 | Mansoul or The Riddle of the World |  |
It is with troubled hearts, in Underworlds paths;
We hold this further course. Nor far we pass;
Since little that Province is, in length and breadth;
Ere City-hill, of Jews' solemnities;
Is mirrored in our glass.
We hold this further course. Nor far we pass;
Since little that Province is, in length and breadth;
Ere City-hill, of Jews' solemnities;
Is mirrored in our glass.
That rocky soil;
Ere had tent-dwelling Hebrew Tribes a name;
An Highway of antique Nations enemies;
(Great Pharaohs' namely and old Assyrian Kings':)
Was, trod down oft, of their contending armies.
Wherein yond Watch-hill, Hold of rámmed clay walls;
With rough-hewn timber gates and brazen bars:
Razed oft, arose as oft re-edified.
Ere had tent-dwelling Hebrew Tribes a name;
An Highway of antique Nations enemies;
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Was, trod down oft, of their contending armies.
Wherein yond Watch-hill, Hold of rámmed clay walls;
With rough-hewn timber gates and brazen bars:
Razed oft, arose as oft re-edified.
Hold, that in later Age, town walled with towers:
The Hill-strength was, of husbandfolk, Jebusites.
Which David, ín his day; a minor son,
Of Jesse of Judah; wíth his men at arms,
That Band which clave unto his rising Part;
Took, and a Kingdom stáblished in their blood.
The Hill-strength was, of husbandfolk, Jebusites.
Which David, ín his day; a minor son,
Of Jesse of Judah; wíth his men at arms,
That Band which clave unto his rising Part;
Took, and a Kingdom stáblished in their blood.
Was he, One ere that kept his fathers flocks,
Among the herding hinds in Wilderness.
Valiant in minstrelsy, ás he rose in years;
A climbing spirit and founden stout in fight:
Him Saul, their King, preferred to be his squire.
Among the herding hinds in Wilderness.
Valiant in minstrelsy, ás he rose in years;
A climbing spirit and founden stout in fight:
Him Saul, their King, preferred to be his squire.
From whom he estranged, within a while, became
Leader of homeless men, in févered deeps,
And not inhábited; which descend midst thorns,
And tamarisks, únto Jordans dying flood.
Lurkers in caves, living by nightly stealths;
After the manner of thé Arabians,
Outlaws and reavers; óf their neighbours' flocks.
Leader of homeless men, in févered deeps,
And not inhábited; which descend midst thorns,
And tamarisks, únto Jordans dying flood.
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After the manner of thé Arabians,
Outlaws and reavers; óf their neighbours' flocks.
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