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253 (book)
Thou pledge of certain plenty,
peace, and
rest.For there is
mourning now in
Israel,
Is plucked and withered.
Ripe of
years was he.
Upon his chosen globe. For he was one
Morn found him not as one who slumbereth,
Stole o'er him at his labors to requiteWhat shall be said when such as he do pass?
Fall midst that peopled silence on your knees,
But mourn him not, whose blameless
life complete
Whom we must follow, but
may not
recall.
And offer honeyed fruits as were he here, THE VALLEY OF BACA.
PSALM LXXXIV. Anigh its
margin, brushed by
heavy trees.
Fretting the
willows and the cypresses.
An awful presence hath its dwelling-place. His
head was circled with a
crown of
thorn,
His wayworn
feet by stones were cut and torn.
Of
terror of the
angel of the
Lord. Fell and encompassed him. I might not see
Wherethrough he staggered with his misery.
The smitten
head and writhing
form enwound. Those clinging vapors blotting out the
sky.
Discomfited, had left the victory
But from the hill-tops its
salvation hailed.
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