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The signs are full, and never shall the sun Shine on the cedar roofs of Salem more: Her tale of splendour now is done; Her wine-cup of festivity is spilt, And all is o’er—her grandeur and her guilt. Oh, fair and favoured city, where of old, The balmy airs were rich with melody, That led her pomp beneath the cloudless sky In vestments flaming with the orient gold; Her gold is dim, and mute her music’s voice, The heathen o’er her perish’d pomp rejoice! How stately then was every palm-deck’d street Down which the maidens danced with tinkling feet! How proud the elders in the lofty gate! How crowded all her nation’s solemn feasts With white-robed Levites, and high-mitred priests; How gorgeous her temple’s sacred state! Her streets are razed, her maidens sold for slaves, Her gates thrown down, her elders in their graves; Her feasts are holden ’mid the Gentile’s scorn, By stealth her priesthood’s holy garments worn.
The signs are full, and never shall the sun Shine on the cedar roofs of Salem more: Her tale of splendour now is done; Her wine-cup of festivity is spilt, And all is o’er—her grandeur and her guilt. Oh, fair and favoured city, where of old, The balmy airs were rich with melody, That led her pomp beneath the cloudless sky In vestments flaming with the orient gold; Her gold is dim, and mute her music’s voice, The heathen o’er her perish’d pomp rejoice! How stately then was every palm-deck’d street Down which the maidens danced with tinkling feet! How proud the elders in the lofty gate! How crowded all her nation’s solemn feasts With white-robed Levites, and high-mitred priests; How gorgeous her temple’s sacred state! Her streets are razed, her maidens sold for slaves, Her gates thrown down, her elders in their graves; Her feasts are holden ’mid the Gentile’s scorn, By stealth her priesthood’s holy garments worn.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 327 · printed citation: Milman · subject: JERUSALEM
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