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Title: Saul
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 MacVannel, John Angus, 1871-1915
Subjects: Saul, King of Israel
Publisher: (New York) T.Y. Crowell & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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I. Said Abner, At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak,Kiss my cheek, wish me well! Then I wished it, and did kiss his cheek.And he, Since the King, O my friend, for thy countenance sent,Neither drunken nor eaten have we; nor until from his tent Thou return with the joyful assurance the King Hveth yet,Shall our lip with the honey be bright, with the water be wet.For out of the black mid-tents silence, a space of three days,Not a sound hath escaped to thy servants, of prayer nor of praise,To betoken that Saul and the Spirit have ended their strife.And that, faint in his triumph, the monarch sinks back upon life.
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g>auU II. Yet now my heart leaps, O beloved! Gods child with his dewOn thy gracious gold hair, and those lilies still living and blueJust broken to twine round thy harp-strings, as if no wild heatWere now raging to torture the desert! ^auU III. Then I, as was meet,Knelt down to the God of my fathers, and rose on my feet,And ran oer the sand burnt to powder. The tent was unlooped ;I pulled up the spear that obstructed, and under I stooped ;Hands and knees on the slippery grass-patch. all withered and gone,That extends to the second enclosure, I groped my way onTill I felt where the foldskirts fly open. Then once more I prayed,And opened the foldskirts and entered, and was not afraidBut spoke, Here is David, thy servant! And no voice replied. 4 g)auU At the first I saw nought but the blackness ;but soon I descried A somethmg more black than the blackness —the vast, the upright Main prop which sustains the pavilion: andslow into sight Grew a figure against it, gigantic and blackesto

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