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The Wild Gazelle

Lord Byron·1788–1824
Lines:23Movement:Romanticism
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 eyeMay 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!  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.