Calendar: 1849-1850 Page 277

GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 275 lev now She laid her foundations deep and her palaces were strong and sumptuous "She glorified herself and lived de- liciously and said in her heart sit queen and shall see no sorrow hut her hour is come she is wiped away from the face of the earth and buried in everlasting oblivion But it is not cities only and works of men's hands but the everlasting hills the mountains and rocks of the earth are melted as wax before the sun and their place is no wheie found Here stood the Alps the load of the earth that covered many countries and reached their arms from the ocean to the Black Sea this huge mass of stone is softened and dissolved as tender cloud into rain Here stood the African mountains and Atlas with his top above the clouds there was frozen Caucasus and Taurus and Imaus and the mountains of Asia and yonder towards the north stood the Riphseau hills clothed in ice and snow All these are vanished dropt away as the snow upon their heads -CranSlatc into £ucch $a1nbtri Needs must like it well weep for joy To stand upon my kingdom once again Dear earth do salute thee with my hand Though rebels wound thee with their horses' hoofs As long parted mother with her child lays fondly with her tears and smiles in meeting So weeping smiling greet thee my earth And do thee favour with my royal hands Feed not thy sovereign's foe my gentle earth Nor with thy sweets comfort bis rav'nous sense But let thy spiders that suck up thy venom And heavy-gaited toads lie in their way Doing annoyance to the treacherous feet Which with usurping steps do trample thee