The Wild Gazelle

  1. 1The wild gazelle on Judah's hills
  2. 2Exulting yet may bound,
  3. 3And drink from all the living rills
  4. 4That gush on holy ground;
  5. 5Its airy step and glorious eye
  6. 6May glance in tameless transport by:--
  1. 7A step as fleet, an eye more bright,
  2. 8Hath Judah witnessed there;
  3. 9And o'er her scenes of lost delight
  4. 10Inhabitants more fair.
  5. 11The cedars wave on Lebanon,
  6. 12But Judah's statelier maids are gone!
  1. 13Than Israel's scattered race;
  2. 14For, taking root, it there remains
  3. 15In solitary grace:
  4. 16It cannot quit its place of birth,
  5. 17It will not live in other earth.
  1. 18But we must wander witheringly,
  2. 19In other lands to die;
  3. 20And where our fathers' ashes be,
  4. 21Our own may never lie:
  5. 22Our temple hath not left a stone,
  6. 23And Mockery sits on Salem's throne.