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Where are the cities which of old in mighty grandeur rose! Amid the desert’s burning sands, or girt with frozen snows; Is there no vestige now remains their wondrous tale to tell, Of how they blazed, like meteor-stars, and how, like them, they fell? Hark! hark! the voice of prophecy comes o’er the desert wide, Come down, come down, and in the dust thy virgin beauties hide; Oh “Daughter of Chaldea,” thou no more enthroned shall be, For the desert and the wilderness alone shall tell of thee. Though old Euphrates still rolls in his everlasting stream, Thy brazen gates and golden halls, as though they ne’er had been; Where stood thy massy tower-crowned walls, and palaces of pride, The dragon and the wild beast now therein securely hide. The “besom of destruction” o’er thee hath swept its way In wrath, because thine impious hand on God’s Anointed lay.
Where are the cities which of old in mighty grandeur rose! Amid the desert’s burning sands, or girt with frozen snows; Is there no vestige now remains their wondrous tale to tell, Of how they blazed, like meteor-stars, and how, like them, they fell? Hark! hark! the voice of prophecy comes o’er the desert wide, Come down, come down, and in the dust thy virgin beauties hide; Oh “Daughter of Chaldea,” thou no more enthroned shall be, For the desert and the wilderness alone shall tell of thee. Though old Euphrates still rolls in his everlasting stream, Thy brazen gates and golden halls, as though they ne’er had been; Where stood thy massy tower-crowned walls, and palaces of pride, The dragon and the wild beast now therein securely hide. The “besom of destruction” o’er thee hath swept its way In wrath, because thine impious hand on God’s Anointed lay.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- H. Brownlee (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 127 · printed citation: H. Brownlee · subject: CITY
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