...this sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory,...his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been the glow, The life, the sparkling from below...

...this sigh the boon must be "That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory,...his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous mustjhave been the glow, The life, the sparkling from below...

...this sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON j Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers,...

...the world. One lordly mountain indeed remains immutably the same, Whose head in wintry grandeur towen And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers Lies sleeping rosy at his feet. And well may it be called the " Sovereign Blanc/' It is a singular...

...Description of the Mahometan Paradise, in his Beauties of Christianity. Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses * Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBArvoi*, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a...

...in magnificent repose ; and of it one of our poets says : " Like a glory, the broad sun Hangs o'er sainted Lebanon, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers...a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet." The Lebanon range is properly an immense tract of mountainous country, about 100 miles in length. Its...

...explain the mystery and soften the harshness of the foregoing criticism. " Now upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And like a glory,...his feet. To one who look'd from upper air, O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been the glow, The life, the sparkling from below...

...all the verdant wealth That crowns fair Lebanon's aspiring brow." " Now upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory,...a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet." MOORE'S Paradise and the Peri. " Down in a vale where lucid waters strayed And mountain-cedars stretched...

...the mystery and soften the harshness of the foregoing criticism. " Now, upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory,...eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is deeping rosy at his feet. To one who look'd from upper air O'er all the' enchanted regions there, How...

...this sigh the hoon must be " That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thec." Now, upon STRIA'S land of roses* Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LERANON; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a.vale...