3. The serpent of the field, by art And spells, is won from harming; But that which coils around the heart, Oh! who hath power of charming? It will not list to wisdom's lore, 상 1 WHEN COLDNESS WRAPS THIS 1. WHEN coldness wraps this suffering clay, Ah, whither strays the immortal mind? It cannot die, it cannot stay, But leaves it darken'd dust behind. Then, unembodied, doth it trace By steps each planet's heavenly way? Or fill at once the realms of space, 2. Eternal, boundless, undecay'd, A thought unseen, but seeing all, 3. Before Creation peopled earth, Its eyes shall roll through chaos back; And where the future mars or makes, 4. Above or Love, Hope, Hate, or Fear, Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly: A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die. C VISION OF BELSHAZZAR. 1. THE King was on his throne, The godless Heathen's wine! 2. In that same hour and hall, The fingers of a man;- And traced them like a wand. 3. The monarch saw, and shook, And bade no more rejoice; All bloodless wax'd his look, And tremulous his voice. "Let the inen of lore appear, "The wisest of the earth, " And expound the words of fear, "Which mar our royal mirth." 4. Chaldea's seers are good, But here they have no skill? And the unknown letters stood Untold and awful still. And Babel's men of age Are wise and deep in lore; But now they were not sage, They saw-but knew no more. 5. A captive in the land, A stranger and a youth, He heard the king's command, He saw that writing's truth. C |