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 eye May 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!More blest each palm that shades those plains   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.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "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 eye May 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!More blest each palm that shades those plains   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." in the context of "Lord Byron, "The Wild Gazelle", Hebrew Melodies (1815)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.