6.
“She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks.”
Rizpah, that keepeth watch upon her Seven,
Sets forth the sevenfold grief of her bereaved
Of Him Who seven fulfils, until received
Into the Eighth of Rest, the day of Heaven,
The sixth is now consummate; this same even
Man was in Eden made; and now, reprieved
From Eden's curse, mankind, in Christ relieved,
Shall enter on the Sabbath, where 'tis given
To rest alone with God. Thus now I know,
Daughter of Aiah, why thy sorrows so
To holy mention have been consecrate;
And why thy weeping form early and late
On Gibeah's hill sits sad and desolate,
The image of another's deeper woe.
