heart should rise on wings of love to heaven. LVI. JERUSALEM. AND sitt'st thou there, O lost Jerusalem! Undimmed by time: yet is the diadem, And thrones, that made thee like the common Great, All perished, and thy People desolate; Thy guiltiness; a living Death art thou; And cursed the land a dying Saviour trod ! LVIL THE CHILDREN BAND. (THE CRUSADERS. NO. V.) ALL holy influences dwell within The breast of Childhood: instincts fresh from God Of grief hath bled, or caught the plague of sin. And did their soft lips kiss the sepulchre ? Faded! they sank not through ignoble fear; They felt not Moslem steel. By mountain, stream, In sands, in fens, they died-no mother near ! LVIII. THE SUN-GOD. I SAW the Master of the Sun. He stood On his left shoulder hung his quivered load; He bent; and, while both hands that arch embowed, Shaft after shaft pursued the flying night. No wings profaned that god-like form around His neck high-held an ever-moving crowd Of locks hung glistening: while such perfect sound Fell from his bowstring, that th' ethereal dome Thrilled as a dew-drop; and each passing cloud Expanded, whitening like the ocean foam. LIX. THE SETTING OF THE MOON NEAR CORINTH. FROM that dejected brow in silence beaming A light it seems too feeble to retain, A sad calm tearful light through vapours gleaming, Slowly thou sinkest on the Ægean main; To me an image, in thy placid seeming Of some fair mourner who will not complain ; Of one whose cheek is pale, whose eyes are streaming, |