Kingdom of Judah

"His eye survay’d the dark Idolatries Of alienated Judah."

"The wild gazelle on Judah’s hills Exulting yet may bound, And drink from all the living rills That gush on holy ground; Its airy step and glorious eye May glance in tameless transport by:—A step as fleet, an eye more bright, Hath Judah witnessed there; And o’er her scenes of lost delight Inhabitants more fair. The cedars wave on Lebanon, But Judah’s statelier maids are gone!More blest each palm that shades those plains Than Israel’s scattered race; For, taking root, it there remains In solitary grace: It cannot quit its place of birth, It will not live in other earth.But we must wander witheringly In other lands to die; And where our fathers’ ashes be, Our own may never lie: Our temple hath not left a stone, And Mockery sits on Salem’s throne."

"Not coldly mute the harp of Judah hung!"

"Did none perchance of Judah’s faithful line Read the high teaching of each heav’n-sent sign?"

"Could wrath divine Be dealt on Judah by no hand but thine?"