BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD BYRON. London: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY W. DUGDALE, Green Street, Leicester Square 1823. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY THE GIFT OF FRIENDS OF THE LIMATY 26 Feb 1930 The subsequent poems were written at the request of my friend, the Hon. D. Kinnaird, for a Selection of Hebrew Melodies, and have been published with the music, arranged by Mr. BRAHAM and Mr. NATHAN. HEBREW MELODIES. SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY. 1. SHE walks in beauty, like the night 2. One shade the more, one ray the less, How pure, how dear their dwelling place. 3. And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, THE HARP THE MONARCH MINSTREL SWEPT. 1. THE harp the monarch minstrel swept, It gave them virtues not their own; No ear so dull, no soul so cold, That felt not, fir'd not to the tone, Till David's lyre grew mightier than his throne! 2. It told the triumphs of our King, It made our gladden'd valleys ring, The cedars bow, the mountains nod; Its sound aspir'd to heav'n, and there abode! Since then, though heard on earth no more, Devotion and her daughter Love Still bid the bursting spirit soar To sounds that seem as from above, En dreams that day's broad light can not remove, |