Felicia Hemans in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Volume 33 1833/Female Characters of Scripture

by Felicia Hemans

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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 33, Page 593

FEMALE CHARACTERS OF SCRIPTURE.

A SERIES OF SONNETS. BY MRS HEMANS.

Your tents are desolate; your stately steps,
Of all their choral dances have not left
One trace beside the fountains: your full cup
Of gladness, and of trembling, each alike
Is broken: Yet, amidst undying things,
The mind still keeps your loveliness, and still
All the fresh glories of the early world
Hang round you in the spirit's pictured halls,
Never to change!