Pen and pencil pictures from the poets . PEN AND PENCIL PICTURES FROM THE POETS. 89 The Messiah. fo HUS shall mankind Kis guardian care engage,The promised Father of the future more shall nation against nation rise,Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes,Nor fields with gleaming steel be covered oer,The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more ;But useless lances into scythes shall bend,And the broad falchion in a ploughshare palaces shall rise ; the joyful sonShall finish what his short-lived sire begun ;Their vines a shadow to their race shall yield,And the same hand that

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Pen and pencil pictures from the poets . PEN AND PENCIL PICTURES FROM THE POETS. 89 The Messiah. fo HUS shall mankind Kis guardian care engage,The promised Father of the future more shall nation against nation rise,Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes,Nor fields with gleaming steel be covered oer,The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more ;But useless lances into scythes shall bend,And the broad falchion in a ploughshare palaces shall rise ; the joyful sonShall finish what his short-lived sire begun ;Their vines a shadow to their race shall yield,And the same hand that sowed shall reap the swain in barren deserts with surpriseSee lilies spring, and sudden verdure rise;And start, amidst the thirsty wilds, to hearNew falls of water murmuring in his rifted rocks, the dragons late abodes,The green reed trembles, and the bulrush sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn,The spiry fir and shapely box adorn ;To leafless shrubs the flowering palms odorous myrtle to the noisome lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead,A

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