{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3212", "width": "2177", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nOluip. Copyriuiii\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "2984", "width": "2061", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3004", "width": "1966", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3004", "width": "1966", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "being certain Bible chronicles\\nset in order to compass the\\nlife and to show the love and\\nzeal of the crowned shepherd\\nof Israel, and written with\\ndutiful imagination in the\\nfuller manner of discourse by\\nAugustus George Heaton\\nIllustrated by the Author\\nFrom the Publishing House of\\nTHE NEALE COMPANY\\nWashington, D.C. MCM.\\nV.", "height": "3004", "width": "1966", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "6453B\\nj OCT 22 1900\\nStCPNO COPY.\\nOfiDW DIVISION,\\nT5 i^\\nCOPYRIGHT, 1900, BY\\nAUGUSTUS GEORGE HEATON.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "TO THE MEMORY OF\\nELIZABETH GOODYEAR HEATON.\\nborn 1790. died 1881.\\nWho devoted busy hands, genial conversa-\\ntion, A WARM HEART AND A MEEK AND FAITHFUL\\nChristian spirit to the good of all about her\\nDURING a long LIFE, THIS WORK IS DEDICATED BY\\nher BELOVED AND EVER GRATEFUL GRANDSON, THE\\nAUTHOR.", "height": "3004", "width": "1966", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nMy heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things\\nwhich I have made touching the King.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Psalm xlv: i.\\nAs will be inferred from the title, this book is based\\nupon sentiments that g-lorify the life of the great poet of\\nsacred songf. It may happily give new appreciation of\\nhis character, not only to pious readers but to all inter-\\nested in strength, bravery, chivalry, romance, talent,\\nzeal and a love of the beautiful and ideal, turning even\\nunstudied criticism to a higher comprehension of his\\nnature.\\nThe ascent of David from the station of a poor shep-\\nherd boy, the youngest son of a large family in a small\\nJudean village, to the throne of Israel was due to the\\npossession of an extraordinary combination of high\\nqualities.\\nPhysically he was ruddy and withal of a beautiful\\ncountenance and goodly to look to, of great strength,\\nendurance and activity, very dexterous in the use of\\nweapons and musical instruments and of rare and per-\\nsuasive voice in speech and song. Mentally he developed\\nhigh ability as a leader in war, a civil ruler, a law\\nmaker, a naturalist, a poet, a philosopher and a theolo-\\ngian, and he was renowned for courage, firmness, energy,\\nhope, faith, long suffering and other qualities that com-\\nmand success and authority.", "height": "3004", "width": "1966", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "6 PREFACE\\nBut physical powers may be perilous if undirected by\\nmind. The union of the two are dang-erous to mankind if\\nunguided by right purposes, and, as all biography proves,\\nthese have their highest inspiration from belief, obedi-\\nence and love regarding a supreme force controlling the\\nuniverse, however it be named or conceived by humanity.\\nStrength and address of body are but the roots, mental\\nqualities are but the branches and foliage, of a manhood\\nwhich can only be complete in the blossoms of true\\nsentiment and the fruits of a righteous and lofty spirit.\\nIt was this completion of David s nature that perfected\\nhis greatness in all things. His activity of body and\\nenergy of mind culminated in zeal of soul. His magna-\\nnimity in triumph, his lack of arrogance and false pride,\\nhis hatred of baseness in friend or foe, his sympathy for\\nthe worthy in distress, his generosity, his unfailing grati-\\ntude to his helpers in need, and his respect for all in\\nauthority are but the lesser evidences of his higher char-\\nacter. He had not merely a lofty appreciation of beauty,\\nfitness, righteousness and spirituality, but an earnest\\nlove for them in all things.\\nThus David s Heart controlled his thoughts and\\nactions, and it is the general loveliness, sincerity, upright-\\nness and purity of its impulses that most distinguishes\\nhis career. That which weak or ill-developed men can-\\nnot or will not confess, which reserved men hold to in\\nsilence or which excitable ones declaim without con-\\nsistency, was not merely his attribute as a lover or poet,\\nbut was his living glory and as normal a part of his\\nbeing as his vigor of frame and energy of mind. And it\\nis the warmth, impetuosity and exaltation of feeling he\\nevinced that most endears him, as it does all true genius,\\nto the hearts of men. His heart and its emotions are.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "PREFACE 7\\nindeed, constantly referred to in the Psalms and glorify\\ntheir lang:uag;e throughout, so that we hardly need his\\nopen declarations: I commune with mine own heart\\nWith my whole heart have I sought Thee I will\\npraise the Lord with my whole heart My heart trust-\\neth in him I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength!\\nand many other passages, to prove their inspiration.\\nHow beneficent is the Creator in making this grace of\\nheart, this highest attribute of manhood, free to all\\nhumanity. Comparatively few among the toiling mil-\\nlions of earth have opportunity to eat bountifully of the\\ntree of knowledge, whose fruit, while at times poisonous\\nin its immaturity, is so rich in nutriment when fully\\nripe, but the poorest and most ignorant slave can share\\nwith kings the wisdom of Nature s infallible teachings,\\nthe charms it presents to every sense, the tenderness of\\nlove and a zealous devotion to deity.\\nWith the human sentiment of the Psalmist s heart, in\\nan age when by immemorial and world-wide custom the\\nnumber of wives and concubines was limited only by the\\nextent of man s wealth and power, the Bible narrative\\nespecially associates four women Michal, the daughter\\nof Saul; Abigail, the wife of Nabal; Bathsheba, the wife\\nof Uriah, and Abishag, the Shunammite maiden.\\nDavid s love for these has been taken by the author as\\na theme to illume four periods of his life his youthful\\nvalor and prosperity, his years of persecution and dis-\\ntress, his height of fame and power, and his meek old\\nage, showing both the warmth of his heart for the sex\\nbest embodying all that is beautiful, spiritual and refined\\nand the charm his rare attributes exercised. This ardor\\nof nature, which has ever been both the power and peril\\nof genius, and which is so often shown in impetuous and", "height": "3004", "width": "1966", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "8 PREFACE\\ncovetous passion, diffused susceptibility, sleepless jeal-\\nousy, and intolerance of any opposition, was, in one\\ndefiance of control, the cause of the Psalmist s greatest\\nwoe. Tempted as never before by Bathsheba s complete\\nloveliness, he in a moment of royal arrogance fell from\\nhis higher nature and then desperately committed as\\ndark a crime to save her honor and life. But this excep-\\ntional sin of David s human heart gives occasion, in his\\nabhorrence of his deeds, his penitent self-humiliation, his\\nsublime confession and his patient and faithful endur-\\nance of long and bitter chastisement, for but fuller mani-\\nfestation of its more divine qualities and unites him the\\ncloser to erring and contrite humanity. He has also\\nbeen sternly judged for slaughter in war and for asking\\nin his final days the death of two men he abhorred. But\\nin war he, when not directly commanded to exterminate\\nthe foe, followed often only the general custom of his\\nage for the greater security of his begirt nation in its\\nnew possessions. As to Joab and Shimei, their base,\\nmurderous and treasonable deeds had made them a\\ndanger to his son s reign as to his own and their execu-\\ntion a measure of security.\\nIn the Psalmist s words the heart is deep and in its\\ndepths covetousness, instability, jealousy, intolerance\\nand other evil emotions contend at times terribly for\\nmastery, but David s heart had a range above these and\\nbeyond the tender claims of amatory ardor or poetic\\nsusceptibility. In his perfect love for Jonathan that\\nlove passing the love of women, in his constant zeal\\nfor his beset nation, and, above all, in his ever enthusi-\\nastic adoration, through woe or prosperity and amid\\nthe idolatry of his age, of the righteous, gracious and\\nalmighty one God of heaven and earth, we see the virtue,", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "PREFACE 9\\nhumility and largeness of soul that made him chosen of\\nthe Lord for deeds of undying fame.\\nIt is this supreme part of David s being, this heart\\nboth human and divine dominating all his bodily and\\nmental attributes, that the writer, in hours of leisure\\nfrom his easel during many past years, has found a fasci-\\nnation in endeavoring to express, and the result has been\\nso kindly commended by certain prominent clergymen\\nand authors that he now ventures its requested publica-\\ntion. Realizing fully the height and difficulty of his\\nundertaking, he asks from learned readers all helpful\\ncomment that may make it, in any revision, better\\nworthy of their interest and of general perusal and medi-\\ntation. The work while in dramatic form and in four\\nparts, is extended in many passages and so connected as\\na whole that, in the private reading for which it is\\nintended, not only the sentiments but the principal asso-\\nciations, surrounding circumstances and leading events\\nof David s entire life are offered to fuller view.\\nThough many psalms could be cited, in addition to\\nthose clearly and appositely quoted in the text, and fre-\\nquent notes be appended in evidence of the study\\ninvolved, these will be needless to many readers and, if\\nany oversights in research are discovered, the spirit of\\nthe work at least and all developments of thought and\\naction will be found in conscientious conformity to Bible\\nteaching by every one holding the Old Testament sacred.\\nIn this it may best appeal not only to many denomi-\\nnations, but to differing religions that share the heritage\\nof David s greatness of soul and song.\\nA. G. H.\\nWashington, D. C, September i, 1900.", "height": "3004", "width": "1966", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "The Heart of David, the Psalmist King.\\nDAVID AND MICHAL.\\nDAVID AND ABIGAIL.\\nDAVID AND BATHSHEBA.\\nDAVID AND ABISHAG.", "height": "3004", "width": "1966", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nBOOK I.\\nDAVID AND MICHAL.\\nPart I\\nPart II 50\\nPart III 74\\nPart IV 102\\nPart V 138\\nBOOK II.\\nDAVID AND ABIGAIL.\\nPart I 175\\nPart II 193\\nPart III 209\\nPart IV 224\\nPart V 241\\nBOOK III.\\nDAVID AND BATHSHEBA.\\nPart I 259\\nPart II 271\\nPart III 289\\nPart IV 310\\nPart V 326\\nBOOK IV.\\nDAVID AND ABISHAG.\\nPart I 349\\nPart II 358\\nPart III 368\\nPart IV 379\\nPart V 388", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "BOOK I.\\nDAVID AND MICHAL\\na writing in five parts.\\nFrom ist Samuel; XVI-XVIII Chs.", "height": "3004", "width": "1966", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL.\\nTHE PERSONS WHO ARE SET FORTH IN THIS WRITING.\\nDAVID, Shepherd a^id Captam in the host.\\nSAUL, Kijig of Israel and Judah.\\nJONATHAN, Eldest son of Saul.\\nISHBOSHETH, Youngest son of Saul.\\nABNER, Captain of the host.\\nADRIEL, Officer of Saul.\\nPHALTIEL, Officer of Saul.\\nJESSE, Father of David.\\nELIAB,\\nABINADAB,\\nSHAMMAH.\\nNATHANEEL,\\nRADDAI,\\nOZEM,\\nABISHAI,\\nJOAB, Sons of Zeruiah.\\nASAHEL,\\nGOLIATH, Champion of the Philistines.\\nServants of Saul, Captains and Soldiers, Scribes, Merchants,\\nYouths, Elders, and People of Gibeah.\\nBrethreti of David.\\nMICHAL, Younger daughter of Saul.\\nMERAB, Elder daughter of Saul.\\nAHINOAM, Queen of Israel and Judah.\\nRIZPAH, Concubine of Saul.\\nJESSICA, Wife of Jesse.\\nZERUIAH, Daughter of Jesse.\\nABIGAIL, Second daughter of Jesse.\\nMaid Servants, Singers, and Women of Gibeah.\\nThe Places where these Persons hold discourse are the House\\nof Jesse at Bethlehem, the King s Palace and the Street of\\nGibeah, the Camp of Saul at Elah s Vale and the Camp of\\nDavid.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL.\\nTHE TARTS AND PLACES SET IN ORDER.\\nPART I.\\nPlace I. An Apartment in the Palace at Gibeah. Merab and\\nMichal. Theti Saul, then David, who gaineth Saul s favor\\nby playing on his harp.\\nPlace II. The House c/ Jesse at Bethlehem. Jesse and Jessica,\\nstirrounded by their sons Nathaneel, Raddai and Ozem\\nand their daughters Zeruiah and Abigail atid Zeruiah s\\nsons Abishai, Joab atid Asahel. Jesse discourseth of Beth-\\nlehem and the war. David entereth.\\nPART II.\\nPlace I. The Camp in the Vale of Elah. Eliab, Abinadab,\\nShatnmah and Soldiers. David entering, hcarcth Goliath s\\ndefiance, and is permitted by Saul to fight with him. He\\novercometh Goliath and maketh a covenant with Jonathan.\\nPART III.\\nPlace I. A Street of Gibeah before the Palace. A Multitude of\\nPeople rejoicing. The host and Saul, Jonathan and David\\nreturn in triumph. Women sing the praise of David.\\nPlace II. The Court of the Palace. Enter David, then Michal\\nwho sheweth her favor. Enter Saul with many others.\\nSaul maketh woeful prophecies and terrifieth all. David s\\nlife is sought by him.\\nPART IV.\\nPlace I. A Garden of the Palace. Merab and Adriel. Then\\nSaul, who sendeth for David aiid desireth to espouse Merab\\nto him. David and Merab. Then Michal. Abner and\\nRizpah enter.\\nPlace II. Chief Room of the Palace. Merab is espoused by Saul\\nto Adriel and David, at length, to Michal.\\nPART V.\\nPlace I. David s cavip. His converse with Jonathan. He\\naccepteth a dowry which Saul proposeth.\\nPlace II. David is wedded to Michal.", "height": "3004", "width": "1966", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3004", "width": "1966", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL.\\nPART I.\\nPLACE I. An apartment in the Palace at Gibeah. Merab with\\netnbroidery Michal meditateth.\\nMerab. Thy heart is merry, Michal, let me share\\nThe secret of that inner joyfulness\\nWherein thy lips do overflow their bound.\\nMichal. Why wouldst thou, my sister?\\nMerab. Surely joy\\nIs as a summer perfume from the fields\\nWhich he who willeth should of right partake.\\nMichal. Nay, Merab, joyfulness pertaineth not\\nTo base and lowly men or I should count\\nIts full possession but a little thing-.\\nIt is the sweet frankincense of the proud.\\nThe mig-hty and the beautiful of earth.\\nThe rich and the exalted. At the veil\\nAnd altar of their heart it sanctifies\\nLife s offerings, and those who stand without\\nBut know its precious savor as they serve\\nIts chosen people with humility.\\nMerab. O Michal, thrust this evil spirit out,\\nA maiden who is turned from the pure\\nSincere and meek behavior of her youth\\nBy riches, wedlock s guiles or pomp of power", "height": "3004", "width": "1966", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "18 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nTo arrog^ance of pride and blind conceit,\\nDissimulation, craft and all untruth,\\nWho loveth but the flatterer, g^rantingf none\\nOf hig-her duty aught of reverence.\\nIs evermore a horror to the heart.\\nAh, my fair sister, thou hast, verily,\\nA haug^hty spirit.\\nMichal. I rejoice thereat.\\nMerab. So be it, yet if thou consentest not\\nThat joy, though in unequal lot bestowed,\\nDoth yet belong to all the sons of men,\\nI, peradventure, should no longer plead\\nTo know thy mirthfulness, but rather now\\nSay haughtily, the daughter of King Saul,\\nThine elder sister, doth require thee\\nTo open all the secrets of thy thought\\nUnto her pleasure.\\nMichal. This authority\\nI bow unto with worthy reverence.\\nWhat shall thy servant do, withal, to gain\\nThe riches of thy favor? Verily,\\nGood Merab, I do cherish thee the more\\nThat thou art elder daughter of a king.\\nThan thou dost love thyself.\\nMerab. Then let thy mirth\\nBe ended and no longer hide from me\\nThe joy that giveth thee so glad a face.\\nMichal. Thou knowest it already.\\nMerab. Now dost thou\\nMake sport of me.\\nMichal. Nay, Merab, as I live.\\nFor all the pleasure of my countenance", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 19\\nCame unaware, as I did meditate\\nThat I was kindred unto such as thee.\\nMerab. Now, truly, thou dost mock me, thou shalt see\\nThe day thou wilt bewail so sharp a tongue.\\nMichal. Have patience with me. Surely, I rejoice\\nThat I am also daughter of a king\\nAnd glory in my pride.\\nMerab. Thou mockest me.\\nMy little sister. Such a love as thine.\\nOr as thou feignest, is no living spring.\\nIt is a quiet pool in time of rain\\nWhich by the heat of noontide vanisheth.\\nI am persuaded deeper streams shall flow\\nWhen thou hast woman s heart.\\nMichal. Thou knowest well\\nThat I do love thee, Merab, Yet, in truth,\\nPride only to my pleasure ministered\\nWhen thou didst mark the playing of my lips.\\nAnd is it not a joy to meditate\\nUpon the goodly things about my way?\\nWhat maiden of the Hebrews saving thou.\\nMy well of wisdom, hath a higher place?\\nI stand upon the marble terraces\\nOf an exalted life and, if there be\\nA god of youth, he boweth down to me,\\nSaying I love thee, and he casteth pain\\nAnd every ill of body from my lot\\nAnd saith to peril Come not nigh to her\\nThat this her royal pathway may proclaim\\nI am alone the king of all delight.\\nUnto my vision every goodly thing\\nIs brought which groweth or is fashioned\\nBy cunning artificers. These mine ears", "height": "3004", "width": "1966", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAttend such melody by night and day\\nFrom lute and harp, from psaltery and voice.\\nFrom bird and leaping fountain, that the wound\\nOf silence would be death. The air I breathe\\nIs ladened, when the flowers ask respite\\nFrom living- gift, with their sweet memories\\nMade captive in the east, and spice and gum\\nWhisper of some desire far away;\\nAnd every dainty meat awaiteth me\\nBefore I know of hunger, and my lips\\nDrink mirthful cups of Eshcol s ruddy wine.\\nMerab. Thou art vainglorious, my little one,\\nHave I not greater measure of thy joy?\\nMichal. Ah, Merab, though my years are less than thine.\\nYet am I truly richer than thou art,\\nSeeing that more remaineth unto me\\nOf joyful days to gather fruit so fair.\\nNor do the sea and earth and air alone\\nProvide my youth with choicest offerings.\\nBut to the senses of my spirit come\\nThe richer gifts of men who reverence\\nThe daughter of their king. What silken veil\\nOf Babylon doth wind about my throat\\nWith touch as soft and pleasant as the lips\\nOf serving women when they kiss my feet\\nIn tribute of their poor humility?\\nThe ears of my conceit no less receive\\nFrom every voice of high or low degree\\nExtolling words which, like a multitude\\nOf honey-burdened bees, hive in my heart.\\nThe sight of pride doth in its sky behold\\nA host of gracious or beseeching eyes.\\nCheeks redden in the gladness of my smile", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 21\\nOr pale if I have frowned, and hands grow strong\\nTo overcome, if I behold the strife.\\nMerab. Yet, dost thou lack, O Michal, one delight\\nExceeding all thy pride imagineth\\nAnd past thine understanding utterly.\\nMichal. I pray thee, Merab, of thy wisdom give\\nThis knowledge to me. What hath more delight\\nThan all these sweet possessions of my youth?\\nMerab. The joy of love bestowed when it hath found\\nThe equal gift of one upon its throne.\\nThou knowest only, in thy merry scorn,\\nThe vain abasement of thy worshippers,\\nBut not until in greater blessedness\\nThy maiden bosom trembles, canst thou taste\\nExceeding bliss, though daughter of a king.\\nMichal. And is such joy begotten of thy love\\nFor Adriel, son of Barzillai?\\nNay, surely, for thy visage mocketh thee\\nIn sober meditation which, in vain.\\nThou mayest ofifer those whose hearts are free\\nTo gather rubies in the shining stream,\\nWhile thou dost search a cave in thy desire.\\nMerab. The richest gems lie deepest, such as roll\\nIn wanton lightness where the brook descends\\nAnd give their little virtue to the sight\\nOf any wayfarer, I want them not.\\nWhile in the depth and richness of the love\\nWhich Adriel doth ofifer and partake,\\nThere is a gladness past thy heart s compare.\\nAnd if, perchance, my father s countenance\\nRebuketh joy which dwelleth on the lips\\nAnd waiteth at the eyes, it needs must be\\nBecause the king our father is perverse,", "height": "3004", "width": "1966", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "22 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nTurning: away his face from what I would,\\nWhen it becomes the lamp of my desire.\\nYet, furthermore, I sorrow in the thought\\nThat what he doeth, either here or there,\\nProceedeth not from wisdom s gfovernment\\nBut often cometh from the evil will\\nOf some strangle spirit which possesseth him.\\nMichal. Alas, I share the burden of thy fears\\nConcerning him who, in his better mind.\\nDoth love us both so fondly, but in this\\nHe doeth wisely, Merab, thou shouldst wed\\nSome king who dreadeth Israel, whose will\\nTo seek her favor and whose love for thee\\nShould make thy person precious in his sight\\nAs Sarah was to just Abimelech.\\nMerab. Then, peradventure, thou wouldst cherish me,\\nBeing a queen, with greater reverence.\\nYea, with a fuller joy that I no more\\nStood over thee in Israel s regard.\\nMichal. Thou hast too little pride for envy s care\\nSince thou hast stooped to favor Adriel,\\nYet, were his father that Meholathite\\nThat other Barzillai who is famed\\nIn Gilead, already, for his might\\nAnd great possessions and a liberal soul,\\nI should the less oppose thee in thy choice\\nAnd greet thy spouse, though lacking of a crown.\\nMerab. Thou wouldst be gracious, Michal, yet, in truth,\\nMy Adriel is of an ancient house\\nAnd walketh wisely in the eyes of men.\\nAnd, though our father faileth not to see\\nThe gladness of my face with him I love\\nAnd vexeth him thereat, as he is vexed", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 23\\nAnd troubled in his mind, as thou dost know,\\nAt any Httle thing these latter years,\\nYet doth he suffer my beloved still\\nTo come and go unhindered.\\nMichal. Thou, perchance,\\nMayst weary of his presence, e en as I\\nIn heaviness of spirit do endure\\nThat foolish Phalti, though he ceaseth not.\\nIn feebleness of mind, to boast aloud\\nThroughout the palace and amid the great\\nWho dwell within the walls of Gibeah,\\nThe many generations of his house,\\nWhereof an ancient man, as he hath said,\\nDid counsel Jochebed to secretly\\nConceal the infant Moses on the Nile.\\nAnd after such a manner doth he tell\\nThe great repute his father Laish hath\\nIn Gallim, which none other can gainsay\\nFor ignorance of where the place is hid.\\nA fig for such a spouse who, in despite\\nOf station so presumptuously won.\\nHath naught of higher honor in his deeds.\\nNay, I will not espouse a lesser man\\nThan one who holds a sceptre, or a sword\\nMighty to scatter sceptres, for my pride\\nHath not alone its title in my heart\\nBut in the name of daughter unto Saul\\nWho, since the tribes of Israel were led\\nFrom Egypt forth by wonders manifold,\\nHath been the first anointed as their king.\\nMerab. Behold he cometh. May it please the Lord\\nAbove all royal glory to provide\\nThe reigning of a father s tenderness.\\n3", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "24 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAlas! I see his countenance and know\\nThat my petition is already vain.\\n[,Saul entereth with a troubled face and carry eth a javelin.\\nAttenda7its follow after him.l\\nSaul. Is there no place ye shall not follow me\\nOr am I but a wounded beast pursued\\nBy vultures till I fall? Go ye your way\\nAnd give me peaceful respite in my house.\\n\\\\_Attenda7its go forth.\\nAh! silly daug hters, wherefore are ye here?\\nWhat idleness is this which wasteth days?\\nYe peradventure think, as by the chance\\nOf birth ye are begotten by a king-,\\nThat slothfulness hath won a royal grace.\\nWhat do ye? Wist ye aught that ye have said\\nIn multiplying words and foolish tales?\\nOr shall I now mistrust that in your thought\\nYe hold me not in honor and in fear?\\nMerab. I pray thee, O my father, do not look\\nUpon us with such wrathful countenance.\\nWe, of a verity, did speak of thee.\\nYet only in desire of thy love\\nWhich, even now, the words upon thy lips\\nDo witness hath forsaken us too long.\\nSaul. Have I then spoken of ye any ill?\\nMichal. Assuredly thy speech hath smitten us\\nWith great reproach and scofifing.\\nSaul. Do not heed,\\nMy daughters, all my foolish utterance\\nOr gather up against me in your minds\\nThe tares begotten of a troubled soul.\\nYe are as goodly fountains in my courts", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 25\\nWhich yield sweet waters when ye keep the faith\\nAnd duty which ye owe me. But, beware,\\nLest ye betray the fulness of my grace.\\n[_A Servant enter eth.\\nWherefore dost thou return again to me?\\nServant. My lord the king, thy servant asketh leave\\nTo speak to thee. The king remembereth\\nThat, certain days ago, his spirit sank\\nWithin him and his countenance was changed.\\nWhereat, with all the love I bear to him,\\nI was so bold of speech that I did say\\nBehold, an evil spirit troubleth thee\\nWhich God hath sent. Let now our lord command\\nThy servants which attend before thy face\\nTo, wheresoe er they may, seek out a man\\nWho is a cunning player on an harp.\\nAnd it shall come to pass, when yet again\\nThe evil is upon thee, sent from God,\\nHe with his hand shall play and, at the sound,\\nThou shalt be well. Then didst thou say to us\\nProvide me now a man that can play well\\nAnd bring him to me. Whereupon replied\\nOne of thy servants of Judean birth.\\nSaying, Behold! I, even I, have seen\\nA son of Jesse, the Bethlehemite,\\nThe keeper of his flock upon the hills,\\nWho hath, as all men know, a cunning hand\\nIn playing, is a mighty valiant man,\\nA man of war and prudent in his speech\\nAnd hath a comely person, and the Lord\\nIs with him. Upon this thou didst command\\nThy messengers to Jesse with the words", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "26 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nSend to me David who is with the sheep.\\nThy servants tarried not to do thy will,\\nAnd now, behold, the lad whom thou dost seek\\nStandeth without.\\nSaul. Bid him come in to me.\\n\\\\The Servant bj ingeth David before Said.\\nArt thou a son of Jesse who is known\\nTo good report in ancient Bethlehem?\\nDavid. I am, my lord the king-, the youngest son\\nOf this thy servant who doth send to thee,\\nIn humble token of obedient love.\\nSome bread and wine together with a kid\\nAs offerings for favor of the Lord.\\nSaul. No gift which telleth of a faithful house\\nIs humble to the king. Art thou the lad\\nWhich hath a cunning hand to play the harp.\\nAs one within my court doth testify?\\nDavid. I play, my king, full often, but my hand\\nHath won no other cunning than is taught\\nTo me by deep desire of my heart\\nFor some exalted language, pure and sweet\\nBeyond the rude expression of the tongue.\\nSaul. Thy hand shall strive henceforth, if so it may,\\nTo teach this language to a troubled breast\\nSorely distressed by some evil thing\\nThat hath a secret door to enter it.\\nSlaying the watch and making every strong\\nAnd trusted weapon of its ruler vain.\\nDavid. If thou, my king, hast any cherished friend\\nIn such a woeful case, thy servant s harp\\nWill minister its little to his pain\\nAnd, peradventure, since its melodies", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 37\\nHave given cheer to shepherds in the night\\nOn Judah s hills and solace to the grief\\nOf some in Bethlehem who mourned their dead,\\nIt may, beneath the spirit of the Lord,\\nUplift the heart which thou dost think upon\\nFrom its captivity to secret foes.\\nSaul. My witless lad, what cherished friend have I\\nIn all the earth Since I am crowned king,\\nNo man would dare nor would they suffer him\\nTo give the sorrow of his heart to me.\\nWoe seeketh charity or equal lot.\\nMy majesty doth bar the path of love;\\nI have but subjects now, no friends remain.\\nDavid. Then, O my lord, perchance some child of thine\\nMay, through the ministration of my hand.\\nBe comforted by music s healing sound.\\nSaul. Nay, David, thou dost wander from my thought;\\nMy sons are in the tents of Israel\\nTo study strife, which is the lot of kings,\\nAnd bow to might in lack of love s command;\\nMy daughters are these maidens we behold\\nIn pleasant ease, the dial of their years\\nBeing so lighted by the mid-day sun\\nOf royal blessing, tarrying beyond\\nThe shining witness granted Joshua,\\nThat not a shadow yet hath crept about\\nThe circle of their idle golden hours.\\nThey only know the weariness of rest\\nAnd, while the earth doth labor, thus recline\\nUpon their silken couches as the young\\nOf Egypt s sacred birds in golden bonds.\\nAcquainted but with rich captivity.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "28 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nDavid. And can it be, my gracious lord the king,\\nThat any soul, begotten to the joy\\nOf palaces, to honor at their feasts,\\nTo curtained pillows and the g-arnished wealth\\nOf chiefest rooms, to these embroidered robes,\\nTo guarded courts and quick authority.\\nMay yet conceive of weariness or care?\\nSazd.s O youth, thou knowest not the heart of man.\\nIt is a polished shield in which his eyes\\nSee nothing of the good of present days\\nThroug-h yearning: for the future or the past\\nWhich it portrayeth and, in looking long.\\nForget its use to guard his breast secure.\\nBehold thy king-. Thou seest me a man\\nWho, from the shoulders up, doth overtop\\nThe stature of his people. If it be\\nThat God proclaimeth not, in every wise.\\nThat He hath shapen me to wear a crown\\nAnd guard it mightily, the hands of men\\nHave given token in these purple robes\\nThat I am set above them to command.\\nAs is their manner, lest it come to pass\\nThat God should not create unto their mind\\nThe creature of their choice. Thus in thine eyes\\nI twofold am a king, and, in the vain\\nImagination of thy youthful heart,\\nI wear a double diadem of joy.\\nAlas, fair shepherd, thus the simple thought\\nSpringeth where er the vision leadeth it\\nAs doth a captive dove which knoweth not\\nIts wings are shortened and which fluttereth\\nConfounded to the earth. Behold, O youth.\\nThe troubled breast whereof I spake to thee", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 29\\nIs even mine, and all thou countest choice\\nAnd goodly in my palace, which is yet\\nBut mockery to Gaza s scornful eyes,\\nAnd all thou seest of obedience.\\nOf trembling- slaves and faithless hirelings,\\nOf lowly salutations in the courts\\nAnd in the highways, pomps of fighting men\\nAnd trailing robes of seers all this is vain\\nTo give me consolation here within.\\nWherefore I bid thee play upon thine harp\\nThat I may prove thy skill.\\nDavid. My lord the king,\\nI hasten to obey thy royal will,\\nBut, as the harp remaineth with my sack,\\nBeside the gate, I go to fetch it thence.\\n\\\\_David goeth forth.\\nSaul. What think ye, gentle daughters, of the youth?\\nMichal. He hath a goodly countenance to see,\\nBeyond his humble sort.\\nMerab. Aye, verily,\\nI know no man of greater comeliness\\nO father, save thyself.\\nSaul. And dost thou make\\nComparison of me with husbandmen?\\nMerab. Let not my words provoke thee, for I count.\\nAs all men do, thy face the goodliest\\nOf Israel and Judah, but I give\\nThe praises meet for God s high handiwork\\nAlthough His skill hath wrought but common clay.\\nFor, surely, is the youth of better grace\\nThan any in thy courts.\\nMichal. Than all but one.\\nSaid. Doth Merab love?", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "30 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nMerab. My father, heed her not.\\nIt is sufficient that I do not know\\nA comeher, save thou, in Gibeah,\\nHowbeit there are some so faithful here\\nAnd full of gentleness that I esteem\\nTheir countenance above a chosen host\\nOf ruddy shepherds such as this of thine.\\nGive him to Michal who hath made no choice.\\nMichal. I thank thee, Merab, but I have no flock\\nWhich he might tend, save certain silly men\\nWho do beset my path and weary me\\nWith flattery and idleness of speech.\\nOf other watchful servants lack I none.\\nSaul. My haughty child, what if it were thy lot\\nTo wed a shepherd?\\nMichal. Of a verity.\\nThou mockest m.e, my father, thou dost know\\nThe comeliest of men could never loose\\nThe girdle of my pride, save he were king\\nOr vanquisher of kings. Aye, thou dost smile\\nAnd I interpret all within thy heart.\\nFor thou, the valiant and exalted head\\nOf Israel and Judah, thou the son\\nOf mighty Kish who ruled in Benjamin,\\nThe son of Abiel, of Zeror son,\\nAnd others many; thou wouldst suffer not\\nThy daughter, did she wish it, to forget\\nThe honor of thy house and of thy crown.\\nAnd, lo, I am no whit less proud than thou.\\nSaul. Thy words befit a child of Saul begot.\\nAye, truly am I king and do defy\\nThis ancient prophet Samuel who fain.\\nIn all the arrogancy of his years,", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 31\\nWould raise his voice against me. Who is he,\\nThat he should fashion king:doms at his will\\nAnd threaten by the Lord to cast me out\\nAs he were Moses come to life again?\\nThe rather should I curse his hoary head\\nAnd smite him for his lying prophecies,\\nAnd thrust him from our borders that, henceforth,\\nNo man in Israel may fear him more.\\nMichal. I pray thee, O my father, turn aside\\nThy wrath. Behold, the youth approacheth us\\nAnd it were wise to hide thine enmity,\\n\\\\David entereth?!,\\nThou hast thy harp, O David, let thy hand\\nGive excellent assurance of its skill,\\nFor now the time hath come wherein the soul\\nOf Saul, the king, is troubled and hath need\\nOf all thy cunning. Play and tarry not.\\n\\\\_Da V id p layeth\\nSaid. This is sweet music, it is passing sweet,\\nDelighting all my soul. I seem to see,\\nAs thou dost play, green branches spreading forth\\nLike branches of the almond and the vine\\nAbout thy harp and ever growing strong.\\nAnd climbing on the carving of the walls\\nAnd up the pillars, putting forth their buds\\nAnd blossoming, and every cluster there\\nOf virgin blossoms hath a different hue,\\nAll gladdening the eyes, and ever thus\\nSweet blossom joining blossom until thou\\nAnd these fair maidens and their happy king\\nSeem all entangled in the drifting web", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "33 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nOf some bright vision, strange and beautiful,\\nAs evening stars amid a fleecy cloud.\\nDavid. My heart rejoiceth in the fuller joy\\nOf God s anointed and his gathered peace.\\nSaul. Aye, thou hast smitten that within my breast\\nWhich troubled me. Lo, it hath fled away\\nAnd I arise refreshed and am well.\\nThou shall abide with me to drive it hence\\nIf it return to vex me, for my heart\\nIs very favorable unto thee\\nTo prove the measure of a king s reward.\\nBut tell me of thy life, that I may give\\nBefitting station to thee. Is it so\\nThat thou hast had a part in Israel s v/ars?\\nFor so they say of thee who know thy youth.\\nDavid. My lord, it oftentimes hath come to pass\\nAmid the hills of Judah, that a band\\nOf glorying Philistines hath come up\\nWith purpose to despoil us in a night,\\nWhereat thy servant, being from a child\\nAcquainted with the byways roundabout.\\nHath gathered other sons of Bethlehem\\nAnd led them on the heathen suddenly\\nTo their confusion.\\nSaul. If it so hath been\\nThou art sufficient for a greater war\\nAnd worthy higher station at my side\\nThan harper in my household. Be henceforth\\nMy armor-bearer, known before the host\\nFor days of battle and, unto my soul.\\nSweet harper for assurance of its peace\\nAnd healer of its dark infirmities.\\nLet us go hence, that I appoint for thee", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 33\\nA messenger to seek thy father s house.\\nThus shall he unto Jesse say for me\\nI pray thee, give me David of thy sons\\nTo stand before me, bearer of my shield.\\nFor he hath gained favor in my sight.\\n\\\\_Saul and David go forth.\\nMerab. It seemeth, verily, as if the youth\\nWhose love we held in scorn, hath carried hence\\nNo less a spoil than all the royal heart\\nOur father weigheth out so jealously\\nWhen we beseech his favor.\\nMichal \\\\aside\\\\. It is strange,\\nYet I do marvel less, since I have heard\\nThe cunning of his hand. Can such a skill\\nBe joined to his comeliness of face\\nIn any shepherd? Have my eyes betrayed\\nIn estimating, as the chosen ones\\nOf earth, the youth I see within the court,\\nVainglorious of raiment and of wealth\\nThey gather not, of loud and foolish speech\\nAnd followers of heathen vanities;\\nWhile I am blind to all the goodliness\\nOf those of humble lot? Or is the face,\\nWhich yet abideth in my charmed sight,\\nThe noble visage of some kingdom s heir\\nWho Cometh secretly in mean attire\\nTo know whereof his spies have made report\\nAnd be a hidden messenger of love?\\nMerab. What sayest thou, O Michal, in a voice\\nSo low that scarce thy heart can hear thee speak?\\nArt thou beguiled, also by the skill\\nOf this fair shepherd?", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "34 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nMichal. Merab, hold thy peace.\\nWhat should I have to do with such as he?\\nThou knowest not my pride. The sweetest harp\\nOf all the earth would vainly strive with it.\\nI wait a sceptre or a mighty sword.\\nPLACE II. The roof of Jesse s house at Bethlehem. Jesse and\\nJessica. Their sons Nathatieel, Raddai and Oze^n, their\\ndaughters Zeruiah and Abigail; and Abishai, Joab and\\nAsahel, sons of Zeruiah.\\nJesse. Beloved children, how do I rejoice,\\nWhen thus the cool of day doth end your toil\\nAnd gather you again about my feet.\\nThat weary youth and feeble age may share\\nAn intercourse of bounty to the mind,\\nYe telling that which ye have seen and heard\\nWithout the gates of Bethlehem, and I\\nCommitting to your ears the deeds of men\\nBeyond the gates of your remembrance hid.\\nAnd to your hearts that profitable fruit\\nOf wisdom which doth ever ripen best\\nIn ancient gardens where the soil is fed\\nWith oft decaying hopes and vain desires.\\nNathaneel. Thy life, O father, verily hath been\\nA fair and fruitful garden in the peace\\nAnd meditation Bethlehem bestows\\nTo such as seek a blessing from her hills.\\nTherefore should we thy sons about thee stand\\nAs walls to shelter thee from every blast\\nBearing, as they do bear the ripened fruit,\\nThy mellowed wisdom in our memories\\nUntil our strength is covered by its shade\\nAnd dutiful obedience doth wear\\nThe purple honors of thy trusting love.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 35\\nJesse. Thy words are very grateful to mine ears,\\nNathaneel. Be it mine with leng-thened days,\\nWhen I do talk in fond remembrance oft\\nOf Bethlehem, the ancient Ephrata,\\nThis place which so encompasseth my life,\\nWhose households are as kindred to mine own,\\nWhose elders were companions of my youth,\\nWhose valiant men these feeble arms have held;\\nBe mine to wander not in empty words\\nOr glory in an arrogance of speech\\nAs doth a locust in the noontide sun;\\nThe rather may these lips a harvest yield\\nFor succor in the winter of your need,\\nSuch harvest as, in mightiness of wealth.\\nDid Boaz, father of my father, reap\\nFrom great possessions in the days of peace.\\nNathaneel. So shall our hearts esteem thy counsel true.\\nBut, since thou speakest of the many fields\\nOf Boaz, are they not diminished\\nIn this thy heritage without the walls?\\nJesse. Aye, verily, my son, for grievous wars.\\nThe hard oppression of the Jebusites\\nIn former days, the losses which I knew\\nWhen men did what was right in their own eyes\\nBefore there was a king in Israel;\\nThese things did waste a part of my estate.\\nBut lesser revenue hath come to us\\nFrom lack of men to labor, since the king\\nHath gathered up the people s strength to war.\\nBehold, Eliab and Abinadab\\nAnd Shammah of my sons are with the host\\nAlready, and I know not, day by day,\\nWho yet among ye may remain to me.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "36 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nMoreover, have I lost the helpful toil,\\nGood Zeruiah and sweet Abigail,\\nYe faithful daug-hters of my happy spouse.\\nOf Suri and of Jether who have left\\nYour love and these their children to exchangfe\\nTheir plowshares for the flesh dividing sword.\\nHence is the greater portion of the land\\nWhich Boaz reaped but pasture for the flock\\nThy youngest brother David hath in care.\\nAnd the wide threshing floor, which was a pool,\\nFor all the valley s golden streams of grain,\\nHath wasted more from insufficient use\\nThan from the persecution of the flail\\nAnd dances of our harvest jubilee.\\nJessica. How great a man was Boaz in his day\\nAnd generation! Yesterday at eve.\\nWhen thou didst tell the wisdom of his ways\\nYet once again to Zeruiah s sons,\\nTo Joab here, Abishai, Asahel,\\nI barkened as it had been all unknown\\nSo pleasant and so gracious was the tale,\\nAnd, Jesse, didst thou never see his face?\\nJesse. Alas, my spouse, the heaviness of years\\nWas upon Boaz what time he begat\\nMy father Obed to uplift the name\\nOf Mahlon from the dead. Thereafter soon\\nHe went a ransom for the life he gave\\nAnd Obed scarcely knew his countenance.\\nBut Ruth I well remember in her age,\\nNo longer beautiful, save in the pure\\nEternal loveliness which meekness wears.\\nAnd oft I sought her counsel, often heard\\nOf all the goodly deeds which Boaz wrought,", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 37\\nThe proven excellency of his heart.\\nShe told me, furthermore, of divers things\\nConcerning: our wars of ancient days\\nWhen Judges went about among the tribes\\nTo strengthen them before their heathen foes;\\nAnd yet of Moab, her forsaken land.\\nDid she instruct me, and, when all her years\\nWere measured, did she bless me in the name\\nOf Israel s God, to whom she steadfast clung;\\nWhereby I count the increase of our house\\nAn answer to the voice that Boaz loved.\\nJessica. And wilt thou not make record of her words,\\nMy honored Jesse? Surely to the ear\\nHer tale resembleth music from a lute\\nAt eventide of harvest, when the men\\nHave put their sickles by, when maidens rest\\nBeside their gleanings, and pursuing doves\\nFly to and fro between the vineyard towers.\\nJesse. Thou speakest well, beloved. It is good\\nThat generations yet to come should know\\nThe tale of faithful Ruth and how the Lord\\nDoth recompense the stranger who forsakes\\nHis idols to abide with Israel.\\nThis will I do and, if I lack the skill\\nBy which our seers and cunning scribes have made\\nA record of our journeyings and wars,\\nI, peradventure yet, through simple words,\\nAccording to the manner of our lives.\\nMay aid the soul of Ruth to glean again\\nA fuller sheaf amid the hearts of men\\nThan in the fields of Boaz. Such a task\\nWill give my mind anointing unto peace", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "38 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd thrust the terrors of the war away.\\nBut, now, my children, let mine ears attend\\nYour tidings since the morning sacrifice.\\nThou, Zeruiah, as thy mother s loved\\nAnd helpful daughter, eldest at my side\\nShalt first narrate what thou hast done to-day.\\nZeruiah, Behold, O father, little in reward.\\nFor, with the duties of the house fulfilled,\\nI listened to the pleadings of my sons,\\nJoab, Abishai and fleet Asahel,\\nGoing with them between thy barley fields\\nAnd onward, they disporting by the way\\nLike kids about their dam, until we came\\nTo Rachel s grave, as oftentimes before,\\nAnd by the pillar Jacob set thereon\\nI paused in meditation of the dead.\\nJesse. The bitter cry of Rachel at her end\\nHath been a fruitful prophecy of woe,\\nFor of her seed is little Benjamin\\nWho giveth to the land her stubborn king.\\nThe tribe diminished, as ye may have heard,\\nBefore the days of Boaz by the sword\\nOf Israel, in judgment of their sin.\\nWhen Gibeah, perversely proud, withheld\\nHer children of Belial who had wrought\\nAbomination in the woman s death\\nWhom Bethlehem to that sad Levite gave.\\nWherefore the Lord did purpose to destroy\\nThe land in its iniquity and she.\\nThe sinner sacrificed to sin more vile,\\nWho, living, led no man save in the night.\\nDid by her severed flesh call forth a host\\nTo make the grief of Bethlehem their own", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 39\\nAnd purify compassion in the blood\\nOf Gibeah, cast out and desolate.\\nNathaneel. The woman s end was righteous punish-\\nment\\nFor all her evil deeds.\\nJesse. Nay, O my son,\\nReproach her not too hardly, lest thy sword\\nShould smite its keeper. Such an evil name\\nDid Rahab bear who gave to Boaz birth\\nHaving, by timely favor to the spies,\\nSurvived with all her house in Jericho\\nAnd dwelt secure and wed in Israel.\\nRaddai. Did not the Levite thou hast spoken of\\nCome to our gates from distant Ephraim,\\nWhat brought him hither, thinkest thou?\\nJesse. Perchance,\\nHe at the first but rested on his way\\nTo ancient Hebron, which, as thou dost know.\\nIs city of the Levites by our laws.\\nAnd, meeting with a maiden young and fair\\nOf countenance, whose father s gracious words\\nCommended her, he lingered and he loved.\\nYet, if thou hast with due attention read\\nThose precious scrolls the prophet Samuel\\nGave unto David when he came to us.\\nThou shalt remember that in olden days\\nLevites must needs have dwelt in Bethlehem,\\nFor even out of this our city went\\nThat Levite Jonathan who lived a priest\\nIn Micah s house at Ephraim and thence\\nDeparted with the Danites for their land.\\nBut do not further let my ancient tales\\nOf Bethlehem keep all your voices mute\\n4", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "40 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd make you weary of a father s tongue.\\nWhat hast thou done, sweet Abigail, to-day?\\nAbigail. My toil hath been but what my willing hands\\nHave found to do, good father, in the house,\\nThose duties which, among the sons of men,\\nAre void of reputation, yet provide\\nThe comfort of the earth; those daily tasks\\nWhich, like the stitches of our raiment, gain\\nNo commendation while they hold secure,\\nWorthy before the cunning broidery\\nOf king s apparel in the strain of life.\\nBut are accursed when at length they yield.\\nMoreover have I labored with the lads\\nIn plucking wool brought unto us at eve\\nBy David s shearers from thy burdened flock.\\nThis, with the former portion, shall be spread\\nTo-morrow on the housetop to the sun,\\nThat it be dry against the market day.\\nJesse. I would that all had toiled as faithfully.\\nNathaneel, hast thou aught that I may hear\\nNathaneel. My father, Jesse, there is no new thing\\nTo tell to thee concerning thine estate,\\nBut I have further tidings of the war.\\nFor, lo, at noontide indolently came\\nA caravan of Hittites down the vale\\nReturning unto Hebron and they spake.\\nThe while their camels drank about the well,\\nOf what they heard at fair Jerusalem.\\nThere, in their mighty citadel secure,\\nThe Jebusites were glorying that soon\\nThe strength of Israel should pass away.\\nFor, though the proud Philistines are opposed\\nAt Ephes-Dammim by the host of Saul,", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 41\\nEncamped in Elah s valley to defend\\nThe hills of Judah from the spoiler s hand,\\nIt seemeth that so long a tarrying\\nNigh unto forty days, as we do know,\\nWhile each awaiteth vantage doeth harm\\nTo Israel which hath not treasured up\\nThe needs of equal war and knoweth now\\nThe weariness which multiplieth fears.\\nJesse. Assuredly the battle, which delays\\nIts bloody presence in the straining thought\\nOf mighty captains, soon must come to pass.\\nThen shall the coiled serpents of their dreams\\nStrive in opposing hosts for mastery.\\nAnd woe be unto us if Saul should fail.\\nHow well do I remember when at first\\nI heard the tidings of this bitter war.\\nOne morning as I sat beside the gate\\nAmid the elders, lo there entered in\\nA messenger, breathless, faint from weariness,\\nWho, with the coming of his speech again,\\nDid publish to us that Philistine kings\\nHad taken courage from a score of years\\nTo avenge their mighty slaughter by the hand\\nOf Jonathan, that goodly son of Saul,\\nAt Michmash, and were once again come up\\nIn multitude to battle. Yet they came\\nNo longer by the vales of Benjamin,\\nIn which their thousands perished, but essayed\\nOur borders by the way of Shaaraim\\nWhich leadeth from the cities of the plain.\\nThen tidings of Philistine warfare spread\\nThroughout the land and all its fighting men\\nWere called unto their king and led in haste", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "43 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nTo guard the western gates of Judah s hills.\\nThereat a terror spread throughout the land,\\nNot only of the heathen, but because\\nThe mind of Saul again was wrought upon\\nBy that dark spirit which possesseth him,\\nWhich men mistrusted would confound the skill\\nOf Abner and the sword of Jonathan\\nAnd bring us into bondage as of old.\\nThis trouble of the king, as ye do know.\\nAnd all the evil ways of Gibeah,\\nWere ever burdens unto David s heart\\nWhich sank within him and, although awhile\\nThe playing of his harp gave peace to Saul,\\nYet, when he wearied and I had a need\\nOf David for the sheep, then was he glad\\nTo make exchange of royal vanities\\nFor this his humble life on Judah s hills.\\nAlas poor Judah, now thy peaceful land\\nShall know the desolation and the grief\\nOf raging war. The Lord of hosts defend\\nThy households from the foe, thy fruitful fields\\nFrom the destroyer and thy altars pure\\nFrom Baal s desecrating sacrifice.\\nHencefor\\\\vard may the God of Joshua\\nBe Lord in equal measure of the king\\nAnd guide his understanding to the hurt\\nOf all who rise against us, lifting up\\nThe sword of Jonathan to smite again\\nThe heathen that their numbers melt away.\\nOzem. If there be war, then shall our brethren fight\\nAnd proud Eliab, valiant and strong.\\nWill bring us goodly spoil from heathen tents.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 43\\nJesse. Rather, my son, be glad if from the strife\\nThy brethren come in triumph unto us.\\nUnharmed as when they hastened to the host,\\nSince riches are but dearly bought in blood.\\nAnd let us send, that we may comfort them,\\nSome token of our love, and furthermore.\\nUnto their captain such remembrance due\\nAs may obtain his favor and his care.\\nIf aught befall them in the battle s rage.\\nIf this be done, it asks no tarrying.\\nAnd one of ye, my sons, must serve my will.\\nRaddai. O father Jesse, let me be thy choice.\\nNathaneei Nay, father, I am eldest born of these\\nWho yet remain beside thee, let me go,\\nFor in the peril of my journey thence\\nI better can dispute unruly men.\\nJesse. For this same cause I need thee near at hand\\nAnd all my sons who know the daily toil\\nAbout my fields and vineyards, which do lack\\nSufficient husbandmen to reap in haste\\nIf Saul require grain to feed the host,\\nOr to remove, upon an evil day.\\nOur harvest from the spoiling of the foe.\\nIt seemeth best to send our youngest born,\\nFor David s flock is so diminished\\nBy what we have already sent the king\\nThat any lad may tend them, and my son\\nHath strength of arm and a courageous heart\\nBeyond his years. To David will I trust\\nThis service to his brethren in the camp.\\nAnd, since the king doth know him, he, perchance,\\nMay gain them some promotion in the host.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "44 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nJessica. But Jesse, since the prophet Samuel\\nHath wrought for us so marvelous a thing\\nAs he hath done in leading David forth,\\nOf all the seed of Israel, for his hand\\nTo sanctify with God s anointing oil\\nSince such a blessing crowns our youngest born.\\nWilt thou again send outward from thy face\\nThe beauty of his presence to withstand\\nThe violence of enemies, the harm\\nWhich, even in the host of Saul, may come\\nFrom evil arrogance of brutish men,\\nWilt thou submit him to the deadly spear\\nOf secret foes who linger in the land.\\nLying in wait for men at lonely ways.\\nOr have him know, if God is wroth with Saul,\\nThe terrors of a stricken host in flight?\\nJesse. Yea. I will send our David to the camp.\\nIf God so much hath loved him. He will guard\\nThis comfort of our age with surer care\\nFrom every ill thou fearest, and, although\\nHis first departure from us came to naught.\\nThe Lord, perchance, will manifest His might\\nAnd purpose in the blessing Samuel gave,\\nBy leading David forth a second time\\nFrom this our humble life in Bethlehem\\nTo more exalted place in Israel\\nThan he hath found by playing to the king.\\nJessica. But, inasmuch as God hath caught away\\nOur seventh son since Samuel came to us,\\nMy soul doth cleave the more exceedingly\\nTo this our youngest born. O spare the lad\\nWhy will ye yet again direct his feet", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 45\\nAmid the snares of pride from Vv hich his soul\\nHath once, in all its meekness, made escape?\\nJesse. I pray thee cease, my ears in vain attend\\nOr it is David s step upon the street.\\n{David entereth.]\\nMy greeting to thee David, my beloved.\\nDavid. My salutations unto thee and all.\\nJesse. Hast thou not tarried somewhat in the way\\nBeyond thy wont, my David I am loth\\nTo lose thy presence here at eventide.\\nDavid. Thy love hath reckoned justly, yet I plead\\nSufficient cause that I did stay so long.\\nThis I will set in order for thine ear.\\nYet first, if thou hast water from the well\\nBeside the gate, that sweetest well of all,\\nGive me to drink, for I am sore athirst.\\nAnd I will wait a little space for food\\nAnd washing of my feet.\\n[They give David wafer to drink.\\nJesse. Speak on, my son.\\nDavid. Scarce was the dawn above the eastern hills,\\nWhen I awoke from sleep and bid the lad\\nWho, as thou knowest, hath his part with me,\\nIn watching o er the flock throughout the night,\\nTo go his way. Then followed in my path\\nA thousand eager feet in southward course\\nAlong the rocky heights and as the light\\nSprang joyful onward from the radiant east\\nTo break the purple shadows of the hills\\nAnd spread on grassy slopes to drink the dew,\\nSo spread my sheep in quest of sweeter food,\\nOr came to me in answer to their names.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "46 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nOr, at the admonition of my dogs,\\nDid gather closer, trembling in alarm,\\nLike bubbles mid the whirling of a stream.\\nThus did I go before them, now upheld\\nIn body by the shepherd s staff I bore,\\nAnd now in spirit by my joyful harp,\\nPraising the gracious Maker of the light\\nUntil there seemed an angel host above\\nThe hills of Bethlehem to share my song.\\nAt length I came, before the sun was high.\\nTo Etam, yet I sought not to go down\\nInto the village but, erewhile my flock\\nLay on the hillside, watched by one I knew\\nWho also kept his sheep, I gat me up\\nInto the fastnesses of that great rock\\nWhich, like a soldier s bruised helmet, sits\\nUpon the mountain top defiantly.\\nThere mighty Samson found a hiding place,\\nAs well ye know, to flee Philistine wrath.\\nWhen he had made the foxes messengers\\nOf fire to their vineyards and their corn\\nAnd smitten his pursuers hip and thigh.\\nJesse. Aye I was one of those three thousand men\\nOf Judah who, in fear of all the rage\\nOf the Philistines who oppressed us.\\nAnd knowing not Jehovah s purposes,\\nWent up to Etam and gave Samson bound\\nUnto their host. Aye well I know the rock.\\nThere was the refuge of this Nazarite\\nWho, in despite of all the lusts of strength.\\nWas yet a chosen servant of the Lord\\nAnd guided by His spirit. Tell me more.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 47\\nDavid. Lo, then I thought of Samuel the seer,\\nAlike a judge and purer Nazarite\\nWho followed after Samson and who gave\\nAnointing unto me with holy oil\\nAnd blessing of the Lord and counsel deep\\nAnd strange beyond the power of my mind\\nTo comprehend its wisdom or intent.\\nBut lo as I considered it the more,\\nMy soul sprang up as if from slumbering,\\nIt seemed to shout, Press onward and the Lord\\nWill arm thee in the measure of thy need\\nLike Samson to prevail against an host.\\nIn such like meditation and resolve\\nDid I descend, scarce knowing how I went,\\nTo join my sheep a shepherd once again\\nYet, in my heart, a shepherd nevermore.\\nAs noon was yet to come, I wandered on\\nToward the south, all witless of my flock,\\nSave when their bleating checked my hastening feet.\\nOnce, while I tarried for them, did I lift\\nMy voice and harp in song, but this was stirred\\nBy violence of zeal so new and strange\\nThat soon my hands had snapped the trembling strings\\nLeaving them withes to bind my spirit mute.\\nThen from my girdle, with a fretting hand,\\nI drew my sling and found a foolish joy\\nIn bringing to the dust the unclean birds\\nWhich, ever and anon, with troubled cries\\nCircled the air above me, sorrowing\\nMy presence on the mountain of their rest.\\nAt length by noon I gained Tekoah s hill\\nAnd tarried and I ate with shepherds there.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "48 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd afterwards I went with them to see\\nA mighty cave, whereof they boasted much,\\nHigh in the mountain side.\\nJesse. Assuredly,\\nThe cave thou sawest is Adullam called.\\nDavid. Such is the name thereof and I was glad\\nTo search its cool and darkened ways and gain\\nRefreshment from the heat of outer day\\nAnd quietness for my disturbed soul.\\nBehold, if it should ever be my lot\\nTo flee before a persecutor s wrath,\\nThence would I hasten to abide secure\\nUntil the fury of his rage were spent.\\nJesse. The Lord protect thee, David, from the need\\nOf such a refuge as the conies know,\\nOr wild beasts of the mountain. In a time\\nOf desolation would I rather seek.\\nWith all my house, a refuge in the land\\nOf Moab, asking favor of her king\\nIn memory of Ruth who came from thence\\nTo win the love of Boaz. Hast thou else\\nTo tell us of thy welfare when again\\nThy feet did seek the way to Bethlehem?\\nDavid. Alas, my father, aye. I met a man\\nWho told me he had sojourned in the camp\\nOf Israel, which yet in Elah s vale\\nDoth, for a little, check Philistia s host.\\nBut they are mighty which have now come tip,\\nAnd every one is armed to his choice\\nAnd eateth of the fatness of the plain,\\nWhile Israel and Judah, in the lack", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 49\\nOf equal food or armor, vainly wait\\nFor some advantage to abate their fear.\\nJesse. This have I heard, my son, in Bethlehem s gates\\nAnd, lest thy brethren who do serve the king\\nShould suffer ill from any lack of food,\\nI have determined to send to them\\nUpon the morrow from our humble store,\\nSuch nourishment as best may serve their need.\\nAnd, furthermore, since thou hast been with Saul,\\nAnd mayest gain his favor for my sons,\\nThou art my choice to go unto the camp.\\nDavid. I thank thee, O my father, this exceeds\\nThe fullest expectation of my heart.\\nNow, peradventure, may the Lord provide\\nMy soul a path to bear the unarmed strength\\nOf Samson into battle as mine own\\nNow may the blessing Samuel bestowed\\nMake me a place to serve Jehovah s will,\\nAccepted in the sight of Israel.\\nAnd, father, if I should not soon return?\\nJesse. Thou hast been chosen by the prophet s hand.\\nIf God hath taken, how may I withhold.\\nI bless thee and I give thee to His care.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "PART II.\\nPLACE I. The Camp of Israel by the Vale of Elah. Eliab,\\nAbinadab, Shammah and Soldiers. The Philistine Camp\\nis seen on a mountain beyond.\\nAbinadab. Eliab, dost thou verily believe\\nThe long awaited battle is at hand,\\nOr doth the king but set us in array\\nTo put away the fears which come with sloth\\nAnd make a valiant presence in the sight\\nOf the Philistines\\nEliab. Truly, know I not,\\nFor lo these forty days we stand apart\\nAbove this cursed valley, either host\\nDespising the possession which it hath\\nYet daring nothing more. Our fighting men\\nAre bidden to and fro, aroused at night\\nWhen none assaileth us, and made to toil\\nLike bullocks in the fiery heat of noon.\\nThat we be worthy war s extremity,\\nWhile in humiliation of our strength.\\nThere cometh out before us twice a day\\nThis mighty son of Gath who lifteth up\\nHis voice upon yon mountain to defy\\nThe strength of Israel.\\nShammah. Aye, and to make\\nOf every stripling in Philistine tents\\nA scofifer in the shadow of his shield.\\nAbinadab. Would God, the shout of Saul might now\\nbe heard\\nFrom mountain unto mountain and from off", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 51\\nTheir barren sides shake down the mighty hosts\\nOf Baal and Jehovah as great rocks\\nRent by the frost or flood which, thundering, sHde\\nTo crash together in the vale below.\\nShammah. The king, perchance, hath knowledge of\\nthe foe\\nWhich maketh him take counsel of delay,\\nOr else he tarrieth to mend some need\\nOf fitting weapons or sufficient skill\\nAmid his thousands, which we know not of.\\nEliab. Nay, though our weapons are but gathered\\nspoil\\nOf later wars and in the heathen camp\\nAboundeth all things, what we most do lack\\nIs the example of a valiant king.\\nFor Saul no longer walketh in the strength\\nMy youth beheld a score of years ago\\nWhen these Philistines trembled at his sword\\nAnd Amalek was smitten. Verily,\\nSome trouble wresteth with him, turning back\\nThe courage of his heart before his foes.\\nBut who is this which cometh to the front\\nIn shepherd s raiment, followed by one\\nWho leads a burdened ass? Behold the youth\\nHath strength of stature and a ruddy face.\\nIs it not David?\\nAbinadab. Surely it is he.\\n[David enter eth.]\\nDavid. All hail, beloved brethren, I rejoice\\nTo find ye all unhurt and in the strength\\nOf heaven s keeping.\\nAbinadab. Brother, hail to thee.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "52 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nEliab. Hail, David.\\nShammah. Doth our father Jesse well\\nAnd all the household we have left behind?\\nDavid. All goeth well with them and I do bear\\nTheir loving salutation to your ears,\\nAnd this, moreover, Jesse sendeth you\\nWherewith the ass is burdened, ten fresh loaves.\\nAn ephah, at the least, of parched corn\\nAre your provisions, also have I brought\\nTen goodly cheeses as an offering\\nTo him who leads your thousand.\\n[Confusion among the Soldiers.\\nWhat is this\\nHow cometh such dismay to Israel s host?\\nI thought to see a band of valiant men,\\nAnd these are children.\\nAbinadab. They do flee before\\nThe coming of Goliath.\\nDavid. Who is he.\\nCan these Philistine dogs a Samson breed\\nAbinadab. He overtoppeth Samson.\\nDavid. As the reed\\nMay overtop the thorn tree.\\nAbinadab. Hear me yet.\\nHis height is full six cubits and a span\\nAnd on his head he hath a helm of brass\\nAnd he is armed with a coat of mail\\nWhereof the weight of brass is, by repute,\\nFive thousand shekels. He hath greaves of brass\\nUpon his legs, a target wrought of brass\\nBetween his shoulders. Like a weaver s beam\\nThe staff is of his spear, its iron head", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 53\\nWeighing six hundred shekels, and his shield\\nOne beareth on before him. Even now\\nFrom yonder mountain doth he come again\\nTo shout defiance forth in Elah s vale.\\n[Goliath cntereth beyond.]\\nDavid. Aye, I behold the scoffer who hath dared\\nTo set himself in arms against the Lord.\\nAlas, that such a mighty man should wear\\nThe armor of unrighteousness to strive\\nVainly against the seed of Abraham\\nAnd Saul, the Lord s anointed.\\nShammah. Harken all,\\nGoliath shouteth to us.\\nGoliath. Why are ye\\nCome out to set your battle in array?\\nAm not I a Philistine Are not ye\\nServants of Saul? Choose ye a man for you\\nAnd let him hasten to come down to me.\\nIf he be able now with me to fight\\nAnd kill me, then will we your servants be.\\nBut, if against him I should here prevail\\nAnd kill him, then shall ye henceforth become\\nOur servants, serving us. I do defy\\nThis day the armies of all Israel.\\nChoose ye a man and send him forth to me\\nThat we may fight together.\\nDavid. Who is this\\nThat thus defyeth? Shall the hosts of Saul,\\nThe armies of the God of Joshua,\\nOf Gideon and Samson in his might,\\nBe wanting in a man to smite the pride", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "5i THE HEART OF DAVID\\nOf this Philistine which reproacheth us?\\nStay, men of Judah, wherefore do ye flee?\\n1st Soldier. Have ye not seen this man that is come\\nup?\\nHe Cometh, surely, Israel to defy.\\n2nd Sold. And it shall be that he who killeth him\\nThe king with many treasures will enrich,\\njrJ Sold. And give his daughter to him, and will make\\nHis father s household free in Israel.\\nDavid. What, say ye, shall be done unto the man\\nThat killeth this Philistine and doth take\\nAway reproach from Israel? For who\\nIs this uncircumcised Philistine fool\\nThat he should, in the blindness of his pride,\\nDefy the armies of the living God\\nEliab. And what is this to thee, thou shepherd boy.\\nThat thou dost parley with our fighting men?\\nWhy camest thou down hither and with whom\\nHast left those few sheep in the wilderness?\\nI know thy pride, the naughtiness of thine heart,\\nFor thou art come down that thou mightest see\\nThe battle.\\nDavid. Brother, what have I now done\\nTo be admonished? Is there not a cause\\nIn doing what our father bade me do\\nTo bring thee this provision? Would I else\\nHave tarried by so wearisome a charge\\n[To Soliders.] What, say ye, shall be done unto the man\\nThat killeth this Philistine who defies\\nThe gathered armies of the living God\\n1st Soldier. The king will give great riches unto him\\n2nd Sold. Saul s daughter shall he have to wife.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 55\\nSrd Sold. And more,\\nHis father s household shall be free from tithes\\nAnd honored in the gates of Israel.\\nDavid. If I should do the bidding of my soul\\nAnd, by the blessing of the Lord, prevail,\\nWhat unto me were riches of the king\\nSince I have seen how little joy they share?\\nA gift of that fair daughter I beheld\\nWith foolish eyes when I abode with him,\\nThis striketh nearer to my beating heart\\nAnd shameth all imaginings of hope\\nBy its revealed delight. Yet, doth the dream\\nAbase my soul to covetous desires\\nBefitting not its high endeavor now.\\nWhat said they else The vanquisher shall find\\nHis father s house made free in Israel.\\nAye, this doth in a purer bond unite\\nThe service of my father and my God.\\nThis pledge fulfilled would verily be gift\\nMeet for the love of Jesse, to exalt\\nThe horn of his rejoicing in his years,\\nSupplying, as a harvest after rain,\\nThat latter yearning of the heart of age\\nFor gratitude from those its toil hath reared\\nAnd honored rest when it can strive no more\\nSuch gift would render unto him again\\nThe freedom which his wisdom hath bestowed\\nBy patient teaching and protecting love,\\nWhereby I have escaped the hidden snares\\nOf heathen gods, of indolence and pride,\\nOf envy and contention, and have found\\nFreedom and strength of body in the toil\\n5", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "66 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nOf field and pasture, liberty of mind\\nIn steadfast searc h of what is wise and true\\nAnd mighty to control the hearts of men,\\nAnd freedom of the soul in pure desires\\nFrom meditation of Jehovah s word.\\nThus hath my father s tender love released\\nMy spirit from the evil tithes of youth,\\nAnd, God assisting me, he shall be free\\nIn feeble age from every tithe to care.\\n[Saul, Jonathan, Abner, Adriel, Phaltiel, Ishbosheth and\\nArmor Bearers enter.\\nBehold the king. How doth his noble soul\\nWage with some evil spirit fiercer strife\\nThan doth his arm against Philistine foes.\\nMy countenance may cheer his heart again\\nAnd gain me grace to do the thing I would.\\nSaul. Is there no man in all mine armed host\\nTo raise the sword for this blasphemer s woe.\\nWho, during forty days in Elah s vale,\\nHath lifted up his voice to Israel s shame?\\nThis boaster is a poison to my blood\\nAnd bitterness of spirit.\\nJonathan. Give me leave,\\nI pray thee, O my father, to go forth\\nAnd strive with him. Perchance a swift assault\\nWould give me vantage of his mighty spear.\\nDavid. This, of a surety, is Jonathan,\\nWho tarried ever faithful in the camp\\nW hen I was with the king in Gibeah.\\nI thank the Lord that now mine eyes have seen\\nThe face of him who by his single arm\\nAt Michmash wrought confusion to our foes.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 57\\nHow valiant is this prince of Israel.\\nMy heart already cleaveth unto him,\\nAnd, were I not the heir of Jesse s love,\\nFain would I be his son whom I behold.\\nSaul. How wilt thou yet provoke me, Jonathan\\nDost thou believe the rashness of thy sword\\nAt Geba and at Michmash, when the foe\\nUnwittingly were smitten, will avail\\nAgainst this mighty champion of Gath?\\nJonathan. Thy hand is hard upon me, nor didst thou.\\nMy father, count my life so dear a thing\\nAt Gibeah. Let me be rather slain,\\nIf so it be, by this Philistine foe\\nThan by thy will.\\nSanl. Nay, hear me, O my son.\\nThou art the eldest bom of Israel s king,\\nNor should thy royal blood be vainly shed\\nTo Israel s confusion, for the strife\\nIs terrible of issue. Should mischance\\nBut cast thee for a moment in the dust,\\nThis gazing multitude who cherish thee\\nWould straightway flee in uttermost despair.\\nTherefore I bid thee tarry at my side.\\nDavid [aside]. My arm may yet gain favor with\\nthe king\\nTo smite the pride of this invading host.\\nSaul. Would God that I were mighty to destroy\\nThis boaster, but the hardihood of youth\\nHath left my blood and all the weighty cares\\nOf my disturbed kingdom compass me\\nTo my destruction in so great a strife.\\nO valiant Abner, in thine eyes I see", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "58 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nA better courage, yet thy sealed lips\\nLike striving keepers of unruly men\\nDo justly to withhold thy fruitless prayers,\\nFor thou, beloved uncle, art alike\\nWith me, unfitted by a weight of years\\nTo meet this mighty champion of Gath.\\nThy proven strength, suflEicient to dismay\\nA lesser foe, would here be counted vain.\\nAnd, in thy fall, my spirit would lament\\nThe taking of a higher citadel\\nThan God hath wrought in flesh, for He hath set\\nAn heart within thee goodly as an oak\\nOf Bashan, and a mastery of war\\nAnd wisdom to confound mine enemies\\nAnd all who ofifer counsel from their fears.\\nThou, Phaltiel, art silent. It is well.\\nSuch strife befitteth not so light a frame.\\nAnd, even in his boasting, hath the man\\nOf Gath a greater mightiness than thou.\\nPhaltiel. My lord the king, thy servant doth not lack\\nIn valiant parts, but is of goodly house\\nAnd surely may not go forth to contend\\nWith a rude fellow of no more repute\\nThan cometh of six cubits and a span.\\nSaul. Enough of this. Thou art as delicate\\nIn spirit as in flesh, and, with the host.\\nValor alone hath any dignity.\\nBut Adriel, hast thou no will to serve\\nAnd set thyself against Philistia s boast\\nWhen my fair daughter Merab is reward\\nFor him who vanquisheth? Have I not heard\\nThy lips extol her excellence and crave", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 59\\nThe grace of my compassion for thy heart?\\nAnd wilt thou now with feeble knees proclaim\\nThy love an empty thing when, by repute,\\nThe man who loveth hath no chain of fear\\nAnd worketh miracles to force the way\\nTo his delight?\\nAdriel. Thou speakest grievous words,\\nMy lord the king. I love thy daughter well,\\nAs thou hast testified, and I would strive\\nWith any other foe for this reward\\nAnd brave all peril having hope beyond.\\nBut it were my destruction to contend\\nWith this Goliath in his mightiness\\nAnd weight of armor and surpassing skill\\nDying would rob me not alone of bliss\\nIn Merab s sweet possession, but the joy\\nAnd daily strength of love in which I live.\\nFor sighing love is better than vain death.\\nMoreover, should the land of Israel\\nAgain be brought to bondage through my fall,\\nBarzillai my father and his house\\nAnd all who in Meholah s walls abide,\\nWould weep alike in sorrow and in shame,\\nMy kinsmen being outcast from the land.\\nI cannot go. I am indeed afraid.\\nSaul. And must I look throughout this host in vain\\nFor any one to smite this heathen down\\nWho maketh us a byword in the earth?\\n1st Soldier. My lord the king, tis but a little space\\nThat I did hear a shepherd in the camp\\nDemand What shall be done unto the man\\nWho slayeth this Philistine And he spake", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "60 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nSo boldly that our hearts grew strong again,\\nDreading his scorn above Goliath s voice.\\n2nd Soldier. Behold he talketh with his brethren there.\\nSaul. If there is one bold man amid the host.\\nThough he be shepherd, let him come to me.\\n[Soldiers fetch David.\\n[Aside.] This, verily, is one whose presence lacks\\nBut riper years and strengthening of wars\\nTo make an enemy have fear of him.\\nWhy, shepherd, hast thou wandered from thy flock\\nTo lose thyself amid the wolves of strife?\\nYet do I err, for these are rather sheep\\nWhich flee when yonder dog doth bark at them.\\nDavid [aside]. Alas, already hath the king forgot\\nMy countenance. Thus is it that the poor\\nAnd humble serve to cheer a little space\\nSome mighty one and then, as raiment rent.\\nAre cast away. Yet, peradventure, this\\nMy shepherd s gear, or, on Judean hills,\\nThe burning of the summer sun at noon\\nHath changed the gentle harper of the court\\nIn fine apparel, that he be not known.\\nThe thing is well, I will not speak thereof\\nBut strive in altered face for mightier name.\\nSaid. What aileth thee, thou shepherd? Doth my\\ncrown\\nOr terror of Goliath stay thy tongue?\\nDavid. Neither thy crown, my gracious lord the king.\\nWhom I do reverence, nor yet the dread\\nOf this proud heathen whom I do despise,\\nWithheld my speech, but an infirmity\\nOf meditation which hath passed away.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 61\\nLet no man s spirit fail because of him.\\nBehold, thy servant will go forth and fight\\nWith this Philistine.\\nSaul. Nay, against the man\\nThou surely art not able to go down\\nTo fight with him, for thou art but a youth\\nAnd he a man of warfare from his youth.\\nDavid. Thy servant David kept his father s sheep,\\nAnd there came down a lion and a bear\\nAnd took a lamb out from amid the flock.\\nAnd I went forth and smote the lion down,\\nDelivering the lamb e en from his mouth.\\nAnd when he rose against me, by the beard\\nI caught him, and I smote and slew him there\\nThy servant slew the lion and the bear.\\nAnd this uncircumcised Philistine now\\nShall be as one of them, in that he hath\\nDefied the armies of the living God.\\nThe Lord my God that hath delivered me\\nOut of the lion s paw and from the bear,\\nHe will deliver me out of the hand\\nOf this Philistine.\\nEUah {to his brethren]. Hear ye what he saith.\\nMy brethren? Such a madness can but bring\\nReproach upon our father Jesse s house.\\nLet us depart, ere we do suffer shame.\\nAnd share among us this provision sent\\nBefore Philistine spoilers gain the camp,\\nSaul. Thou art the boldest, surely, in mine host.\\nGo, and the Lord be with thee in thy need.\\nYet thou art lacking armor. Tarry here\\nA little space until they bring to thee", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "62 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nThe harness of thy king, for scarce is less\\nThe breadth of these thy shoulders than mine own,\\nAnd such a valiant heart deserveth guard\\nOf royal breastplate and may quit itself\\nWith higher zeal beneath my helmet s pride.\\n[Men fetch armor and arm David.\\nHow doth each portion of this good defense\\nSeem graven with some history of my wars\\nAnd bloody overthrow of those who stood\\nIn bitter hate a score of years ago,\\nTask masters over fallen Israel.\\nThen had our bands, in all their sorest need.\\nNo weapons save their tools of husbandry,\\nAnd, where we spoiled our fallen enemies,\\nWe gathered up a newer might from death.\\nWhat goodly prize was this strong coat of mail\\nOf one Philistine, who, in his conceit\\nOf equal stature, vainly strove with me;\\nHow humbly did this brazen helmet bow\\nBefore my spear and yonder shield become\\nA laver for the stricken foeman s blood\\nAnd that good sword wherewith they gird the lad\\nAssuredly hath severed Hebrew flesh\\nEre I did teach it sacrifice to God,\\n[David essayeth to go in Saul s armor.\\nDavid. My lord the king, I cannot go with these.\\nTheir burden and their fashion hinder me.\\nAnd this thy sword is stranger to my trust\\nUntil I bear it in a lesser strife.\\nI thank thee, but I have not proven them.\\n[David puts off the armor.\\nBehold this leathern thong. Its simple strength", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 63\\nMy hand so surely guideth to my will\\nThat cunning vultures, flying o er my lambs,\\nHave fallen in sudden anguish by the fold.\\nAnd this good sling, if God shall fight with me,\\nIs all sufficient to abase His foe.\\nBehold thine eyes shall see Jehovah guide\\nThe arm which trusteth in His holy name.\\nSaul. May He defend according to thy word.\\n[David goeth forth.\\nAbner. Wilt thou, O king, not stay the witless youth?\\nThis is not war but rather sacrifice.\\nAnd we shall all be bondsmen by his fall.\\nSaul. Nay, he shall go. Some spirit moveth him.\\nWhose son is this, O Abner, knowest thou?\\nAbner. As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell,\\nSaul. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.\\nJonathan. No soldier, verily, of Israel s host\\nHath greater courage, more exalted zeal\\nThan this young shepherd who doth hasten down\\nTo meet Goliath in his armed strength\\nBy Elah s vale, with but a staff and sling.\\nBehold he stoopeth at yon little brook.\\nDiminished in dread of bloody flow.\\nTo choose him stones for battle. Now, at length,\\nHe lifteth up himself and passeth on\\nBeyond the brook and, watchful, draweth nigh\\nTo the Philistine, who doth still descend,\\nHis shield upheld before him, to await\\nSome chosen champion of Israel.\\nLo, now Goliath gazeth roundabout\\nAs wroth at finding none to strive with him.\\nHe, peradventure, thinketh that the youth", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "64 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nIs some poor shepherd searching for his flock\\nAnd straying witlessly between the hosts.\\nBut now he looketh on him. Harken ye.\\nHow doth the valley measure forth his scorn.\\nGoliath. Am I a dog that thou dost come to me\\nWith staves? May Baalim and Ashtaroth\\nConsume thy vitals with their hidden flame\\nAnd make thee impotent and palsy thee\\nAnd wither up this maiden skin of thine\\nThat women may despise thee and thy gods\\nForsake thee. Come to me and I will give\\nThy flesh unto the fowls of the air,\\nThy bones unto the wild beasts of the field.\\nJonathan. The Lord accurse this champion of Gath\\nAnd, by some wonder of His power, spare\\nThe youth without defense who standeth yet\\nWith marvelous assurance in his course.\\nSaul. Harken, the youth doth also lift his voice.\\nDavid. Thou comest to me with a sword and spear\\nAnd with a shield, but I come down to thee\\nIn name and power of the Lord of hosts,\\nGod of the armies of all Israel,\\nWhom thou hast now defied. This day will He\\nThe Lord, deliver thee into my hand,\\nAnd I will smite thee and take thine head from thee.\\nAnd I will give the carcasses of the host\\nOf the Philistines which are roundabout\\nThis day unto the fowls of the air\\nAnd to the wild beasts of the earth to eat,\\nThat all the nations of the earth may know\\nThere is a living God in Israel,\\nAnd all this great assembly which beholds", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 65\\nShall know the Lord Almighty saveth not\\nWith sword and spear The battle is the Lord s\\nAnd He will give you into our hands.\\nJonathan. Did ever man such great defiance shout.\\nThough hope was wrapped and buried in my breast\\nIt cries from out the tomb. The Lord who gave\\nMy sword at Michmash strength to spread dismay\\nAmid the thousands of our enemies,\\nMay yet add greater glory to His name\\nBy this brave shepherd. Lo, Goliath s spear\\nDoth tremble in his rage, he cometh on\\nAs he would crush the stripling at a blow\\nNor doth the shepherd yet show aught of fear,\\nBut rather hasteneth, aye he doth run\\nToward the scoffing army of our foes\\nTo meet the mighty champion of Gath\\nAs doth an eagle fly into the storm.\\nBehold, his hand doth search within the bag\\nAnd taketh thence a stone. He slingeth it.\\nMay -God protect the youth if he hath failed.\\nNay, see Goliath, as a tower swayeth\\nWhat time the earth doth quake, he bows, he falls\\nWith all his crashing armor to the ground.\\nLet alleluiahs rise. What deed of war\\nExceedeth this the shepherd s hand hath wrought?\\n[Much shouting in the host.\\nSaul. The Lord is with us. Well may Judah shout\\nAt its redemption. Abner, stir thyself.\\nHast thou a trance?\\nAbner. I cannot trust mine eyes.\\nIs great GoHath verily cast down?", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "66 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nSaul. Aye, even as the mighty Dagon fell\\nBefore the captured ark when it was set\\nWithin his temple, so upon his face.\\nIs great Goliath fallen, and behold.\\nSince he may not be broken as the stone\\nOf Dagon s image, lo, the youth doth run\\nAnd stand on the Philistine, and he draweth\\nHis mighty sword out of the sheath thereof\\nAnd slayeth him and cutteth off his head.\\nHarken As thunderings do follow flame\\nFrom heaven, so doth great lament succeed\\nIn yonder host the lightning of the sword\\nWhich endeth all its glory. Tarry not\\nO Abner let thy trumpets sound pursuit.\\nAlready the Philistines flee away.\\nAbner. Thy words are wise, O king. Ye trumpeters\\nBlow loose the eager host of Israel.\\n[Trumpets sound.\\nSaul. And hasten thou, O Jonathan, my son\\nWith these thy shouting thousands, that they slay\\nThe heathen to their borders, letting none\\nEscape to vex the hills of Judah more.\\nJonathan. Nay, let their captains lead my thousands\\nforth,\\nFor, had they staves, our terror-stricken foes\\nWould, on the flood of this adversity,\\nBe scattered utterly. Let others glean\\nAfter the bloody reaping of the lad,\\nSuch easy glory, but I pray thee now.\\nMy father, let me tarry in the camp\\nTo see this shepherd, for he lifteth up k\\nThe bloody head which Gath shall see no more V", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 67\\nAnd Cometh hither. Peradventure God,\\nAs to Manoah and to Gideon,\\nHath sent an angel in a form so fair\\nTo give deliverance to Israel.\\nSaul. Aye, by my soul, for such a mighty deed\\nProceedeth not from any shepherd s heart\\nAnd stranger things than this have come to pass.\\nA terror taketh hold upon my bones.\\nI cannot now, alone, await his face,\\nTarry, then, here beside me, Jonathan,\\nAnd Abner, stay thou also to discern\\nWhat manner of a man the youth may be.\\nAbner. If so thou wilt, my king, but even now\\nThe enemy doth vanish from his camp\\nAs frost at the uprising of the sun.\\nAnd any captain who is wise in war\\nPlanneth not only how to overcome,\\nBut how to turn the moment of success\\nTo best advantage, giving no release\\nFrom terror and confusion to the end.\\nTherefore I leave thee for a little space\\nTo give rejoicing profitable tasks\\nAnd bid a just pursuit until I come.\\n[Great shouting of Soldiers.\\nBehold the shepherd draweth nigh us. Now\\nThe host doth shout his glory to the hills\\nWhich joy with Israel. It is but meet\\nThat I should also go to greet the youth\\nAnd bring him to the gladness of thy praise.\\n[Abner goeth forth speaking zvith his Captains.\\nSaul. And can it be an angel of the Lord\\nApproacheth us?", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "68 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nJonathan. Nay, father, for my zeal\\nBeguiled imagination and the dream\\nIs hard to put aside, but dost thou not\\nRemember, when they sought the lad for thee,\\nHe stood amid his brethren?\\nSaul. Thou hast said,\\nAnd I rejoice thereat, for in my breast\\nRebellious spirits dwell which shun the gaze\\nOf angels, and my fear hath passed away.\\nLo, Abner hath already ordered well\\nA swift pursuit and bringeth at his side\\nThe champion this hour bears to fame.\\n[Abner bringeth David before Saul.\\nAll hail to thee, fair shepherd, who hast wrought\\nDeliverance, by cunning of thy hand,\\nTo Israel and Judah.\\nDavid. Gracious king,\\nWithout the Lord my strength had been in vain,\\nBut He to-day hath made me very bold\\nAnd shielded me in peril and His will\\nGuided the stone I slang that it did smite\\nThe great Philistine in the forehead bare\\nAnd sank into his forehead and he fell.\\nAs thou hast seen, upon his face to earth.\\nBehold his head which showeth in its front\\nA bloody testimony to my words.\\nSaul. This countenance, which scattered hosts in life,\\nHath hardly lesser terror in the blood\\nAnd paleness of its dead malignity.\\nLet it be lifted up amid the camp [To Soldiers.\\nThat all the host may see our chiefest foe\\nAnd, in his fall, gain strength for lesser deeds.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL\\nAnd do ye strip his body of its weight\\nOf brazen armor, this shall be the spoil\\nOf him whose arm hath put our shame away.\\nBear it to yonder tent beside mine own.\\nWhose son art thou, thou valiant young man,\\nAnd by what name may all men honor thee?\\nDavid. I am the son of one in Bethlehem,\\nThy servant Jesse, who hath given me\\nThe name of David.\\nSaul. Truly well beloved\\nTo Israel. And hath he other sons?\\nDavid. My lord the king, I have six brethren,\\nThree being present with thee in the host\\nAnd three abiding yet on Bethlehem s hills.\\nSaul. Then mayest thou continue at my side\\nAnd not return unto thy father s house,\\nFor I have need of courage such as thine\\nTo give me heart for Israel s heaviness.\\nAnd, furthermore, that this which thou hast done\\nHave just reward in all the people s sight,\\nI set thee over these my men of war\\nWho serve beside me and defend their king.\\nWhereof, in all their duty, Jonathan\\nWill give thee knowledge. Now must I depart\\nWith Abner to maintain the swift pursuit\\nOf these accursed heathen of the plain.\\nThese whelps of whom thy hand hath felled the sire.\\nAlready have our thousands passed beyond\\nThe empty tents on yonder mountain side,\\nAnd, lest they tarry soon or turn away\\nFrom greed of spoil, we will go after them.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "70 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nMoreover, I would see with mine own eyes\\nThe ordering of this Philistine camp.\\n[Saul, Abner, Adriel, Phaltiel, Ishhosheth and all\\nAttendants go forth.\\nJonathan. If the king s lips had uttered greater praise,\\nMy heart, O valiant shepherd, yet would find\\nSome language worthy to exalt thee more.\\nMy two score years survey thy mighty youth\\nAs if thou wert a vision quickened\\nOf what my soul did purpose long ago\\nWhen hope accorded all and faith was bold\\nAnd zeal to serve Jehovah and restore\\nHis people from their grievous bonds awoke\\nMy spirit in the night and scourged my days\\nWherefore the Lord was gracious unto me\\nAnd fought with me at Geba mightily,\\nAnd gave to me the love of Israel.\\nThis have I still, but in these latter times\\nI had begun to mourn my heart of youth\\nAs lost forever, and, behold, to-day\\nI find and love it living in thy breast,\\nAnd God hath manifested to my soul\\nIn all the excellency of thy skill.\\nIn faith which bindeth doubt to servitude\\nOf prophecy, in zeal which scorneth fear,\\nThat thou dost wear a glory from on high\\nAnd art appointed to defend with me\\nThe kingdom of my father from its foes.\\nDavid. My lord, thy gracious words do magnify\\nAn hundred fold my worth, I did but serve\\nThe wrathful indignation of my heart\\nIn slaying him who scoffed at Israel", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 71\\nAnd sought to shame the Lord s anointed king,\\nWho, living, made our lives to be despised.\\nJonathan. Yet was there not in camp an armed man\\nBut counted life more precious than the lot\\nOf going down to meet this son of Gath,\\nAnd art thou not more valiant than us all\\nDavid. Thyself didst seek to stand before the spear\\nOf this vain boaster, for with mine own ears\\nI heard thee plead this favor of the king.\\nJonathan. I sought it but as standing in the breach\\nOf Israel s dishonor, to proclaim\\nThat, if we might not overcome our foe.\\nOne, at the least, was not afraid to die.\\nYet, though I spoke without assuring heart,\\nI joy that thou wert nigh to hear my voice\\nFor thus, O son of Jesse, all the love\\nThat knits my soul without a seam to thine\\nHath its response already in thy breast.\\nDavid. My lord, before I saw thee, many years,\\nWhen I was yet a lad in Bethlehem,\\nAnd made inquiry of the former wars\\nWhich troubled Judah in its chosen land\\nAnd little Benjamin upon its hills.\\nMy father Jesse told me, oftentimes,\\nThe wonders that the bow of Jonathan\\nHad wrought amid the foes of Israel\\nWhen thou didst cross the valley secretly,\\nWhere Bozez and where Seneh lift their peaks,\\nAnd climb the hill of Michmash and confound\\nThe craft of the Philistines, until fear\\nSpread like a flame amid their troubled host\\nAnd God did bid the earth to clap her hands\\n6", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "72 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nRejoicing with His people. Thus I knew\\nOf all thy valor and my heart s desire\\nWas that I might behold thee face to face,\\nNot knowing I should yet attain thy love.\\nJonathan. Thou son of Jesse, what may be thy name?\\nDavid. David, my lord.\\nJonathan. Call me no more my lord\\nBut Jonathan and count me in thy heart\\nAn elder brother in the day of peace\\nAnd, when the battle rageth, ever near.\\nDavid. Thy soul is very gracious, Jonathan,\\nWhen most I need an elder brother s love,\\nBut thou shalt see that I do value well\\nThe heart thou givest and my arm shall strive\\nFor thee and thine henceforward faithfully.\\nJonathan. Thy words are good. Let this be covenant\\nBetwixt thy soul and mine as brethren true,\\nThat each may aid the other s righteous cause\\nWith all his strength and steadfastly defend\\nHis body from the foe, his honest name\\nFrom evil persecution of false tongues\\nAnd jealousy of power that in our days\\nOf fainting or of tribulation sore.\\nEach may the other cherish tenderly\\nAnd strive to loose, if in a captive s bonds,\\nAnd, if the one be stricken unto death.\\nThe living shall be kinsman to his seed\\nAnd further let us covenant that life\\nBe given, whether nigh or far apart,\\nTo God s united people, that they dwell\\nUntroubled in the land He giveth them.\\nSo swear we by Jehovah Who doth reign\\nAlone the living God, the King of Kings.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 73\\nDavid. So shall it be, my brother Jonathan,\\nAnd may the Lord be witness to my heart\\nThat it abideth steadfast to my vow\\nThroughout the days which He shall portion me.\\nJonathan. Let this be token, David, unto thee\\nThat I do clothe and arm thee with my love\\nAs now I give thee raiment that I wear.\\nPut off thy shepherd s cloak and take my robe\\nAnd these embroidered vestures which henceforth\\nAdorn thy station as the king hath said.\\nNow bind this girdle on, hang thou my sword\\nBeside thee and accept this faithful bow\\nWhich in the strife of Michmash won thy heart.\\nDavid. Nay, Jonathan, how may I take from thee\\nSo great a gift, despoiling thee of all?\\nJonathan. It is a token. Yonder in my tent\\nAre many garments yet and weapons rare.\\nDavid. But what have I to give thee in exchange\\nThat equaleth thy bounty? I possess\\nOnly a staff and sling to offer thee,\\nYet this Philistine s armor I forgot,\\nWhich is my spoil. It may be worthy thee.\\nJonathan. Nay, keep the armor, give me but thy sling.\\nIt is a royal gift. I ask no more.\\nIt shall proclaim throughout all Israel\\nThat David, son of Jesse, loveth me.\\nDavid. And if it also witness thou dost love\\nThe humble shepherd, shall it not attain\\nA greater glory than its deed to-day?\\nAye, forasmuch as winning such a friend\\nExceedeth slaughter of an host of foes.\\n[David and Jonathan embrace.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "PART III.\\nPLACE I. A Street of Gibeah with Porch of the Palace of Saul\\nMuch people rejoicing.\\n1st Youth. Hail fellow, I salute thee. Surely these\\nAre days wherein the men of Gibeah\\nMay well be merry.\\n2nd Youth. If thou utter not\\nA lesser truth, thou art a righteous man.\\nisf Youth. Nay, by the gods, give no such name to\\nme.\\nThou knowest that my lewdness equals thine.\\n2nd Youth. I thank thee, boy, and what thou lackest\\nyet\\nI shall impart to thee this very night\\nIf rioting sufficeth for our lusts\\nAnd tfiou hast shekels for festivity.\\n1st Youth. Thou art too honest. Wherefore should\\nwe pay\\nFor pleasure when a merchant that I know\\nWho selleth joyous wines and hath within\\nHis house fair daughters, trembleth at my tongue\\nAnd giveth what I will lest I should burn\\nHis vats and make his vineyards desolate?\\n2nd Youth. Then, by the grove of Ashtaroth, I own\\nThou art the better fool, and it is well\\nThou hast a chosen pasture, for to-night\\nThe city will be given to the host.\\nAnd, when our fighting men do break their fast.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 75\\nThere will be merry rioting and rage\\nOf passions we were simple to dispute,\\nLest blood flow out more freely from the wounds\\nOf jealous swords than wanton wine flow in.\\n1st Elder. Good neighbor, thinkest thou the host of\\nSaul\\nWill reach our gates at noontide? Verily\\nMy aged limbs are weary.\\n2nd Elder. It is said\\nThat those upon the towers even now\\nBehold it in the valley drawing nigh,\\n1st Elder. It needs must be, for certain days are spent\\nSince we have had glad tidings of the war,\\nMarveling at the shepherd who hath cleft\\nIn twain the tower of that living wall\\nWhich moved against us.\\n2nd Elder. Now lift up your eyes\\nTo people on the housetops. Is there not\\nUpon their faces, turned to the south\\nThe rising of a sun of joy fulness?\\n1st Merchant. What hath befallen thee that thou art\\nwroth\\nWhen Gibeah rejoiceth? Have a care\\nLest thou art numbered with the Jebusites.\\n2nd Merchant. Nay, I am of the faithful, but I frown\\nTo think of these unprofitable wars\\nWhich waste the land with fire and with sword.\\nAnd make the people poor with grievous tithes,\\nRobbing us of our careful husbandmen\\nTo fill destroying hosts, and putting end\\nTo traffic when we fear to send abroad", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "76 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nOur caravans of merchandise and yield\\nTo Jebusites and Hittites all our gain.\\n1st Merchant. Lo neighbor, this is finished and we\\njoy\\nIn long enduring triumph.\\n2nd Merchant. But, behold,\\nPeace bringeth hither only idleness\\nAnd joyous uproar and my servants all\\nAre in the highways.\\nist Merchant. Thou art not content\\nIn peace or war, but tarry yet awhile\\nUntil the fever of this joy is gone.\\nThose who are wise can profit by the time\\nWhich others waste and, while the people shout\\nAnd wait the night for rioting and wine,\\nLet us, upon the passing of the host,\\nMake ready for a caravan to bear\\nAgain the riches of our land and skill\\nThrough Judah, now delivered of its foes,\\nTo Hebron s gates and Egypt, thence to bring\\nSuch full exchange of goodly merchandise\\nAs shall provide our war-diminished sacks\\nWith shekels overflowing.\\njst Woman. Look beyond.\\nUpon the royal porch there cometh forth\\nThe Queen Ahinoam to wait her lord.\\nHow meek and patient is her countenance\\nAmid its joy.\\n2nd Woman. And mark ye at her side\\nThe gentle Merab and the haughty face\\nOf Michal.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 77\\nist Woman. And beholdest thou, apart\\nFrom these, the lovely Rizpah gazing forth\\nAbove this great and joyful multitude\\nWith dark and searching eyes?\\n2nd Woman. I will be sworn\\nShe thinketh less of Saul than of her sons,\\nThat gentle twain who, in the kingdom s need,\\nForgot their youth to venture war s distress.\\n1st Woman. May God return them to her bosom s\\npeace.\\nMaiden. Have ye a place of vantage here to see\\nThe coming host?\\n2nd Woman. Yea, Rachel, stay with us\\nAnd thou shalt see the king and Jonathan\\nAnd Abner and the mighty captains all.\\nMaiden. But I would see the shepherd who hath slain\\nThat giant of the heathen. All men say\\nThat he is very fair to look upon.\\n1st Youth. Aye, little maiden, thou art not alone,\\nFor, by the hair of Samson, have I heard\\nTo-day a thousand lips as sweet as thine\\nClamor to get a lodgment, though it be\\nAs narrow as a pretty dove might seek\\nBeside a pillar or upon a wall.\\nIf they could but behold the countenance\\nOf this same lusty shepherd we attend.\\n1st Scribe. The host approacheth. Now the people\\nshout\\nUpon the housetops at the southern gate\\nAnd up along the highway as a wave\\nDoth roar upon the salt shore of the sea.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "78 THE HEART OF DAVID\\n2nd Scribe. Aye, what a goodly thing it is to view\\nA nation, from a leprosy of sloth\\nAnd doubt and pride and covetous desire\\nAnd evil doing, rise and cast away\\nThe scales of its pollution, springing forth\\nLike a fair woman blushing with the joy\\nOf long desired love and uttering\\nThe faith of all her being in her song.\\n[Soldiers draw nigh.\\n1st Merchant. Behold, indeed, the forefront of the\\nhost\\nWhich Cometh back rejoicing from its war.\\n[Many Men bearing spoil pass by.\\n2nd Merchant. These, surely, in their portion bear\\nthe spoil\\nOf all that heathen foe the Lord hath slain.\\nHast thou throughout thy days beheld such store\\nOf treasure and apparel, weapons rare\\nAnd jeweled ornaments? One reckoneth\\nIn vain to value them. A thousand times\\nTen thousand shekels would not count the cost\\nOf these Philistine riches.\\nist Merchant. Dost thou now\\nConfess that war is not so great a woe?\\n2nd Merchant. Aye, but the Lord hath blessed a\\nshepherd s skill\\nAnd not a warrior s. Howe er it be.\\nWe shall be fools henceforth if we do fail\\nTo purchase from these fellows in their wine\\nThe choicest of their spoil at half its worth.\\nAnd better far, while yet they thirst for gold.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 79\\njst Merchant. Then let us haste to borrow and secure\\nNot only fourfold bounty but the lack\\nOf shekels to oppose us.\\n[Saul in a chariot passeth amid his Captains.\\n1st Scribe. Turn thine eyes,\\nFor Saul upon a golden chariot,\\nThe gift of death from some Philistine king,\\nApproacheth us amid his fighting men\\nWith royal pride. Do thou regard him well\\nAnd tell me if, beneath his countenance.\\nSome evil hideth not. I never yet\\nHave seen the rainbow of a people s joy\\nUpon so dark a cloud. What thinkest thou\\nMen shouting\\nLet the king live. Saul hath his thousands slain.\\n2nd Scribe. This greeting, verily, should cheer his\\nsoul.\\nMen answer\\nSaul hath his thousands slain. Long live the king.\\n1st Scribe. Yet, as he rideth on in majesty\\nOf stature mid his horsemen, doth his face\\nGive not a token that he harkeneth\\nTo royal salutation.\\n2nd Scribe. Bend thine ear\\nTo those who shout behind him. What is this\\nWhich stirreth them So greatly doth prevail\\nThe tumult of their zeal, I seek in vain\\nTo hear the language of extolling tongues\\nAmid the sound of tabrets and the joy\\nOf diverse instruments. Behold the hands\\nWhich play are hands of women. Verily\\nHath Gibeah made choice of all the fair", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "80 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd lovely of her daughters for the band\\nThat danceth in the way.\\nJ St Scribe. They go to meet\\nThe mighty shepherd David who hath wrought\\nDeliverance to Israel. But hark,\\nNow we do hear them singing as the sound\\nOf silver cymbals mid the roar of men.\\nWomen singing\\nKing Saul hath slain his thousands.\\n1st Scribe. Do ye hear?\\nWomen answering\\nBut David hath his tens of thousands slain.\\nWomen singing\\nAye, Saul hath slain his thousands.\\n2nd Scribe. Let them heed\\nIn such rash words the fury of the king.\\nWomen answering\\nBut David hath his tens of thousands slain.\\nist Scribe. Now do we know the darkness of the\\ncloud\\nSince we are set betwixt it and the sun\\nTo here discern the colors of the bow\\nWhich spanneth all the sky of Israel s pride\\nAnd whispereth the peril of its hope.\\nThe peace of Israel is far away,\\nFor strife within is breeding ere the blood\\nOf heathen foes upon our swords hath dried.\\n1st Elder. Behold, the chariot of Saul doth make\\nAn end of all its journeying from the vale\\nOf Elah, and before the royal house\\nIt stoppeth in the gate.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 81\\n2nd Elder. What is there more?\\nThe multitude doth hide him from mine eyes.\\n1st Elder. The king ascendeth now unto the porch\\nWhere Queen Ahinoam doth hasten forth\\nWith her fair daughters to salute their lord.\\nThey fall upon his bosom. For a space\\nThey cling together in the bonds of joy\\nAs God were minded out of four to mould\\nA new creation.\\n2nd Elder. Would it were the will\\nOf Him who doeth all things, presently\\nTo fashion of the king a wiser man,\\nPartaking thus the patience of his spouse,\\nAnd Merab s duty, Michal s zeal of youth.\\n1st Elder. Alas, thy nice imagination fails\\nFor Saul doth put away his fairer parts\\nAnd taketh on his troubled self again.\\n2nd Elder. And seest thou good Rizpah?\\n1st Elder. Aye, behold.\\nShe boweth down before him and the king\\nSaluteth her and hasteneth within.\\nAnd Abner who hath followed after him,\\nDoth tarry for a space to give her cheer.\\nWomen singing\\nThe king hath slain bis thousands of the foe.\\nWomen answering\\nBut David hath his tens of thousands slain.\\n1st Youth. A goodly mischief lurketh in the song\\nOf all these comely women.\\n2nd Youth. Nothing more\\nIs lacking to assure us merry nights.\\nThat Belial may roar, for now the king", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "82 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nWill wink at violence and these fair maids\\nAnd matrons who have mocked him in their song\\nAnd feigned desire often in the dance,\\nDefying us behind their dignities,\\nShall now, like Shiloh s maidens when the men\\nOf Benjamin, our fathers, lay in wait\\nAnd bore them ofif in eagerness of lust,\\nCry out in vain, when we do break their doors,\\nFor any to defend their comeliness.\\njst Youth. I shall be with thee then, but hold thy\\npeace\\nAnd let us see this David who hath won\\nThe favor of our women and is nigh.\\nOr I will nevermore believe my ears,\\n2nd Youth. And what is this a servant of the king\\nDoth bear before him?\\n1st Youth. By the mighty horn\\nOf Joshua, it is Goliath s head.\\nThat giant out of Gath, as thou hast heard,\\nWhom David slew. How horrible to see.\\nAnd these who follow after do divide\\nThe burden of his armor as they may.\\nBehold the spear two weary servants bear\\nUpon their shoulders. See the weight of brass\\nIn shield and shining breastplate, in the greaves\\nAnd, yonder, in the folded coat of mail,\\nAnd in the bloody helmet of the dead.\\nBut look ye at the measure of his sword\\nLo, I am fain to shout with women now\\nIn honor of this shepherd who hath met\\nAnd vanquished such a foe.\\n2nd Youth. But, by report,\\nHe is as righteous as the ancient seer.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 83\\n1st Youth. I care not what he be, but being thus,\\nThere may be something strong in righteousness\\nAnd I will, notwithstanding, shout for him.\\n[David and Jonathan enter.]\\n1st Woman. This, verily is David. This is he.\\nO dost thou mark him, Rachel, hath he not\\nThe presence and the glory of a king?\\nMaiden. Let me behold him. He is good to see\\nBeyond the expectation of mine eyes.\\nHe walketh in the spirit and the might\\nOf one who overcometh.\\n2nd Woman. Yet his face\\nBetokeneth no foolishness of pride\\nOr boasting in the tumult of his praise.\\njst Woman. Nay, rather doth the prince of Israel s\\nheart.\\nBeloved Jonathan, who at the side\\nOf David goeth, in his praise rejoice,\\nWearing the countenance of victory\\nIn honor of the shepherd who hath kept\\nThe perfect meekness of a mighty soul.\\n2nd Woman. It hath been said to-day that, while the\\nhost\\nStood in the terror of Goliath s scorn,\\nThat Saul did promise unto any man\\nWho overcame the champion of Gath,\\nAbundant riches, adding thereunto\\nThe royal favor of his daughter s hand.\\nMaiden [aside]. Would that I were a daughter of the\\nking\\nOr that, a moon ago, had entered\\nInto my bosom some familiar shape\\nOf divination to direct my feet", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "84 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nUnto the pastures of Judean hills\\nWhereon I might have sought this shepherd out\\nPleading his care and telling him my love;\\nBut now, O heart, a great sea flows between.\\n1st Woman. Behold, they turn aside from following\\nThe path of all the host to seek the door\\nBetwixt the pillars of the royal house,\\nWhereat attend the servants of the king\\nTo do them reverence and bid them pass\\nUnto the cool delights of marble courts\\nWithin the palace. There awaiteth them,\\nI do adventure, every honor meet\\nFor Israel s deliverer and joy\\nWhich all the love of Saul and of his house\\nCan lend unto the sweetness of repose.\\nWomen singing\\nKing Saul hath slain his thousands.\\n1st Scribe. Yet again\\nThe women sing and none reproacheth them.\\nWomen answering\\nBut David hath his tens of thousands slain.\\n2nd Scribe. Let it sing on, that company so fair,\\nExtolling him who resteth in the gates\\nOf Gibeah, the jubilant and strong,\\nA captain over all its mighty men\\nFor not alone his valor hath cast down\\nThe boast of Gath, the strength of Ashkelon,\\nDelivering our borders from their hand\\nAnd teaching them the bitterness of death,\\nBut, in the mighty act which he hath done.\\nThe daughters of our people are redeemed\\nFrom violence of cruel enemies\\nAnd horrible captivity of wars", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 85\\nAye, in a moment, twixt opposing hosts\\nHis mighty arm hath given virtue sleep\\nAnd innocency blessing. Strike your harps\\nYe happy mothers, steadfast in your lives\\nAnd diligent in every goodly thing\\nThat maketh gladness in your house abide,\\nFor, henceforth, ye may leave your sleeping babes\\nWithout a care. Step onward in the dance.\\nYe maidens, though ye nevermore may know\\nThe greatness of the peril overpast\\nLet all your tabrets and your timbrels sound\\nWith such a holy triumph as the voice\\nOf Miriam awakened. Sing ye pure\\nAnd beautiful of Israel, extol\\nThe excellency of the shepherd s heart.\\nFor by his faith your joy is lifted up\\nAnd in his glory is your pathway free.\\nPLACE II. The Court of the Palace of Saul.\\n[David enter eth.\\\\\\nDavid. Yea, It was here that, as a shepherd boy\\nAnd knowing not the craft about a throne,\\nI brought my harp and comforted the king\\nIn vain a little season, it was here\\nI knew the fair princesses of his house\\nBut as an hireling and yet, withal.\\nWhen none had need of me and I returned\\nTo Bethlehem, the haughty face of one\\nWas only what I longed to still behold.\\nI left the court unprofitable, free\\nTo humble life, and now I come again\\nIn bondage to a happy nation s praise\\nAnd mighty expectation. Verily,", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "86 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nIt seemeth passing strange to think upon,\\nYet, had I need of testimony still\\nThat all is not a vision, it is found,\\nFor Saul s proud daughter cometh unto me\\nAnd I shall read my station in her eyes.\\n[Michal and her Handmaidens enter.]\\nMichal. The daughter of the king saluteth thee,\\nThou champion of Judah, and her heart\\nRejoiceth that, upon this radiant day,\\nBefitting morrow for triumphant deeds.\\nHer greeting first succeedeth yonder sun\\nWhich yet hath rendered honor to thee long.\\nDavid. Fair Princess, as thou sayest, I have risen\\nEarly from slumbering, for, since my youth,\\nThe sun hath been companion of my watch\\nAbove my father s flocks and I have known\\nHis waking might and golden indolence,\\nNot as ye on the housetops know his face.\\nBut from the misty pinnacles of hills\\nTherefore I rose to greet him once again\\nIn this fair place where he remembers me\\nAnd, having given salutation fond.\\nHe heraldeth thy coming to mine eyes.\\nMichal. And art thou, mighty David, verily.\\nNone other than the youth who once was fetched\\nTo play upon an harp before the king\\nAnd in his sight found favor and abode\\nA season in the palace?\\nDavid. I am he.\\nMichal. Behold a spirit moved me when I saw\\nThy presence, yesterday, amid the host\\nAnd unto Merab said I, This is one\\nOur eyes have looked upon in other days,", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 87\\nWhereat she pondered and there came to me\\nAssurance of thyself, yet spake I not,\\nResolved to await another hour\\nFor testimony out of thine own mouth\\nTo stablish me, or music from my hand\\nTo make denial of thy person vain.\\nDavid. Fair Princess, there is naught I would conceal,\\nIn triumph, of my youth s humility.\\nRather do I rejoice that thou hast strung\\nAmid the pearls of thy remembrance sweet\\nThis bead of amber, but I ask of thee.\\nSince it appeareth that the mind of Saul\\nHath taken yet no knowledge of my face.\\nThat thou withhold the thing a little while\\nFor me to prove the comfort of my harp\\nAgain before him.\\nMichal. Be it as thou wilt.\\nAnd since the bead of amber hath become\\nSo bright a gem, exceeding all the rest,\\nI shall restring the necklace of my pearls\\nAnd hang its greater glory in their midst.\\nDavid. Tlien shall it nearer to thy bosom wait\\nTo know the inner secrets of thy heart\\nAnd rise with exaltation of thy joy\\nAnd, with thy sighing, fall in heaviness,\\nSharing thy sorrow and, amid thy feasts.\\nTrembling at praise of thee lest, in thy pride,\\nIt may become but amber once again.\\nMichal. Thou knowest, valiant David, I am proud,\\nBut wherefore hast thou cause to trust me not\\nSince thou hast sprung above pride s utmost bound\\nAnd won the love of all in Israel\\nDavid. Thou sayest all?\\n7", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "88 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nMichal. Aye, if I speak for them.\\nDavid. O gracious Princess, I distrust thee not.\\nIt is myself I doubt in daring thus\\nTo wear so soon the speech of lofty place\\nWhence I may fall as speedily, yet here,\\nSince thou dost open all the peaceful fold\\nOf thy young heart, forgive me if I seek\\nWith reverence of one whose faithful arm\\nHath ever guarded gentleness, to pass\\nWithin the gate and take each gracious word,\\nAs if it were a lamb, unto my breast.\\nHow may I tell the fulness of my joy?\\nBehold, when I was yet of little worth\\nTo any man and sat before the king\\nTo play my harp, I saw thee at his side\\nAs one doth from his prison see a star,\\nAnd rather had I thought that, at my will,\\nThe sea would be upHfted as a cloud\\nTo leave the wealth of Sodom at my feet.\\nThat Gerizim should, from its holy height\\nBe cloven to its base to give me spoil\\nOf all the brass and iron in its heart,\\nThan that mine ears should ever know the bliss\\nOf Michal s praise, her favor\\nMichal. Yea, her love,\\nIf royal place compelleth me to lead\\nThy speech to what I would, to teach aloud\\nWhat thou hast taught in silence hitherto,\\nBut which, henceforth, the freedom of my tongue\\nDoth bind to loyal duty of thy lips\\nWhen none but I may hear thee. Thou art brave\\nWhen thou dost hate, be brave in love as well.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 89\\nDavid. Thy love doth magnify an hundred fold\\nThe bravery of hate and to my heart\\nGiveth a lion s strength for coming war\\nWith perils glorious. But, lo, beyond\\nThe king, who both exalts me and dismays,\\nApproacheth with the Queen and Jonathan\\nAnd others of his house.\\nMichal. I will depart\\nA little space and guard thy past awhile.\\nYet henceforth, O my David, thou shalt be\\nNo longer shepherd to my happy thought\\nBut only mighty chieftain of the host.\\nThe pride of Judah and of Israel.\\n[Michal goeth out.\\n[Saul, Ahinoam, Jonathan, Abner, Adriel, Phaltiel, Ish-\\nbosheth, Merab, Rispah and others enter. The King\\ngoeth in silence to a seat. Others bow to David from a\\ndistance. Jonathan draweth nigh. Michal returneth.]\\nJonathan. My brother, I embrace thee. Let me speak\\nA little to thee privily. The king\\nTo-day is in possession of a dark\\nAnd troubled spirit. One hath said to me\\nWho, yesterday, beside his chariot rode.\\nThat, when the women sang, as thou didst hear,\\nDavid. Alas, I heard with terror what they sang,\\nJonathan. The Lord protect thee. At their foolish joy\\nThe king was very wroth and thus he spake,\\nThey have ascribed unto David s hand\\nTen thousands and to me they have ascribed\\nBut thousands, and what more can he possess\\nExcept the kingdom? David, have a care", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "90 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nTo answer gently while my father s heart\\nIs turned from its true and noble place.\\nAhinoam. Come hither, brave defender of our host,\\nThy king hath passed the weary night alone\\nIn bitterness of spirit. Surely thou,\\nWhose arm Ihath striven with such loyal zeal\\nBefore the foe, canst banish from his soul\\nSome hidden sorrow.\\nSaul. Woman, hold thy peace.\\nWouldst thou bring torches when the angry flame\\nConsumes thy house or, when thou art athirst.\\nDrink molten brass to slack thy throat s desire?\\nAhinoam. I pray thee, Saul, my spouse, to put aside\\nThis woe which giveth madness to thy speech\\nAnd bringeth great dishonor. Give me heed\\nAs thou dost love me, as thou lovest those\\nWhom have I nourished, crush this evil thing\\nWhich ravisheth thy reason, lest the voice\\nOf Israel reject thee and thy heart\\nBe hardened as was Pharaoh s to destroy\\nThyself and all about thee.\\nSaul. O my soul.\\nArt thou alive in righteous enmity.\\nOr art thou dead indeed and given up\\nTo evil thoughts within thee, as endures\\nThe head of proud Goliath which was hung\\nBut yesterday at entering of the gate.\\nWhere all may see the hungry worms which creep\\nIn its corruption even as in my brain\\nDo woeful prophecies thus surely feed\\nWith ceaseless appetite upon its hope.\\nOr love or pride or royal dignity", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 91\\nAhinoam. My lord the king, I do beseech of thee\\nTo keep thy soul in peace.\\nSaul. Teach thou to those\\nWhom no man envieth, the law of peace\\nWhich maketh thee a stream amid the reeds,\\nBut tell it not to kings or such as guard\\nA treasure in their keeping, be it gold\\nOr fertile land or power of the sword,\\nOr some fair woman or the stolen love\\nOf those whom they beget to be betrayed.\\nSpeak not, for now the wizard in my breast\\nCommuneth with me and a darkness falls\\nUpon my eyelids. Peace, let all be still.\\nThe shadow of a soul is roundabout\\nWhich cometh from the regions of the dead.\\nO spirit, make me know the mysteries\\nWhich dwell beyond the womb, beyond the grave,\\nWhether they be of glory or despair.\\nAnd I will serve thee, giving thee my soul\\nTo crown in heaven or consume in hell\\nRather than strive with doubt or anguish more.\\nLo, thou hast heard me, mighty one unknown.\\nThe darkness passeth from me to its place,\\nThe clouds are parted, all that doth confound\\nThe soul beneath its bondage to the flesh\\nAnd make it halt and blind, is burnt away\\nBy the consuming fires of the truth.\\nWait but a little. Now the flames divide\\nAnd, lo, a vision cometh to mine eyes.\\nBehold an altar in an open space\\nAnd nigh thereto is one who slumbereth,\\nA mighty man appareled as a king.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "93 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd, at the altar s side, an ancient seer\\nWith wrathful countenance regardeth him;\\nHe taketh up the knife of sacrifice\\nAnd cometh nigh the king as if to slay,\\nBut stoopeth down and, under where he lies.\\nDoth plant the blade and water it with blood.\\nStraightway it groweth up a mighty sword\\nPiercing the purple raiment and the side\\nOf him who wears a crown. He wakes, he cries,\\nHe seeks to rise in vain, for bonds unseen\\nPrevent him and his hands do seize the blade\\nAnd treacherously guide it to his heart.\\nO make lament, ye sons of Benjamin,\\nAnd humble ye yourselves ye house of Kish\\nFor thus destruction cometh in a night\\nAnd shame doth break the glory of your sword.\\nJudah shall strive with ye and overcome\\nPhilistia shall smite ye. There shall rise\\nFrom desolate Gilboa woeful sound\\nOf battle and the plain of Jezreel\\nShall tremble at the anguish of the slain.\\nAnd one shall die alone defiantly,\\nAnd, in the house of Ashtaroth, the foe\\nShall put the armor of his strength to scorn.\\nAnd from the walls of Bethshan shall his bones\\nProclaim the chosen king of Israel\\nForsaken of his people and his God.\\nMichal. O father, I adjure thee, speak no more\\nSuch words of desolation.\\nSaul. Who art thou,\\nThat I should stay the spirit from within\\nWhen it communeth with me of the days", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 93\\nThat are to come Put off thy golden bands\\nAnd royal gems and cunning broideries,\\nIf yet the pride of Kish is in thy heart,\\nFor one whom thou despisest shall remove\\nThem from thee to enjoy thy comeliness\\nAnd one thou lovest, thou shalt yet despise.\\nThough he be lifted up and thou become\\nIn bitter woe the least of concubines.\\nUntil the serving women of thy house\\nShall hold thee in derision, for their arms\\nShall gather up the harvest of desire\\nWhich thou art sowing now unto the wind.\\nMichaL Thy speech hath nothing left to pierce my\\nsoul\\nBut curses, yet, my father, not from thee,\\nBut from some evil spirit doth proceed\\nThis woeful condemnation and my heart\\nDefyeth its intent. O stay thy hand.\\n[Saul threat eneth MichaL\\nJonathan. Wilt thou not spare thy daughter?\\nSaul. Knowest thou\\nShe mocketh that diviner in my breast\\nWhose sceptre ruleth mine, yet, be it so,\\nWhy should I chasten her before the end?\\nThee, rather, should I smite, that thou dost herd\\nWith wild goats of the wilderness, to turn\\nThy spirit from its rightful dignities\\nAnd set a woman s heart within thy breast.\\nWilt thou forget the valor of thy youth,\\nWhen, in the sight of Gibeah, thy bow\\nDid chasten the Philistines that they fled\\nUnto Beth-aven s idols and, in fear.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "94 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAlong the bloody way of Aijalon\\nWilt thou yield up thy glory to a lad\\nWho, by the casting of a single stone,\\nWould snatch from thee a king s inheritance?\\nGo to thou fool, thy feebleness of mind\\nIs an abomination unto me.\\nJonathan. How may I speak, O David, how endure\\nThis cruel madness of a father s heart\\nWhich thou dost see in all its nakedness?\\nCanst thou forgive him or forget the shame\\nHe portioneth with me and understand\\nThat I may love thee and be loyal still?\\nDavid. Take heart, O Jonathan, for I have known\\nAforetime of the king s infirmity,\\nAnd count his wrathful utterance as vain\\nAs any wind that passeth.\\nAhner. O my lord,\\nI pray thee come a little space aside.\\nSaul. Nay, ask me not, O Abner, and beware\\nIf yet another bid thee, lest his words\\nEntice to thy destruction for, behold.\\nThe lion shall be humbled in his place\\nAnd flee, as doth the jackal, at a sound\\nIn that dark day when vengeance seeketh him,\\nSaying where is the terror of his roar\\nWho when he thirsted drank his fill alone\\nRizpah. O mighty king, if thou canst overthrow\\nIn time of wrath the towers of thy heart,\\nI, who am but a pillar by the gate\\nOf its delight, have not so far to fall\\nIf, peradventure, I be now so bold\\nAs to beseech thy going.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 95\\nSaul. Wouldst thou\\nO Rizpah, think me also but a fool,\\nEven as one who weepeth for the slain\\nBefore a battle. Cover up thy face,\\nLest thou behold the vision of mine eyes.\\nDost thou not hear me Nay, I mock thee not,\\nFor I have loved thy countenance full well.\\nCover thy face. Seek out those sons of thine\\nBy me begotten. Clasp them to thy breast.\\nFor lo the days shall come when thou shalt sit\\nBy seven leafless trees whose bitter fruit\\nShall have no joy for thee, yet shalt thou guard\\nIn anguish of thy soul from all the birds\\nOf air and every creature of the earth\\nThe feast thou wouldst not, and still thy tears\\nShall water it throughout the burning heat\\nOf harvest time until the latter rain\\nCometh to wash the thorny branches bare.\\n{Saul falleth upon his face upon a couch.\\nRispah. What saith the king, O Abner What have I\\nAnd my two royal sons to do with this,\\nHis horrible conceit of seven trees.\\nWhereby his madness maketh reason quake?\\nAbner. Thou sayest truly. Thou hast naught to fear,\\nO gentle Rizpah, from unrooted words\\nWhose harmful bloom, lacking all nourishment\\nOf understanding, shall be withered\\nOf purpose ere the setting of the sun.\\nJonathan. What shall be done to bring within their\\ncourse\\nThe raging waters of my father s heart.\\nAnd bind the evil spirit of the storm?", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "96 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nHast thou, O David, any might withheld,\\nOr any cunning art to overcome\\nA greater than Goliath\\nDavid. What avails\\nThe wine of meek and loving reverence\\nWhich turneth, upon jealous lips, to gall?\\nOr what my faithfulness and loyal zeal,\\nWhen, in the measure of its perfectness,\\nIt is the leaven of thy father s hate?\\nWho shall be strong if love prevaileth not?\\nAnd, though I overcome Philistine might\\nBy favor of the Lord, He can alone\\nPut all the hosts of jealousy to flight.\\nMichal. O mighty vanquisher of heathen pride.\\nIt hath been told to me that, with the dawn,\\nOf morning, thou didst bid one fetch an harp\\nAnd, straightway, was its music and thy voice\\nIn such a zealous and sweet concord heard,\\nThat all who near thee in the palace slept\\nHad visions as of angels. Now behold\\nA harp which I have treasured. Let thy skill,\\nI pray thee, serve this great extremity\\nIn which the king hath fallen he by blood\\nMy father, in his better spirit thine.\\n[David playeth. The King lifteth himself.\\nSaul. What is this music which waylayeth me\\nAs doth, upon a journey, one whose face\\nI know not certainly, who cometh nigh\\nAnd saith, O master, peace be unto thee?\\nAssuredly, no servant of my house\\nHath such a cunning. Where is he who plays,", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 97\\nWhose hand doth touch the harp so craftily?\\nAh, is it yet again this shepherd boy,\\nThis comely face, this thrower of the sling.\\nWhich hath another manner to beguile\\nThe silly women throughout Israel?\\nHave patience but a little, it were hard\\nIf, by and by, some good Philistine sword\\nShould not avenge itself in closer strife\\nUpon this vanquisher of cords and strings.\\nYet have I surely heard in other days\\nThis music which provoketh me and thrusts.\\nDespite its peace be with thee, to my heart\\nA treacherous dagger. Tell me, O mine ears,\\nWhen have your weary undefended gates\\nBeen open to these companies of sound\\nWhich come in golden raiment and in wreathes\\nOf ilowers to beguile me and betray?\\nLo, now the darkness passeth. Now amidst\\nThe long confounding tumult of the years\\nI hear a kindred music. Can it be\\nThat this mine enemy in Israel s love,\\nThis lusty shepherd, is none other one\\nThan he who came from little Bethlehem\\nBefore these latter wars to comfort me,\\nWhat time my soul was troubled, with his harp,\\nAnd won my favor by his cunning hand?\\nHe was a son of Jesse. Verily,\\nThis David is the same. They said of him\\nThe Lord was with him, and, behold, the Lord\\nWho hath forsaken me is with him still\\nAnd bringeth him again before my face", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "98 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nTo humble me and make the name of Saul,\\nThe son of Kish, a shame in Israel.\\nAre men to say that Jacob s prophecy\\nBeginneth from me, that the sceptre now\\nShall not depart from Judah or the hand\\nOf him who cometh hither from its hills?\\nthou familiar spirit of my soul,\\nShall I endure so bitter a reproach\\nAnd yield the honor of my father s house,\\nThe glory of my wars and of my reign\\nAs first anointed king of Abram s seed\\nShall I the royal heritage remove\\nFrom those I have begotten in my pride\\nAnd reared in royal ways, to bow the knee.\\nAnd teach their knees to bow, before a boy,\\nA shepherd straying out of Bethlehem,\\nWho, by the chance which happeneth to fools,\\nHath, in a moment, gained higher place\\nThan any proven captain of my host\\nAnd waiteth but his time to be a king?\\nNay, by the beard of Samuel, who seeks\\nTo terrify my soul with threatenings\\nAnd arrogancy of his righteousness,\\n1 shall no more give place to idle fears\\nOr yet endure before me any soul\\nWhose dream of power shadoweth my own.\\nAs Phinehas and Hophni, when the flesh\\nOf sacrifice was seething in the pot,\\nDid strike their flesh-hooks deep, so shall I take\\nWith my good javelin my portion due\\nAnd smite this David even to the wall.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 99\\nDavid, thy playing doth disquiet me.\\nThus let it cease\\n[Saul casteth a javelin tzvice at David, zvho escapeth\\nfrom his presence. Confusion of all before him.\\nAhner. O Saul, what doest thou?\\nMy lord, forbear. I pray thee stay thine arm.\\nThou art beside thyself. Shall Israel s king,\\nSitting amid the women of his house.\\nSmite down a sojourner who trusteth him,\\nA youth without a weapon, who hath served\\nHim mightily and brought his people peace?\\nSaul. Why dost thou hinder me, thou son of Ner\\nGo thou and creep before Philistine foes\\nAnd pray them to forgive thee. Kiss their cheeks\\nSay thou wilt walk with meekness in thy bonds,\\nBehind their chariots when they return\\nTo hear the shout of Gath and Ashkelon.\\nOr go thou unto Ramah to the seer\\nAnd curse thyself and give an awl to him\\nThat he may bore thine ear unto his door\\nAnd be the hard taskmaster as of old.\\nDo this, but keep thou silence when thy king\\nDoth smite a serpent which defyeth him,\\nA hireling of Samuel who serves\\nHis jealous wrath and spieth in my camp\\nAnd in my courts that he may find a way\\nTo humble me and render yet again\\nThis proud old man a law to Israel.\\nBut stay thee not, O Abner, if thy heart\\nIs faithful to the kingdom. Rather smite\\nWith thine own spear, this stripling to the earth", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "100 THE HEART OP DAVID\\nEre he betray the glory of thy throne\\nAnd lift himself above us in the land.\\nBehold my spirit doth discern again\\nThe course of things to be, and he whose arm\\nHath smitten down this champion of Gath\\nTo serve his present honor, shall abide\\nHereafter in the gates of Gath unhurt\\nAnd sit at meat with Achish in the midst\\nOf all the enemies of Israel,\\nHe and his household. He shall go and come\\nAccording to his pleasure. Wilt thou now,\\nAbner, check the fury of thy hand\\n1 see again, and, lo, upon a throne\\nThis crafty shepherd reigneth in the might\\nOf arrogancy over Abram s seed.\\nAnd we are come to naught, and Gibeah,\\nAnd all the lofty plain of Benjamin\\nIs ravished of its glory. Bloody men\\nGo to and fro, warring among themselves.\\nAnd grievous jealousies do, like a plague,\\nCorrupt the heart of princes. As a flame\\nThe lustful and adulterous desires\\nOf those who rule in Israel consume\\nThe beauty of the land and shame shall laugh.\\nAbiding in our palaces secure.\\nLift up thy sword, O Abner, at my side.\\nAnd thou, my faithless spear, betray no more\\nThe fury of my hate, for, by the Lord,\\nThou shalt, in this exalted shepherd s blood,\\nMy crown maintain, and mightily defy\\nThrough life, the hoary prophet s enmity.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 101\\nAccursed be his days with all the woes\\nWhich fell on Eli s house. Let every plague\\nOf wailing Egypt cease not to pursue\\nThis David while he yet escapeth me,\\nAnd, if I fail to slay him, then ye spears\\nOf strong Philistines take the offering\\nYour vengeance coveteth and make it sure,\\nFor I shall such occasion give your least\\nThat he may be the envy of a king.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "PART IV.\\nPLACE I. A Garden of the Palace at Gibeah. Merab and\\nAdriel enter.\\nMerab. Here, happily, we are again apart\\nFrom spying eyes and mischief gleaning ears\\nOf idle men.\\nAdriel. Aye, here may we discourse,\\nMy gentle Merab, of the secret love\\nWhich, Hke some hidden and divided spring,\\nSupplyeth both thy heart s deep well and mine\\nSo equally that, if the one should fail.\\nThe other would deny all pleading thirst.\\nMerab. And then how sweet to think of love s supply\\nFlowing in silence when we cannot meet,\\nTo know that in the fulness of one joy\\nAnother joy partaketh\\nAdriel. Yet how long\\nMust this unfailing fountain live withheld\\nAnd never rise to overflow the wells\\nIn which the pride of men and Saul s despite\\nHave parted it, and be as one again\\nBefore the sun as truly as beneath\\nThe treasure hiding earth?\\nMerab. Be patient yet,\\nMy lover, but a little. Thou dost know\\nHow changeful is the spirit of the king.\\nAnd, peradventure, in a single night\\nSome troubled dream or quaking fear may rend", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 103\\nAn Open course in which love s stream shall flow\\nUnited, that we share our joy with all\\nAnd make his barren heart a fertile vale.\\nLo, now he cometh at my mother s side.\\nDepart, I pray thee, love, for though his soul\\nHath, since that day of grievous violence\\nTo him who slew Goliath, put away\\nThe outward show of wrath which tempted him,\\nI know not yet if any be secure\\nWhom jealousy hath set her mark upon.\\nGo quickly hence, and I will send for thee\\nWhen time doth give assurance of our peace.\\n[Adriel escapeth. Saul and Ahinoam enter.]\\nAhinoam. And wherefore, now, wilt thou be troubled\\nmore\\nConcerning this same David, O my spouse?\\nIs he not faithful? Hast thou not removed\\nHis presence from thee?\\nSaul. Yea, as thou dost know.\\nHe tarrieth no longer as the chief\\nOf all the men of war who here within\\nThe palace guard the person of their king,\\nBut I have set him in a captain s place\\nAbove a thousand of my fighting men.\\nAhinoam. Then, since thou canst not see or hear the\\nyouth,\\nWhy dost thou make him chief est in thy thought?\\nSaul. I see him not, yet do I ever see.\\nWhile now he sojourneth within the gates,\\nThe joy of those who have communed with him.\\nI do not hear him, yet I ceaselessly", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "104 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAttend the arrogancy of his praise,\\nThe sounding words which others do bestow\\nUpon his wisdom and his uprightness\\nWhichever way he goeth. Verily,\\nIt seemeth that, though I were deaf and bhnd,\\nI still should smell the fragrance of his fame.\\nThat all the strong defences of mine house\\nWere vain to bar his goodness from my peace.\\nAhinoam. If he indeed hath wisdom, thou in vain\\nMayest seek to put his presence from thy thought,\\nFor neither bolts nor bars nor armed men,\\nNor deafness of thine ears, nor blinded eyes,\\nNor kingly majesty, nor foolish mirth\\nAnd reveling, nor any craftiness.\\nShall stay her admonition of thy ways.\\nSaul. Thou, also, art partaker with the rest\\nOf David s vain defense, but shall it be\\nThat this young shepherd from Judean hills.\\nAnd all the simple flatterers who shout\\nAbout his path, are wiser than their king;\\nThat I am to be humbled in the sight\\nOf Israel by women s wantonness?\\nIf it had come to pass that David s head\\nHad fallen to the great Philistine s sword, i\\nThen, by that token, Gibeah should shout\\nThat wisdom was conceived but in Gath\\nAnd Baal of the heathen was the God\\nj\\nFor Levi s priests and every tribe to serve. i\\nNay, woman, even as I suffered not\\nMine enemies without to put to shame\\nThe honor of mine house, so shall I break\\nThe neck of them who seek my hurt within.\\n4", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 105\\nAhinoam. Then take thou heed, O Saul, to turn aside\\nBy gentleness and kingly dignity\\nThe waves of this rejoicing, that they meet\\nAnd overthrow no front of angry pride\\nWhich thou hast builded up against their might.\\nAnd, furthermore, take heed that there abides\\nNo pledge thou hast not kept, no grievance deep\\nWithin the heart of him thou wouldst subdue.\\nSaul. How should I understand these words of thine?\\nAhinoam. Didst thou not say, as I have heard report,\\nWhen all the host was set in Elah s vale.\\nThat he who overcame Goliath s boast\\nShould have great riches from thee and receive\\nThy daughter and the freedom of his house?\\nSaul. Aye, peradventure, such a thing as this\\nI may have spoken, and there lacketh not\\nOf its fulfilment but my daughter s gift\\nAnd treasure which I dare not yet bestow,\\nWhich David asketh not and never man\\nHath yet required for him. Art thou, then,\\nIn haste to give thy daughter to the arms\\nOf this rude shepherd?\\nAhinoam. Nay, I urge it not.\\nSave for thy pledge and that it may secure\\nHis power to thee, since thou fearest him.\\nSaul [aside]. I, truly, thus can best restrain his might.\\nOr thus pretend, while I devise his fall.\\nThou speakest well, my spouse, I cannot wed\\nOur daughters to the kings around about\\nWho bow the knee to Baal. Verily,\\nIt were a wise and profitable thing\\nTo bend the growing strength of David s fame", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "106 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nTo due obedience in Merab s love.\\nAye, it is wisely spoken, and, behold,\\nIn favorable sign of what we would,\\nOur daughter draweth nigh.\\n[Merab entereth.\\nCome hither, child,\\nI have whereof to hold discourse with thee.\\nAhinoam, do thou go on before\\nAnd bid my servants seek this David out,\\nSaying that Saul, the king, hath need of him.\\n[Ahinoam goeth out.\\nThy face is troubled, Merab. Answer me.\\nWhat is it that disquieteth thy heart?\\nMerab. I will not hide it from thee. Unawares\\nMine ears have heard these latter words of thine\\nAnd, O my father, I am sore distressed.\\nSaul. Then thou art proud. Thou wouldst not bestow\\nThy comeliness and royal dignity\\nUpon a straying shepherd. ;J\\nMerab. Thou dost err.\\nI honor David with as meek a mind\\nAs any handmaiden of Gibeah,\\nFor the hig h glory of his zealous deeds\\nAnd living spirit do abase the pride\\nWhich groweth but as moss upon the stone j\\nOf graven images in vain conceit\\nOf beauty wrought alone by others toil.\\nSaul. Hold thou thy peace. Dost thou bow also down\\nFrom royal place to kiss this shepherd s hand?\\nMerab. How may I, seeing that I love him not.\\nSaul. I cannot understand thee.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 107\\nMerab. Wilt thou, then,\\nBe gracious, O my father, unto me,\\nAnd very patient if I tell thee all?\\nSaul. Speak on. What trouble now doth lie in wait\\nTo spring upon me?\\nMcrab. Keep thy mind in peace.\\nThere is no sorrow here. No unclean thing\\nOf evil hath its den within my breast.\\nBut know my heart is given to the love\\nOf A3riel, that officer of thine\\nWho waiteth in the band of valiant men\\nTo serve thee and thy kingdom faithfully,\\nAnd as thou yearnest for the victory\\nIn time of war, so we attend thy grace.\\nSaul. Attend no more and banish this desire\\nSince I have other purpose for thy love.\\nThe daughter of a king is not a maid\\nFor any eye or lip which passeth by\\nTo win by ways of cunning gentleness.\\nShe is the high and uttermost reward\\nOf mighty valor and approved faith,\\nThe surest bond of kingdoms which are set\\nIn jealous opposition, the fair seal\\nOf peace unto a nation rent apart\\nBy weeds of rash dispute which grow between\\nThe masonry of welfare and of law,\\nShe is the jewel on the sceptre s top\\nWhich giveth power, light and loveliness,\\nNor less is she a golden coffer made\\nTo bear increasing treasure to her lord\\nBrave sons and goodly, whom recording scribes\\nShall praise and say Their mother guided them.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "108 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nMerab. Alas, and must I, father, then betray\\nThis longing heart which seemeth only mine\\nAnd which I can as little pledge to thee\\nAs can I yonder eagle we behold\\nWhich seeth all the land of Benjamin?\\nNay, I can give thee but the empty cage.\\nThis youthful form of flesh which men call fair,\\nThis snare of their presumptuous desire\\nWhich, lacking love within, shall be as cold\\nAs sad in duty and as dumb in mirth\\nAs Jephthah s daughter when she knew his vow.\\nWilt thou accept an offering, in tears,\\nThus poor and empty?\\nSaul. Yea, it needs must be.\\nFor this young captain so hath won the heart\\nOf Israel that, lest mine enemies\\nEntangle him or pride should lift him up\\nTo do me evil, I have made resolve\\nTo bind him with thy love to serve my will.\\nMerab. And canst thou not, my father, give to him\\nMy sister Michal\\nSaul. Dost thou then forget.\\nIn thy displeasure, what the custom is\\nOf all our people that the eldest born\\nBe first in marriage given? Furthermore,\\nThy sister is too haughty to forsake\\nThe courts of Gibeah that she may wed\\nA youth who, in the passing of a moon.\\nHath kept his father s sheep on Judah s hills\\nWhom, notwithstanding, thou dost magnify\\nIn speech which well becometh one who waits\\nThe coming of her bridegroom. Hear thou, then,", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 109\\nThy father s words and let no child of Saul\\nAgain defy him while he lives the king.\\nMerab [aside]. If it must be that daughters of thy\\nhouse\\nAre even as the virgins which were spared\\nAt Jabesh-gilead or caught away\\nFrom Shiloh to be ravished by the strong;\\nThat what the men of Benjamin have done\\nBy stealth, the ruler of their choice should grant\\nTo Judah openly, then dost thou judge\\nAs righteously as of my brother s sin.\\nSaul, What words are these thou mutterest apart?\\nMerab. I hear, my lord, in sorrow and obey.\\n[A Servant enter eth.]\\nSaul. What wouldst thou\\nServant. If it may please the king,\\nThere stands without a captain of thy host,\\nThe champion of Judah, who attends\\nThy bidding.\\nSaul. Let him, straightway, come to me.\\nThe Servant fetcheth David.\\nBrave captain, I salute thee.\\nDavid. Let the king\\nCommand his servant as it pleaseth him.\\nSaul. Draw nigh to me, O David. Do not fear,\\nMy hand is not against thee. Lo behold,\\nI cast my javelin upon the ground\\nIn token that the evil in my heart\\nHath passed from me, giving place to love.\\n[Ahinoam entereth.]\\nDavid [aside]. What meaneth such a greeting from\\nthe lips", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "110 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nWhich, but a little hence, were full of hate?\\nAssuredly he taketh other course\\nTo compass his revenge, or else, indeed,\\nThe Lord hath come in mercy to his soul\\nTo take away the grief of Israel.\\nSaul. Give ear, O valiant David, I would tell\\nThe purpose of my heart in bidding thee\\nTo stand before me. Thou rememberest\\nWhat time thy cunning hand did overcome\\nThe pride of the Philistines, that the king\\nDid promise goodly things as a reward\\nTo him who slew Goliath. As he said,\\nSo hath he given freedom to the house\\nOf Jesse and his sons in Bethlehem,\\nAnd unto thee appointed mig hty place\\nAmid his captains, and hath made command\\nThat riches be provided for thy good.\\nA pledge there yet remaineth unfulfilled\\nWhich I the king, whose word abideth sure,\\nDo still, as in the troubled host, proclaim\\nShall bear its perfect fruit and tarry not, J\\nFor since the balm of thy great victory\\nHath healed the many wounds of Israel,\\nThy patience meriteth its full reward.\\nTherefore, behold, this princess of mine house,\\nMy eldest daughter Merab, beautiful\\nOf face and true of spirit, she is thine.\\nDavid. My lord the king, how may I answer thee\\nOr take these overflowing blessings all\\nThou knowest little what my life hath been.\\nAs groweth up a thistle on the hills.\\nSo have I sprung from childhood into youth\\n71", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL HI\\nBeneath the burning heat and winter s frost,\\nRude, thorny, set apart mid idle weeds\\nAnd knowing not the perfume of sweet herbs\\nWhich grow in favored valleys, or the trees,\\nThe crimson pomegranate and the fig.\\nThe olive, cinnamon and almond fair\\nWhich, to the husbandman, give rich reward\\nHow should I then have any part or lot\\nWith flowers which do raise their lovely cheeks\\nAmid high walled gardens of the great\\nAnd blush at salutations of the wind?\\nSaul. Art thou a Nazarite, hast thou a vow,\\nO youth of Bethlehem, or darest thou\\nReject the royal gift I offer thee?\\nDavid. Nay, O my lord, how can I thus offend?\\nBut who am I and what hath been my life.\\nOr what my father s house in Israel,\\nThat I be son-in-law unto the king?\\nSaul. A strange confusion covereth thy face\\nWhich met Goliath s strength without a fear.\\nDost thou esteem it, then, a greater deed\\nTo burst the bonds of thy humility\\nAnd take the comely daughter of thy king,\\nThan to prevail against his chiefest foe?\\nDavid. Aye, verily, my lord, for such as I\\nIt is a greater deed, since I am poor,\\nSave in thy bounty, and the poor man s lot\\nDoth ever better teach him to contend\\nWith an oppressor than to fitly wear\\nSuch all exceeding favor. Yet I bow,\\nO gracious king, in all obedience.\\nIf I am worthy of thy royal will.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "112 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nSaul. I leave thee to consider these my words\\nWith one whose presence may be in itself\\nA sweet interpretation. Come with me,\\nAhinoam, that these converse alone.\\n[Saul and Ahinoam go forth.\\nDavid. O lovely daughter of my gracious king,\\nI, but a hawk descended from the hills,\\nAm surely all unworthy of thy thought\\nWho art the cherished dove of Gibeah,\\nThe altar of her choicest offerings,\\nThe proud inheritor of royal joys.\\nMerab. Nay, mighty David, count me not so proud\\nThat I should fail to give thee honor due\\nAs in the foremost rank of Israel,\\nYet, not the less, believe that, while I yield\\nTo none in praising thee, I may, withal, I\\nPrefer before thee one of little fame f\\nWhom I have found sufficient to myself,\\nDavid. Thou lovest then already?\\nMerab. Even so.\\nDavid. The Lord be with thee. As thy heart is bound\\nSo, verily, is mine to other love,\\nMerah. Then, O thou valiant David, am I free\\nTo say I love thee more for this release,\\nTo hold thee in the sweet companionship\\nOf friendly counsel, to partake with thee\\nOf sighing fasts or dainty feasts of hope,\\nTo go with thee the many turning ways\\nOf thought concerning those we love the best.\\nAnd it may be, some joyful day to come.\\nThat I shall meet the maiden who, perchance.\\nIn little Bethlehem hath kept thy heart", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 113\\nFrom every royal bounty, and shall greet\\nHer bended forehead with a kiss of peace,\\nExtol her David to her thankful eyes\\nAnd take her as a sister to my arms.\\nDavid. Now am I fallen in the very pit\\nMy thought prepared as a vain defense,\\nAnd all my utmost foolishness of heart\\nShall be discovered to thee for, behold,\\nShe who hath spread a tumult in my breast\\nAgainst my lowly portion for her sake\\nIs even Michal.\\nMerab. O humility,\\nIs this the manner of thy tarrying\\nTo follow in the steps of high desire\\nLo, but a little time, before the king\\nThere stood a shepherd of so meek a mind\\nThat I was scarce accepted at his hand.\\nAnd now it doth appear his pleasure sought\\nTo choose a maiden of the house of Saul\\nAs he would choose a lamb amid his flock.\\nDavid. Thou shamest me. O, Princess Merab, spare\\nThy mocking. In my soberness of mind\\nI know I am too humble for the grace\\nOf sonship unto Saul and these my words\\nDo but betray the madness of desire\\nWhich yoketh not with understanding s toil.\\nDo thou forgive me in the mercy born\\nOf friendliness.\\nMerab. Desire, in its might,\\nDoth, sometimes, carry reason to its goal.\\nBe thou a twofold brother unto me,\\nO valiant David, first in this thy love", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "114 THE HEART OF DAVlDi\\nFor her who later found my way to Hfe,\\nAnd then as a partaker of my trust\\nAnd inmost thought.\\nDavid. Yet tell me who hath set\\nThe fire on thine altar and made free\\nThis guileless tenderness of thine and mine,\\nA cooling stream betwixt two banks of flame.\\nMerab. He whom I love is called Adriel\\nAnd standeth, as thou knowest, in the court\\nBefore my father, faithful to his will.\\nDavid. Aye, I have seen him often with the king.\\nBut, wherefore, gentle Merab, do thine eyes\\nSo overflow with tears?\\nMerab. I cannot speak.\\nDavid. Perchance I may interpret, then, for thee.\\nIf it should happen that thy father s heart\\nWere hardened, notwithstanding he should know\\nThe love we bore to others, and his will\\nShould bind us to a cold and weary bed,\\nWhat path should lie before us Is it this\\nThy sighing spirit weigheth?\\nMerab. Even so.\\nFor how may we in time withstand the king.\\nOr, wedded, feign a love with hearts despoiled.\\nOr keep the living pleasure pure and just\\nOf friends while musing of what might have been?\\nDavid. O fair and gentle sister of my soul.\\nIf naught prevail and Saul indeed shall bind\\nOur lives together, and no other love\\nCome, like the rising of the winter sun,\\nTo crimson all the snows of Lebanon,\\nThen shall thy purity be undefiled.\\nThe freedom of thy heart be kept secure", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 115\\nAs I would guard the curtain roundabout\\nThe tabernacle from Philistine rage,\\nAnd if thou, being daughter of my king,\\nWouldst make a vow, lo, I shall hold my peace\\nBefore thee and, whate er it be, the bond\\nWherewith thou wouldst bind thy soul shall stand.\\nMerab. Nay, David, this is vain to think upon.\\nWe, loving not each other, would offend\\nOur hearts in the similitude of bliss\\nAnd be a scorn to those we love indeed.\\nWe, lacking in desire, yet should grieve\\nFor jealousy of these, and, though we sat\\nTogether in companionship of words,\\nWould, in the depths of spirit, be alone,\\nVain soothsayers whose mysteries were filed.\\nDavid. Thou speakest as men know not how to speak,\\nO noble Merab, guided by the cloud\\nAnd fire in the desert of thy way\\nA woman s perfect knowledge of the heart.\\nHenceforth, we will abide in watchfulness\\nTo cast aside the royal chains which now\\nOur truth hath cleft in secret, through the strength\\nOf courage gathered for desired joys.\\n[Michal entereth unseen beyond.\\nMerab. In pledge of this, I grant unto thy lips,\\nO valiant David, ere we go our way,\\nA brother s salutation, such reward\\nAs, I can in my gladness freely give\\nFor thy release from Saul my father s will,\\nAnd as a perfect token of my trust.\\n{David kisseth Merab and they go different zvays.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "116 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nMichal. O sorrow of my soul, what have I seen?\\nSurely no faith abideth in the earth,\\nNone may I trust hereafter. O thou fool\\nTo doubt but now thy mother s true report\\nAnd mock, as only madness of the king.\\nThat which is wiser than belief in love.\\nAye, it were better evil ways should rule\\nIn Israel and Baal s worshippers\\nShould vanquish us, since I have here beheld\\nA sister s twofold treachery of mind\\nAnd David s cunning pride which mounteth up\\nTo leave me for an elder sister s gift.\\nLo, now shall hyssop mingle with the blood\\nOf offerings and Marah s waters flow\\nUnsweetened from the cisterns of my soul.\\nNow, were I not a sister but a spouse.\\nShould Merab drink forthwith before the priest\\nThe bitter water of my jealousy\\nUntil her thigh should rot and on her head\\nThe oath of cursing in destruction fall.\\nMerab, I hate thee. Woe be unto thee\\nThat thou hast here despoiled me of him\\nWhom I had chosen, aye, whom even yet,\\nDespite his turning, I do cherish still,\\nFor now I know in truth that all my heart\\nIs given unto David in a love\\nThat will not suffer aught of hinderance.\\nIt was but yesterday I loved him\\nAs doth the branch some blossom newly born\\nHanging upon its favor, which might fall\\nWith but a passing grief until there came\\nAnother to the pleasure of its pride\\nTo-day, since I have tidings that the king", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 117\\nHath given Merab unto Judah s chief,\\nI am become the blossom which hath life\\nAnd joy and hope of fruitfulness alone\\nIn the strong branch upholding its desire.\\nI, who in all my haughty spirit once\\nDid mock the thought of David as a spouse,\\n\\\\I love him unto madness. Wherefore not?\\nHe is no more a shepherd. He hath now\\nThe stature of a chieftain and his ways\\nAre even as a prince in Israel.\\nShall I wed then with one I do not love\\nAnd give my child, perchance, in days to come\\nTo one begot of David, being great.\\nAnd hear the mighty say the thing is well\\nAnd shall I not the rather, in my faith.\\nBe willing to defy the doubter s sneer\\nAnd hold so great a gladness as mine own?\\nThis will I do if any subtlety\\nOf daughter s love or chiding can persuade\\nThe will of Saul from what it purposeth,\\nIf any threatening of jealous wrath\\nCan turn affrighted Merab from the arms\\nIn which I would in which I shall delight.\\nWho Cometh hither? Is it not again\\nMy sister who with David doth discourse\\nSo fondly, as conspired to destroy\\nThe remnant of my patience? Nay, in truth\\nMine anger blindeth me. The twain I see\\nAre mighty Abner and the concubine.\\nFair Rizpah, whom my father favoreth.\\nWho, doubtless, talk of Saul s infirmity.\\nIn both the king confideth. Even now\\nShall my desire turn them to its need", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "118 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd cast them first in the opposing stream\\nOf Saul s displeasure for my feet to pass.\\n[Abner and Rispah enter.]\\nMy greeting, mighty Abner.\\nAbner. Unto thee,\\nO comely daughter of my lord the king,\\nBe all my duty rendered.\\nMichal. Wouldst thou serve\\nMy pleasure verily, and also thou,\\nO silent Rizpah, for I know ye both\\nHave power to prevail in royal ears\\nAbner. How may we serve thee? Rather of thy\\ntongue\\nShould we, O Michal, ask the grace of Saul\\nIf either one of us had cause to plead.\\nMichal. Thou speakest well, great captain as thou art,\\nYet, notwithstanding, in a cherished cause 1\\nThy speech may serve me better than mine own,\\nWhich should not utter what it would were told.\\nAbner. Since tongue can utter nothing ill of thee,\\nMy voice shall be as faithful to proclaim\\nThe thing thou wouldst as was Caleb s speech\\nWhen he returned from spying out the land,\\nFor thus the bravest best discern the truth.\\nMichal. O rather, Abner, would I have thy mouth\\nTalk oftentimes before my father Saul\\nOf Rachel s grieving when the stubborn will\\nOf Laban gave to Leah her delight.\\nAbner. And can it be, fair Michal, that the youth\\nWho vanquisheth the heathen and the hearts\\nOf Israel and Judah roundabout.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 119\\nHath overpassed the hill-top of thy pride\\nAnd won thee also?\\nMichal. Have I spoken thus?\\nAbner, thou art not a whit behind\\nThe company of Caleb, verily.\\nThen be it as thou wilt, but as thy soul\\nIs faithful, and, fair Rizpah, as is thine,\\nSo shall ye whisper very tenderly\\nThe secret which I give ye to the king\\nTell him that David once confessed his love,\\nAnd let none other hear what I have told\\nIf I have cause to weep.\\nAbner. As I am true\\nTo Israel, so shall I be to thee.\\nMichal. And Rizpah, surely to thy woman s heart\\n1 may reveal my love without a fear?\\nRizpah. Thou hast no cause to doubt me. Never yet\\nHath love asked any duty, any faith.\\nOr any sacrifice that knew the depth\\nOf zeal and strong endurance which abides\\nWithin my soul to serve it mightily.\\nMichal. Thou makest me desire greater need\\nTo prove so brave a spirit. Fare thee well.\\n[Michal goeth out.\\nPLACE II. Chief Room of the Palace, Adriel and Phaltiel.\\nEnter Ishbosheth.\\nPhaltiel. How sad a day is this, O Ishbosheth,\\nWhich here uniteth us.\\nIshbosheth. Aye, if the king,\\nMy father, had not straightly bidden me,\\nI verily should have fled from Gibeah.\\nBut he is nigh. There seemeth no escape.\\n9", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "120 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nPhaltiel. What may we do this shepherd to withstand\\nAnd bring to shame, ere his prosperity\\nEstabHsh his dominion in our gates\\nAnd set him over us who hold by right\\nNobiHty in Israel?\\nIshbosheth. Alas,\\nThat, in my father s madness, he should thus\\nAbase the pride of all exalted men\\nWho stand before him. How may I behold\\nMy sister Merab given to the lust\\nOf this base fellow and go forth again\\nAmid my chosen friends of lofty birth?\\nSurely it passdth reason.\\nPhaltiel. Give thine ear,\\nO Ishbosheth, for there remaineth yet.\\nIn this last hour ere the darkness falls,\\nA path the skill of Adriel may cleave\\nTo save us from confusion. I have known\\nSince many years of love he cherisheth\\nFor Princess Merab, and he telleth me\\nThat she hath been well pleased\\nAdriel. Phaltiel,\\nThis was but for thy hearing.\\nIshbosheth. Nay, not so.\\nMine Adriel, the hiding of thy love\\nIs now unprofitable to our need.\\nAnd, if it be as Phaltiel hath said.\\nNone, saving thou, hast argument to turn\\nReproach away from us, and the reward\\nShould make thy tongue sufBcient to provide\\nA pleading meet to compass all thy bliss.\\nAnd, inasmuch as one of troubled mind\\nIs ever best persuaded to withhold,", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 131\\nSo, if thou shouldst only gain delay,\\nIs this thy cause with Saul made doubly sure.\\nBehold he cometh, speak and tarry not.\\nAdriel. How dare I, Ishbosheth?\\nIshbosheth. Thou art a fool\\nAnd lacking any courage. There remains\\nNo other chance. If now thou dost not speak,\\nOur pride is brought to shame and presently\\nShall Merabunto David be bestowed,\\n[Saul entereth.]\\nAdriel. My lord the king, in this which thou hast done\\nConcerning Merab, hast thou quite forgot\\nThe earnest expectation of my heart?\\nSaul. When wilt thou cease to tell me, Adriel,\\nOf all thy love for Merab Is there naught\\nThat I may hear of better argument\\nUpon this day appointed to proclaim\\nMy child s espousal, why I should not make\\nMy promise unto David s valor sure,\\nAnd rid me of its burden?\\nAdriel. Hear, my lord,\\nIf this be so, my uttermost appeal.\\nThou knowest me full well these latter years\\nThat I have served thee faithfully in war\\nAnd in the proud divisions of the court,\\nThou knowest that no shadow of deceit\\nHath come between us, no conspiracy\\nOr strife in Israel or bribe of foes\\nHath turned me against thee as my king\\nWhereof the dignity and rank I bear\\nNear to thy person and before the host\\nDoth testify to all men. Nor alone", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "133 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nHave I fhe name of power, for my wealth,\\nWhich I have gathered up with prudent hands,\\nAnd those possessions which have come to me\\nBy loving portion of Barzillai,\\nMy father the Meholathite whose place\\nAnd just repute thou knowest all I hold\\nAwaits thy word and favor to sustain\\nThe glory of thy kingdom or, perchance,\\nIf other love succeed to my despair,\\nMay be enticed to an alien greed.\\nDoing thee grievous harm, despite my will.\\nLo, all my life hath proved my love of thee.\\nDespise it not, I pray thee, in the hour\\nWhen thou canst make it sure. And who is he\\nFor whom thou wouldst turn from me aside,\\nIs he a prince in Israel, a king\\nWhose love would be a covenant of strength?\\nIs he a champion of many wars?\\nNay, he is none of these. A moon ago\\nNo man had knowledge of him in the host\\nOr in the gates of Israel. A youth\\nDriving his sheep upon Judean hills.\\nHe hastened, witless, to behold the strife.\\nApart from many who had served thee long,\\nAnd, by the goodly casting of a stone.\\nHath overpassed thy faithful soldiers all.\\nThe people shout his praise in wanton song\\nDishonoring their chieftains and their king.\\nBounty is promised beyond his need\\nIn perilous abundance, and thy hand\\nWould, notwithstanding, humbly cast before\\nThis glutton fed on Israel s conceit\\nThe sweet virginity of thy fair child.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 133\\nNurtured, until this hour, for a king.\\nYet offered to a shepherd s rude desire.\\nAs I might tell thee, but to be despised.\\nSaul. Thou drivest me to madness. Say no more.\\nI do remember, when I promised him\\nMy daughter Merab, that his countenance\\nGave not a sign of gladness but, instead.\\nHe sought to make excuse.\\nAdriel. Aye, surely now\\nHe thinketh, in the arrogance of his pride,\\nThat he shall have the kingdom presently\\nAnd would be free from any bond to thee.\\nSaul. Had this my spear been faithful to my rage\\nHe would have been already free from bond.\\nAdriel. Then, O my king, will not thy gracious hand\\nBestow thy daughter Merab to my trust\\nAnd tender keeping ever?\\nSaid. Be it so.\\nAdriel. These two are witness of thy royal word,\\nMy lord the king, my father yet to be,\\nHow may I thank thee?\\nSaul. Do it less in words\\nThan in thine acts hereafter rendered.\\nThis hour would I meditate revenge.\\nHow shall I compass it The time is short.\\nShall I feign sudden illness and delay\\nEspousal, or forbid it and refuse\\nTo see the youth, or yet a bolder thing?\\nBehold, I am resolved what to do.\\nWhen all my household gather to attend\\nMerab s betrothal to this herdsman s lust.\\nThen shall I go before his high conceit\\nAnd, while he waiteth to refuse my gift.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "124 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nShall I withhold my bounty and to thee,\\nGood Adriel, bestow my gentle child.\\nPhaltiel. Go to, my king, this is a rare device\\nThe cunning of thy thought, assuredly,\\nShall compass David s pride and bring him low.\\nIshbosheth. Aye, verily, we shall not lack for mirth\\nTo see this humble fellow in his place\\nAmong the sheep again.\\nPhaltiel. He hath too long\\nAlready fed with lions in our midst.\\nSaul. The time that is appointed to betroth\\nThe princess is at hand. Lo, I behold\\nApproaching us the people of mine house\\nAs kine do gather in at eventide. iH\\n[Ahinoam and her Women enter. 1\\nIt seemeth, O Ahinoam, my queen, ,j\\nThat, coming hither thus without delay, I\\nThou dost repent of nothing in our thought.\\nAhinoam. My lord, thou knowest that I count it wise\\nTo keep thy pledge to David. Therefore now\\nI come, as thou hast bidden, to betroth.\\nWith thee, our daughter Merab unto him.\\nSaul. Hast thou commanded that a worthy feast\\nBe spread?\\nAhinoam. Aye, all is ready even now,\\nAnd many precious gifts await our child.\\nBehold her coming onward in the midst\\nOf her companions. Is there one so fair?\\n{Merab and her Maidens enter.\\nYet dost thou mark her face? How pale it is.\\nAssuredly some grief hath come to pass.", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 125\\nWhat ill, O Merab, hath befallen thee,\\nWhat woe doth now thy countenance betray?\\nMerab. Ask me not, O my mother, or else prepare\\nTo save me quickly from my father s will.\\nI honor David but have no love for him^\\nSince Adriel possesseth all my heart.\\nAhinoam. Alas, my daughter, why wilt thou be led\\nBy vain imagination and desire,\\nWhen this is for thy welfare and the king s.\\nHear thou my counsel with thy father s need\\nAnd be thou wise. It is too late to grieve.\\n[Michal enter eth.]\\nMerab. Lo, there is Michal. Bid her come to me.\\nAhinoam. Go, woman, bring the Princess Michal here.\\n[A Maidservant goeth in vain.\\nWhy cometh not thy sister There apart\\nShe standeth as at strife with all the earth.\\n[Rispah entereth and joineth Michal. David and Jona-\\nthan enter also.\\nBehold thy brother now and at his side\\nComes goodly David. Look you how he walks\\nWith lofty head as if he were indeed\\nA prince of Israel, and, after him,\\nThe great and valiant Abner draweth nigh.\\n{Enter Abner.]\\nSaul. Now all are here assembled who are bid\\nUnto the gladness of our household feast,\\nWhereat I, Saul, the king of Israel,\\nAnd good Ahinoam, my faithful queen,\\nBetroth the eldest daughter of our love,", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "126 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nThe Princess Merab. Of her excellent\\nAnd gentle virtues, none require praise\\nFor from her childhood hath she been with you\\nTo quicken every pure and good report\\nAnd pluck the spreading wings of evil words.\\nI, therefore, having knowledge of her worth\\nAnd purposed that she be kept secure\\nFrom any peril which doth magnify\\nSorrows unto a maid of lofty birth,\\nFrom any weary bondage to the base\\nAnd selfish lusts that persecute the heart;\\nI do proclaim that I betroth my child,\\nMy daughter Merab, unto Adriel.\\n[Tumult\\nAhinoam. Thou wouldst say to David.\\nSaul. Nay, I say\\nTo Adriel, the young Meholathite\\nWho standeth here a good and faithful son.\\n[Great tumult.\\nMerab. I bless thee, O my father. Gladness now\\nAbideth with me and obedience,\\nSince thou hast given me the one I love.\\nAdriel. I thank thee once again, my gracious king,\\nAnd pledge thee here my heart, my sword, my hfe.\\nMichal. Beloved father, let me also join\\nIn fond thanksgiving that thy soul hath found\\nRejoicing for my sister in her choice.\\nForgive me Merab now if I have turned\\nAway in anger or distrust from thee.\\nBe patient but a little. By and by\\nI will upon thy bosom tell thee all.\\nDavid. My lord the king, I would not be the last\\nTo give thee thanks", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 127\\nSaul. Lo, dost thou too rejoice\\nThat I have taken Merab from thine arms?\\nSome spirit hath possession of ye all\\nTo my confusion, else so great a shame\\nAs this appeareth which I do command,\\nShould make a lover rend in bitterness\\nHis goodly raiment and in sackcloth flee\\nUnto the desert from the sight of men\\nYet thou dost come with cheerful countenance\\nAnd thank me also.\\nDavid. Truly, O my king,\\nI thank thee, and the gladness of my face\\nHath no dissimulation, nor, withal,\\nWould it dissemble, even to thine eyes,\\nIf this reproach, which thou hast thought upon\\nTo do me harm, did not remove from me\\nA greater burden than it willed to set\\nUpon the bended shoulders of my soul.\\nSaul. What sayest thou, proud fool?\\nAbner. Forbear with him.\\nThou hast a grievous provocation given.\\nDavid. My lord, thy servant thinketh not of wrong\\nTo thee, the Lord s anointed. Shouldst thou smite\\nMy cheek and bitter indignation turn\\nThe one unsmitten to a deeper flame.\\nYet would I raise no hand to Israel s king.\\nNor did I hold in lightness of esteem\\nThe treasure of thy promise unfulfilled.\\nTo honor gentle Merab is a joy\\nI share with all thy people, but her heart\\nWas given long ago to Adriel,\\nAs speedily she told me on the day\\nWhen we communed together. Furthermore,", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "128 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nIf thou wilt pardon arrogance of tongue.\\nWhich yet may not offend the ears of all,\\nThy servant, while he doeth reverence,\\nUnto the Princess Merab, knoweth not\\nIn her regard that longing of the heart\\nWhich man in vain appointeth for his friend.\\nThat crimson fruit of love which groweth wild.\\nDefying power, wealth, or comeliness\\nTo find its seed or plant it as they ^\\\\\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ill. 4\\nWherefore, as I have neither lover s grace, If\\nOr portion which befitteth Merab s lot,\\nI thank thee with the joyfulness of all i\\nFor this which thou hast done and count my soul r\\nAs free as it hath been to hear and ser\\\\-e\\nThe whisper of its loftiest desires\\nIn sweet companionship of kindred minds,\\nTo give unto the honor of thy reign\\nThe strength of all its zeal for Israel,\\nAnd, loving this our nation, to extol\\nIts Guide, Defender and Almighty King.\\n[David and Jonathan go to the Queen.\\nAdriel [to Saul] Thy blow hath come to naught.\\nSaul. Aye, yet again\\nHe doth escape me. Twere as if the head\\nOf this my spear had fallen from its staff\\nWhen I had thought to smite him to the earth.\\nAdriel. Perchance, a better day shall give to thee\\nOccasion to rebuke him. Said I not\\nThat it was David s pleasure to be free\\nFrom Alerab s gift, yet surely I had thought\\nThat this reproach would drive him from thy face,\\nOr make him violent and give thee cause\\nTo bid thy soldiers slay him. As it be,", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 129\\nThough he escape, thou hast maintained thy pride\\nAnd, in this hour of my higliest hope,\\nJoy only should prevail. I pray thy leave\\nTo seek her side whom thou hast given me.\\nAbner. My lord the king, if I may be so bold.\\nWhat purpose turned thee from thy intent\\nTo give to David Merab s comeliness?\\nSaul. For all that I may do I answer not.\\nDid not the ending prove my judgment wise\\nAbner. Forgive me, O my lord, twas very wise,\\nYet hath thy wisdom not attained all\\nWhich royal eyes might see or words complete.\\nSaul. What hast thou hidden, Abner, in thy thought\\nAbner. Didst thou, perchance, behold fair Michal s\\nface\\nWhen thou wert speaking?\\nSaul. Nay.\\nAbner. Or note her cry\\nOf happiness when Merab was bestowed\\nTo Adriel s instead of David s trust?\\nSaul. I heard it not. But w hat doth signify\\nThe language of her countenance or voice?\\nStay, thinkest thou that David hath her heart?\\nAbner. My lord the king, a little time gone by\\nI held a conversation with thy child\\nAnd, even as the heart of Racliel longed\\nFor Jacob, so hath Michal given place\\nTo David, son of Jesse, in desire.\\nSaul. But dost thou know it of a certainty,\\nThe thing thou sayest, and that David hath\\nThe self-same spirit?\\nAbner. If I may believe\\n|l Thy daughter s lips, the falling of her eyes.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "130 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nThe tumult of her bosom and the blood\\nWhich rose unto her forehead as she spake,\\nI give thee faithful tidings.\\nSaul. It is well.\\nThe favor pleaseth me. What thinkest thou?\\nAbner. My lord, if but as chiefest of thy host\\nI spake, I could not better counsel give\\nTo strengthen and establish thee. Thy foes\\nAre many and are gathered roundabout\\nThe heritage of Israel. Behold,\\nUpon the north and westward on the plain,\\nThe proud Philistines vanquished, in their rage\\nDo gather newer strength throughout the gates\\nOf mighty cities Gath and Ashkelon,\\nAnd Ashdod, Gaza, Ekron ^all await\\nTo pour avenging armies in thy vales,\\nWhich only fear of David hindereth.\\nThese on thy front, and, where the sun appears,\\nThe kings of Zobah wait thy languishing.\\nIf thou dost over Jordan cast thine eyes.\\nAlthough thy sword hath slaughtered, root and branch,\\nThe proud Amalekites and made secure\\nThy royal crown in Ammonitish blood,\\nThere still abides a remnant for thy hate\\nWith watchful Moab, kindred to their tribe\\nBy Lot twofold begotten and beyond,\\nUnto the south, awaiteth Esau s seed\\nIn Edom s mountains to proclaim thy fall.\\nIs there no wisdom, then, in strengthening\\nThine arm against them. This thou verily\\nShalt compass in possessing David s love.\\nSince all men know his mightiness in thy wars\\nAnd favor with thine armies. Furthermore,", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 131\\nNot only shall all Judah follow him\\nInto thy better keeping but one saith\\nThat he is come of Moabitish race\\nAnd thus may for their peace be surety.\\nWherefore, as captain and as counselor,\\nFor reasons manifold I do commend\\nThis David to the glory of thy will.\\nSaul. Thy reasoning, good uncle, doth suffice\\nAnd honoreth the greatness of thy soul,\\nSince it doth favor him who riseth up\\nFrom naught to share thy lofty dignities.\\nAye, if man may be trusted, thou are he.\\nAhner. So keep me in thy heart and let thy faith\\nGo also unto him, for I perceive\\nHe hath the spirit of obedience\\nAnd honor grateful to a soldier s mind.\\nSuch men provoke not envy but in those\\nWhose soul should serve them rather than command.\\nSaul. Bid Adriel, I pray thee, come to me.\\n[Abner seeketh Adriel.\\nAdriel. What wouldst thou, my king? Have they not\\nsaid\\nThat all is now prepared for the feast\\nAnd we await thee?\\nSaul. Give me first thine ear.\\nIt seemeth that this fellow hath the love\\nOf Michal. It were well to favor him,\\nThat all his cunning and his troop of friends\\nBe turned not against us. But attend,\\nAnd her desire yet shall serve our need,\\nFor I shall pledge her to him but devise\\nSuch tarrying and trial of his strength\\nThat she shall be a snare in David s path", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "132 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nUntil at last Philistine enmity\\nShall satisfy our vengeance in his blood.\\nSay naught to Phaltiel before I speak,\\nAnd go thy way and feign thy pleasure well.\\nDavid, wilt thou come nigher unto me.\\nSome knowledge hath been given to mine ear\\nConcerning thee whereof my joy partakes,\\nSince it assureth me that Michal s heart\\nIs thy possession and that she alone,\\nOf all the earth, hath overcome thy will\\nAnd vanquished thy desire. Therefore know\\nThis day shalt thou be yet my son-in-law\\nAs one of twain, for Michal shall be thine.\\nDavid. My lord the king, I would not now deny\\nThy grace, as heretofore, for lack of love,\\nSince Michal liveth ever in my heart\\nAnd I have gained favor in her sight.\\nYet, if thou dost forget my shepherd youth\\nIn this bestowal of her loveliness\\nAnd she can put all lordly suitors by,\\nStill am I poor and cannot give to thee\\nThe portion which befitteth one who takes\\nUnto himself the daughter of a king.\\nI have no goodly house or fertile lands\\nOr revenue which Michal meriteth.\\nSaul. Again, O David, thou dost make excuse.\\nDenying all the grace I offer thee,\\nE en that which rendereth the promise sure\\nI made in Elah s vale unto him\\nWho should the great Philistine overcome.\\nAnd, if there lacketh yet unto thy hand\\nThe riches that thou wouldst, verily\\nThe steward of the royal treasure house,", "height": "2994", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL\\n133\\nWhen he hath reckoned up his just accounts,\\nShall give sufficient measure for thy needs.\\nTake heed thy stubbornness consumeth not\\nThe patience of thy king, and therefore now\\nLet not the thought of dowry trouble thee.\\nThis canst thou well consider in the days\\nOf honor that do beckon thee to war\\nAnd victory and thine abundant spoil.\\nTherefore, O David, let my word abide.\\nMichal, my child, come hither. It is said\\nThat David findeth grace before thine eyes,\\nAnd he confesseth that he loveth thee.\\nWhat wilt thou, O my daughter?\\nNothing more,\\nIf I am sure indeed of David s love,\\nThan that consent which showeth on thy face.\\nBend down, my gracious father, that I kiss\\nThy cheeks in all the perfectness of joy.\\nBehold, there hangeth loose upon my arm\\nThis precious bracelet of jewels set\\nIn heavy gold, wrought by the patient toil\\nOf Tyre s workmen with so rare a skill\\nThou mightest think the wonder-working hand\\nOf that great artificer Bezaleel,\\nThe honored of Jehovah, had devised\\nIts beauty. This a worthy merchant brought\\nBut yesterday. I purchased it in haste,\\nLarge as it is, and now it shall be thine,\\nFor, verily, some prophecy of bliss\\nMust needs have made it thus desire s choice\\nTo be a token of my grateful heart.\\nGive me thine arm. There let it surely hold\\nWhile life remaineth, vowing thee my love.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "134 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nSaid. [Regarding the bracelet on his arm.]\\nWhen David doth begiiile thee from my house,\\nShall this be token, of thy love, indeed,\\nOr only, Michal, of thy loveliness.\\nOr of the pride of kingly heritage\\nWhich thou dost render unto me again\\nWhatever be the sign, here shall it rest\\nWhile any might abideth in mine arm\\nTo guard our royal name in Israel.\\nAnd if an evil spirit seek to turn\\nMy face from thee, may it renew within\\nA government of gentleness and peace.\\nYe who are with me, hear the words of Saul.\\nBehold, this day of gladness in mine house\\nHath gotten double portion for its good,\\nSince Adriel rejoiceth not alone.\\nHe, as ye all have been the witnesses.\\nHath gained a royal bond to Merab s love\\nIn this betrothal, which shall be fulfilled\\nBy marriage in the month that is to come.\\nBut, furthermore, I know by mine own ears\\nThat David, whom ye thought upon to-day\\nAs called unto me for Merab s gift,\\nHath not the less obtained royal grace\\nBy winning Michal s love unto himself,\\nAnd thus he maketh me a way to turn\\nThe sorrow of denial from his thought.\\nWherefore, that I may perfectly fulfil\\nMy royal word in Elah to the host,\\nAnd render pleasure unto Israel,\\nIt is my royal purpose to betroth\\nOur lovely Michal to the faithfulness", "height": "3034", "width": "1796", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 135\\nOf valiant David, and, if all be well,\\nWhen Merab shall have wedded Adriel\\nAnd all their days of feasting are at end,\\nThen, at the second fulness of the moon,\\nShall David have reward of long delay\\nAnd Michal s love rejoice. Thus saith the king.\\nPhaltiel [aside to Ad^ iel]. What meaneth this?\\nAdriel. I know not, but the wolf\\nAssuredly doth feed with lions still.\\nPhaltiel. Now, verily, when heaven prospers thee,\\nThou art a scoffer also.\\nIshboshcth. Tarry not,\\nO Phaltiel, with this base brother thrust\\nUpon me in the madness of the king.\\nGo forth with me. I cannot suffer him.\\nPhaltiel. Nay, Ishbosheth, thou wouldst not alike\\nForsake the feast and dare the royal will\\nIshbosheth. Thy weakness hath its wisdom. Let the\\nfeast\\nDetain thy feet, my father s anger mine.\\nDavid. O Princess Michal, dost thou love me still?\\nMichal. Ere I do answer, let me likewise ask\\nA question thou hast given to my soul.\\nFor one beheld a youth at Merab s side,\\nWho, when they parted, kissed her tenderly.\\nDavid. It was a salutation but of peace\\nThat each had made resolve to steadfastly\\nKeep other vows, and then, because of thee.\\nAs brother greeteth sister, we rejoiced.\\nMichal. Now do I love thee. Rather let me say,\\nSince I could not but love throughout my pain\\nOf spirit, now I love to tell thee so,", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "136 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nDavid. Thy father s words were as a goodly wine\\nUpon the lips, but these so softly told\\nAre wine which hath united with the blood\\nAnd formeth glowing visions of delight\\nThy words are sweet to me as chosen strings\\nUpon my harp to which my hand returns\\nWhatever be my song.\\nMiclial. Then do thou make\\nMy love thy harp and search thy melodies\\nWithin its fond desire for thy bliss.\\nDavid. I shall be faithful, even as of old\\nElkanah was, when, in the choice of twain,\\nHe gave to Hannah s need his heart s desire\\nAnd tenderness of spirit, gleaning in\\nAll longings of her bosom to his own.\\nYet what am I and how should I compare\\nThe mother of the prophet in her woes\\nWith thee, in all the brightness of thy grace?\\nHow shall I wear the treasure of thy love,\\nOr, saddest doubt of all, how shall I count\\nUpon the passing promise of the king\\nIn seasons of his dark infirmity?\\nMichal. Be of good courage, thou who art so strong,\\nAnd do thine uttermost. Then, if a time\\nOf tribulation come, my breast shall front\\nBeside thee thy familiar enemies,\\nNeed, malice, envy or my father s spear,\\nAnd, if thou overcomest by thy love\\nHis evil spirit or, by might, his foes.\\nThen shalt thou be partaker, as by birth,\\nOf my delights and guard me as a king.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 137\\nSaul. O wherefore, gentle lovers, tarry thus\\nIn converse which beguileth appetite\\nToo delicate or arrogant for good\\nBefore its time. Behold, my household waits\\nAnd all is ready. Let us to a feast\\nWhich satisfieth with abundant cheer.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "PART V.\\nPLACE I. A Camp. David, Jonathan, a Captain of the IVatch\\nand Soldiers.\\nDavid. Art thou, to-day, the captain of the watch\\nCaptain. I am, O vahant David.\\nDavid. Have a care\\nThat all the men who guard us roundabout\\nBe set a goodly distance from the camp\\nThat they may give us warning in the night\\nOf any peril. Teach them vigilance\\nAs they would hold their lives and honor dear,\\nFor certain of my spies have come to me\\nWith tidings that there hasteth from the plain\\nA troop of the Philistines hitherward,\\nI doubt not, with intent to feel the strength\\nOf Saul s defenses, seeking if there rests\\nA lofty place which they can hold secure\\nTo do a grievous harm to Benjamin\\nIn all its borders, even as a band\\nOf wolves which, from their dens amid the hills.\\nDo prey upon the shepherd s tender flock.\\n[The Captain and Soldiers go forth.\\nJonathan. What fire can destroy these heathen foes\\nWhich come like thistle seed on every wind\\nTo take an evil root and spread abroad\\nIn all the land Jehovah promised us\\nScarce have we driven them on every side\\nWhen they return to cast forth from our tents\\nThe peace which taketli meat with Israel.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 139\\nDavid. My brother, if the seed of Abraham\\nAre worthy of the gift the Lord hath made\\nAnd of the faith of Joshua, their hands\\nWill testify it still in valiant deeds\\nTo make our mighty heritage secure.\\nThy father s sword hath gloriously slain\\nThe enemies of Israel, and thine\\nHath made a breach among them at his side.\\nLet me as well do honor to the king\\nAnd these Philistines shall not tarry long,\\nFor thou shalt see abiding in my soul\\nA zeal beyond the glory of a day.\\nJonathan. And thereupon, O David, is a thing\\nWhich I would ask of thee in all the truth\\nWe covenanted ever in the host.\\nDavid. Ask, Jonathan, and I will answer thee.\\nJonathan. A captain of the host amid the troop\\nThat serveth me hath met with certain men\\nAmong my soldiers called by the names\\nEliab and Abinadab, and one\\nAs Shammah known, which three do all maintain\\nThey are thy brethren, even Jesse s sons.\\nAnd, furthermore, since thou art counted great.\\nThey make excuse that, in thy single strength.\\nThou art no more than others, but hast found\\nSurpassing might and cunningness of hand\\nAnd wisdom in thy ways before the king\\nBy virtue of the Lord s anointing oil.\\nWherewith the seer of Ramah, Samuel,\\nAnointed thee when he had sought thee out\\nAnd blessed thee above the sons of men.\\nIs this which they have said a true report?\\nDavid. Aye, verily, though perilous to tell.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "140 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nJonathan. When did it come to pass\\nDavid. A little time\\nAfter the war with the Amalekites\\nWhen none were left among them and the spoil\\nOf cattle was a boast in all our gates.\\nBut, since in part thou knowest of the thing,\\nI will reveal it all and do thou judge\\nIf it were wise to publish in the land.\\nUpon a certain day when, with my sheep,\\nI wandered nigh the path which goeth up\\nUnto the northward gate of Bethlehem,\\nBehold an ancient man of woeful face\\nWho led an heifer thither after him.\\nI watched him long until he passed the wall.\\nAt length there came a lad who spake to me,\\nSaying my father Jesse bade me come,\\nWhereat I hastened upward to the town\\nAnd found a throng upon the open place\\nOf sacrifice and, sitting in the midst.\\nBeside the altar was the ancient man\\nAnd many elders and, before them all.\\nMy father and my brethren. And I heard\\nThat he, whom I perceived was Samuel,\\nHad looked with favor on Eliab first,\\nWho hath a lofty stature and a proud\\nAnd goodly countenance, and said aloud,\\nSurely the Lord s anointed is at hand,\\nBut suddenly he put Eliab back\\nWith troubled face and bid my brethren all\\nTo pass before him, saying ever thus\\nAs he beheld them, Neither hath the Lord\\nMade choice of this and when he at the last\\nLooked on me, as I sought my father s side.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 141\\nHe Straightway rose and bade me come to him,\\nAnd took an horn of oil and, in the sight\\nOf all my brethren, he anointed me,\\nSaying I was desired of the Lord,\\nAnd left us wondering and went his way.\\nAnd it was told me then that aged men,\\nWho knew the prophet s parting from the king,\\nWere sorely troubled to behold his face\\nLest some calamity should come with him\\nAnd they be called straightway to withstand\\nThy father s sceptre and his enmity.\\nJonathan. Why hast thou hidden from me until now\\nThe secret of thy courage and thy zeal?\\nDavid. The Lord is witness that I have not ceased\\nTo give His name the glory and the praise\\nOf all which bringeth favor unto me\\nBefore the eyes of men.\\nJonathan. And Samuel?\\nDavid. Of him and of his deed I told thee not\\nLest thou shouldst count so marvelous a tale\\nVainglorious or false and turn away\\nIn sad reproach or silence from my love,\\nAnd lest thy father should, with just excuse\\nOf jealousy, slay all of Jesse s seed.\\nOr Israel, in foolishness of heart,\\nShould make my name a cause against the king.\\nJonathan. Hast thou suspicion then of what the deed\\nOf Samuel imputeth to thy lot?\\nDavid. I cannot tell thee certainly. I know\\nThat mine anointing needs must signify\\nSome special grace or power of the Lord,\\nAs since my life hath proven.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "143 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nJonathan. Hast thou heard\\nThat Saul was thus prepared for a crown\\nDavid. Put thou away this poison from my mind\\nBeloved prince, for it beguileth not.\\nWherefore should I, a shepherd from the hills\\nOf little Bethlehem and ignorant\\nOf all beyond its teaching and the scrolls\\nOf patient Job and Moses, Joshua,\\nAnd some that Samuel hath given us.\\nWherefore should I desire to be king\\nIn that far time when, by the will of God,\\nThy father. His anointed, and thyself\\nMay be removed from our faithful love?\\nJonathan. Thou wouldst, then, be faithful unto Saul\\nAs king of Israel and unto me,\\nIf I should yet receive my father s crown?\\nDavid. O Jonathan, beloved of my heart,\\nI swear to thee that, in all reverence.\\nMy life shall serve thy father as the king\\nAnointed of the Lord to lead His hosts\\nAnd keep His people in their heritage,\\nNor ever shall he find his trust in vain.\\nA To thee, how can I swear a faithfulness\\nBeyond the bond thou hast.\\\\ If I am friend\\nIn all the blessing of our covenant.\\nThen am I subject to thy love and law\\nAlready, and the first sufificeth all.\\nThe crown is thine. Let but thy love remain\\nAnd it shall be the only throne I prize.\\nJonathan. Thou, verily, art faithful of an host.\\nAnd, that thou mayest now believe my trust,\\nI likewise will reveal of secret things\\nWhich no man knoweth but my father Saul", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 143\\nAnd Samuel and him before thy face.\\nKnow then, when I had smitten in the hold\\nOf Geba the Philistine garrison,\\nThey gathered in revenge a multitude\\nOf fighting men at Michmash to the fear\\nOf Israel, and Saul my father made\\nBurnt offerings and offerings of peace,\\nWhile Samuel tarried, in the people s stead.\\nBut when he came thus speak he to the king\\nThou hast done foolishly, thou hast not kept\\nThe strict commandment of the Lord thy God\\nWhich He commandeth thee, which, hadst thou done,\\nHe would have ever made thy kingdom sure.\\nBut it shall not continue for the Lord\\nHath sought a man out after his own heart\\nAnd hath commanded him that he may be\\nA captain of his people Israel,\\nBecause thou hast not kept that which the Lord\\nCommanded thee. Whereat my father Saul\\nBegan to cherish wrath and in despite\\nRuled others harshly, so that when I smote\\nAt Michmash the Philistines utterly\\nAnd, after Saul had bidden none to eat,\\nTasted a little honey, being faint,\\nMy father would have had me put to death.\\nAnd, had not all who heard withstood the king\\nFor love of me, no mercy in his heart,\\nNo tenderness for all my duty past\\nWould have prevailed to save me from the sword.\\nThe judgment of Jehovaih s righteousness\\nDoth in its terrors hear his children s cry.\\nBut who can trust the madness of a king.\\nNow David, thou perceivest all my woe.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "144 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nDavid. If he would slay thee, wherefore should I\\ngrieve\\nOver his evil will?\\nJonathan. But harken yet\\nIts further deed, for in a little space\\nIt came to pass that, when the king returned\\nFrom smiting Amalek and drove his spoil\\nOf fatted sheep and oxen out from thence,\\nThat he regarded not the Lord s command\\nTo utterly destroy both man and beast\\nIn all their borders. Wherefore Samuel,\\nWho had commandment given for the Lord,\\nRebuked my father, when they saw me not,\\nAnd said to him Stay thou and I will tell\\nThee what the Lord hath said to me this night.\\nBehold, when thou wast little in thine eyes.\\nWast thou not made the head of all the tribes\\nOf Israel, anointed as their king?\\nGod sent thee on a journey then and said\\nGo thou for Me and utterly destroy\\nThe sinners, the Amalekites, and fight\\nAgainst them until they be all consumed.\\nThen wherefore didst thou not obey the voice\\nOf God the Lord, but fly upon the spoil\\nAnd do this evil thing before His face?\\nAnd, when my father sought his own defense\\nAnd, for the people, spake of sacrifice,\\nThen Samuel said Hath God as great delight\\nIn sacrifices or burnt ofiferings\\nAs in obeying perfectly His word?\\nLo, to obey is more than sacrifice.\\nTo harken better than the fat of rams\\nRebellion is as witchcraft in its sin", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 145\\nAnd stubbornness is as iniquity\\nAnd worshipping of idols. Therefore now\\nBecause thou hast rejected this His word,\\nThe Lord rejecteth thee from being king.\\nThen did my father cry, Forgive my sin\\nAnd caught the prophet s mantle and it rent,\\nWhereat he said, Thus hath the Lord this day\\nRent from thee all the land of Israel\\nAnd given up the kingdom thou hast ruled\\nUnto a neighbor better than thou art.\\nSo did my father Saul beseech in vain.\\nSave that, before the people, Samuel\\nWent after him unto the sacrifice.\\nAnd slew the king of the Amalekites\\nIn bitterness of wrath and went his way.\\nIt seemeth now, from that which thou hast told,\\nThat, after certain days in Ramah spent,\\nHe sought thee out in little Bethlehem.\\nWherefore, if other spirit guided him\\nThan the impatience of his waxing years.\\nThou art the chosen servant of the Lord,\\nAnointed for a time man knoweth not\\nTo reign upon the throne of Israel.\\nWhat sayest thou? Have I not trusted thee?\\nDavid. And why dost thou declare so sad a thing?\\nJonathan. I tell thee, since thou knowest that the\\nLord\\nIs with thee, that thou shouldst also know\\nThe sorrow which abideth with the king.\\nAnd, in the greatness of thy heart, forgive\\nThe darkness of his spirit and the wrath\\nAnd jealousy which seeketh for thy life.\\nLeaving the Lord to guide my way and thine.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "146 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nI Speak, moreover, now to prove thy love\\nAnd have thee here discover all thy will.\\nDavid. My brother, doubt me not. If all the words\\nThat Samuel hath said should come to pass,\\nIt may, by heaven s mercy, yet be long,\\nAnd Saul, forgiven, honored in his age,\\nMay die in peace and thou be lifted up\\nTo reign for many years in righteousness\\nEre I am called by weeping Israel,\\nFor I am yet a youth and covet naught\\nWhich would abase the king or wound thy love.\\nJonathan. Then is thy heart as true as Joshua s,\\nFor, had thy valor been of evil birth,\\nI should have seen the joyfulness of proud\\nAnd arrogant desires in thine eyes.\\nAssuredly the spirit of the Lord\\nIs with thee. Even though I loved thee not,\\nHow should I strive with Him who overcame\\nThe mightiness of Pharaoh s enmity,\\nOr lift my voice unto the King of Kings\\nTo teach Him who shall reign in Israel.\\nDavid. O Jonathan, as thou dost love thy friend.\\nShut up so deep a secret of thy trust\\nWithin thy bosom and thy heart and mine\\nShall build a temple over it to hide\\nThe sepulcher beneath for evermore.\\nOur souls shall be anointed, not to rule\\nIn all the persecution of a throne\\nWhere care and pride and fear do never cease\\nTo strive for mastery, but unto us\\nBe given of that pure and holy oil\\nWhich strengtheneth and sanctifieth men\\nTo serve where something higher than their heart", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 147\\nBegetteth zeal and might. Thus shall we live\\nIn friendship s sweetest bond, in loyal faith\\nTo Saul the king and Israel s defense,\\nAnd in a fuller glory of the Lord.\\nJonathan. Be it as thou hast said, and let us here,\\nAt this the Ebenezer of our faith,\\nSet up a stone, a second covenant\\nOf love beyond the dream of evil men.\\nBut, noble David, if thou wouldst serve\\nAlike thy highest welfare and desire,\\nI pray thee give me answer yet again,\\nAnd, peradventure, it shall come to pass\\nThat, if thou dost regard me, the reward\\nShall follow speedily thy deed of grace.\\nThou knowest, David, since the joyful feast\\nWhen Merab was betrothed to Adriel\\nAnd Michal unto thee, that these my lips\\nHave uttered naught concerning Saul s desire,\\nFor, inasmuch as thou didst seem to bear\\nA burden on thy spirit, I was fain\\nTo wait a better day for such discourse\\nAs I, thy friend and brother, should partake.\\nDavid. I thank thee, Jonathan, that thou hast borne\\nIn patience with me for a Uttle space,\\nUntil my weary soul be purified\\nFrom craftiness of courts and arrogance\\nOf riches and the cruelties of power.\\nThe treachery of pride that pities not,\\nThe simpleness of vain and empty minds,\\nOr vileness of the youth of baser sort\\nWho make the night a hell in Gibeah\\nThese things have I exchanged for the peace\\nOf sure and faithful duty in the camp", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "148 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nWhere I do breathe again the living air\\nI loved on Judah s hills and take my rest\\nWith joyfulness or look upon the stars\\nIn their degrees throughout the firmament\\nAs men upon the earth who serve or rule,\\nAnd wonder which of all the shining host\\nShould bear my name. Now, therefore, in the day\\nOf consolation, shall I answer thee\\nThe thing thou wouldst, keeping nothing back.\\nJonathan. O David, tell me then if in thy heart\\nThou hast an altar still to Michal s love\\nAnd keepest steadfast flame.\\nDavid. My brother, aye,\\nHer love is as the Shiloh of my life\\nAnd every thought hath now become a priest\\nTo watch and pour the sacramental oil\\nUpon that altar.\\nJonathan. Wherefore then delay.\\nSince not the less my sister loveth thee\\nAnd Saul my father hath the mind to loose\\nHis cherished dove for shelter in thy breast?\\nThou shouldst seize the moment of his grace\\nEre yet the time appointed passeth by,\\nLest enmity thereafter cleave the camp\\nAnd put thee to confusion.\\nDavid. Lend thine ear.\\nWherefore should any man of poor estate\\nEspouse a maiden who hath what she will\\nOf all that fertile valleys do conceive\\nUnto the care of watchful husbandmen.\\nOf all the choice and cunning handiwork\\nOf those wliom royal favor watereth,\\nBut, out of lips whose truth might yield increase", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 149\\nOf food and precious raiment to the soul,\\nHath only flattery s corrupting words?\\nHe would be ever humble in her eyes\\nAnd, with a growing use of wealth s delight.\\nWould be the more her slave instead of lord,\\nOr else the base oppressor of her days.\\nIf, peradventure, he should yet attain\\nBy his own strength to proud authority,\\nHe would be hedged in by blind conceit\\nOf riches, which do turn the heart away\\nFrom equity of mind and gentleness\\nAnd mercy, saving that which mocketh love.\\nAnd woman s pride would scourge him from his rest\\nOr scorn him, did the lingering desires\\nOf open hearted youth like lilies bloom\\nAt times amid the thicket of the world.\\nTherefore, O Jonathan, although my heart\\nIn its first flight hath risen to the realm\\nOf eagles by the madness of desire.\\nWhy should the Princess Michal cherish long\\nA lover from the flocks of Bethlehem,\\nOr Saul the king forget his jealousy\\nAnd hatred in exalting me the more?\\nJonathan. Nay, David, I adjure thee, take thy lot\\nAs marvelously guided by the Lord\\nWhose will directeth all the ways of men,\\nAnd put thine armor on to terrify\\nIn all their tents the foes of Israel.\\nLet grief diminish not thy strength to bear\\nIn thine integrity my father s hate,\\nWhich lurketh yet assuredly within.\\nBe thou resolved wisely to sustain\\nThe power set upon thee, letting not", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "150 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAn arrogance of speech offend the just\\nOr fools mistake thy meekness. Last of all,\\nYet sweetest offering to my desire,\\nTake thou the royal love thy fame hath won\\nIn valiant hope and guard my sister well\\nBeyond the darts of trouble and of fear\\nWherewith the evil spirit of the king,\\nWhen it possesseth him, doth pierce her soul.\\nAnd, that the way be not so steep to thee,\\nI have, thou knowest, by the city wall\\nA goodly house which seeth not my face\\nSince I have purchased that wherein I dwell\\nNearer the palace. Take the house for thine,\\nMy brother David, as the marriage gift\\nMy love for thee doth hasten to bestow.\\nDavid. O Jonathan, how can I take from thee\\nSo liberal an offering, the less\\nAs I am poor and have not wherewithal\\nTo live in such a manner as is meet\\nTo honor Michal.\\nJonathan. Hast thou not received\\nThy portion of Philistine spoil or wealth\\nMy father promised unto him who slew\\nThe champion Goliath?\\nDavid. Nay, my friend,\\nThe king hath promised often to fulfil\\nHis word in Elah, but as oft withheld\\nThe riches which all men believe are mine,\\nFor he mistrusteth me with jealous heart.\\nAnd I have kept my peace as, until now,\\nI have not sorrowed in the greed of gold.\\nJonathan. This is a shame I had not thought upon\\nAnd stirreth indignation in my breast.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 151\\nBehold, if I have any grace to plead\\nThy cause before my father, he shall mend\\nWith speedy hand the wrong he doeth thee,\\nAnd, with these riches and thy portion due\\nAs captain of a thousand, thou shalt gain\\nA revenue sufficient for thy need.\\nDavid. Thou, Jonathan, art truly such a friend\\nAs maketh any thought a needless care,\\nBut, until I am favored of the king,\\nThere yet remaineth ever in the gulf\\nMy pride hath set betwixt me and my joy.\\nSuch dowry as befitteth Michal s love,\\nAnd this my lofty station in the host.\\n{Enter a Soldier.\\nWhat wouldst thou?\\nSoldier. I come to tell my lord\\nThat there are certain servants of the king\\nReturned to the camp from Gibeah\\nWho, nigh at hand, await discourse with thee.\\nDavid. Bid them appear before me.\\n[Soldier goeth out.\\nThus attend,\\nO Jonathan, with little space of days,\\nThe messengers that Saul doth send to me\\nWho now would know my welfare, now profess\\nTo give me later tidings of the foe.\\nWhereof I tell them more, and now again\\nDo make excuse to search throughout the camp\\nFor certain missing men they vainly seek;\\nWhence I perceive the king mistrusteth me\\nAnd sendeth spies to prove my faithfulness.\\nII", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "152 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nJonathan. I pray thee, bear with his infirmity,\\nNor yet forget that thou art newly come\\nTo honor in the host and that the kings\\nOf the PhiHstines strive for their revenge\\nBy might, or gold, or craft, or beauty s wiles,\\nTherefore, though he doth lack my faith and love,\\nSaul doeth, as a soldier, what is well.\\nDavid. Aye, thou art just, but to the upright mind\\nSuspicions are as nettles in the way.\\nYet hold, these messengers who come to me\\nPerchance have other purpose. There is time.\\nThrice hath the sun arisen on the camp\\nSince certain men came down from Gibeah\\nAmid the caravan which brought a store\\nOf weapons and provisions for our need.\\nThese held discourse with me and, at the dawn,\\nThey straightway journeyed back unto the king.\\nIt may be that he sendeth speedily\\nThese servants yet again. Give me thine ear.\\nThat I may tell the manner of their speech\\nAnd thou shalt judge of whose device it was,\\nTheirs or thy father s. Thus they spake to me\\nBehold, the king hath great delight in thee\\nAnd all his servants love thee. Therefore now\\nBe son-in-law to Saul. Whereat I said\\nLo, seemeth it a light thing unto you\\nTo be a son-in-law unto the king.\\nSeeing I am a poor and humble man\\nAnd held in light esteem by all the proud\\nAnd lordly who do stand about his throne?\\nJonathan. Can nothing move thee, David, art thou\\nstill\\nResolved with an equal pride to these,", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 153\\nBut different in kind, to thrust aside\\nThe joy that waiteth on thee for the lack\\nOf dowry equal to thy heart s desire?\\nWilt thou that the appointed month doth pass\\nAnd find thee weighing yet fair Michal s love\\nWith what a foolish custom doth require,\\nUntil the doors are closed upon the feast,\\nThe lights put out, the minstrels voices hushed,\\nAnd only grief awaiteth for a bride\\nWhom some despised suitor may possess?\\nDavid. Nay, O my friend and brother, thou dost\\nshame\\nThe love I have for Michal and for thee.\\nI cannot more withstand thy pleading voice.\\nLet but a way appear unto my heart,\\nHowever narrow, so it giveth room\\nFor honor to maintain her dignity\\nAnd pass not utterly with empty hand.\\nAnd I will walk within it and my soul\\nShall give itself the freedom of thy hope.\\n{Servants of Saul enter.\\nDavid. The Lord be with ye, if ye serve the king.\\nServant. We bow before thee, noble Jonathan,\\nPrince of the house of Saul, and unto thee\\nO valiant David, captain in the host.\\nDavid. And wherefore come ye hither, friends,\\nto-day?\\nServant. We come, my lord, further to speak to thee\\nConcerning thy discourse a while ago.\\nWhich we were fain to tell unto the king\\nWhen he inquired of thee.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "154 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nDavid. Tarry not\\nBecause the prince remaineth at my side.\\nIf I should lack an ear, he would become\\nMy trusted hearing, if an eye were dimmed,\\nHis love would see to pluck me forth from harm.\\nMoreover, he hath heard of what ye speak.\\nServant. Since it be so, we need no longer hold\\nThe king s command to tell thee secretly,\\nAnd now proclaim to thee his gracious words.\\nHe bid us say, The king desireth not\\nOf David any dowry, save the proof\\nThat he hath slain an hundred, by his might,\\nOf these uncircumcised Philistine foes\\nTo be avenged upon them, When thy hand\\nHath rendered this, the steward of the king\\nShall straightway from the royal treasury\\nGive unto thee the riches justly won\\nBefore the host in Elah and withheld\\nA little time to prove thy faithfulness.\\nDavid. If this he doeth and dotfi ask of me\\nNone other dowry, then I cannot stand\\nBefore ye any longer in the breach\\nTo strive against your urging and against\\nThe quick uprising of my joyful heart.\\nNow, Jonathan, may I indeed become\\nThy brother in the sight of all the world.\\nSay ye, O faithful messengers of Saul,\\nThat it doth please his servant David well\\nTo be a son-inrlaw unto the king;\\nThe dowry shall be rendered speedily\\nAnd of the tale there shall be lacking none.\\n[Saul s Messengers depart.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 155\\n[A few Soldiers enter beyond.]\\nJonathan. Let me embrace thee, David, since at length\\nA path is found for thee to turn thy face\\nIn honor to thy pleasure and the king s.\\nYet, notwithstanding all my joyfulness,\\nI tremble for thee. Though thy cunning hand\\nHath made a sling the servant of thy will\\nHow canst thou turn aside the javelin\\nOr stay a rain of arrows with thy shield\\nWhat knowledge hast thou of the heavy spear\\nOr of the flashing argument of swords\\nWhen mighty men beat down the blows of youth\\nIn the thick strife of war s extremity?\\nI pray thee to consider well thy task\\nBefore thou goest down to heathen rage.\\nDavid. Fear not, O Jonathan. As thou hast seen\\nMy arm withstand Goliath and prevail,\\nSo shalt thou see the Lord direct my way\\nAgainst the lesser foes of Israel,\\nAnd all this troop, which cometh up as wolves.\\nShall be accounted sheep for sacrifice\\nUpon the bloody altar of my love.\\nYe soldiers who attend me, straightway go\\nAnd bid the captains of my companies\\nTo come together that I speak with them.\\n[Soldiers go forth.\\nJonathan. In all the fulness of my love for thee,\\nForgive me, David, if my wiser years\\nAnd long acquaintance with the craft of war\\nDo urge their counsel. Since thy spies have found\\nThe number of this bold Philistine troop\\nAnd where they lie in waiting, hasten thou\\nWith greater forces, which are at thy hand,", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "156 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nDivided into equal companies,\\nAnd go to-night against them unawares.\\nThe moon is almost full, yet setteth soon,\\nAnd, pressing onward early in its light,\\nThou canst in quietness approach the foe,\\nMark out their disposition and await\\nThe darkness to send down thy faithful bands\\nFrom divers sides upon them, sparing not\\nA man to shout in Baal s temples more.\\nDavid. Thy craft is well, but warfare such as this\\nBecometh not the soldier who would gain\\nA dowry for the daughter of his king.\\nI shall not go in darkness, but appear\\nWith lesser number, valiant in the light\\nOf truth-proclaiming day before my foes,\\nAnd, by Jehovah s strength, shall vanquish them.\\nLet me but ask of thee, to prove thy trust,\\nThat thou release my brethren from thy bands\\nIn season for the day that I shall wed,\\nAnd, when thou goest back to Gibeah,\\nWilt straightway send a royal messenger\\nTo Bethlehem with tidings of my joy.\\nAnd that my father Jesse and his house\\nBe bidden to the marriage and the feast,\\n[Captains enter.]\\nMy faithful captains, I have bidden ye\\nTo know a bloody service I would ask,\\nAs never until now, for my delight.\\nThink ye there can be found a little band\\nOf men to follow me in deadly strife\\nAnd tremble not until I teach them fear?\\nist Captain. Behold us ready, first, to serve thy need.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 157\\nDavid. Nay, O my steadfast friends, I cannot choose\\nBut two or three since others must abide\\nTo keep my companies until I come\\nWith those who shall partake my victory.\\nDraw ye a lot and, of my fighting men,\\nAppoint three score who cannot be denied\\nA strife with the Philistine troop below.\\n2nd Captain. But doth my lord remember that our\\nspies\\nDo make report of full three hundred spears\\nIn this same company of heathen foes.\\nShall we not, therefore, go with like array?\\nDavid. Nay. Such a war would be no valiant thing\\nTo tell in Gibeah. The men I need\\nAre only those whose souls desire most\\nThe forefront of the battle s bitter rage\\nWith many spears against them. Do ye say\\nTo soldiers who are worthy that the sword\\nOf David doth reserve unto itself\\nAn hundred, ere its thirst be satisfied.\\nWhat resteth to them of the enemy\\nThey may divide thereafter as they will.\\nAnd pray them that they be not covetous,\\nLest any man have insufficient part\\nOr portion in the glory of our strife.\\nGo ye, and tell me when the men are found.\\nPLACE II. Street of Gibeah before the Palace. Much people\\nof the city.\\n1st Elder. Behold what multitude is gathered here,\\nIn the full glory of the summer moon.\\nBefore the palace to await the bride", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "158 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd mighty David, free through victory\\nTo take her hence.\\n2nd Elder. Aye, it exceedeth far\\nThe number which assembled to acclaim\\nFair Merab when she wedded Adriel.\\n1st Elder. And wherefore, neighbor, should it not be\\nthus?\\nThough Merab is esteemed and her spouse\\nA worthy captain, seeing that the hearts\\nOf all the people greatly love the youth\\nWho, from the sheepfold, winneth to himself\\nBy mighty deeds the daughter of the king?\\n2nd Elder. Thou speakest well, and though the bride\\nbe young\\nAnd hath, perchance, a foolishness of speech,\\nHer merry heart and all her loveliness\\nOf countenance do gain her whom she will.\\n1st Elder. But knowest thou of what the youth hath\\ndone\\nTo give her dowry? Where so many speak,\\nI search the truth in vain.\\n2nd Elder. I know it well,\\nFor one of those who fought at David s side\\nIs of my kindred and, with all the band,\\nSaving a few who fell before the foe.\\nHath entered Gibeah to witness here\\nThe joy of David and partake his praise.\\nThus did my kinsman tell me of his deeds\\nThe while he sat at meat with us to-day.\\nThree score of valiant fighting men were found\\nWho went with joyfulness in open day\\nTo, at his side, defy Goliath s seed.\\nThese first reviled him, for they were strong,", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "DAVID AT^D MICHAL 159\\nThree hundred at the least, but when he ran\\nAnd smote his sword among them and his men\\nWere hard behind him, deahng mighty blows,\\nWhen, though Philistines pressed him roundabout.\\nHe still prevailed against them, slaying all\\nWho ventured to withstand him, then a cry\\nArose among the heathen in their tongue\\nThat they beware, for David was their foe,\\nWhereat a mighty fear came over them\\nYet, ever as they turned about to flee,\\nThe sword of David smote them and, where er\\nThey tarried to resist him, did he still\\nPursue and slay them on the bloody field,\\nUntil their dead were likened unto sheaves\\nOf grain behind the reaper, while, between.\\nWere gleanings for the vultures. Men declare\\nAn hundred of the Lord s revilers fell\\nBefore the mighty arm of Judah s pride.\\nAnd those about him slew an equal tale.\\nThen did the voice of David bid them cease\\nThat they might count the dead and unto Saul\\nRender the proof which he had bidden them.\\nWhereat a remnant of the heathen fled\\nTo tell their sorrow, that our foes should fear\\nNo less the sword of David than his sling.\\n1st Elder. Thou makest me forget the weariness\\nOf standing in the highway. Who can tell\\nWhat heritage awaiteth David s years\\nWhen glory such as this doth crown his youth.\\n1st Woman. Tell me, O Rachel, didst thou ever see\\nA fairer night? The pale and lovely moon\\nAmid the firmament proceedeth on\\nUpon the silent mountains up and down,", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "160 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nLike Jephthah s daughter and his only child\\nBewailing her virginity and here\\nThe white walls of the palace softly shine\\nBeneath the moon as in Siloah s pool\\nDoth the fair marble of Arabia\\nThrough living waters, while the darkened groves\\nOf sycamore and myrtle seem to wave,\\nBy sweet instruction of the evening wind,\\nTheir blessings to the bride of Israel.\\nMaiden. Aye, such an evening doth breathe delight\\nTo those whose tender bosoms cherish love,\\nAnd, where an empty throne awaiteth it.\\nDoth fret the heart with longing.\\n1st Scribe. Now behold,\\nThey part the hangings of the palace door.\\nThe king is coming.\\n2nd Scribe. Not alone the king.\\nBut many with him. As the furnace yields\\nIts molten gold to furrows of the clay.\\nSo doth the palace pour its glory out\\nUnto the pleasure of the multitude\\nWith flaming torches which dispute the moon.\\nAssuredly Saul willeth not to do\\nThe people honor. Sullenly he stands\\nAs doth an aged camel of the herd\\nAmid the market place.\\n1st Scribe. And o er his brow\\nThe shining helmet casts a pitying shade.\\nLo, Abner joineth him and looketh down\\nAs if a multitude that gathered not\\nIn warlike order were but sad to see\\nAs bullocks all unbroken to the plough\\nWhen spring doth urge the sower. After him", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 161\\nThere cometh Adriel and his fair spouse,\\nWho scarce have overpassed the joyful days\\nAnd marriage feasts of their own happiness.\\nAnd verily, to see their countenance,\\nOne might believe their patience had reward.\\nNow doth Ahinoam the queen appear.\\nAnd, lo, the bride, let others be forgot.\\n1st Woman. Behold ye, Michal cometh.\\n2nd Woman, Aye, the bride,\\nOur lovely princess with her maidens fair\\nIn white apparel all, as one might dream\\nA garden bed of lilies neath the moon.\\nAnd, in its brightness, mark the chosen gems\\nOf Michal s diadem which sparkle forth\\nAbout her veiled head as little waves\\nUpon the silver pathway of a sea.\\n1st Woman. Behold her raiment wrought with threads\\nof gold.\\nA goodly price, assuredly, the king\\nHath given to some merchant of the east\\nFor such apparel. Would that yonder veil\\nMight part its broidered folds, showing her face\\nIn all love s gentleness, a fairer sight\\nThan jewels and soft garments.\\nMaiden. Nay, not so.\\nIf thou dost speak of Michal s countenance,\\nFor pride would ever tarry to dispute\\nThe meekness which adorneth perfect love.\\n27id Woman. Give ear unto the minstrels of the king.\\nTheir music changeth. First they rendered Saul\\nThe trumpets royal greeting. Then, as those\\nWho smile and softly speak in slumbering.\\nTheir tabrets, lutes and psalteries combined", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "163 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nMelodious salutation to the bride\\nUntil a need of love my bosom filled\\nAnd thine and this young maiden s. Surely now\\nThe quickening of harps to glad desire\\nAnd joyful sound of cymbals do prepare\\nThe coming of the bridegroom. Lo above\\nThe instruments, thou hearest now the noise\\nOf joyful shouting by the multitude\\nBeyond us. Surely David is at hand.\\njst Merchant. Our champion approacheth. Thinkest\\nthou\\nThe people yet again will magnify\\nHis deeds in boastful song and move the king\\nTo violence?\\n2nd Merchant. Nay, David hath desired\\nThat they who love him should in nowise stir\\nThe wrath of Saul against him.\\n1st Merchant. He doth fear,\\nPerchance, that Saul will yet repent his word\\nAnd snatch his daughter from the gates of love\\nTo gladden envy.\\n2nd Merchant. Some, of David, say\\nThat not alone he bringeth fighting men\\nTo share his glory, but to make secure\\nThis latter cherished promise of the king,\\nWhich, if it fail by royal craftiness.\\nWill breed a tumult straightway in the host\\nAnd peril to the kingdom.\\n1st Merchant. God defend\\nThe land and all its merchants many days\\nFrom any strife which doeth greater harm\\nThan this betwixt the instruments of Saul\\nAnd David s minstrels coming nigh to us.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 163\\n[Minstrels enter, followed by David, Jonathan and\\nSoldiers.]\\nPhaltiel. And wilt thou suffer this, my lord the king,\\nOr bless me as thy servant Adriel?\\nThou speakest not. I will await my time,\\nFor patience getteth all things, and the end\\nOf such ill yoked love shall not be long.\\nSaul. Abner, is there no manner to withhold\\nMy daughter Michal?\\nAbner. Nay, thy word must stand.\\nThou hast a double dowry from the strife,\\nAnd, by the testimony of his men,\\nThe single arm of David hath fulfilled\\nThe tale required by thee in the blood\\nOf the Philistines. By thy royal word\\nUnto a captain of approved might,\\nBy Michal s love for him, the gratitude\\nOf Israel, the pleasure of the host,\\nWhich it were perilous for thee to grieve\\nIn now withholding valor s due reward,\\nThy promise must be sure. I pray my lord,\\nThe king of Israel, to do his part\\nWith graciousness, if he would still be strong.\\n[David and Jonathan draw nigh.\\nSaul. Hail, valiant David. Peace be unto thee.\\nDavid. My lord, anointed king of Israel,\\nMay all men serve thee with the faithfulness\\nAbiding in my heart and in my sword.\\nSaul. So be it ever, mighty champion,\\nAs thou hast said, in needful days to come.\\nWhat thou hast done already doth my grace\\nRemember and my promise unto thee", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "164 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nBefore the host, which I would now fulfil\\nIn giving thee this writing of command\\nUnto the steward of my treasure house,\\nThat he deliver unto thee a tenth\\nOf the Philistine spoil and, furthermore,\\nAn equal gift of riches from my hand.\\n[Saul giveth David a writing.\\nAnd yet to testify that, by thy deeds\\nOf warfare, thou hast finished all my task\\nAnd given me the dowry I required\\nIn right of thy betrothal Be it known\\nTo ye who hear and all in Israel,\\nThat Saul, who is of all your land the king.\\nDoth here bestow a daughter of his house,\\nThe Prinicess Michal, by her heart s desire,\\nTo David, son of Jesse, as his wife.\\nTo hold in steadfast honor and in love\\nWorthy her royal favor and defend\\nFrom any ill of spirit or of flesh\\nWhile life endureth. Michal, thou art free\\nHenceforth to follow David as thy spouse.\\nBe of a loyal heart but royal mind\\nAnd hold mine honor keeper of thine own.\\nDavid. My lord the king, how shall my thankfulness\\nBe found sufficient for thy gracious will\\nTo raise me from a servant to a son\\nBefore thy throne, exalted in the midst\\nOf many who are worthier than I\\nIn all except my soul s fidelity.\\nBe patient vnth me until I attain\\nA better knowledge, and the Lord of hosts\\nShall witness that my heart forgetteth not\\nThy goodness. If I ever may defend", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 165\\nOr comfort thee in weariness of days,\\nMy succor shall be sure, my zeal abound.\\nBe this my pledge, since all thy royal word\\nTo him who slew the champion of Gath\\nIs now perfected in fair Michal s gift,\\nThat I bestow on thee my chiefest spoil\\nThe armor of Goliath, save his sword.\\n[Michal, having embraced her kindred, is led down\\nfrom the porch by David.\\nCome unto me, O Michal, now mine own,\\nAnd as thy loveliness beneath the veil\\nIs hidden deep yet giveth all its folds\\nThe spirit of thy grace, so in my heart\\nThe beauty of thy presence shall abide\\nCovered secure, yet moving each desire\\nAccording to thy pleasure and thy peace.\\nMichal. O my beloved, couldst thou see my face\\nI should not need to tell thee of the joy\\nWithin my bosom which persuadeth me\\nThat I, thy princess, hitherto have been\\nBut poor and go to royal dignities,\\nInstead of leaving them for thee behind.\\nJonathan. Fair sister, I salute thee in thy bliss,\\nYea, I do share with thee the steadfast heart\\nOf David, thinking not thou canst abate\\nMy portion, which is rather magnified,\\nSince perfect love begetteth not alone\\nIts increase in the flesh but in the soul\\nBy giving to the seeds of former trust\\nAbundant fruit and sowing them the more\\nAlong the fields and highways of the earth.\\nNow, David, in a twofold brotherhood,\\nThe bridegroom s friend succeedeth to the bride", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "166 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nWith joyous salutation. Verily,\\nThe Lord hath proven He is with thee still.\\nFor yet again His might hath strengthened thee\\nIn going down to battle and hath turned\\nMy father s hate, like Balak s, from the curse\\nHe thought upon, to blessings manifold.\\nMay these, henceforth, be thine abundantly\\nWhile thou dost serve Jehovah and our vows.\\nAnd I shall cherish thee in closer bond,\\nNot to withstand my father in his right,\\nOr bow alone to proud prosperity.\\nBut to the Lord Who guideth whom He will.\\nYet wherefore tarry we upon the way\\nAll things have been prepared. Lead the bride\\nUnto thine house, for there awaiteth thee\\nAnd Michal many fair and faithful friends\\nOf worthy name or noble heritage\\nWho now rejoice together and unite\\nTo honor love that breaketh down the wall\\nOf evil pride which separateth men\\nAnd giveth unto valor royal grace.\\nMichal. But are there not with these, my valiant\\nspouse.\\nThy kindred to await us at the door?\\nDavid. Nay, Michal, for, although I sent betimes,\\nCalling them hither to rejoice with me,\\nMy father and my mother made excuse,\\nBecause of all the feebleness of age\\nAnd quietness to which their lives are wont\\nIn peaceful Bethlehem, that it were vain\\nTo journey thence, or hope for any rest\\nAmid the joyfulness of Gibeah,\\nOr, knowing not the custom of the great,", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 167\\nTo Stand acceptably before the king\\nTherefore, they tarry, in the flesh, behind,\\nBut, in the spirit, hasten unto us.\\nNo longer old but on the wings of joy.\\nAnd Jesse giveth us, with hands unseen,\\nThe fulness of his blessing and his prayers\\nThat, might and wealth and honor being won.\\nWe may not know their perils and their woes.\\nMichal. But shall I not thy brethren here behold?\\nDavid. Alas, I need to make excuse for all,\\nSince three who yet in Bethlehem abide\\nDo gather in the harvest and the three,\\nMine elder brethren who are with the host.\\nHave put the yokes of envy and of shame\\nUpon their necks and drag their load apart.\\nMichal. Then, David, it is fitting that the more\\nMy heart should cleave to thine, since all thy house\\nAre parted from thy glory for my sake.\\nOpen the empty and forsaken rooms\\nUnto my love and I will shut without\\nThe sighing winds of grief and occupy\\nAnd fill thy soul with all the joy and song\\nWhich blesseth now thy dwelling and mine own.\\nJonathan. Why tarry ye Lead Michal on before.\\nDavid. Nay, Jonathan, for thou shalt walk with us.\\nMy heart is wedded scarcely less to thee.\\nThis happy night, than unto Michal s love.\\nJonathan. It seemeth rather I must lead the way\\nThat ye may pass in such a multitude.\\nWhere are thy soldiers, David Surely these\\nBeset thee like Philistines in their zeal.\\nMake room, my friends, and let the bridegroom by.\\nGive passage to the daughter of the king.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "168 THE HEART OF DAVID\\n1st Youth. Let David speak to us.\\n2nd Youth. Let David speak,\\nHail to the champion of Israel.\\nJonathan. Speak thou, to please them, lest we tarry\\nlong.\\nist Youth. All glory be to David. Let the praise\\nOf Israel to David s might be given.\\nDavid. Nay, give me not the glory. Praise alone\\nJehovah for the wonders He hath wrought\\nBy many mighty men in Israel\\nWhom He hath chosen to fulfil His word,\\nAnd, least of all, thy servant who, to-day,\\nDoth magnify the Lord s exalted name\\nAnd glory in His goodness and His love.\\nWho shall be likened to the Lord our God\\nDwelling on high who humbleth Himself\\nThat He may yet behold the things of earth\\nHe pitieth the weak, He raiseth up\\nThe humble from the dust and lifteth out\\nThe needy from the dunghill that, henceforth,\\nHe may be set with princes, even with\\nThe princess of His people. Lo, the Lord\\nHath chosen thus thy servant in his youth,\\nTaking him from the sheepfolds to defend\\nThe cause of Judah and of Israel,\\nWhile he is faithful, giving him the might\\nWhich Cometh by the spirit, for by strength\\nWithout the spirit, no man shall prevail.\\nThe Lord sustaineth not the slothful man,\\nNor blesseth He the man of fearful heart.\\nBut unto him who taketh to the strife\\nOf every duty what the Lord hath lent\\nOf wisdom and of zeal for righteousness,", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND MICHAL 169\\nTo him shall it be given to cast down\\nHis enemies and reap abundantly\\nOf power and of riches, aye, and more,\\nThe friendship of the wise, the healing trust\\nOf goodness, the desire of the brave,\\nThe blessing of the poor and the oppressed,\\nAnd love exalted, joyful, wonderful.\\nJonathan. Now is a way prepared, and behold,\\nAlready doth a company appear\\nOf happy maidens to attend the bride,\\nThey light their torches and uplift their song\\nWhile psaltery and lute its charm sustain.\\nThe way is free. Go thou, fair sister, on\\nWith David to thy dwelling and to bliss.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "BOOK II.\\nDAVID AND ABIGAIL\\nA WRITING IN FIVE PARTS.\\nFrom ist Samuel; Ch. XXV.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL.\\nTHE PERSONS WHO HOLD DISCOURSE IN THIS WRITING.\\nDAVID, a Fugitive from King Saul.\\nABISHAI, Nephew and Follower of David.\\nABIATHAR, Priest o/ David.\\nAMASAI, one of David s Captains.\\nAHIMELECH, a Hittite Captain 0/ David.\\nEZER, Chief of a band of Gadites.\\nSoldiers and Messengers of David.\\nNABAL, a rich man of Maon.\\nDO EG, an Edoniite, Chief Herdsman of Saul.\\nISHBOSHETH, Saul s fourth son.\\nPHALTIEL, the son-in-law of Sax\\\\\\\\.\\nA STEWARD o/Nabal.\\nShepherds, Shearers, Guests and Servants (7/Nabal.\\nABIGAIL, The wife of Nabal and afterwards of David.\\nFive Handmaidens of Abigail.\\nThe Places where these Persons discourse are the Wilderness\\nof Carmel, the House of Nabal and the borders of Maon.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL.\\nTHE PARTS AND PLACES SET IN ORDER.\\nPART I.\\nPlace. 77?^ Wilderness of Carmel. Several Shepherds of\\nNabal, David, Abishai, and other Followers. Messengers\\nsent to Nabal. David and Shepherds discottrse.\\nPART II.\\nPlace. The House of Nabal. Nabal, Abigail and Handtnaidens\\nMessengers of Doeg. Nabal and Steward. Messengers\\nof David. A Shepherd and Abigail.\\nPART III.\\nPlace. The Highway nigh unto Maon. Abishai and Soldiers.\\nThen David, Abishai, Amasai, Abiathar, Ezer, Ahimelech\\nand Soldiers. Abigail pleadeth with David.\\nPART IV.\\nPlace. TheBanqiietHallof^HozS.. Nabal, Ishbosheth, Doeg,\\nPhaltiel and Guests. Nabal and Abigail.\\nPART V.\\nPlace.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 David s Camp near Maon. David a^id Abishai. David\\nand Abigail.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL\\nPART I\\nPLACE. The Wilderness of Carmel. Several Shepherds.\\n1st Shepherd. What shearing made thy portion of the\\nflock?\\n2nd Shepherd. A heavy yield.\\n1st Shepherd. Nay, surely thou dost boast,\\nFor, by the beam, thy sheep gave something less\\nUnto the shearers than hath been their wont.\\n21 id Shepherd. I boast not. I beheld a mighty heap\\nOf wool beside the weighers gathered,\\nAnd thou mayest have this good crook if it lack.\\n1st Shepherd. Then may I humble thee, for in the\\nhouse\\nOf Nabal one hath whispered unto me,\\nSaying He doeth falsely in his weights\\nAnd fashioneth his measures to deceive,\\nWhereby he robs the shearers of their due\\nAnd gaineth wrongfully from them who buy.\\n2nd Shepherd. Now sayest thou well, perchance, for, on\\na day,\\nWhen I was by the gate of Nabal s house,\\nI saw a merchant pass who had his mart\\nIn Hebron and had bought our master s wool.\\nAnd swore he lacked the measure due to him.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "176 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd, having sought it vainly in his w^rath,\\nHe smote his heavy staff upon the ground,\\nAnd smote the gate and then an ass I led,\\nWhereat, for fear of him, I ran away,\\n1st Shepherd. Aye, Nabal is a hard and evil man\\nAnd, had I know^ledge where to mend my lot\\nNor yet forsake my kindred to his wrath,\\nI soon should turn away from serving him.\\n2nd Shepherd. And I with thee, but not at every door\\nMay one find favor in these troubled days.\\nThe less, that other masters hereabout\\nDo watch the paths to Hebron and beyond\\nAnd league with Nabal to withhold their aid\\nFrom wanderers who fain would toil for them,\\nBringing no commendation whence they come.\\n1st Shepherd. Nor may we dare to venture by the\\nsouth\\nFrom Carmel s borders, lest some heathen troop\\nOf Geshurites or Gezrites hunt us down\\nTo dye their spears, or cursed Amalekites\\nShould hale us into bondage.\\n2nd Shepherd. Or as well.\\nLest these young men who flee the wrath of Saul,\\nHiding on yonder mountain, do compel\\nOur service in a harder measure yet\\nThan Nabal, until those who serve the king\\nShall overthrow them with a mighty hand\\nAnd slay us also, being found with them.\\n1st Shepherd. I likewise fear these outcasts in the\\nhold,\\nMarveling that no harm hath come to us\\nFrom their extremity. Lo many days\\nAlready have they tarried roundabout", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 177\\nAnd talked with certain of us in the fields,\\nYet have they done no evil, or despoiled\\nThe flocks of Nabal, though the wilderness\\nHath little meat for such a company.\\n2nd Shepherd. How knowest thou that they are nigh\\nto us?\\n1st Shepherd. In times of cloud and darkness when\\nthe cloud\\nWas lifted suddenly, I have beheld\\nThe smoke of secret fires, the feeble smoke\\nFrom simple food or scanty sacrifice.\\nMoreover, markest thou, the vultures seek\\nRefuge no longer upon Carmel s side\\nBut fly to other mountains evil beasts\\nWhich once tormented us, have gotten them\\nUnto their dens, as in their turn dismayed,\\nYet are we still delivered from the band.\\nBut wherefore should we fear? Behold, the lot\\nOf life uniteth us in common woe\\nThe persecuting wrath of Saul the king\\nDoth humble them as Nabal useth us.\\nIs their foe mad and ours not a fool,\\nAnd are not both accounted stubborn, proud.\\nWorkers of evil in their mightiness\\nIn truth, it seemeth there be little choice\\nOf masters could we make one.\\n2nd Shepherd. Aye, our lot\\nIs rather to be taken, for the end\\nOf this rebellious troop is nigh at hand.\\nSaul shall destroy them in their hiding place\\nAnd leave them to the vultures. Knowest thou\\nAught of this David who doth lead the band", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "178 THE HEART OF DAVID\\n1st Shepherd. Yea, fellow, hast thou never heard of\\nhim\\nWho slew Goliath?\\n2nd Shepherd. Can he be the same\\nWho was a mighty captain in the host\\nAnd led the nation s wars?\\nisf Shepherd. No less than he.\\n2nd ShiCpherd. And wherefore less in favor\\n1st Shepherd. Ask the gods\\nWho set their fools and madmen over us\\nAnd leave to David but the stocks and stones\\nOf Carmel for an host, while we are made\\nThe governors of sheep\\n2nd Shepherd. Hold! harken ye.\\nThese outcasts of the king are surely nigh,\\nFor seest thou our dogs which snuff the air\\nAnd bark unto the mountain.\\nist Shepherd. Yea, in truth.\\nThey are upon us for, amid the rocks,\\nI see men coming hither, armed men,\\nIn ways that make it vain for us to flee.\\nAlas alas nor can we save the flock.\\n2nd Shepherd. What may we do\\n1st Shepherd. Naught save to tarry here\\nAnd beg their mercy, yielding what they will\\nOut of the flock, and if they make demand\\nFor many, let us serve them in their caves\\nRather than meet our master s chastisement.\\n2nd Shepherd. So be it, but behold the company\\nThat Cometh to us. What a valiant youth\\nAnd comely is the one who leadeth it\\nHe cometh like a ram of two years old\\nWhite from the washing: of a mountain brook.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 179\\n1st Shepherd. Yea, this is David s self in very deed\\nAnd such a countenance is merciful\\nUnto the weak. Fear not, I ll speak to him.\\n[David and several Followers draw nigh.\\nmaster, spare us. We are at thy feet,\\nPoor shepherds of the wilderness, who tend\\nThe flocks of one in Maon and have naught\\nTo give thee of ourselves and if we lose\\nThese sheep to thee, our lives are lost to him.\\nSpare us, O master.\\nDavid. Stand ye up again\\nAnd fear us not, no hurt shall come to you.\\n1 was a shepherd, even as are ye,\\nAnd in my youth I slept upon the hills\\nBeside my flock or watched until the dawn\\nTo guard from ravening beast or any ill\\nOf lawless men. When day was come again,\\nI led my father s sheep with loving care\\nTo green and watered pastures and the ewes\\nHeavy with young I urged not in the way\\nBut tarried for and when their lambs were born\\nUnto a stormy world, within my arms\\nI bore them tenderly unto the fold.\\n2nd Shepherd. O master, verily, thou seemest now\\nAs kindred of compassion, and behold\\nThe fear I knew is turned into love,\\nFor thou, who, by the common talk of men\\nHast known almost the glory of a king,\\nForgettest not, in thought to comfort us,\\nThat thou hast been a shepherd.\\nDavid. Nay, I joy\\nTo cherish the remembrance of my youth,", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "180 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nSince now I know so desperate a strait\\nThat I have not a kid to follow me,\\nAnd am a shepherd, captain, or a king\\nBut in the faithful hearts of these young men,\\nFriends who through evil consequence of wars,\\nOf persecutions, hatreds, through the loss,\\nSorrow and shame and hardship of pursuit,\\nDo hold unto me still. Assuredly\\nSuch woes may seem enough, but unto them\\nCleaveth another in these latter days,\\nFor we do suffer hunger. It is long\\nSince we have tasted bread, and bird or beast\\nAre few and wary upon Carmel s hold.\\nMy men complain and some, in bitterness\\nOf spirit, would have snatched from yonder flock\\nSufficient for our need, but I forbade.\\nThen others did reproach them and agreed\\nTo guard these many sheep as in the past,\\nSuffering not the hand of any foe\\nOr any evil beast to do them hurt.\\nOr to diminish them, save in our need,\\nBy due petition unto whosoe er\\nPossessed all the bleating multitude.\\nNow, therefore, if our service may receive\\nThy master s grace, we have come down to thee\\nTo ask for whatsoever he may give\\nTo succor us in this our sore distress.\\nWho is thy master?\\nist Shepherd. Nabal is he called.\\nDavid. Then have they told me rightly. Furthermore\\nIs not this Nabal one of Caleb s seed\\nAnd very rich?", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 181\\nist Shepherd. It is as thou hast said,\\nFor all the land is his around about,\\nWhereon three thousand sheep and, at the least,\\nA thousand goats do gather wealth for him\\nIn wandering witless feast the whole day long.\\nAnd lust but for his increase in their own.\\nDavid. Assuredly shall one who hath descent\\nFrom wise and righteous Caleb and the wealth\\nWe here behold be bountiful of heart\\nAs was Jephunneh s son, and valiant\\nOf spirit that he honor faithful men\\nWho strive to faintness with adversity.\\nAnd he will help us freely.\\n1st Shepherd. Nay, my lord,\\nNot often is the brook upon the plain\\nPure as the mountain spring that gave it birth,\\nAnd Nabal s soul is foul as yonder stream\\nBelow our men who struggle with the sheep\\nTo wash them for the shearing.\\nDavid. Speak thou not\\nSuch evil of the seed of Caleb s house.\\nThou hast some enmity that turneth back\\nThy heart from duty and obedience.\\nBehold, I yet do trust him and shall send\\nForthwith to Nabal messengers to seek\\nA bounty which shall lift us from distress.\\n2nd Shepherd. My lord, thy faith is vain.\\nDavid. Dost thou condemn\\nThy master also Verily, the branch\\nShall wither sooner if it curse the tree.\\n2nd Shepherd. Lo, now dost thou reproach us but, in\\ntruth.\\nThou, who hast only kept thy father s sheep.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "182 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nCanst have no knowledge of the bitter lot\\nOf toiling for a stranger, least of all\\nFor such an one as Nabal whom we serve.\\nYet hast thou somewhat served Saul the king\\nWho doth pursue thee hither. When thy faith\\nHath its reward in him who scattereth\\nThy band before thee, then shall we believe\\nOur master s righteousness. But send to him,\\nAs thou hast said, and prove thy faith or mine.\\nThis very day do certain of our men.\\nSome three or four, return to Nabal s house,\\nSince now the shearing cometh to an end,\\nTo bear the greater portion of the wool\\nUpon their asses and to make report\\nConcerning all the measure of the yield.\\nDavid. Then shall I send, of these who follow me.\\nEnough to make a company of ten\\nUnto thy master. Such as I do choose\\nShall better guard the wool from roving men\\nWho plunder caravans in lonely ways\\nAnd can do mightily, should any dare\\nTo treacherously deal with them. And, lo,\\nSince many in this land of Amalek\\nWould fain betray me unto Saul the king,\\nIf it should come to pass that these my men\\nAre compassed by many foes and slain.\\nThen shall I count ye hostages and deal\\nLikewise with ye and all these flocks and herds\\nThat Nabal hath, as he shall deal with them.\\n1st Shepherd. My lord, the men whom I shall send to\\nhim\\nShall serve thy welfare, even these who stand\\nBeside me and who know thy kindliness.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 183\\nDavid. And here are their companions. Ye have\\nheard,\\nBrave friends, what I require of your love.\\nYe need no preparation. All our care\\nIs speedy succor. Therefore now depart\\nAnd use soft words to Nabal. Say ye thus\\nTo him that dwelleth in prosperity\\nPeace be to thee and peace be to thy house\\nAnd peace be ever unto all thou hast.\\nNow have I heard, abiding nigh thy flock,\\nThat thou hast many shearers of their wool,\\nAnd many shepherds also who have held\\nSome converse with these followers of mine.\\nBut we have hurt them not nor marred their peace.\\nNor missed they aught while they in Carmel dwelt\\nAsk thy young men and they will show thee this.\\nWherefore let them find favor in thine eyes\\nFor these who in a good day go to thee\\nAnd give whatever cometh to thy hand,\\nI pray thee, to my servants in their need\\nAnd unto David thankfully thy son\\nAnd may the Lord be with you that my lord\\nThe mighty Nabal may with liberal soul\\nGive of his flock sufficient for our food.\\nIn faith of this and that we sooner eat,\\nI and a troop will shortly follow ye\\nNigh unto Maon s borders. Go in peace,\\nAnd may the Lord be with ye.\\n2nd Shepherd. Come with us\\nEre we go hence, since ye do hunger sore.\\nThat every man may have a loaf to eat.\\nThe asses, heavy laden with our wool,\\n13", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "184 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAlready take the pathway, one by one,\\nBefore their drivers. Soon we follow them.\\n[2nd Shepherd and the others and David s Men depart.\\n1st Shepherd. Wilt thou, O valiant David, share the\\nfood\\nI have within my sack the common bread\\nOf shepherds and a little cake of figs?\\nTis humble, but as thou dost know our lot\\nAnd art ahungered, it may serve thy need.\\nDavid. I take it gladly of thee, for to-day\\nI yet have eaten nothing and the bread\\nA shepherd hath is ever sweet to me.\\nAnd his companionship a pleasant wine.\\n1st Shepherd. Then, mighty captain, since we are\\nalone.\\nIf thou wilt not esteem it overbold,\\nI would enquire much concerning thee\\nSince thou hast fled from Saul, for in the gates\\nOf Maon and throughout the wilderness\\nOf Carmel many men since thou art come\\nDispute thy cause, marveling what hath brought\\nSuch great discomfort to thee some are friends\\nBut many cannot know, as now revealed.\\nThe goodness of thy heart. They say of thee\\nThat thou dost trouble Israel, that these.\\nThe young men of thy band are plunderers\\nAnd robbers of the hills, the outcast ones\\nOf Judah, Dan and Benjamin, who flee\\nFrom evil deeds and therefore strive so long,\\nDavid. Affliction soon begetteth evil name,\\nshepherd, and the ear of enemies\\nIs deaf to truth and mercy. But, behold,\\n1 will make known, since thou respectest me", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 185\\nAnd since the soul hath comfort in release\\nOf idle words, all that hath come to pass\\nSince I was fain to flee before the king\\nFrom mine own house, where Michal s faithfulness\\nDelivered me from death.\\n1st Shepherd. And hast thou heard\\nThat Saul hath made a gift of this thy wife\\nTo Phaltiel of Gallim\\nDavid. Yea, alas\\nO simple shepherd, and it grieved me sore\\nWhen it was told me, for I knew thereby\\nThat my young wife was bound by royal will\\nUnto a bed abhorred in her love\\nFor me and made a captive unto woe.\\nWherefore I wept a space beside the grave\\nWhich Saul had made for that sweet love of youth,\\nThe fair high flower of my heart s desire,\\nW hose vow was proven in her father s hate;\\nFor after Jonathan had reconciled\\nSaul to my presence for a little while.\\nHe cast his javelin again to slay,\\nAnd, when I sought a refuge in mine house.\\nHis messengers pursued and Michal made\\nAn image in my bed, telling the men\\nThat I was sick, which gave me time to flee\\nBeyond his rage, let from the window down\\nBy tender hands made mighty in her love.\\nAh, Saul hath found a surer javelin\\nTo pierce my heart in this iniquity.\\nAnd, though Ahinoam of Jezreel\\nHath since been taken unto me to wife\\nIn humble choice to end my loneliness,", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "186 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nI need the love of zealous Michal more\\nWith every sorrow, every fresh despair.\\n1st Shepherd. But tell me of thy fleeing from the\\nking.\\nDavid. Aye, shepherd, though I know not why I show\\nUnto thee all the troubles of my heart.\\nExcept it be so faint, so weary of days.\\nSo thronged with prisoned woes that it doth seek\\nSome open balm as of an evening wind\\nAfter the desert heat. But now attend\\nAnd I will tell thee only thy desire.\\nFirst did I flee to Naioth and communed\\nWith Samuel and told what Saul had done.\\nThen hastened men of Saul to compass me.\\nBut when they saw the prophets of the Lord,\\nThey prophesied and others after them.\\nThrice sent the king and when he came, behold,\\nThe king did prophesy to shame them all.\\nThence fled I unto Ramah where I talked\\nWith Jonathan of all our growing woes,\\nRenewing there our covenant of love,\\nAnd he devised a sign whereby I knew,\\nFrom three sad arrows shot beyond the mark,\\nThat my last hope was captive to despair.\\nThen went I to Ahimelech the priest\\nWho in my hunger gave me hallowed bread\\nAnd, for a weapon, great GoHath s sword\\nAs from the Lord returned. I thence in fear\\nOf crafty Doeg, steward unto Saul,\\nTarrying there, escaped to heathen gates\\nAnd feigned foolishness to turn the king\\nAchish, who had a dread of Israel s might,", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 187\\nFrom harming me. Then out of Gath I fled\\nTo seek Adiillam s cave, where came to me\\nMy brethren and my father and his house\\nWho also fled from Saul s malignity.\\nAnd many others sought me in distress,\\nIn debt or discontent four hundred men.\\nAnd I became a captain over them.\\nThence led I unto Moab to its king\\nMy father and my mother who were old.\\nThat, being of his kindred, they might rest\\nSecure from persecution. Leaving them,\\nWith their last blessing, came I back again\\nUnto the hold and Gad gave strength to me\\nHe of the prophets, and while Doeg slew\\nAhimelech and fourscore of the priests\\nBy reason of the mad wrath of the king\\nWho falsely thought that with me they conspired,\\nI gathered courage from the prophet s word\\nAnd from the indignation of my soul\\nTo go down unto Keilah which was held\\nBy the Philistines. There I smote them sore\\nWith an exceeding slaughter but, for fear\\nThat Saul would compass me within the gates,\\nWe fled unto the wilderness of Ziph.\\nThen Jonathan in secret came to me\\nInto the wood and made new covenant\\nOf love with me and strengthened me in God.\\nThereafter certain Ziphites, seeking Saul,\\nThought to betray me and the king pursued\\nUnto the hills of Maon, where his hosts\\nWere roundabout to slay us. We had died\\nBut for the coming of Philistine foes.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "188 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nThence fled we to Engedi, to a cave\\nWhere Saul, while searching us, went in to sleep\\nAnd where I suffered not a hand to harm\\nThe Lord s anointed wherefore did the king.\\nWhen I gave witness of my reverence\\nAnd humbleness before him, make reply,\\nW^ith shame confessing his unrighteousness,\\nSaying that I should reign in Israel\\nAnd asking mercy of me for his house.\\nThen went he home, even to Gibeah\\nWhere, did aught other spirit rend his soul\\nThan jealousy, I might not fear him more.\\nLo, shepherd, I have led before thine eyes\\nIn weary space the army of my woes.\\nThe Lord who hath appointed unto me\\nThis dreadful host which presseth me before\\nAn outcast, poor, faint from my miseries\\nHe only knoweth if I must descend\\nInto the darkness, or if, with the aid\\nOf blessings which accompany man s woes\\nAnd the anointing Samuel bestowed,\\nI yet may turn upon them, overthrow,\\nPut them to flight, and, running through their midst\\nAttain the mountain of my former joy.\\n1st Shepherd. Take courage, O my master, this thy\\ntale\\nOf sorrow is sufficient to beget\\nStrength for thy cause in every righteous heart.\\nSuch love betokeneth the love of God\\nAnd Samuel s prophecy shall He fulfil.\\nDavid. Alas, when shall He send to strengthen me\\nA greater priest than this Abiathar", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 189\\nThis youth who, when they slew Ahimelech\\nHis father, sougfht my refuge with a woe\\nExceeding mine. Can he be comforter?\\nI want a priest appointed of my heart,\\nAnointing of the love of Jonathan,\\nThe blessing of my father, the embrace\\nOf her who bore me all these joys again.\\nWhat tidings hast thou, shepherd, from the land\\nOf Moab or from sweet Judean hills\\nWhere dwelleth all my love, my hope, my peace\\n1st Shepherd. I verily have naught to tell to thee\\nBut what concerneth Nabal s goats and sheep.\\nFor in these troubled days when men dispute\\nBetwixt Saul s rule or thine, betwixt the praise\\nOf Baal or the Lord of Israel,\\nAnd when the churlishness of Nabal s will\\nGiveth no peace to any in his house;\\nThe little joy I have is in the life\\nApportioned me amid this wilderness\\nWhere none oppresseth us, no alien care\\nDoth stoop unto our poor and simple lives,\\nAnd naught hath hitherto disturbed rest\\nSave fear of vultures, evil beasts, or thee.\\nDavid. If thou, hereafter, fearest these no more.\\nWhich thus I have in rude companionship,\\nThan thou dost me and mine, thou shalt do well.\\nBut hast thou yet no tidings of the king.\\nWhere he abideth, what his enmity\\nDeviseth to my hurt, or if the chance\\nOf strife with the Philistines may again\\nGive me a way to honor Israel?", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "190 THE HEART OF DAVID\\n1st Shepherd. Nay, we have been apart from idle\\ntongues\\nSince first began the shearing of the flock\\nAnd know not who are washed or who are shorn\\nAmong the troubled sons of Abraham.\\nDavid. Then canst thou tell me aught of Samuel\\nAnd if the king is yet constrained to serve\\nThat fearless messenger of heavenly will?\\n1st Shepherd. Alas, my lord, if thou indeed hast heard\\nNo tidings of him, then forgive my tongue.\\nA wayfarer from Hebron sought our fold\\nA little space ago and, as we talked,\\nHe told us that the land of Israel\\nWas bowed in lamentation, forasmuch\\nAs one, a mighty prophet of the Lord,\\nWas gathered to his fathers,\\nDavid. What is this?\\nWhat sayest thou, O shepherd, speakest thou\\nOf Samuel the seer?\\n1st Shepherd. Aye, it was he\\nAnd to his house in Ramah, as we heard.\\nThere came a host of wise and mighty men\\nTo make lament for him, save only those\\nWho had some secret purpose to possess\\nThe grace of Saul who held him in despite.\\nDavid. Go seek thy sheep, for I would be alone.\\n[The Shepherd goeth forth. David boweth himself.\\nBehold, the father of my task is dead,\\nHe who hath set before me all the care\\nOf living, now hath taken him to rest,\\nHe, whose anointing touch was as a fire\\nTo stir me into warfare with my king.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 191\\nIs now of cold and all forsaken clay;\\nThe terror-sounding trumpet of the Lord\\nLies broken, rusted on the field of strife,\\nSilent forever Peace be unto him\\nWho, yet a child, communed with his God\\nAnd learned the deeper wisdom that foretells\\nAlmighty purposes Peace be to him\\nFor whom Jehovah made His thunderbolts\\nTo smite a multitude of heathen foes;\\nPeace be to him the mighty counselor\\nOf God before the pride of Israel,\\nWho granted them a king to their rebuke\\nAnd yet was merciful Peace unto him\\nThe bold and righteous judge who feared not\\nThe pride of Saul upon an earthly throne\\nAnd humbled him when he forgot its gift\\nAnd consecration both to God and men.\\nNow is the beam which holdeth in the midst\\nThe tabernacle, broken in its place\\nAnd who shall keep aloft the frame thereof?\\nIs it indeed my portion to fulfil\\nBy higher wisdom all a kingdom s need\\nAnd take the throne by disobedience lost?\\nOr doth the seer s anointing die with him\\nIn virtue to prepare me for his will,\\nLeaving the tribes of Israel again\\nTo judges sent of God, that they forsake\\nThe kingdom of presumptuous desire.\\nMy sore calamities do seem alone\\nA testimony that the Lord doth take\\nThe sceptre to himself, for since I set\\nMy feet to climb the mount of Samuel s hope,\\nIts flowers all have withered utterly,", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "192 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nMichal, the first proud crown of my desire,\\nFor whom in youth I strove so joyfully,\\nIs given to a weakling. All my love\\nFor noble Jonathan is as a jar\\nOf precious ointment broken on the sand,\\nHigh places in the kingdom and the host\\nOn which I stood alone have fallen down\\nAs falls a mined tower, and now the king\\nDoth hunt me as a partridge unto death.\\nWhy should I longer flee before his face.\\nOr live to fret his jealousy or provoke\\nAnd sunder Israel before its foes?\\nI ask for naug ht, I seek not to cast down\\nThe Lord s anointed, but I cannot turn.\\nIf God hath chosen me to chasten Saul,\\nFrom what He willeth, what His prophets teach,\\nOr from the love of those who follow me\\nWith mighty expectation, or the hope\\nOf all who need defense from heathen foes.\\nWhat may I do? Jehovah, strengthen me\\nIf I must be Thy sword and Israel s shield.\\nOr, if I am but as a broken spear.\\nDeliver these who love me from my fall.\\nYet Thou wilt not forsake me. Put away\\nA little space the darkness of my woe,\\nStop up the flowing fountains of my tears.\\nKeep hatred from my couch and black despair\\nFar from my pillow. Hear me, O my God,\\nAnswer Thy servant who hath trusted Thee,\\nThat he may live and die not, that he strive\\nUntil he may behold throughout the land\\nTruth, faith and peace, and joy for Israel.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "PART II.\\nPLACE. NabaV s house. A large room, the back part cur-\\ntained and having long couches upon which are reclining,\\nsomewhat apart, Abigail with a sad countenance and\\nNabal examining some tablets and scrolls.\\nNahal. Fy on thee, woman, let lis have an end\\nTo this thy groaning. Either is it thus\\nWhen I am purposed to admonish thee\\nOr, if I would caress thee, thou dost weep.\\nMock me no longer, lest I use thee ill,\\nBut greet thy pleasures fitly, put away\\nThis meekness, this simplicity of soul.\\nThis foolishness of virtue which betrays\\nThe poor and humble lot from whence I plucked\\nThy comeliness and wear within thine eyes\\nThe radiance of beauty, on thy lips\\nThe joyful pride of wealth and on thy breast\\nThe favor of a dutiful desire.\\nEven as other women who have won\\nThe love of kings, princes or mighty men.\\nThen shalt thou honor well my dignity\\nAnd men shall envy me and say, behold.\\nIs not the wife of Nabal from the loins\\nOf some Egyptian lord in ancient days\\nBy some most gracious maid of Israel?\\nThen, for a task many would beg of me,\\nShalt thou have rich reward. But now attend\\nAnd I will give thee tidings that should turn\\nThy heaviness of spirit into mirth.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "194 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nIf thou hadst but the profitable pride\\nOf mighty station. Dost thou harken now?\\nThis roll I hold containeth the account\\nMy steward renders me of all my wealth.\\nLo, Abigail, thou hast a happy lot\\nTo dwell with one as mighty as thy lord.\\nConsider what I tell thee. There is none\\nIn Maon or the cities roundabout\\nWho hath so great a house or, in the land\\nOf Carmel, such a multitude of sheep,\\nAsses and goats, a pasture land so wide\\nAnd bountiful of wells and flowing streams,\\nSo many bondsmen, such fair concubines\\nAnd comely maidens, yet I choose thee out\\nAs first in my desire. Furthermore,\\nMy steward, if he lie not, reckoneth\\nThat these my great possessions have increased\\nA tenth within the passing of a moon.\\nWouldst thou know wherefore? Lo, when last there\\ncame\\nPhilistines after Saul, I set apart\\nA talent of silver, making loan of it,\\nA thousand shekels here, an hundred there,\\nTurning the balance of my neighbors needs.\\nThen did I hire certain crafty men\\nFrom Hebron, wearing raiment of the host,\\nTo hasten hither as in sore distress,\\nCrying The heathen have prevailed with us\\nAnd come upon you, whereupon in fear\\nMy neighbors sought to drive away their flocks,\\nBut I prevented them and bid them pay\\nTheir debt in double portion of their sheep", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 195\\nBefore they fled, and many, being in haste,\\nForsook possessions which I gathered up\\nAnd sold in Hebron. Out of that device\\nA score of shekels grew where one was sown,\\nAnd I could well forgive on their return\\nPart of their debt to make suspicion dumb.\\nAye, when I took thee from thy father s house\\nIn Carmel, he might count his bag in vain\\nSeeking a thousand. Surely not a maid\\nIn Eshtemoa, Maon or in Ziph\\nOr any greater city of the land\\nBut would desire to be Nabal s wife.\\nAye, thou canst boast.\\nAbigail. Hast thou no riches more?\\nNabal. Yea, verily, since even now I wait\\nFor tidings of the shearing of my flock\\nAmid the wilderness and, if the wool\\nHold to the increase which should come from thence,\\nA goodly sack beside shall burst with gold.\\nAbigail. Dost thou not fear some harm unto thy\\nflocks\\nFrom that afflicted band by David led?\\nFor since they tarried nigh us and amid\\nEngedi s rocks, one saith that they have sought\\nThe wilderness of Paran by the mount\\nOf Carmel and thy pastures.\\nNabal. What are these\\nThat for the fear of them my heart should quake?\\nBehold, when by a chance which cometh not\\nTo many weaklings, Saul in his pursuit\\nSlept in a cave amid Engedi s hills", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "196 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nWhere David and his feeble band were hid,\\nThe fool dared not to slay his enemy,\\nBut cut his skirts and ran without to talk\\nVaingloriously and bow down to him,\\nAnd Saul was shamed thereat and turned away.\\nAnd shall I dread a fellow such as this\\nWho fleeth yet unto the uttermost\\nBorders of Canaan? Verily, henceforth\\nHe would not venture down upon the plain\\nWhere any had a staff to keep my sheep,\\nOr any ram or he goat of the flock\\nMight run upon him. But a little time\\nAnd none shall know him more, and Israel\\nShall rest within its tents, serving but Saul.\\nThen shall the priests, when this their hirehng\\nIs smitten utterly, be made to bow\\nBefore the king and chastened that they vex\\nThe land no longer with their tithes and laws,\\nTheir sabaoth, their blessing or their curse,\\nOr shout no more to us thus saith the Lord/\\nThou shalt or thou shalt not do thus and so,\\nThou shalt or thou shalt not, thus saith the Lord.\\nAbigail. But thinkest thou not, Nabal, that the youth\\nMeriteth pity, for the mighty deeds\\nThat he hath hitherto for Israel wrought.\\nAnd that he spared not the life of Saul\\nFrom magnitude of soul and loyal zeal\\nDost thou believe not that Jehovah s grace\\nIs with him since lamented Samuel\\nAnointed him, that we who are the seed\\nOf faithful Caleb should show kindliness", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 197\\nTo one who likewise hath a vaHant heart\\nAnd mighty hand to strive for righteousness?\\nNabal. Thou art a fool, yea, after David s sort,\\nA slave unto the Levites and the priests.\\nLo, thinkest thou a hunter who hath been\\nBeneath a lion s jaws and snatched away\\nBy succor from their doom, who afterwards,\\nIf he doth get the lion in his net,\\nShall slay him not?\\nAbigail. I think he reverenced\\nThe Lord s anointed. Yea, and for the sake\\nOf Jonathan and Michal spared the king.\\nNabal. Fool, did I say Nay, thou aft even more,\\nThou art a wanton, since thou favorest\\nSo boldly to my face this comely youth\\nWho maketh women simple in the land\\nUnto the king s dishonor. Get thee hence.\\nI, peradventure am become too old\\nFor thy desire. Go, thou wanton, hence\\nAnd leave unto the lords of Israel\\nAnd unto us, its men of mightiness.\\nThe honor of the kingdom, and as well\\nThe judgment due these robbers on its hills.\\n[Abigail goeth out. A Servant enter eth.\\nServant. My lord, without the gates are certain men\\nWho fain would stand before thee.\\nNabal. Whence are these\\nIf they be shearers from the wilderness,\\nCommand them straightway hither.\\nServant. Nay, my lord.\\nThe men are not thy shepherds, they are clad\\nAs those amid the host of Saul the king.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "198 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nNahal. The host of Saul! Tell them thy master\\nwaits\\nTo greet them all with joyfulness,\\n[The Servant goeth out.\\nBehold,\\nO Nabal, now, the measure of thy might.\\nThe king himself sendeth his messengers,\\nAssuredly to seek some aid of thee.\\nNabal, thy treasure groweth, thou art strong.\\nSaul is a cunning man. He seeketh thee\\nThat thy possessions may provide his wars.\\nBe wary, Nabal. If it come to pass\\nThat Saul is very urgent in his need\\nAnd writeth brother or appointeth thee\\nA mighty captain for Philistine spears\\nTo make into a dunghill presently.\\nAccept it not the rather say to him\\nMy lord the king, I am no man of war.\\nName me the chiefest steward of thy house,\\nOr let me be the royal treasurer.\\nOr whatsoever else thou keepest back\\nTo give to such as I am for reward.\\n[The Servant enter eth, followed by several Men.]\\nServant. Behold, O master, these who come to thee.\\nNabal. Ye come from Saul, the king?\\nMessenger. Nay, O my lord,\\nBut from a friend of Saul.\\nNabal. And who is he\\nMessenger. His name is Doeg. Thou dost know of\\nhim,\\nThe chiefest of the herdsmen of the king.\\nNabal. Nay, I do not.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 199\\nMessenger. Hath not the wilderness\\nAbout the ancient city of the priests,\\nThe refuge Hebron, heard of Doeg s sword\\nAnd groaned and trembled lest the Edomite\\nShould make it know the royal enmity?\\nNabal. If he is called Doeg who did smite\\nFourscore and five of that same righteous sort\\nWho wear within the guard of Hebron s gates\\nThe ephod, slaying all their house with them,\\nI know of him. He is a valiant man,\\nAnd I do pray that he may straightway come\\nAnd reap in Hebron those who anger me\\nWith holy accusation.\\nMessenger. Verily,\\nIf he may do in Hebron as thou wouldst.\\nWe know not, but that he would talk with thee\\nAnd Cometh here at eventide we know.\\nAs therefore are we sent.\\nNabal. What purpose, then,\\nHath Doeg that he thus doth honor me\\nMessenger. We cannot answer thee, for Doeg s tongue\\nCommunicateth not his purposes\\nUnto his servants only his commands.\\nBut we may say to thee that Ishbosheth,\\nSon of the king, and also Phaltiel,\\nThe son-in-law of Saul by Michal s gift.\\nDo bear him company and send with him\\nTheir salutations, hoping presently\\nTo see thee, mighty Nabal, face to face.\\nNabal. Thou, verily, art a most worthy man,\\nMost excellent. Here is a purse for thee.\\nGo forth with thy companions to the court\\n14", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "300 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nThat ye may wash your feet and, afterwards,\\nMy steward shall provide in measure due\\nTo banish hunger, thirst and weariness.\\nBut I must see him first that I command\\nThe feast to-night. Bid him come in to me.\\n[The Messengers and Servants go forth.\\nNabal. O, Nabal, didst thou hear, son of the king,\\nA royal prince cometh to eat with thee,\\nAnd with him Phaltiel, a prince no less\\nSince he hath wedded Michal. Both of these\\nAre hastening to greet thee. All the land\\nOf Carmel shall be subject unto thee\\nHenceforth, for fear of Saul, and none shall dare\\nFrom jealousy or vengeance to disturb\\nThy peace or to dispute the thing thou wilt.\\nLo, now, O mighty Nabal, thou must haste\\nTo honor these who come to lodge with thee\\nAs it befitteth princes, and spread for them\\nSo great a feast that, even in the courts\\nOf Saul the king, they shall proclaim abroad\\nThe wonders of thy treasure and thy house.\\nThe all exceeding bounty of thy hand\\nSo rich a feast that not in Gibeah\\nShall any mighty lord its like behold.\\nOr any in the gates of Ashkelon.\\nThen, when the things are told which they have seen,\\nIf I desire aught before the king.\\nOr surety from foes, or my revenge\\nUpon the priests of Hebron who provoke\\nMy soul within me, I shall but demand\\nThe grace of Saul and offer gifts to him\\nAnd all will turn the manner of my will.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 201\\nAye, it shall be a feast to make the hearts\\nOf all the neighbors I shall bid thereto\\nSink down from envy into servitude.\\n[The Steward entereth.]\\nSteward, great tidings have I for thine ear.\\nTwo princes of the royal house of Saul\\nAnd Doeg, who is favored of the king,\\nDo journey hither and this very night\\nShall eat and lodge with me. What canst thou do\\nTo set before them honorable feast,\\nIf all I have is ready at thy hand?\\nSteward. The time is short, my lord, but happily\\nTheir coming chanceth well, for yesterday\\nA company of hunters to thy gates\\nReturned, heavy ladened from the hills.\\nThis goodly spoil had fallen to their bows,\\nTwo fallow deer, an hart, a mountain kid,\\nA tender roebuck, chamois three or four,\\nA pygarg and a harvest from their snares\\nOf partridges, wild doves and fatted quail;\\nFrom these I can provide them savory meats.\\nNabal. Thou needest other flesh for hunger s choice,\\nFlesh from my herd or flock, the best therein.\\nSteward. Thy cattle, O my master, nigh at hand\\nAre few and, saving one, are yet too lean\\nTo serve with honor for thee.\\nNabal. And the one\\nSteward. It is a bullock having neither spot\\nNor blemish, fat and young, a gift of thine\\nUnto thy wife, which she hath bidden me\\nTo guard and nourish for her sacrifice.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "203 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nNabal. Let it be slain, my table shall suffice\\nFor altar where no holy fires may waste\\nIts savor and where lusty priests may feed.\\nSteward. I can, without the bullock, serve thee well.\\nNabal. Slay it, I tell thee, slay and answer not.\\nHast thou sufficient dainties\\nSteward. Aye, my lord.\\nNabal. Then for the wine, magician of the feast,\\nThat fire for the fuel of thy food.\\nWhich, seeing princes are our furnaces,\\nShould burn within them brightly, flaming mirth.\\nGo thou unto my cellars, break the seal\\nUpon the inner door and carefully\\nBear from the cool and darkened cave within\\nA score of jars full of the precious wine\\nMy father s maidens trod with snowy feet\\nOn that rare vintage year that gave me birth.\\nTake thou but twenty jars, thou hearest me,\\nI know the tale within, and seal the door,\\nThereafter, I shall go to make it sure.\\nAnd let no jar be opened until ye serve,\\nOr I shall slay thee for a sacrifice\\nIn place of this fair bullock of the stall.\\nSteward. I hear thee, O my master, and obey.\\nNabal. Now hasten unto thy task and if the feast\\nAdd nothing to my glory, then beware.\\nBut wliat are these who come within the court?\\nGod grant me not the princes yet awhile\\nThat I make ready. Nay, my stars are good.\\nNabal, go to! thine eyes are growing dim.\\nThese men are but my common hirelings", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 303\\nWho come at length from Carmel. But with them\\nAre armed men and strong, yet meanly clad.\\nI know them not. They are not of the host,\\nNor yet are they of heathen countenance.\\nDoubtless they journey hence to serve the king.\\nBid them to enter straightway as ye pass,\\nThese and my shepherds all, I am in haste.\\n[Steward goeth forth and there speedily\\nappeareth certain Shepherds and with them\\nAhishai and other followers of David.\\nCome nigh, ye slothful shepherds. Lift yourselves.\\nYe have done well to tarry not beyond\\nTo-day in fetching me your just account,\\nElse ye had known a grievous reckoning.\\nWhat is the yield of wool? How many sacks\\nWere filled in equal measure to the top\\nAfter the shearing?\\nShepherd. It is written here\\nIn order by the chiefest of our band\\nWho sendeth us Five hundred, at the least.\\nAye, full five hundred sacks reward our toil,\\nFor there was yet a remnant left to dry.\\nNabal. [to Shepherd apart Is the wool good?\\nShepherd. Aye, it is fine and white.\\nNabal Then mix ye it with other wool of mine\\nThe merchants have rejected. At the mouth\\nOf every sack the best, and I shall gain\\nThe worth of yet two hundred sacks beside.\\nBut who are these young men who come with ye\\nI know them not. What say they? Do they seek\\nThe host of Saul, thus armed?", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "204 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nShepherd. O my lord,\\nThese men have come with us to speak to thee.\\nI pray thee hear them graciously and deal\\nWith them according to their kindliness\\nUnto thy servants.\\nNabal [to David s Men], Wherefore are ye come?\\nAbishai. We seek thee, mighty Nabal, by desire\\nOf David, son of Jesse, in whose name\\nWe greet thee. Thus he bade us speak for him\\nIn this the day of thy prosperity.\\nPeace be to thee and peace be to thy house\\nAnd peace be ever unto all thou hast.\\nNow have I heard amid the wilderness\\nThat thou hast shearers many, and thy sheep\\nAre as a multitude. Lo, we were nigh\\nUnto them and thy shepherds roundabout.\\nYet did we hurt them not nor was there aught\\nMissing among them all the time they dwelt\\nIn Carmel, Ask thy servants of my words\\nAnd they will show thee. Wherefore, O my lord,\\nLet the young men whom I have sent to thee\\nFind favor in thine eyes, for they are come\\nIn a good day of bounty to thy grace.\\nGive, therefore, in compassion of our distress,\\nOf whatsoever cometh to thy hand\\nUnto thy servants and to me, thy son.\\nNabal. And who is David whom ye call the seed\\nOf Jesse? There be many nowadays.\\nUnfaithful servants who do break away\\nEach bondsman from his master. Shall I then\\nTake of my bread, my water and my flesh\\nThat I have killed to give my shearers meat,", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 205\\nAnd give it unto men I know not of\\nOr whence they come?\\nAbishai. Be it as thou hast said,\\nBut, lo, we turn us from before thy face\\nTo go to David in the wilderness\\nAnd tell him all thy sayings unto us.\\n[David s Servants go forth.\\nShepherd. O turn them not away in their distress,\\nI pray thee, master. They were very kind\\nAnd merciful\\nNabal [striking him]. Dog, dost thou plead with me\\nFor robbers?\\nShepherd. They will surely do thee hurt.\\nHave pity on me.\\n[Nabal striketh him again.\\nNabal. Go thou after them,\\nThou scorpion. Starve in the wilderness\\nWith these thy fellows. Nay, abide awhile\\nUntil the feast is ended which, to-night.\\nThe princes of the land shall eat with me,\\nAnd when my dogs no longer gnaw the bones.\\nThese shalt thou bear to him who saith thy son.\\nBut wherefore should I tarry, slave, with thee\\nWhen neighbors must be bidden, raiment sought\\nAnd all the house be swept and garnished\\nTo honor the companions of the king.\\n[Nabal hasteneth without.\\nShepherd. Ye gods, ye gods, how he hath smitten me\\nI know not but the gold knob of his staff\\nHath broken something here. I cannot rise.\\nMy curse upon thee, Nabal. If there be\\nA God above. He shall avenge my woes.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "206 THE HEART OF DAVID\\n[Abigail entereth.]\\nAbigail. What dost thou lying here? What aileth\\nthee?\\nWho art thou?\\nShepherd. O, my mistress, I am hurt.\\nAbigail. Who art thou? Who hath hurt thee?\\nShepherd. Pardon me.\\nAbigail. What hast thou done?\\nShepherd. My lord hath hurt me sore.\\nI am a shepherd from the wilderness\\nI had no thought to anger him.\\nAbigail. Have peace\\nA little space. Nay, seek not to arise.\\nShepherd. Yea, I can lift myself. The Lord be praised,\\nHis staff hath broken nothing.\\nAbigail. Tell me now\\nWith patient words all that hath come to pass.\\nShepherd. Hear then, O mistress, even as thou wilt,\\nThe words of truth. Thy servant hath to-day\\nCome down from Carmel in the company\\nOf other shepherds who have left the sheep\\nTo bring the wool thereof unto my lord\\nAnd with us journeyed certain messengers\\nOf one called David who abideth there\\nAmid the wilderness in fear of Saul,\\nAnd needeth food. Wherefore he sent the men\\nUnto our master who did rail at them.\\nBut these young men were very good to us\\nAnd hurt us not, nor missed we anything\\nWhile yet conversant with them in the fields\\nThey were a wall to us both night and day\\nWhile we were with them caring for the sheep.\\nNow therefore know that David and his band", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 207\\nAre desperate and strong and will not brook\\nThe words of Nabal, and consider well\\nWhat thou wilt do to turn his wrath away;\\nFor evil is determined against\\nOur master and against his household all,\\nIf he refuse the meat to succor them.\\nThis I would fain have told him for thy sake,\\nBut he is such a son of Belial\\nOne cannot speak to him.\\nAbigail. If he hath done\\nAs thou hast said, thy words are true indeed,\\nUnto the very last thou utterest.\\nWhere is thy master?\\nShepherd. He hath hastened hence\\nThat he prepare to-night a royal feast\\nFor certain mighty men whom he attends\\nWhich journey hither, even as we talk.\\nAbigail. But where awaiteth David and his band?\\nWhat dost thou know about them\\nShepherd. Verily,\\nI fear he hath not tarried in his need\\nAmid the wilderness, but followeth.\\nHe and his troop, after his messengers,\\nMistrusting not but that my lord were kind\\nTherefore he should not fail to meet with them\\nUpon the way, and, learning Nabal s scorn.\\nMay fall upon us all this very night\\nLeaving no soul alive.\\nAbigail. God pity us.\\nWhat can I do The time is short indeed\\nTo check the mighty torrent of his wrath\\nWhich Nabal s words have loosened. Gracious Lord\\nOf Israel, do Thou give strength to me", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "208 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd wisdom to deliver us from woe.\\nOne course appeareth, yea, there is but one.\\nBehold, I am resolved what to do.\\nEven to meet this David in the way\\nAnd take him food and beg him to withhold\\nDestruction from us. Go thou secretly\\nUnto the steward when he is apart\\nFrom Nabal. Thou canst trust him. Bid him read\\nThis tablet that he fail not to provide\\nUnto thy hand what I shall write thereon. [dressed,\\n[Writeth.] Two hundred loaves, five sheep already\\nFive measures, at the least, of parched corn,\\nOf raisins quite an hundred clusters ask,\\nTwo hundred cakes of figs, and, furthermore,\\nTwo heavy skins of wine. With these secured\\nMore readily from all the feast requires.\\nGo thou unto the stables, choosing out\\nThe asses we shall need to bear the food\\nAnd make them ready, and the ass I ride\\nMake ready also. Then abide awhile\\nUntil these men of Saul have come to us.\\nAnd it shall be when Nabal greeteth them\\nAnd all his thought is turned to display\\nHis riches to them, straightway do thou lade\\nThy beasts with this provision and go forth,\\nThou and the faithful servants thou shalt choose,\\nTaking the way to Carmel and behold.\\nIf, peradventure, any ask of thee\\nWherefore thou takest hence such store of food,\\nSay ye are of the shepherds. Go before\\nAnd, when I shall have tarried until none\\nMay have suspicion of the thing I do,\\nDoubt not that I shall hasten after ye.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "PART III.\\nPLACE. The Highway nigh unto Maon. Two of David s\\nMessengers.\\n1st Messenger. This is the way we came, assuredly,\\nWith Nabal s shepherds ere the sun was high\\nTo give their lord the greeting David sent.\\nYea, here we ran with hope, and here we trod\\nA little after, turned back again\\nBy Nabal s scorn, weary and hungering,\\nTo tell his words to David. Happily\\nOur mighty captain followed after us,\\nHe and his band to sooner joy in food\\nAnd, learning Nabal s words, doth now prepare\\nTo heal our humbled spirits with revenge.\\n2nd Messenger. This surely is the way.\\n1st Messenger. Aye, verily,\\nAnd we are in the cover of the hill\\nWhich hides the house of Nabal set beyond.\\nHere let us wait, unseen of any man,\\nTil David overtake us and his troop.\\nThat we may know the thing he purposeth\\nAnd guide to its fulfillment.\\n2nd Messenger. Lo, they come.\\nAlready David hasteneth before.\\n1st Messenger. Are all our band with him\\n2nd Messenger. Nay, when we came\\nUpon them, I inquired of the thing.\\nAnd one said unto me, Two hundred men", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "210 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nTarry upon the hold to guard our wives\\nAnd keep the stuff from robbers, but ye see\\nFour hundred here, and, peradventure, now,\\nThough he refused ten of ye, for us\\nNabal may be persuaded to bestow\\nA little food.\\njst Messenger. Will such a band suffice,\\nWasted in strength by scantiness of meat.\\nAgainst his household and the city s aid,\\nTo chasten Nabal?\\n2nd Messenger. Yea, for though his house\\nHath bolts and bars and walls around about,\\nAnd servants many, these despise their lord\\nAnd Maon s people cannot succor him\\nIf so they would before our swords to-night\\nShall make an empty place where Nabal dwells.\\nMoreover, heard st thou not, as we came forth\\nThis morning, hungering from Nabal s scorn,\\nHis steward crying out that all attend\\nForthwith to spread a mighty feast for him.\\nIf this be true, they will forget defense\\nAnd we shall eat our fill amid the dead\\nAs guests unbidden but with greater proof\\nOf its deserving. Lo, our captain comes,\\nOur valiant David.\\n[David entereth.]\\nDavid. Are ye in the way?\\n1st Messenger. We have no doubt thereof.\\nDavid. And are we nigh\\n1st Messenger. My lord, when we have compassed\\nthe hill,", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 311\\nThou shalt behold upon the further side\\nThe house of him thou seekest.\\nDavid. It is well,\\nThe day is nearly spent, but we have gained\\nThis hill of vantage able yet to smite.\\nAnd soon our vengeance shall be satisfied.\\nHere let us tarry but a little space\\nTo know that we are all in readiness,\\nAnd armed not alone with these good swords\\nBut with the torches of my rage aflame,\\nThen, as a vulture of the wilderness\\nSeizeth a serpent, shall our might descend\\nOn Nabal and his household. Do ye fall\\nOn every male and slay him, sparing not\\nOf young or old, save only for my hand\\nThe fool himself. Have I not said to ye\\n[Abishai, Ahiathar and Soldiers hasten up.\\nSurely in vain have I protected all\\nThis fellow hath amid the wilderness,\\nSo that of all that hath pertained to him\\nNothing was missed, and he requited me\\nEvil for good. Come hither unto me,\\nAbiathar, thou priest before the Lord,\\nAnd hear the vow His servant maketh thee.\\nBy the white hairs of good Ahimelech,\\nThy father slain, who gave me hallowed bread\\nWhen I was hungry, by this mighty sword\\nGoliath bore which from the ephod s folds\\nThy father rendered to me sanctified,\\nBy Samuel s grave I may not weep upon\\nIn gratitude for all he would have given,\\nBy Jonathan, whose heart would fain bestow\\nA kingdom s heritage to prove his love.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "212 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nBy Jesse and the womb which gave me life\\nIn Httle Bethlehem but shall I thus\\nDisturb the hallowed vestments of the dead\\nOr shame the living sheltered in my heart?\\nNay, these are all too holy to defile\\nWith aught concerning Nabal. Let me vow\\nRather by all I hate throughout my soul,\\nBy Doeg s vile deceitfulness and base\\nUngodly, lying tongue and bloody hand,\\nBy Phaltiel, that weakling of the court\\nWhose wealth hath ravished Michal from my bed\\nThat, when I fall on Nabal in his scorn\\nAnd mightiness of pride, this sword I bear\\nWhich knew Goliath s boast and cleft in twain\\nThe throat that made it, shall with swifter rage\\nRemove this proud reviler from the earth\\nAnd all the good I rendered Nabal s house\\nAnd his possessions in the wilderness.\\nSo and more also do the Lord my God\\nUnto my enemies if now I leave\\nAught that he hath until the morning light\\nOr any male of all his house alive.\\nAbiathar. I hear thy vow, O David, but beware,\\nLest it be more begotten of thy wrath\\nThan of thy righteousness. Unto the Lord\\nBelongeth vengeance. If it pleaseth Him\\nAt times to smite the heathen utterly\\nThat we. His chosen people, may possess\\nThis land which He hath promised unto us\\nAnd cleanse it of its great iniquities,\\nProclaiming to the peoples of the earth\\nAround about, one God of truth and might,\\nWe can but bow and tremble and obey", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 313\\nHis wisdom knoweth best. Not unto us\\nThe sword is given save to do His will.\\nSaul sinned in his disobedience\\nAlike when merciful to Amalek\\nAnd when he slew the priests before the Lord,\\nAnd thou hast made a vow to shed the blood\\nOf many innocent for one alone\\nWho justifieth hatred in thy soul.\\nTake back thy vow, I pray thee.\\nDavid. It is made\\nAnd if the Lord be holdeth wrong therein,\\nHe will prevent me. I am in His hands.\\nBut until He restraineth this my rage\\nAgainst whatever giveth Nabal might\\nOr joy or peace, behold, my sword shall slay.\\nHow many have we here in readiness?\\nO Amasai, are thy men prepared?\\nAmasai. Yea, David, all who have come unto thee\\nFrom Benjamin and Judah whom I lead.\\nAwait thy bidding, those whom Saul hath wronged\\nAmid his tribe who hold their honor dear,\\nAnd these who love thee, lion of their land,\\nThine and upon thy side unto the end.\\nDavid. Their love shall be remembered. Who are\\nhere,\\nAbishai, of thy hundred faithful men?\\nAbishai. They all do tarry nigh us with their swords\\nUnsheathed for thy service.\\nDavid. Hast thou seen,\\nO nephew true, amid our company\\nEzer the Gadite and his little band?\\nEser. Behold us, David, Obediah here,\\nEliab and Mishmannah at my side,", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "214 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd Jeremiah, Attai, Eliel,\\nJohanan, Elzabad, and yet beyond\\nYoung Jeremiah and Machbanai stand,\\nEleven all who fear not any strife\\nTo honor thee, the bravest, mightiest,\\nWhose valiant deeds do ever stir our souls\\nTo higher warfare than thy just command.\\nDavid. I yet shall make ye captains every one\\nOf hundreds in my host, if once again\\nThe Lord be gracious unto me. And now\\nAs thou and they, for very love of me,\\nDidst leave all kindred in the land of Gad\\nAnd, in the first month when the Jordan burst\\nWith chilly waves his banks, didst overpass\\nThe mighty waters and both east and west\\nSpread twofold fear to every valley s peace;\\nSo, even so, I call ye to my side\\nTo overcome whatever may defend\\nThe fool who sitteth in his arrogance\\nAt yonder house reviling my distress,\\nFeigning he knoweth not of David s name,\\nAccounting me a bondsman who doth flee\\nAs one before his master from the king.\\nAye, though we hunger sore, there resteth yet\\nStrength in our arms sufficient to cast down\\nThat glutton in the fatness of his pride.\\nAbishai. Thou shalt not bid us twice to follow thee,\\nWhatever be the strength opposing us\\nOf Nabal s household.\\nDavid. Stay, hath any seen.\\nUpon the way behind, the company\\nAhimelech the Hittite governeth", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 215\\nAmasai. A little time ago I saw his band,\\nAssuredly they are not far removed.\\nBehold he cometh.\\nAhimelech. Think not, O my lord,\\nThat I have tarried thus in slothfulness.\\nBut we beheld afar some laborers\\nOf Nabal s house returning from the fields\\nWhere they had toiled and we turned aside\\nTo take them, that no outcry of our might\\nShould reach their master, but the men rejoiced\\nTo see the day of his calamity.\\nDavid. Ye have done wisely. Are ye ready all\\nMany Voices. Aye, all, my lord.\\nDavid. Stay, who approacheth us?\\nI hear the sound of asses in the way.\\nAhimelech. We are discovered after all our care.\\nDavid. Nay, this is not the sound of fighting men,\\nBut rather they who carry merchandise.\\nBehold they turn the side of yonder hill\\nAnd journey hither.\\nAbishai. And the asses bear\\nAbundant food. What joyful chance is this\\nWhich turneth to our need a caravan\\nOf treasure far exceeding sacks of gold\\nLet us despoil them now and eat our fill,\\nDreading no more to faint amid the strife\\nFrom weariness and hunger.\\nDavid. Stay ye yet,\\nAbishai, for the men flee not away\\nAlthough they now behold us. Nay they press\\nThe rather unto us, and there is one\\nRiding an ass who hasteneth before,\\nA woman as it seemeth. Sheath your swords,\\n15", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "216 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nCompanions all, unless they turn in flight.\\nYea, verily a woman and her dress\\nBetokeneth exalted dignity,\\nEzer. And wherefore do they fear us not, my lord,\\nDoth Nabal yield?\\nDavid. The thing is very strange.\\nI wot not. Let us go to meet with them.\\n[Abigail coming before, alight eth from her ass, and\\nboweth herself upon her face to the ground\\nbefore David.\\nAbigail. O upon me, my lord, on me alone\\nBe this iniquity. I pray thee grant\\nThat in thine audience thine handmaid speak\\nAnd do thou hear her words. Let not my lord,\\nI pray thee, give regard unto this man\\nOf Belial, this Nabal thou dost seek.\\nFor, as his name is, even so is he,\\nNabal his name and folly is with him,\\nBut I thine handmaid saw not, when they came\\nThe young men of my lord whom thou didst send.\\nNow, therefore, O my lord, even as the Lord\\nLiveth, as thy soul liveth, forasmuch\\nAs God Almighty hath withholden thee\\nFrom coming hitherward to shed our blood\\nAnd from avenging thee with thine own hand.\\nNow let thine enemies and they that seek\\nEvil against thee be as Nabal is,\\nWhose foolishness sufificeth for his fall.\\nAnd let this humble blessing and the gift\\nThine handmaiden hath brought unto my lord\\nBe portioned with the youth who follow thee.\\nI pray thee in thy mercy to forgive\\nThe trespass of thine handmaid, for the Lord", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 217\\nWill make a sure house to thee certainly,\\nBecause thou lightest His battles and because\\nEvil hath not been found in all thy days.\\nYet is a man uprisen to pursue,\\nAnd seek thy soul, but the soul of my lord\\nShall ever in the bundle of life be bound\\nWith Israel s Lord, thy God, Who shall cast out\\nThe evil souls of all thine enemies\\nAs stones fly from the middle of a sling.\\nAnd it shall come to pass when that the Lord\\nShall to my lord have done accordingly\\nTo all the good that He hath spoken of\\nConcerning thee and hath appointed thee\\nRuler of Israel, that this shall be\\nNo grief unto thee nor offense of heart\\nEither that thou hast shed blood causelessly\\nOr hath avenged thyself. But when the Lord\\nShall have dealt well hereafter with my lord,\\nRemember then thine handmaid and her words.\\nDavid. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,\\nWhich sendeth thee this day to meet me here,\\nAnd blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou\\nWhich keepeth me to-day from shedding blood\\nAnd from avenging -me with mine own hand,\\nFor, lo, in very deed, as He the Lord\\nOf Israel liveth, which hath kept me back\\nFrom hurting thee, except for this thy haste\\nIn meeting me, there surely had not been\\nLeft unto Nabal by the morning light\\nA man of all his household to his call.\\nAbigail. Since thou hast had compassion, take of these\\nMy servants, for an offering of peace,\\nSubh food as could be gathered up in haste", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "218 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nBefore we came to meet thee in the way.\\nIf, peradventure, it awhile suffice\\nTo keep thee and thy men from hungering,\\nAnd gain thy grace, thine handmaid will provide\\nAbundantly hereafter.\\nDavid. At thy hand\\nI take this food as coming from the Lord\\nTo save us in a sore extremity,\\nBoth as a gift from thee and just reward\\nFrom Nabal s riches to these faithful men\\nWho kept his many sheep from any hurt\\nAmid the wilderness.\\n[The food is taken eagerly by David s Men from\\nthe hands of Abigail s Servants.\\nAbigail. Wilt thou not eat,\\nMy lord, assuredly thou needest food?\\nDavid. Yea, from thy hands, but any hungering\\nIs less in this my weak and weary flesh\\nThan in my heart and were the ample store\\nOf food thou bringest but for me alone,\\nIts bounty could not lift and strengthen me\\nAs mudh as these thy sweet and gracious words\\nDo satisfy my bosom. Yesterday\\nMy heart was in a desert sore athirst.\\nNow doth it rest in peace beside a well\\nOf pure and healing waters with the ripe\\nAnd perfect fruit of Eshcol hanging nigh.\\nThou art the well and thou the fruitful vine\\nWhich bringeth this delight, thou art the peace\\nOf evening which banisheth my care.\\nWhat may I call thee\\nAbigail. I am Abigail,\\nA Carmelite whom Nabal took to wife.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 319\\nDavid. And where, amid the riches of his house\\nAnd plenteous reward of each desire,\\nDidst thou so learn to pity my distress,\\nTo cherish in thy heart the cause I serve?\\nAbigail. If, David, thou hadst knowledge of my lord\\nIn all his evil deeds and churlishness.\\nThy soul would comprehend that in my heart\\nI should abhor whome er he favoreth.\\nAnd cleave to those despised of his pride,\\nHis gold is brass to me, his wine is gall,\\nHis table, by its wasteful gluttony.\\nIs as a trough for swine to eat therein,\\nHis bed the inner cell of my despair,\\nAnd what I wear before him is no more,\\nWith all its art of needle and of loom.\\nThan raiment of my servitude. Though wed,\\nI am too young to know of any wealth\\nGreater than love, tu seek for other gift\\nThan love bestoweth.\\nDavid. If thou hast in truth\\nNo love for Nabal in his mightiness,\\nWherefore should I, to whom he giveth naught,\\nDeserve in thee the chieftest gift he hath.\\nSelf offered now when I am all too poor\\nTo take, and yet too merciful to mar?\\nI, who though once the right arm of the king.\\nThe pride of Judah and of Israel,\\nAm now become an outcast, a reproach,\\nA kinsman unto robbers, an offense\\nTo Saul and to his captains, hunted down\\nUnto the borders of the wilderness\\nWhere those whom I have saved from heathen spears\\nSeek to betray me, where ungodly men", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "220 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nDo shake their heads and laugh and say, Behold,\\nThis is the chosen vessel of the Lord,\\nThe heir of Samuel, the sword of Saul,\\nThe lion of the host where is his cave\\nThat we may have a little sport with him\\nAbigail. O David, cease. Let not this bitterness\\nOf spirit overwhelm thee. Thou art poor,\\nIt may be, for a time, and sore distressed.\\nBut thou art yet a captain, aye, a king\\nTo many hearts in Israel. Thy deeds\\nAre not forgotten of us. Thy defense\\nFrom heathen rage of those who serve the Lord\\nThroughout the length of Canaan roundabout.\\nThe meekness of thy might, thy faithfulness\\nAnd mercy unto Saul when in thy hand,\\nThy zeal of heart, the glory of thy song\\nThese things shall be remembered evermore,\\nAnd they shall yet exalt thee to thy place\\nBefore the people. Fear not in thine heart\\nFor God shall yet uplift thee to fulfil\\nHis word which faileth not.\\nDavid. Thou trustest, then,\\nAlso in Him, the God of Abraham,\\nOf Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua,\\nWho reigneth true, eternal and alone?\\nAbigail. Yea, I believe in Him, for I partake\\nBeyond the heritage of Caleb s seed\\nWhich Nabal shameth, something of the faith\\nWhich gave to Caleb valiance and hope\\nAnd, in his age, a might to overthrow\\nSheshai, Ahiman, Talmai Anak s sons\\nThe giants of the Anakims as thou\\nDidst overthrow, perchance, of their descent.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 321\\nThat proud Goliath who was out of Gath\\nWhere many fled when Joshua prevailed;\\nTherefore, if now thy courage is a torch\\nThat faileth, I may light it from a heart\\nWhere silently the flame of mightier days\\nHath lived for higher use than hope could dream,\\nHath lived and leapeth up with newer light,\\nRejoicing to sustain thee in the Lord\\nAnd in the purest love of Israel.\\nDavid. O Abigail, thou art a flame, indeed,\\nTo light the innermost caves of my despair\\nAnd lead my soul from thence unto the day\\nOf faith exalted. When it sank within,\\nThe life of wrath returned at Nabal s scorn\\nBut thou dost make its strength complete in love.\\nBehold it armed again, and, in the past,\\nAs Othniel did gird himself with might\\nFor Caleb s daughter Achsah whom he loved\\nAnd humbled Kirjath-sepher yet again\\nThat woeful city, for his love s desire;\\nSo do I rise to do whatever thing\\nGod willeth at my hand for Israel,\\nRestored by thy grace. The Lord hath sent\\nAforetime Samuel in stern old age\\nTo guide and strengthen me, and, after him,\\nThe prophet Gad, in secrecy of fear.\\nAnd then Abiathar amid his woes\\nAnd tribulation for his father s death.\\nBut now in loving kindness God prepares\\nBy these thy lips a sweeter prophecy,\\nAnd by thine eyes a balm for my distress.\\nAnd by thy heart a covenant of joy.\\nO prophet beautiful, forget me not,", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "222 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nSince I have seen thee, there is none beside\\nMy soul would ask for counsel. Come to me\\nWith each new day and sanctify its light,\\nWith each sad eve and fix thy stars above.\\nTeach me and I shall hear thee, though thy words\\nBe whispered in a tempest, make command\\nAnd, though the crown of Pharaoh were the spoil,\\nLo, I would do thy bidding to the end.\\nAbigail. Not as thy prophet, David, would I come,\\nBut as thine handmaid. Would I might abide\\nHenceforth with thee and thine and know no more\\nThe face of Nabal. Think me not too bold,\\nO David, perfect love discloseth all,\\nAnd since I have beheld thee, and perceived\\nThe spirit guiding thee, I do account\\nYears at thy side in thine adversity\\nA sweeter lot than an eternal youth\\nWith him my slave and all his treasure mine.\\nDavid. O would I thus could take thee, Abigail,\\nEven to-day, and guard thee on my breast.\\nSafe from the fool who withereth thy heart\\nAnd knoweth little as the altar flame\\nThe fuel from the dove of sacrifice.\\nBut now it may not be. The God we serve\\nIs not a Baal or an Ashtaroth\\nWhose groves invite adulterers to praise,\\nHe spareth not the sinner but rewards\\nWith blessing those who hold to righteousness.\\nPray we that this our God, the pure and just,\\nMay guard us therefore from the ways of sin.\\nThat love may strengthen us and give us grace\\nTo wait what He ordaineth yet to be.\\nThe bud that youth tears open bloometh not", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 233\\nAnd love, so brief when violence defies,\\nDoth gather sweeter fragrance by delay.\\nGo therefore up in peace unto thine house,\\nFair Abigail, and in my countenance\\nSee I have harkened unto thy voice\\nAnd have accepted for our day of grace\\nThy person when the Lord releaseth thee.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "PART IV.\\nfLA CE. The Feast Chamber of Nabal. On couches at a richly\\ngarnished table, recline Nabal in the midst, Ishbosheth and\\nDoeg on his right, Phaltiel on his left, and beyond them,\\nneighbors of Maon and Ziph. Attendants. Musicians are\\nplaying for dancing girls.\\nNabal. Now let the music cease and stay your dance,\\nYe comely damsels. Ye have earned your price.\\nRest your fair limbs and give your bosoms breath\\nWhile Nabal speaks. Let all give ear to me.\\nYe men of Maon, Carmel and of Ziph,\\nThough I be rich and mig^hty in your midst,\\nI am not vain yet, peradventure, now\\nI may be proud, for lo, on either hand,\\nHere Ishbosheth the prince, here Phaltiel,\\nThe sons of Saul, do sit at meat with me.\\nAnd I have bidden ye in haste to-day\\nTo know the king discerneth cunningly\\nAnd that ye share our feast.\\nGuests. We give thee thanks\\nMost mighty Nabal.\\nNabal. Furthermore, behold\\nDoeg, a mighty man who serveth well\\nThe king s necessity, doth honor us.\\nHe goeth not with Abner in the host\\nBut spieth out the secret enemies\\nWho vex the kingdom, even such as wear\\nThe ephod for defense, who prophesy\\nAnd cry against us Woe be unto thee.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 325\\nBut touch US not for we are of the Lord,\\nSuch hath he rooted out to shout no more.\\nHave I well spoken, neighbor?\\nGuest. As a seer.\\nNahal. What thinkest thou? [To another.\\nAnother Guest. Most mightily my lord.\\nEven as the trumpeters of Joshua\\nWho made the wall to fall.\\nNahal. Thanks to ye both.\\nNow let the faithful drink to Saul the king.\\nGuests. Long live the king, long live the son of Kish\\nWho first in Israel doth wear the crown.\\nNahal. And drink ye also unto Ishbosheth,\\nThe prince who selleth not his heritage.\\nGuests. Long life to Ishbosheth, our king to be.\\nNahal. Aye, aye, our king to be. Now fill and drink\\nTo Phaltiel, the son-in-law of Saul,\\nGuests. Good health to Phaltiel, fair Michal s spouse.\\nNahal. And drink ye yet to Doeg every one.\\nThis zealous steward Saul hath sent to us\\nWho fears no god or man to serve the king.\\nGuest. Hail to the faithful Doeg. Let his sword\\nSmite down the Levites which accurse the land.\\nConfusion to the priests of Israel.\\nNahal. Behold, since ye are joined in fellowship.\\nYe princes, captains, neighbors, mighty men,\\nIf, peradventure, ye have had your fill\\nOf dainty meats and every goodly thing\\nMy wealth provideth, harken, for the hour\\nHath come for merry words, for wagging tongues.\\nFor deeper cups of wine to overflow\\nThe stony banks the seers have builded up\\nAgainst our pleasures, aye, to break them down,", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "226 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nFlooding throughout the valley of desire\\nWhatever thing our soul delighteth in.\\nGuest. Hear ye, O princes, how great Nabal speaks.\\nNabal. What think st thou, Doeg, speak I worthily?\\nDoeg. Thy speech, O Nabal, floweth like the Nile\\nWith weighty matter. I am of thy mind.\\nThe time hath come to put from off our backs\\nThe heavy cloaks of pomp and dignity,\\nThat we may know our nakedness of heart.\\nNor shrink and tremble if the Levites cry\\nAgainst the lusts in us the gods have made.\\nIshbosheth. What sayest thou, O Doeg? These thy\\nwords\\nCome not from one who waiteth on the Lord\\nAs thou wast wont. Be wary of thy wine.\\nDoeg. My prince, in shelter of thy mightier place\\nTliou mockest me, but I have done with prayers\\nSince I have smitten down Ahimelech.\\nUntil these priests shall learn to serve the king\\nAnd do what seemeth worthy in mine eyes,\\nI am no longer blind, no more their slave.\\nDo not our living bodies in the flesh\\nTeach us a fuller measure of delight\\nThan these dull Levite tongues, which suffer not\\nThe freedom of desire and command\\nThe flesh pots to be broken at our need\\nDoth not the heart which willeth to attain\\nTo power, pleasure and riches, run its course\\nMore speedily when it may cast aside\\nThe armor which their law requireth;\\nAnd have we not, O Ziphites, mighty men\\nOf Maon and of Carmel, closer bond\\nOf fellowship in kindred enmities.", "height": "3034", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 227\\nIn pleasant lusts and things esteemed weak,\\nThan arrogant hypocrites of righteousness\\nIn all their boasted brotherhood of law?\\nThe priests which strive to rule us have become\\nA plague unto the land of Israel,\\nHindering and oppressing more within\\nThan do the Philistines who threat without\\nThe hills of Judah. Look ye at the king,\\nConsider well the torment of his days.\\nLo, Samuel the seer, when yet alive,\\nAlthough he had anointed Saul to reign,\\nSought in the arrogancy of his pride\\nTo lead him as one leadeth with an hook,\\nAnd when the king, to gain the spoils of war.\\nDid turn aside from barkening to him.\\nThe prophet would have straightway thrust him out\\nTo set a shepherd lad upon his throne.\\nThis David, who by favor of his sling\\nBeguiled awhile the foolish of the land\\nTo shout for him, gathering to his side\\nThe Levites as the sheep of Samuel,\\nUntil such mig hty men as Nabal here\\nGave of their treasure to maintain the pride\\nOf Israel s throne and drive the brawler hence.\\nAnd where hath hid this joy of Bethlehem\\nSince now his prophet rotteth with the dead?\\nLo, is he not amid the wilderness\\nAnd numbered with the robbers who abide\\nUpon the rocks where none pursueth them?\\nYet, since this fellow doth provoke the king,\\nWhile he endureth, I am come to ye\\nThat we may work together to destroy\\nThis remnant of rebellion from the earth.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "938 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nNahal. Doeg, thou speakest wisely and behold\\nThe time is now at hand to serve thy will,\\nFor but to-day certain of Da\\\\ id s band\\nWhich hideth upon Carmel near my sheep,\\nCame unto me to beg a little food.\\nDoeg. Then is the fox indeed in woeful part.\\nThese tidings give me joy and I will send\\nIn haste upon the morrow for a troop\\nWhich tarrieth at Hebron, with command\\nTo compass all these outcasts in distress\\nAnd make an end of them.\\nIshbosheth. The stars in truth\\nAre gracious unto us. Rejoice with me,\\nO Phaltiel, that comfort is so nigh.\\nA little time and we shall go from hence\\nWith David s head unto my father s courts\\nTo hear him shout for joy and to behold\\nThe woe of Jonathan.\\nDoeg. Grant that I bear\\nAgain unto the king Goliath s sword\\nWhich I beheld Ahimelech the priest\\nGive unto David with the hallowed bread\\nFrom off the altar. It befitteth me\\nTo thus delight thy father.\\nIshbosheth. It is well.\\nNabal. Then shall ye say, Nabal, the mighty man\\nOf Maon told us where the fellow hid\\nFor love of thee, O king. Is it not meet\\nThat thou shouldst recompense him Say ye so.\\nAnd fail ye not to say for love of thee.\\nDoeg. Thou shalt have honor, Nabal, in the ear\\nOf Saul for all thy bounty unto us.\\nBut if thou verily wouldst gain his love.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 229\\nGive me a talent of silver to provide\\nOur purse and recompense his men of war\\nWhom I shall call from Hebron.\\nNabal. Hath the king\\nNo money for them\\nDoeg. He doth pay the host\\nSuch wages as he may, but thou dost know\\nThat, with the burden of Philistine strife\\nAnd this rebellion of David in our midst,\\nThe kingdom s treasury doth not abound\\nWith riches for its servants. Furthermore,\\nThis crafty shepherd hath so oft escaped\\nOut of the snares which Saul doth set for him,\\nThat men have lost their spirit to pursue\\nAnd vex themselves nay, even do they talk\\nIn David s praise. Which thing is perilous,\\nAnd needeth greater bounty to subdue.\\nNow, therefore, in his last extremity.\\nGive thou, that we may make an end of him.\\nNabal. If thou wilt give me pledge of due reward\\nIn profitable stewardship, or charge\\nOf goodly surety for the host s supply\\nFrom these my flocks, my talent shall be thine.\\nAnd yet five hundred shekels.\\nDoeg. Verily,\\nI cannot make a pledge to thee for Saul,\\nBut, since I am chief herdsman of the king,\\nI can withhold his cattle that they fail\\nOf increase as aforetime, and behold.\\nThou shalt receive command in thy desire.\\nIshbosheth. What do ye say together at my back\\nYe hoary usurers?", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "230 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nDoeg. Why dost thou heed\\nWe talk of how this David may be snared.\\nIshbosheth. Wait for the morrow. Ye are now too\\ngrave.\\nLet David starve and take your cups again.\\nPhaltiel. Nay, let them catch this fellow speedily,\\nDelaying naught that hasteneth his death.\\nHe standeth in my way, nor do I sleep\\nIn peace with Michal for the fear of him.\\nMoreover, I would take her hence with me\\nTo Egypt from the troubles of the land\\nThat she forget her cares in bounteous ease,\\nAnd, while this outlaw tarrieth with his troop\\nAmid the wilderness unto the south,\\nI dare not pass.\\nIshbosheth. Thou fearest not in vain,\\nFor he would verily tear thy heart from thee\\nAs thou hast seen the vultures tear a kid.\\nPhaltiel. Cease, Ishbosheth, if thou wouldst have me\\nstay\\nTo drink with thee, for thou dost make me cold.\\nIshbosheth. Drink quickly then, unloose thy girdle\\nwell.\\nTake thee strong drink, a mighty jar of wine\\nUnto thyself alone would not suffice\\nTo give thee courage when one uttereth\\nThe name of David.\\nPhaltiel. Nay, I fear him not.\\nBut I would be something more valorous\\nIf I had not his wife to think upon,\\nSeeing that Michal hath no love for me.\\nShe dreams of him. Her heart hath peace no more.\\nShe fretteth in despite at every man.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 331\\nNow at her father s violence of will,\\nAnd yet again at David s evil lot\\nThe while her tongue revileth whatsoe er\\nI do before her.\\nIshbosheth. Drink thou yet again.\\nPhaltiel. Nay, I have drunk enough, for I am sick\\nSick unto vomiting.\\nIshbosheth. O, fy on thee.\\nThou art a boy, thou canst not hold thy wine.\\nHere, Nabal, let thy servants take away\\nThis suckling prince. He leaveth us the more.\\n{Servants lead Phaltiel forth.\\nNabal. Nay, be ye princes, lords or what ye will,\\nNabal hath wine enough. Aye, wine for all.\\nThough ye should drink as horses. Fill your cups.\\nDoeg, thy cup is empty. Hither girl.\\nFill mighty Doeg s cup, aye, fill his throat,\\nIf he doth gape at thee, and leave awhile\\nThy doting on yon Ziphite. This is wine\\nWorthy our valleys whence, as ye do know.\\nMy forefather old Caleb stole the grapes\\nBefore he seized the land that nourished them.\\nAye, that old spy was wise, I warrant ye,\\nAnd knew a goodly vintage. Drink ye, all,\\nTo honor him.\\nIshbosheth. If he had wine like this,\\nI marvel not he gave so willingly\\nUnto his daughter Achsah, when she wed,\\nAlike the upper and the nether springs.\\nFor who would taste of water after it?\\nNabal. Thou speakest as a worthy son of Saul.\\nHarken, ye lords, drink as my damsels fill\\nAnd deem your golden cups no less a thing\\ni6", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "232 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nThan their fair breasts, free ofifered to your lips.\\n[Abigail cometh to the door and tarrieth\\nbehind its curtain.\\nSo be ye merry all. Drink, mighty men,\\nNabal hath plenty for ye. He is rich\\nOwning the half of Carmel. He hath flocks\\nExceeding all his neighbors in the land.\\nAnd many bondsmen and fair concubines,\\nAye, and a wife, could ye but see his wife,\\nYe princes and ye captains, ye would swear\\nHer comeliness was fashioned for desire.\\nGuests. Let us behold her. Drink to Nabal s wife.\\nAbigail [unseen]. Thou fool, I am accursed that thy\\nlips\\nHave ever toudhed me, more polluted far\\nThan if thy swine had slept upon my bed.\\nBehold I came thinking to rescue thee\\nAnd I am come in vain, am come to find\\nThat, in the place of armed vigilance\\nWhereby the wise would guard themselves secure,\\nThou liest witless in the nakedness\\nOf brutish lusts, in foolishness of wine,\\nTempting destruction which delayeth yet\\nA little longer, knowing she may choose\\nWhat time she will to slay thee. [Departeth.\\nNabal. Let me drink,\\nIf ye have wives as comely, unto them.\\nIshbosheth. Nay, let not any drink to any wife\\nSave he can boast her beauty and desire.\\nNabal. Let each drink to another s, or let us drink\\nTo some sweet concubine from heathen gates\\nOf lustful eyelids and lascivious lips\\nWho waiteth now, reproachful of delay.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 233\\nIshbosheth. Provoke me not, O Nabal, in such wise\\nAnd give me not such wine, or, by the gods,\\nMy lust shall search thy house for what it will.\\nNabal. My house is thine, my prince, aye all within,\\nIts fairest woman thine.\\nDoeg. Hold, stay ye here.\\nYe both are drunken. Ye do mar the feast.\\nIshboslwth. Thou liest, we are not as drunk as thou.\\nDoeg. Then are ye mad as David was at Gath\\nIn fear of Achish, yet ye feign it not\\nAs did this Levite fox. Ye feign it not.\\nYe are created fools. Yea, thou and he\\nBoth of ye, come thou merry damsel here\\nAnd give me wine. I swear by ancient Lot\\nI have not drunk enough.\\nNabal. What sayest thou,\\nThou cursed Edomite? What tale is this\\nOf David?\\nDoeg. Have they told thee naught of it?\\nYet here in little Maon thou, indeed,\\nWho hast so great a sweating of conceit,\\nShouldst only know of Nabal. Harken then,\\nDavid, that godly man, when he had made\\nA lie to old Ahimelech and fed\\nUpon the hallowed bread before mine eyes.\\nHe and his troop, lo, he mistrusted me\\nAs I was doing service of the Lord,\\nWhereat he fled to Gath, mark thou my words,\\nUnto its king the foe of Israel,\\nAnd being there, he trembled yet again\\nFor fear of Achish this was told to me\\nBy certain of the captives in our wars", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "334 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd changed his behavior unto them,\\nFeigned a madness, scrabbled on the doors\\nAnd let his spittle fall upon his beard,\\nUntil they thrust him forth to go his way.\\nWhat thinkest thou Shall Saul abide our king\\nOr such a fellow reign in Israel?\\nIf both be mad, Saul s way is worthier choice.\\nSpeak, Ishbosheth, my prince, what aileth thee?\\nWilt thou not waken Stay, regard him not,\\nHe is another Phaltiel in his wine.\\nNahal. Come hither, servants, take the prince from\\nhence\\nOur vintage is too strong.\\nDoeg. Stand ye apart,\\nI will go with him also. Tis enough.\\nNahal. Nay, tarry yet with me. The dawn is nigh.\\nLet us be merry, let us mock the night.\\nDoeg. Entreat me not. Bid thou thy friends depart\\nAnd let us to our couches. I must sleep\\nBefore I snare that curse of Israel.\\n{Ishbosheth is carried forth and Doeg folloiveth\\nafter him.\\nNahal. So be it, then. Ye neighbors, mighty men,\\nThe feast is ended. I have fed ye well.\\nWhat say ye? Have ye had as goodly wine\\nAs this from any lord of Canaan s best\\nGo to your beds, ye who can lift yourselves.\\nAnd ye who cannot walk as ye are wont\\nMy men shall lead. Good sleep attend ye all.\\nThe Guests go forth, aided by the Servants. Nahal s\\nStezvard alone remaineth.\\nOpen the lattice, steward, that the air\\nOf morning may refresh me. I am dull", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 235\\nFrom wine, for I did hold the cup with all\\nAnd crafty Doeg only, drinking less.\\nWithstood thy master. Thou hast served me well.\\nThe feast was worthy princes and all the land\\nShall hear henceforth of Nabal s mightiness.\\nBut go thou straightway to the servants court\\nAnd gather what remaineth of the wine,\\nThat none be wasted in their rioting.\\nThe rich when they are drunken serve me best,\\nThe poor man serveth not in any wise\\nWhen he hath all he will. Have thou a care\\nTo hear the prince and Doeg when they wake\\nAnd do thou whatsoever pleaseth them.\\n[The Stezvard goeth forth.\\nNow is the sum of all my feast a waste\\nIf Saul doth not reward me. Verily\\nHe cannot fail to give me stewardship\\nW here I shall gather shekels, aye, enough\\nTo fill yon empty wine jars to the neck\\nAnd overflow them. Surely such a wine\\nMeriteth only gold to take its room\\nAnd give me consolation for the loss.\\nThey drank of it like camels. Ishbosheth\\nWas but a skin wherein they measured it\\nUnto the bursting Phaltiel did suck\\nLike any kid restored to its dam,\\nAnd these my neighbors did avenge themselves\\nMost mightily for any tribute past.\\nBut it is ended. Lo, the morning breaks.\\nThe gods have mingled water with their wine\\nAnd cast the lees athwart the widening east\\nTo stain the cold beginning of the day.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "236 THE HEART OF DAVID\\n[Abigail entereth.]\\nWho Cometh hither? Art thou Abigail?\\nBut wherefore comest thou at such an hour\\nAppareled as for journeying. Cast off\\nThis fleece of chastity which girdeth thee\\nAnd come my fairest ewe, come thou anigh\\nThat I may shear thee.\\nAbigail. Nabal, stay thy hand.\\nThis is no season for thy foolishness\\nTo sport with me. The lion of the tribe\\nOf Judah croucheth at thy very gates\\nWaiting to spring. I have delivered thee\\nTo-night, but now beware. The watch is thine.\\nNabal. Woman, what doth thy babbling signify?\\nHast thou become a prophet of the land\\nTo talk in riddles and to say dark things?\\nAbigail. Hear me, O Nabal, for my words shall draw\\nThe dreadful sword of truth from out the sheath\\nOf fond dissimulation, and take heed,\\nLest it destroy thee. Nigh thy very door,\\nAs I have said, David is in the way.\\nThe robber and the outcast of thy scorn,\\nThe hireling of the Levites, yet, withal,\\nThat champion protected of the Lord\\nWho liveth in the faith of Israel;\\nHe, even he, in bitterness of wrath\\nFor thy reproach of those who follow him,\\nHath purposed to destroy thee from the earth\\nAnd all thy house. Whereof in time forewarned,\\nI hastened, yesterday, to turn his will\\nFrom slaying thee, and carried food to him", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 237\\nAnd pled with him to spare us and forgive\\nThy scorn unto his men who came to thee.\\nNabal. Thou wentest unto him?\\nAbigail. Aye, God be praised.\\nNabal. And pledest with him?\\nAbigail. Aye, upon my face\\nFor mercy, since his wrath was unto death.\\nNabal. And gavest of my riches unto him?\\nAbigail. A Httle food, but this and these my prayers\\nHave saved us.\\nNabal. My curse upon thy head\\nThat thou didst go to meet this hireHng,\\nThis dog of Samuel. Did I tell thee not\\nThou art a wanton. Thus thou provest it\\nAnd I do curse thee.\\nAbigail. Curse thou not the hand\\nThat hath delivered thee.\\nNabal. Then by the gods\\nOf all the heathen, curse I David s soul.\\nAbigail. They cannot harm him. He defieth them.\\nThrough love of One, the Lord of Israel,\\nWho is his sure defense. And curse thou not\\nThis David, lest he hear thee even now\\nAnd smite thy house with thee.\\nNabal. Why should I fear\\nThe rage of one who fleeth to the rocks\\nWith but a feeble remnant of his band,\\nAnd beggeth meat Accursed be his name.\\nAbigail. Hear me, thou knowest not thine enemy.\\nHis wrath is as a whirlwind and his sword\\nAs lightning in the tempest. After him\\nAre come to thee four hundred armed men.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "338 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nNabal. Four hundred four?\\nAbigail. Aye, all of proven might\\nAnd he hath yet two hundred more behind.\\nNabal. It is a host beyond my hope s defense,\\nWhat shall I do? Ye gods, what can I do\\nTo stay them from my riches and my blood\\nAbigail. They are no common foemen, for their souls\\nAre not less strengthened by chill of woes\\nTha n are their swords which from the hammer s rage\\nAre thrust amid the waters.\\nNabal. Are they nigh\\nAbigail. Aye, under yonder hill I saw their strength\\nAt evening yesterday and stayed their feet\\nFrom treading on our necks ere they should smite\\nUnto the heart.\\nNabal. My God, where shall I flee\\nAnd here is Ishbosheth, son of the king\\nDrunken within my house, and Phaltiel,\\nAnd Doeg. If I flee and they be slain,\\nI am accursed of Saul for evermore.\\nBut wherefore flee? I am ensnared now.\\nThe robbers are about me. Shall they spare.\\nWhom I have mocked, or guard, whom I reviled?\\nMy flocks shall all be scattered utterly.\\nMy treasure be divided as a spoil\\nBy David and his hirelings. May the curse\\nOf every god the tongue of man hath known\\nAlight upon them, turning into naught\\nThe lord of robbers, praised of Israel.\\nO mercy, O\\nAbigail. What hast thou?", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 339\\nNahal. Here, a pain,\\nI cannot breathe, ye gods I cannot breathe,\\nYea, here, about my heart. Call thou for aid.\\nAbigail. Help! help! let any come. Nabal is ill.\\nNahal. Go, woman, quickly. Cursed be the day\\nThat O, what woe is this that David came,\\nThat dog of Samuel bring thou help to me,\\nI am undone help a physician help\\nDost thou not hear me help\\nSteward [entering]. What wouldst thou,\\nMy mistress\\nAbigail. Hasten hither, for thy lord\\nIs sorely smitten. Bring whoe er ye may\\nTo succor him. Help ^where are all the house?\\nSteward. Many are sleeping from the weariness\\nOf this night s mighty feast, and not a few\\nAre drunken from the lees.\\nAbigail. Lo, there are yet\\nTwo servants faithful as thyself hath been.\\n[Tivo Servants rim iii.]\\nBear ye your master quickly to his bed\\nAnd seek liim a physician. Is the pain\\nUpon thee still, O Nabal\\nStezvard. He cannot speak,\\nHe seemeth dead and heavy as a stone.\\nHaste, fellows, but a little duty more.\\nAnd our long oppression hath an end,\\nFor Nabal s churlishness hath run its course\\nSince now a righteous Master bendeth him.\\n[Servants bear out Nabal.\\nAbigail. If it should be, even as he hath said,\\nThen is my bitter service also done,\\nAnd I, the richest clad of Nabal s slaves", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "240 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd highest set in mocking dignity,\\nAm free as well. This is a joy too fair\\nFor daring hope to cherish lest, betimes,\\nThe stupor, gotten in excess of wine\\nShould pass away from him as hitherto\\nIt hath befallen, leaving unto us\\nThe desolation of his pride enthroned\\nAnd hardened to new iniquity.\\nBut stay thee, desperate heart, what strives within?\\nArt thou indeed a murderer in desire\\nAnd driven by so dark a path to seek\\nThe city of thy refuge? I indeed\\nShould thus accuse thee, were my master kind,\\nLoving and merciful, or even just,\\nAnd had I been a sorrow unto him.\\nBut when his cruelty hath hedged in\\nThe joyful expectation of my youth\\nWith brutal lusts, base teachings, foolishness\\nOf pride Which hath no measure, arrogance\\nOf evil and of might then hath my heart\\nNo guiltiness of blood if it await\\nWith eagerness, the interceding hand\\nOf death to end my woes if it do pray\\nThat valorous David speedily possess,\\nWith all that yet I am for love s desires,\\nIts adoration, faithful and complete.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "PART V.\\nPLACE. The Camp of David in a grove near Maori. Abishai\\nand several Soldiers beyond. David conieth forth from a\\ntent.\\nDavid. Dead! Natal dead! Lest I believe it not,\\nI feign would tell my soul each happy hour\\nThese tidings which but yesterday I heard,\\nConfounded by my joy, heard as one hears\\nThe earthquake that breaketh down his prison wall\\nWhen he hath oft passed nights of secret toil\\nTo cut the window bars, giving escape\\nMiraculous. Yea, I must still exclaim\\nAs when I heard it, Blessed be the Lord\\nWho thus hath pled the cause of my reproach\\nFrom Nabal s hand and kept his servant free\\nOf evil, for the Lord hath now returned\\nThe wickedness of Nabal on his head\\nAnd hath withheld me from iniquity,\\nFor I was sorely tempted of my heart\\nTo eat the fruit forbidden its desire\\nAs once, when faint, I ate of hallowed bread.\\nYea, I was tempted to the uttermost.\\nFor, since the days of youth, this heart of mine\\nHath striven ceaselessly betwixt its zeal\\nFor what is highest in the majesty\\nOf God s eternal reign of truth and love,\\nAnd what He hath in fullest beauty wrought\\nUpon the earth in woman s twofold grace\\nOf form and spirit, gentle and generous.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "243 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nA thought divine in flesh, a charm supreme,\\nA living altar man may bow unto,\\nUncertain if he worship it alone\\nOr give to the Creator greater praise.\\nThus hath my soul contended at the sight\\nOf Abigail and God hath strengthened me.\\nAbishai, art thou there?\\nAbishai. Aye, it is I,\\nWhat wouldst thou, O David\\nDavid. Thou dost know\\nWhen tidings came at eve of Nabal s death,\\nAfter ten days of doubt and lingering,\\nI said Let us abide until the dawn\\nThat they may bury him for, of a truth.\\nThey will no longer tarry for his sake.\\nTherefore I sent to-day unto his house.\\nEven to Abigail the Carmelite,\\nWhose understanding and whose loveliness\\nOf countenance did overcome our wrath.\\nThat they commune with her. Hath any come\\nTo bring me answer?\\nAbishai. None has yet returned\\nBut lo, is not the youth that hasteneth\\nHither below a messenger of thine?\\nDavid. Yea, he is one of them and, though he rode\\nUpon an arrow driven from the bow\\nOf Jonathan, he could not come as soon\\nAs my desire willeth. Verily\\nIn all the fond impatience of my love\\nMy heart should have bestowed to Asahel\\nIts urgent message, for his feet are swift\\nAs are the roebuck s when he passeth through", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 243\\nThe circuit of his hunters roundabout\\nAnd boundeth to his refuge in the hills.\\nYet will I not reproach the lad so nigh\\nIf he may bear the words mine ears attend.\\n[A Messenger entereth.]\\nHast thou an answer Hast thou seen the face\\nOf Abigail?\\nMessenger. My lord, I come to thee\\nBearing her message.\\nDavid. Quickly.\\nMessenger. All is well.\\nDavid. The Lord is gracious. Tell me every Whit\\nOf what hath come to pass since ye are gone.\\nMessenger. Behold, when we departed from the camp\\nWe took the path\\nDavid. Nay, speak not of the way,\\nSpeak of the end, thy words to Abigail,\\nHer countenance, the words she answered thee;\\nSay all as thou wouldst tell if there had come\\nA shining angel to thee in the night\\nNaught is too simple for my willing ears\\nIf thou dost tell of Abigail.\\nMessenger. My lord,\\nI hear thee and obey. When we were come\\nTo Nabal s house, they straightway led us in\\nBefore the wife of Nabal.\\nDavid. Hold, thou fool,\\nNabal is dead. Her name is Abigail.\\nMessenger. Forgive me, O my lord, I pray thee grant\\nThy servant grace. I wot not what I spake.\\nDavid. Speak thou more wisely then and tarry not.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "244 THE HEART OF DAYID\\nMessenger. When we had come to Abigail, behold\\nHe who was first among us spake to her,\\nSaying, Lo, David sendeth us to thee\\nTo take thee to him, if thou wilt, to wife.\\nAnd she arose thereat from where she lay.\\nBowing upon her face unto the earth.\\nAnd said, Behold, let me, thine handmaiden,\\nBe servant unto ye to wash the feet\\nOf servants of my lord and furthermore,\\nAfter the gracious manner of the speech\\nOf them of goodly station in the land,\\nMade she reply to us. Whereat, abashed\\nAnd witless from the rudeness of the camp.\\nWe stammered there before her for a space.\\nThen, as she willed to straightway come to thee,\\nThine elder servant bade me run before\\nTo give thee tidings.\\nDavid. Thou hast served me well.\\nI shall reward thee. Seek thy needed rest.\\n[The Messenger departeth.\\nRejoice with me, Abishai, at the words\\nThe youth hath spoken. Lo the Carmelite,\\nFair Abigail, doth journey even now\\nHither to meet me. As thou lovest me,\\nI charge thee make all ready in the camp\\nTo do her honor. Hasten. Tarry not.\\n[Abishai goeth forth.\\nThis hour, O my harp, belongs to thee,\\nWhich art alike consoler of my grief\\nAnd friend of my rejoicing, yea the guide\\nAnd full interpreter of all delight.\\nThe ladder of my song, the golden tower\\nOn which my soul surveyeth roundabout", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 245\\nThe beautiful dominion of its peace.\\nHe who was lost amid the wilderness\\nHath now come forth he who was driven thence\\nAn outcast, now returneth to his own\\nThe weak hath gotten strength, the hungering\\nAnd thirsting one hath all his heart s desire.\\nNow is the scoffer smitten. Lo he stood,\\nAs Carmel standeth, in the mightiness\\nOf all his pride before the sons of men\\nWhich bowed down themselves that they might drink\\nThe waters of his favor, and behold.\\nThere where he stood, he standeth now no more;\\nThe judgment of Jehovah s righteousness\\nHath sought him out the quaking of the Lord\\nHath cleft his pillars where the mountain rose\\nBefore the envious eyes of Caleb s seed.\\nNaught but a cloud remaineth. He is not.\\nBut over all the darkness of the cloud\\nArcheth the crimson bow wherewith the Lord\\nHath shot the mighty arrow of His will\\nTo bless my yearning heart abundantly\\nAnd sanctify my love beneath His own.\\nTherefore my song shall glorify my God\\nWho hath delivered me my tongue shall tell\\nThe wonders of His mercy and His might\\nUnto His servant, whom He raiseth up\\nFrom sore temptation and abounding woes.\\nThus endeth bondage of more cruelty\\nThan iron chains and fetters, thus abates\\nRebellion in my soul against the tribes\\nOf Israel that they should thrust me out.\\nAnd in my breast that no befitting heart\\nWas left in my distress to comfort me", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "346 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd know the wasting tenderness of my love.\\nFor in the priceless gift of Abigail\\nI joy in life again, in all the earth,\\nYea, Philistines and Ziphites, evil men\\nAbhorred in the depths of my distress,\\nHave but to seek the palace of my soul\\nAnd know its bounty God created them\\nAnd, by their persecution, do I know\\nThe fulness of delight He giveth me;\\nThus have they served His ways unwittingly,\\nAnd in this day of His redeeming grace\\nMy joy sufficeth almost to forgive.\\nBut what is this I see beyond the camp?\\nBehold she cometh Abigail, mine own.\\nThe company which now approacheth me\\nCan lead none other than the love I wait.\\nYea, those who walk before, assuredly.\\nAre of my messengers and six who ride\\nUpon white asses wear the drapery\\nOf women, whereof five are as the leaves\\nUpon a stem and one the blushing rose\\nWhich openeth its beauty to mine eyes.\\nLie there, my harp, I need thee not to-night,\\nFor I shall hear the voice of Abigail\\nIn words of love so sweet, so passing sweet\\nBeyond the uttermost rapture of thy strings,\\nThat were an instrument by angels wrought\\nTo give its melodies without my tent\\nStilling the dove s desire, it would be vain\\nI should but hear the whispering of our bliss,\\nI should but hear the tenderness of one voice.\\nThe voice of my beloved, my most fair.\\nYea, sleep thou there, my harp, sleep soon and long", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 247\\nThat jealousy may spare thee of its woe.\\nAnd, O my sword, be thou removed from me\\nTo slumber also. I forsake thee not.\\nThou hast been ever true in perilous strife\\nSince first I took thee from Goliath s thigh.\\nBut art too rude a friend for days of peace\\nAnd dalliance of love. Grieve not that bliss\\nHath robbed thee of the bloodshed of revenge,\\nFor by some bitter prophecy from within\\nI know that thou and I in days to come\\nShall be companions longer in distress\\nAnd slaughter, shall be wed in grievous wars\\nLonger than any woman to my rest\\nAnd joy and blessing. Lo, they are at hand\\nWhom I await and wherefore do I dream\\nOf tribulation in forthcoming days?\\nThe rather let me wake unto the light\\nOf this surpassing bounty of my God.\\n[Messengers enter and bow before David.]\\nist Messenger. Behold, my lord, thy servants who are\\nnow\\nReturned unto thee and bring with them\\nHer whom thou hast desired.\\nDavid. Ye are true\\nAnd faithful servants.\\n[Abigail enter eth.]\\nAbigail. David!\\nDavid. Abigail\\nAbigail. My lord, as thou hast bidden, so I come\\nTo seek thee, being yet commanded first\\nOf this my heart which serveth thine alone.\\n[David leadeth Abigail apart.\\n17", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "248 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nDavid. The Lord be with thee. As my thirsting lips\\nPress on thine own the first long kiss of love,\\nThe salutation of all hope fulfilled,\\nSo may His mercy seek thee evermore,\\nHis blessings dwell upon thee. Yet, behold.\\nIf in thy soul there lingereth apart\\nA doubt of what thou doest, or a thought\\nThat thou canst do none other than obey\\nWith saving grace, for fear of armed men\\nCompelling thee I swear before the Lord\\nThat thou shalt go unhindered to thy house\\nAnd thy possessions. None shall do thee hurt\\nAnd, even as my young men kept the flock\\nFrom any peril in the wilderness,\\nSo shall they with me guard thee roundabout\\nFrom any evil, thou and all thou hast\\nGoing and coming freely.\\nAbigail. O my lord.\\nCanst thou not guard me better at thy side\\nI have no doubt or fear. I come to thee.\\nAnd have no will henceforward to depart.\\nI come for the forever of my life.\\nFor love which seemeth measureless of years,\\nFor joy thou makest perfect. All I have\\nI give thee with myself to strengthen thee\\nAnd lift thee from the depths of thy distress\\nTo smite thy foes again and overcome.\\nThen shall the persecuting wrath of Saul\\nBe brought to naught the Levite shall return\\nTo honor. He shall stand for righteousness\\nBefore the altar and the sacrifice,\\nAs Samuel ordered, glorifying God\\nThroughout the length and breadth of Israel,", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 249\\nMaking the uttermost heathen fear his name.\\nThen, David, shall the faithful of the land\\nRemember all thy zeal and mightiness\\nAnd prove their love for thee, and set thee up\\nTo rule them for Jehovah, and thy soul\\nFor every sorrow now shall then receive\\nBlessing and consolation to the full.\\nDavid. Beloved Abigail, if in my breast\\nIt came to pass my soul should wither up\\nAnd leave it empty, I should not despair\\nCould thine abide as lovely in its place\\nAs in the flesh before me, for thy zeal\\nIs purer, brighter, goodlier than mine own.\\nThou art a new heart given unto me,\\nIn living beauty wrought. Henceforth mine eyes\\nIn seeing thee shall see my better self\\nAnd holy purpose, to reproach no more.\\nAbigail. My lord, I am not thus save as I glean\\nWhat thou hast planted, gathering the wheat\\nOf thine anointed faith and strength and love,\\nAnd noting not the tares by sorrow sown.\\nLo, I am come to thee from Nabal s guile\\nEven as thou dost leave the wilderness\\nBehind thee for this land of fruitful vines\\nAnd flowing waters.\\nDavid. And how passing pure\\nAnd clear are now our living springs of love\\nSince we did wait in patience for the Lord\\nTo bid us come and drink, suffering not\\nDesire with unlawful argument\\nAnd bloody hands to trouble and pollute\\nThese grateful waters. Never, hitherto.\\nHath evil so persuaded me to slay", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "250 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAs since I first beheld thy comehness,\\nHeard thy meek pleading and, betwixt the charm\\nOf sight and understanding, knew that need\\nWhich makes the heart rebellious to possess,\\nWhereunto Nabal s foolishness and sin\\nDid urge my soul the more, adding the shield\\nOf virtue to the dagger of desire.\\nBut, notwithstanding my adversity,\\nForsaken, as it seemed, by the Lord,\\nI held unto the faith of Israel\\nAnd overcame. Now doth Jehovah bless.\\nBut, since thou utterest the unclean name\\nOf Nabal, wilt thou tell me, Abigail,\\nEven before I sufifer thee to rest.\\nSomewhat concerning him and how he died,\\nThat I may understand if but the lot\\nOf any came to him, or if, in truth,\\nA judgment of Jehovah sought him out\\nIn mercy unto us.\\nAbigail. It came to pass,\\nAfter the mighty feast that Nabal gave,\\nThe day whereon I met thee in the way\\nTo stay thy vengeance, that I sought him out,\\nAt morning when the wine was out of him,\\nAnd told him thou wert nigh with armed men\\nAnd of my going forth to plead with thee.\\nWhereat he waxed wroth, and then a fear\\nBefell him as he thought upon thy might,\\nDreading thy sword not only of himself\\nBut for the mighty men who slept with him.\\nTo his confusion.\\nDavid. Tell me, who were these?", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 251\\nAbigail. The chief est of them all were Ishbosheth\\nAnd Phaltiel, the son and son-in-law\\nOf Saul the king, and one of mfghty place\\nCalled Doeg.\\nDavid. As the Lord doth live above,\\nWell might he be afraid. If I had known\\nThat such accursed foes, such scorpions\\nAnd vipers of my torment, were within\\nThe house of Nabal, even thy sweet eyes\\nThy pleading lips, so fashioned to beguile,\\nMight less have stayed my fury than the wind\\nUntil my sword and good Abishai s might\\nHad made the marble floors of Nabal s house\\nRed with the heart s blood of mine enemies,\\nMingled together fitly, running deep\\nSo deep that they who came when we were gone\\nShould say of Nabal s house Herein behold\\nThe winepress of the mighty man we knew,\\nAnd one hath broken it and all the jars.\\nThat Nabal s wine is wasted utterly.\\nBut tell me more, my wrath is now in vain.\\nAbigail. Then after all his feasting and his wine\\nAnd in the strife of sudden fear and rage,\\nLo, Nabal fell before me as one falls\\nWho dieth, thereupon his servants ran\\nTo cry without, and Doeg, hearing them.\\nLearned what had come to pass and hastened forth.\\nShouting for Ishbosheth and Phaltiel,\\nAnd terror sobered them so that they fled,\\nThey and their bondsmen, by the light of dawn\\nUpon the way to Hebron, running hence\\nAs if the flames consumed us roundabout.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "253 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nBut Nabal lay sore stricken in his bed\\nAs dead at heart and heavy as a stone,\\nNor knew he any man, and yesterday,\\nAfter ten days of stupor, came the end,\\nFor lo, the Lord smote Nabal that he died.\\nAnd no one in the house lamented him,\\nFor he was very evil in his deeds,\\nA fool amid his riches and a hard\\nAnd cruel master, and we buried him.\\nThen, fearing some confusion in the house,\\nI slept not through the night, but with the sun\\nThy servants came and I was strengthened\\nAnd joyfully turned hither for thy aid\\nAnd for the sure protection of thy love.\\nThus hath the Lord released me unto thee\\nTo be thy wife. My servants all are thine,\\nThou shalt be lord of all that Nabal had,\\nAnd, since thou wert a shepherd in thy youth,\\nThy wisdom best can rule that simple band\\nWhich tendeth all the flock on Carmel s side.\\nAnd of these great possessions multiply\\nBounty and blessing during happy years\\nYears when my love shall recompense to thee\\nA thousand fold the day of bitterness\\nAnd wrath which brought me joy of Nabal s scorn.\\nDavid. Beloved one, would that such days of peace\\nAwaited us as in thy countenance\\nThou dost portray, but nevermore again\\nShall I be shepherd, saving over hosts\\nOf armed men in pastures breeding strife.\\nThe Lord hath other place awaiting me\\nAnd harder service, but, if thou art near.\\nThese days of new delight shall bear increase", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABIGAIL 253\\nOf trustful courage and of valiant war,\\nMy heart in thee, my spirit in the Lord\\nSustained and pressing onward side by side.\\nAbigail. And, thou, beloved and cherished of my\\nheart,\\nShalt prove thy might again and yet prevail\\nOver the craft of Saul and all his hosts,\\nWinning them unto thee and by the grace\\nOf God, becoming king of Israel.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "BOOK III.\\nDAVID AND BATHSHEBA.\\nA WRITING IN FIVE PARTS.\\nFrom II Samuel, XI-XII.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA.\\nTHE PERSONS WHO HOLD DISCOURSE IN THIS WRITING.\\nDAVID, King of Israel and Judah.\\nURIAH, a Captain over thousands.\\nJOAB, Chief Captain of the Host.\\nNATHAN, a Prophet.\\nELI AM, Father of Bathsheba.\\nJEHOSHAPHAT, Chronicler.\\nABISHAI, Brother of ]o2ih, a Captai7i over thousands\\nFOUR SOLDIERS.\\nA STEWARD.\\nTHREE ELDERS.\\nOther Soldiers, Messengers, Servants of the Palace and Attend-\\nants in the Camp, people of Jerusalem.\\nBATHSHEBA, WifeofXixx-ah., afterwards of Xy^NxA.\\nABIGAIL, David s wife.\\nMAACAH, David s wife.\\nTWO HANDMAIDENS.\\nThe Places where these Persons hold discourse are the Camp\\nbefore Rabbah, the House of Eliam, various rooms of the Royal\\nPalace in Jerusalem, a street and the place before the Tabernacle.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA.\\nTHE PARTS AND PLACES SET IN ORDER.\\nPART I.\\nPlace I. The Camp before Rabbah. Soldiers; Joab, Uriah,\\nAbishai and Attendants\\nPlace II. The House of Eliam. Eliam, Bathsheba, Nathan;\\nBathsheba.\\nPART II.\\nPlace I. The Palace of T^z-yx^. David, Jehoshaphat; David.\\nPlace II. A street in Jertisaleni. Nathan.\\nPlace III. The Palace of DzviA. David, Bathsheba.\\nPART III.\\nPlace I. A room in the Palace. David; David and Uriah;\\nSteward.\\nPlace II. A court of the Palace. Abigail, Maacah, Hand-\\ntnaid.\\nPlace III. A room in the Palace, David, Steward; David,\\nUriah; David.\\nPART IV.\\nPlace I. The House of YAiam. Bathsheba.\\nPlace II. The Camp before Rabbah. Joab, Abishai; Joab,\\nUriah; Joab; Joab, Uriah; Soldiers; Joab and Soldiers;\\nJoab, Uriah, Soldiers; Joab, Messengers.\\nPART V.\\nPlace I. A room in the Palace. David, Bathsheba; David,\\nNathan; David, Servants; David; David, Servants; Abi-\\ngail, Maacah, David.\\nPlace II. The same. David, Steward, Servants.\\nPlace III. Cha7?iber of Bathsheba.. Bathsheba, Nathan; Bath-\\nsheba, Nathan, David; Bathsheba, David.\\nPlace IV. Before the Tabernacle. David, Nathan and all\\ncharacters, except Bathsheba, and Populace.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA.\\nPART I.\\nPLACE I. The Camp of the Army of Israel before the besieged\\ncity of Rabbah. Several Soldiers.\\n1st Soldier. Well, stripling, doth a siege delight thy\\nheart?\\n2nd Soldier. Had I thy flesh, I might as slothful be\\nAs thou art and make merry, but my will\\nSeeketh more active service.\\njst Soldier. Did the war\\nLead us to open battle, I might wage\\nThe earliest rain of darts would teach thy feet\\nA service active e en as Asahel s,\\nYet otherwise than in the rash pursuit\\nOf such fierce game as Abner,\\n2nd Soldier. As for thee,\\nThou dost, it seemeth, love this slothful war\\nOf crafty plot or jealous subterfuge\\nWhich sullen Joab is content to make.\\nBut I am here perforce and wait the time\\nWhen brave King David takes the field again.\\nTo dye my spear mid his impetuous charge.\\n1st Soldier. Stripling, have heed, such witless words\\nas these\\nOur captain, Joab, would but ill endure.\\nIf they should reach him. E en the war horse feels", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "260 THE HEART OF DiWID\\nThe gadfly s bite and sometimes deigns to crush\\nThe brief offender.\\n^rd Soldier. Comrades, have an end\\nOf further strife, enough will come to pass\\nFor equal burden and deciding proof.\\n1st Soldier. Aye, but shall I, who served of old with\\nSaul\\nAnd bear full many scars from bloody wars\\nSince I have followed David scars from strife\\nWith Philistines and Moabites, with hosts\\nOf Syria and Edom, shall I hear\\nThis stripling babble of my loyal past\\nThis boy too young to trust in perilous war\\nAs I am e en too old?\\n^rd Soldier. Enough of this,\\nNo need hast thou, old comrade, of defense\\nFor us and why then make one. All alike,\\nWhether directed by stern Joab s craft,\\nAbishai s valor or Benaiah s might,\\nIn weary siege or warfare made afield,\\nThough faithful to the captain of our choice,\\nRaise, all, united voice to praise the king.\\nAll Soldiers. The king! The king!\\n1st Soldier. Aye, all acclaim the king,\\nMost valorous of warriors, asking none\\nTo do what he would dare not. In his youth\\nHailed as a chieftain from Goliath s death.\\nAnd pressing, each on each, his mighty deeds\\nSo closely that, despite his will, the sun\\nOf jealous Saul in his new glory paled.\\nGive me a king who singly wins his crown\\nBy warlike valor, leading men in acts", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 261\\nAnd not besieging them by flooding words,\\nA king whom brave men hail and women love.\\n2nd Soldier. Aye what a speedy conquest doth he\\nmake\\nWhen comeliness disputes him.\\n1st Soldier. Stripling, now\\nThou canst discourse with more of certainty\\nThan of the wars anon.\\nAll Soldiers. Well hit, well said.\\n^rd Soldier. Yet one more dart, but comrade, spare\\nthe boy;\\nWe know our valor is but half repaid\\nIf woman s smile greets not our rudest face\\nAnd envy these smooth cheeks when they have leave\\nTo know Jerusalem s pleasures.\\n2nd Soldier. There, indeed.\\nThe words of Saul s fair minstrels echo still\\nIn brave King David s honor and renown.\\nNo woman, while her comeliness endures,\\nBut hastens when men shout The king doth pass\\nAnd blushes if but for an instant rests\\nOn her the glance of those exalted eyes,\\nAnd, when from Zion he goes down to war\\nAnd elders whisper, fearful of its ills,\\nAnd here and there a woman may bemoan\\nA husband s peril or a lover s hurt,\\nThen Israel s fair ones wear a weary face.\\nNor any tidings heed until the shout\\nOf messengers proclaims the king s return.\\n^rd Soldier. O that the siege were done and we were\\nfree\\nTo share again the glory of such war\\nAs David leads when he doth draw his sword.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "262 THE HEART OF DAVID\\n2nd Soldier. Aye, would this siege were over. Joab\\nlags\\nIn vain pretense before these haughty walls\\nAnd breaks not their defiance.\\n1st Soldier. Boy, be still,\\nOur general comes.\\n\\\\^Joah, Uriah, Ahishai and Attendants enter.\\nJoab. Soldiers, what tidings here?\\nHave any movements on yon battlements\\nBetokened peril to your steadfast lines\\nOr check to slow advances?\\n1st Soldier. None, my lord.\\nThe hot day drags as others have and here\\nIn watchful service we have seen no sign\\nOf life beyond, save, ever and anon,\\nSome petulant arrow or outplunging stone\\nOf rattling catapult from the foe s defense\\nTo keep us in our trenches, half ashamed.\\nJoab. Be patient yet a little. We shall take\\nEre long delay, due vengeance for our toil. [Aside.\\nWould I could give my patience that restraint\\nWhich I enforce on others, for it strains\\nHard in its harness, and, unawed as theirs\\nBefore me, ever clamors angrily.\\nAs I deem theirs may do beyond my ear,\\nFor action, blood and conquest and its spoil.\\nCooped in their walls, this flock of Ammonites\\nThis remnant of a nation I have driven\\nAs birds before a storm-cloud do defy\\nMy baffled craft and make me a reproach\\nTo envious captains, e en a weariness\\nTo my impetuous king who, now withdrawn\\nFrom war s beguilements for a kingdom s cares,", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 263\\nImpatient waits for tidings of success\\nIn beautiful Jerusalem. Nor, the while,\\nMay I be heedless of his watchful eyes,\\nFor his supremacy is not a crown\\nOf aged wisdom impotent in strife,\\nBut with a warrior s cunning he surveys\\nMy strategy unblinded and beneath\\nThere broods distrustfully, my soul forewarns,\\nThe memory of that bloody argument\\nIn retribution of a brother s death\\nWhich I sustained with Abner when, in fear\\nOf guilt betrayed, he plotted to desert\\nHis king and cousin Saul for David s star,\\nThreatening thus my hard won leadership\\nBy claims of early favor and renown.\\nYea, Joab, thou hast reason to beware\\nAnd urge ambition not for gain alone\\nBut that its purpose unachieved may give\\nPursuing fate her moment to destroy.\\nBehold one comes whose spirit in its zeal\\nImperils mine. I needs must check its flight.\\n[Uriah approacheth.\\nUriah. My general, seeing we have made our course\\nThroughout these compassing and fixed lines\\nWhich gird the life of Ammon, and, perchance,\\nThat thou hast leisure to debate the siege,\\nMay I disclose a scheme which ever builds\\nPersistently its fabric in my thought?\\nJoah. Speak on, Uriah. Sometimes those who gaze\\nDo note advantage which is unforeseen\\nBy him who may sustain the battle s toil.\\nUriah. Joab, I thank thee, I do venture thus\\nAbashed to aid thy proven generalship", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "264 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nBecause my eager will to bear some part\\nIn pressing on the cause of Israel\\nAnd adding yet a glory to our king\\nDoth loyal motive give to venturing mind.\\nThis thing is my device. Proud Rabbah s walls\\nAre kept by many waters from the chance,\\nOn divers sides, of prosperous attack.\\nThere are but left the northern battlements\\nSo grimly guarded and the city gates\\nWhich open eastward for our warlike hope\\nThus, with our engines from the north advanced\\nAnd all that host arrayed, the foe might deem\\nOur blow from thence prepared. Yet, erewhile,\\nOur care would be the gates, for, heaping up\\nWith daring hands such fuel as would guide\\nThe flames invasion, we should soon provoke\\nAn issue of the desperate Ammonites\\nAnd seem to flee before them, until men\\nIn hiding should our subtle strife partake,\\nPut down the foe dismayed and sweep within\\nThe open gates beseeching their return.\\nJoab. A valorous device is this of thine\\nBut bloody in fulfilment, and it calls\\nFor captains of no common hardihood.\\nFull many here, who in the battle s rage\\nHave put to flight an hundred armed foes.\\nWould stay ere rendering to eager death\\nSuch double vantage one in open strife.\\nAnd one impending ever from the walls.\\nNot with an undue haste may we approve\\nOf this device, Uriah, so abide\\nIn vigilant duty for a little time\\nUntil again we meet for conference.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 265\\nMy captains, I attend ye. It must be\\nThe hour of noon, to judge by hunger s cry,\\nAnd, since King Hanun wills not to molest\\nFrom yonder lofty tower our simple feast,\\nSeek we its brief repose and needed cheer.\\n[All go forth.\\nPLACE II. The house of Eliam in Jerusalem. Eliarn mid\\nBathsheba, the former readeth a scroll, the latter meditateth.\\nBathsheba. Father, I hear a footstep in the court.\\nEliam. It is the step of Nathan. Lo, he comes.\\n[Nathan enter eth.]\\nHail honored Nathan, this our poor abode\\nGains from thy friendly presence higher joy.\\nNathan. My good Eliam, hail a fellowship\\nOf wise discourse attracts me to thy door.\\nWhat tidings hast thou heard from Joab s host?\\nBathsheba, doth our brave Uriah well?\\nBathsheba. Full well, revered Nathan, if report\\nOf other tongues be true, for from my lord\\nI get but scanty words, so much is fixed\\nHis mind on every peril of the siege.\\nNathan. He hath a noble zeal and these are days\\nWhen duty fain must put all armor on\\nTo force its high intent and win its war.\\nBathsheba. But lesser duties starve while great ones\\nstrive.\\nEliam. Daughter, be patient, overcome this mood\\nWhich frets in vain. Seek happier employ\\nIn study of these scrolls whereon the wise\\nHave given their thought eternity.\\nNathan. And find\\nMoreover, good Bathsheba, what is graced", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "266 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nWith all imagination s richest gems,\\nThe history of the patriarchs wherein\\nIs Rachel s patience written the discourse\\nOf patient Job, that rainbow of our faith\\nWhose tears are full of tints beyond compare.\\nBathshcba. Wise Nathan, I have gleaned in studious\\nyouth\\nFrom these ripe fields and, in the fuller life\\nOf womanhood, would rather hear sweet words\\nThan read them in the black toil of the scribe.\\nScarce won in wedlock, I am left alone,\\nMy lord Uriah, in the lust of war.\\nForgetting those fond praises which beguiled\\nMy eager hearing. Naught doth fill the void\\nOf my half-orphaned Hfe but such brief balm\\nAs my fond father mid his toil bestows,\\nOr, in the street, some wandering minstrel yields\\nBy singing golden verses of the king.\\nNathan. Aye, truly are they golden and the grace\\nOf ancient days seems living in his song.\\nEliam. Thou speakest warmly, Nathan, of our king,\\nNathan. How else may I of one so fully blessed.\\nCalled by the Lord His servant and His son.\\nMy age turns from its hallowed treasury\\nTo wonder at the riches which his youth\\nHath heaped together. Not alone in war\\nThis shepherd boy now stands without a foe,\\nAs tens of thousands by his valor slain\\nGive ghostly witness, but in things of state\\nHis judgment finds no equal, no dispute.\\nWhen, weary of the nation s cares, he turns\\nTo music s soothing charm, no other hand", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 367\\nCan match his skilled persuasion of the harp\\nTo vibrant harmonies, the while his soul\\nSuch song inspires, such eloquence of tongue,\\nThat none in Israel dare the poet s art\\nExcept in secret and vain mimicry.\\nBathsheba. And, with such matchless blessings, surely\\nnone\\nIn Israel is of more kingly form\\nOr perfect grace of countenance, or held,\\nSo say they, to possess more winning speech.\\nIs this thing true? O Nathan, much revered,\\nThou, surely, who hast converse as a friend\\nWith this our noble king, can best acquaint\\nMy humble wish to measure all his worth.\\nNathan. It is most true, Bathsheba, that the king\\nIs gracious in his speech, exceeding all\\nThe smoothest tongues of Israel when he wills,\\nNor less true that none other, in his wrath,\\nCan so o erwhelm with terror those who hear.\\nEliam. And is not this a peril to the land?\\nNathan. Thou speakest truth, Eliam, and I dread\\nAt times the outcome of the royal rage,\\nBut, happily, there is a judge within\\nOur David s bosom of more righteous will\\nThan those by men appointed, it is this\\nThat chains rebellious temper and desire\\nAnd oft condemns to greater punishment\\nHis own high errors than his subject s sins.\\nHis true soul loves the one and only God\\nAnd since his very childhood hath his heart\\nAbounding in affection, generous.\\nWasteful of love, if such a thing may be\\nHis heart, I say, hath found its highest joy.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0281.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "268 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nIts love supreme, unsatisfied of earth\\nOr any lesser converse, in the full\\nEcstatic adoration of the Lord.\\nThis heavenly passion hath his arm upheld\\nIn life s full score of dangers and hath swept\\nHis bloody sword in terrible revenge\\nAnd pitiless hate upon his heathen foes.\\nThe Holy One hath not unmindful been\\nOf zeal which ever hath with power grown\\nAnd daily singeth grateful songs of praise,\\nTherefore the Lord is with him and bestows\\nGifts which seem marvelous to blinded eyes.\\nYet which descend as the divine reward.\\nBut, friends, I must depart. The falling sun\\nOn yon high wall of Zion bids me cease\\nFor Zadok and Ahimelech, the priests.\\nAwait me ere the evening sacrifice.\\nGod keep thee, good Eliam and thy child.\\nFarewell, Bathsheba.\\nBathsheba. Holy seer, farewell.\\nEliam. Let me conduct thee to the portico.\\n[Nathan and Eliam go forth.\\nBathsheba. Wasteful of love, if such a thing may be,\\nStrange words are these of Nathan, oh so strange\\nTo this my hungering heart. It hungers, thirsts,\\nAye like a flower it thirsts in all its lack,\\nNot only of the bounty of the rain\\nBut of the secret dew of gentle words\\nWhich make life fragrant. Come, Uriah, back\\nFrom hateful wars to talk to me again,\\nFor greater joy had I in hearing thee,\\nClose at my side, disposing zealously\\nOur lives, united, to forthcoming years,", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0282.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 269\\nThan have I now, uncircled by thine arm,\\nIn strictest faith of thy unswerving course\\nOr full assurance of high honors won.\\nThese were my hopes when thou didst whisper them,\\nThey shall be my delight but when thy voice\\nConfirms them mine in its sweet love of old.\\nWasteful of love. This is a royal wealth\\nBeyond all other. Happy, verily.\\nIs he who hath it when contentious claims\\nOf envy and suspicion, faithlessness.\\nHypocrisy and countless ills of state\\nDrain not the treasury of kingly trust\\nIn men about his throne, but rather find\\nA bounty overflowing, a mercy taught\\nBy trial to draw others forth from woe\\nThat mercy pure which is unselfish love.\\nLacking but comeliness and fitting years\\nIn those it blesses to love s garlands wear.\\nO great King David, in thy fair abode\\nOf stone and cedar carved so cunningly\\nBy Hiram s craftsmen and in thy fair self\\nSo wondrously wrought by hands divine,\\nWhat joy thy heart must have in exercise\\nOf love so inexhaustible and deep\\nA fountain pulsing upward to the skies\\nAnd satisfying every thirst below;\\nWhat peace they needs must keep who know the bliss\\nOf such a love s bestowal ^they who hear\\nThe voice that utters Israel s noblest song\\nSoftened to charm their ever willing ears.\\nLive on, great king, and if thy heart at times\\nSeems emptied of the bounty it bestows.\\nMay some pure spirit go to thee in dreams", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0283.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "270 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nTo show thee that, for all thy seeming waste\\nOf outward love, hearts numberless supply,\\nIn tender reverence and secret prayers,\\nThe sources of its fulness from their own.\\n[A Handmaid entereth.]\\nHandmaid. Fair mistress, on thy pleasure I attend\\nTo serve thee at the bath which now awaits.\\nBathsheba. Thy voice is welcome, for the heat to-day\\nHath passed its wont and given to my blood\\nAn undue riot which the bath will chide.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0284.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "PART 11.\\nPLACE I. The Palace of David at Jerusalem. An upper room\\nopening Jtpon a portico. David reclining on a couch.\\nJehoshaphat sitteth by a table on which are many scrolls.\\nDavid. Then, good Jehoshaphat, is this thy task\\nAs chronicler of my fair kingdom s course\\nIn faithful record finished? What is writ\\nSince thou hast told the love of Abigail\\nAnd Carmel s woes ending in Nabal s death?\\nJehoshaphat. Here, O my lord, the record followeth\\nOf Saul s pursuit amid the wilderness\\nOf Ziph, again to snare thee, when again\\nThy reverence delivered him from death,\\nTwice merciful when he was at thy feet\\nThough twice his javelin had sought to slay.\\nThen didst thou refuge seek a second time\\nWith Achish King of Gath who favored thee,\\nAnd with thy faithful troop didst smite the land\\nToward the south and many nations thence.\\nWhereat they rose against thee in. an host\\nAt Jezreel, and Achish, fearing them.\\nBade thee depart. Lo when thou didst return\\nTo Ziklag, the Amalekites had come\\nAnd burned the city, taking hence with them\\nThe wives and children of thy followers\\nAnd thy two wives, whereat, in thy distress\\nAnd all their grief, thou didst beseech the Lord.\\nThen did thy valor all His word fulfil\\nIn mighty battle, getting back the spoil", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0285.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "272 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd captives from thy love by heathen foes,\\nAnd many cattle sharing, by thy law.\\nAlike with those who fought or watched the camp,\\nAnd sending gifts to many friends afar.\\nNow doth the record, shall I read, my lord?\\nTell of the woeful death of Jonathan\\nAnd that of Saul the king, by his own hand\\nIn the despair of Philistine defeat\\nIt telleth also, when the tidings came.\\nOf all thy anguish and thy beauteous song\\nOf lamentation, when thy valiant soul\\nForgot offense in honor of thy king\\nAnd thy heart s highest love embalmed thy friend.\\nDavid. Vainly, for his all woman s love excelled,\\nWords can no more build that pure spirit s worth\\nThan the great tomb my gratitude would raise.\\nJeJwshaphat. Now are we come to when thou wentest\\nup\\nTo Hebron with thy household, and the men\\nOf Judah there anointed thee their king\\nUpon the death of Saul, while Ishbosheth\\nWas made by Abner king of Israel\\nAfter his father. Then, by Joab s will,\\nThy servants at the pool of Gibeon\\nWith equal twelve of Abner s servants died\\nIn bloody strife, whereat a battle spread.\\nThy men prevailed, howbeit Abner slew\\nFleet Asahel and sought for peace with thee.\\nAnd thou wast king in Hebron seven years\\nAnd there six sons were born. Ahinoam\\nBore Amnon first to thee, and Abigail\\nThy second, Chileab. Then Maacah\\nFair Absalom begat and Haggith gave", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0286.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 273\\nThee Adonijah, Shephatiah came\\nOf Abital s desire, and the sixth\\nWas Ithream by thy wife Eglah born.\\nDavid. Fair women all and loving well their lord,\\nBut Maacah the proudest gift hath made.\\nRead on to me.\\nJehoshaphat. Lo, after weary war\\nBetween thy house and that of Ishbosheth\\nThine waxed stronger and, for a reproach\\nConcerning Rizpah won to his desire,\\nDid mighty Abner wrothful leave his king\\nAnd league with thee and unto thee restore.\\nBy Ishbosheth s consent, thy wife of youth\\nMichal, and lo, behind her, Phaltiel\\nWent weeping unto Bahurim, there turned\\nBy Abner who came on to feast with thee\\nAnd go in peace, but jealous Joab sought\\nAnd treacherously slew him and thy love\\nOf honorable valor turned thy heart\\nFrom Joab cursed, to mourn the son of Ner\\nWith tears and fasting. Likewise did thy soul\\nAvenge the blood of weakened Ishbosheth\\nUpon the men who slew him in his bed.\\nThough at his death all Israel made thee king,\\nTelling thy fame. Then thirty were thy years\\nWhen thou didst on Jerusalem turn thine eyes\\nAnd battle with the scoffing Jebusites,\\nFrom Zion s stronghold thrusting all their host\\nTo make this hill the city of thy love\\nAnd grow in greatness, favored by the Lord.\\nThen didst thou build a house to thee, wherein\\nWere other wives espoused and sons begot.\\nHere I record how Hiram honored thee", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0287.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "274 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nWith gifts, and tell of Baal Perazim\\nWhere the Philistines did again assail\\nThy might which, as a breach of waters, swept\\nTheir hosts before thee. Wherefore in thy peace,\\nAfter its good to Obed-edom s house,\\nThe holy ark was brought at length to rest\\nIn Zion. And upon that joyful day\\nOf blessing, feast and offering to the Lord,\\nWhen thou didst dance, proud Michal spoke with scorn,\\nAnd henceforth knew thy early love no more.\\nThen did the prophet Nathan tell to thee\\nJehovah s will to bless thee and thy reign,\\nAnd to appoint a place for Israel\\nAfter its wanderings, to dwell secure.\\nMoreover did He promise that thy seed\\nShould build for Him and Israel s heritage\\nA house to dwell in, holy to His name,\\nThat He would be a father to thy son.\\nEstablishing thy kingdom and thine house\\nAnd throne forever.\\nDavid. Lo, I search in vain\\nWhy upon me such wondrous blessing falls,\\nOr what it meaneth for the years to be.\\nWhat is there yet?\\nJehoshaphat. Then did thy might subdue\\nThe Philistines and Moab and destroy\\nThe host of Hadadezer and possess\\nDamascus and the cities of the east,\\nGaining great spoil of silver, brass and gold\\nWhich thou didst dedicate unto the Lord.\\nThen was there peace and justice in thy reign\\nThroughout the kingdom wisely governed.\\nThus free to deeds of mercy didst thou seek", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0288.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 375\\nMephibosheth the son of Jonathan,\\nLamed in his youth, and for his father s sake\\nDidst keep him as a son within thy house\\nAnd succor Ziba of the men of Saul.\\nDavid. Is there yet more? Behold thy chronicle\\nIs long enough to weary.\\nJehoshaphat. O my lord,\\nThy deeds are many. I but name the chief.\\nDavid. Then is it greater weariness to hear\\nAll I have done than do the task of kings.\\nJehoshaphat. But little now remaineth. Here I read\\nOf Hanun s scorn unto thy servants, sent\\nTo keep the favor his loved father gave,\\nCutting their skirts about them and their beards\\nHalf shaving, as they had been spies abroad;\\nWhence came the wars which valorous Joab made,\\nBy Abishai upheld, against the sons\\nOf Ammon and the Syrians arrayed\\nBy yet undaunted Hadadezer bold\\nIn Shobach s trusted captaincy to dare\\nThy host again, which rash defiance drew\\nThee like a whirlwind on them, smiting down\\nTheir chieftain and his thousands utterly;\\nWhich being done, thou hast to Joab left\\nThe remnant of those Ammonites who still\\nLurk in the walls of Rabbah but a space\\nEre thou dost cut them root and branch away.\\nDavid. Ah, hast thou ended? I have heeded not\\nThy records since the thought of Jonathan\\nLed off my heart from battles. What is worth\\nThe score of all my triumphs when my soul\\nHath its great joy cut off, its second self\\nForever parted? Take away these scrolls", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0289.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "276 THE HEART OF DXVID\\nWhich tell me but of vanities and leave\\nMy heart to its rebellion. Wherefore comes\\nSo hard a portion to it? Wherefore flies\\nAn evil angel after me to tear,\\nWith bloody hands, my love from its delight,\\nGiving my foes a sword to take the life\\nOf Saul, anointed by the Lord my king.\\nAnd slay his son, my best beloved friend,\\nDespite my strife to stay the bitterness\\nOf so unsought a triumph and a crown\\nWhence the decree that I should have to wife,\\nIn all the pure exalted hope of youth,\\nA noble maiden, daughter of a king.\\nAnd see her, in his wrath, so quickly given\\nUnto another s bed and, rescued thence,\\nShould find that bitterness and jealousy\\nHad turned her heart to stone that she should scorn\\nIn tortured pride my dignity and joy?\\nWhy are these long-contending hands so stained\\nBy slaughter that they may not dare to raise\\nThe temple of my thought My love and faith,\\nBoth marred in their endeavor, cry aloud\\nFor consolation. Vainly do I seek,\\nIn converse with my jealous Abigail,\\nWith Maacah, or other wives I have\\nBy custom of the mighty, all the balm\\nSuch inner torment needs. Each soft caress\\nOf bygone days is lukewarm or the spell\\nOf heathen gods, the sense of conquest s rule,\\nThe lack of understanding to partake\\nIn kindred portion of my higher joys\\nMakes thorny compensation to my soul\\nWhen it doth plead responsive tenderness.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0290.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 277\\nE en thou, my harp, the measure and delight\\nOf my true being, dost at times evade\\nMy searching touch for that communion sweet\\nWhich, since my songs of youth amid the flock,\\nHath given life its worth. About me broods\\nSome hidden evil when thy voice is dumb.\\nPerchance the twilight air will cool my brow,\\nOr, from this portico of my retreat\\nUpon the house top, may the evening peace\\nOf hills encompassing Jerusalem s throne\\nSubdue my cares, my troubled mind console.\\n[The King riseth from his couch and goefh out\\nupon a portico. He standeth awhile gazing be-\\nyond. Then looking upon the city below, he is\\nsuddenly disturbed in spirit. At length he turneth\\nback to the Chronicler who hath been putting up\\nhis scrolls.\\nJehoshaphat, come hither. Who abides\\nIn yonder house where now a handmaid shuts\\nThe lattices?\\nJehoshaphat. The humble dwelling there?\\nAh, that, my lord the king, is e en the house\\nOf one of little wealth but wise repute\\nEliam, whose fair daughter is the wife\\nOf valorous Uriah, captain now\\nIn Joab s host besieging Kabbah s walls.\\nDavid. I know Uriah s valor. Sayest thou\\nThe woman is of favored countenance?\\nJehoshaphat. She is most fair and, further saith report\\nThat, motherless in youth, she early knew\\nHer father s fond instruction and is wise\\nMid Israel s daughters and of earnest heart.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0291.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "378 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nDavid. Uriah hath whereof to make him great.\\nWhat is her name?\\nJehoshaphat. Bathsheba, noble king.\\nDavid. God speed thee, good recorder, may thy pen\\nHave greater triumphs yet, in coming days,\\nFor Israel s glory when we meet again.\\n[Jehoshaphat goeth out.\\nBathsheba is she named. How passing fair\\nWas that brief vision which I late beheld.\\nNo woman, verily, of Israel s tribes\\nHath such ripe gifts of beauty and of grace\\nAs this young wife. Can there be loveliness\\nSurpassing hers as, parted from the folds\\nOf all her raiment, she a moment stood\\nBathing her ivory limbs in thoughtful mood,\\nHalf absent and half wistful of her charm\\nThe bloom of passion added, in love s pride\\nOf early conquest, to the gracious mould\\nOf nature s skill when naught her art disturbs?\\nA shape so beautiful hath little need\\nOf comely face to vanquish man s desire,\\nBut this Bathsheba, when she raised her head\\nTo gaze a moment at the fading west.\\nUnveiled from her black locks a countenance\\nOf such a perfectness that one forgot\\nThe bosom s wealth beneath. Then suddenly\\nA handmaid closed the lattice and the world\\nHad nothing left that I would gaze upon.\\nAnd can sweet wisdom dwell in form so fair?\\nOr is report as ever adding gifts\\nTo those whose sheaves abound, while it despoils\\nThe little that afflicted men possess?\\nIf it be true, such twofold comeliness", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0292.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 279\\nOf face and mind as this Bathsheba hath\\nWould cheer my spirit and exalt my zeal.\\nAye, I must see her, Israel s king doth owe\\nA royal tribute to the worthiness\\nOf one so truly of Rebekah s line\\nAnd so extolled in all her neighborhood,\\nNor shall another sun forsake the west\\nEre I behold this wondrous evening star\\nWhich makes the sun forgotten, ere I gaze\\nUpon thee, fair Bathsheba, face to face.\\nYet how shall this be compassed Foolish brain,\\nHow dost thou fret my patience and my peace\\nKnow I am Israel s king, and thou my hand\\nTake better courage on this waiting scroll\\nTo serve my purpose and acquaint thyself\\nWith some device to give me joy again.\\n[After meditation writeth.\\nBathsheba, matron of Israel, the wife\\nOf valiant Uriah.\\nThere hath come\\nA messenger in haste from Joab s camp\\nAnd thou art bidden to come privily\\nTo this my royal palace.\\nDavid, King.\\nHo steward, let my messenger appear.\\n[A Messenger enter eth.]\\nDost know Eliam s house, a little hence?\\nMessenger. I do, my lord the king.\\nDavid. He hath with him\\nHis child Bathsheba, now Uriah s wife.\\nAwait her going forth to-morrow morn,\\n19", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0293.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "280 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nGive her this scroll apart and then attend\\nTo guide her hither.\\nMessenger. As the king hath said\\nHis servant doeth. {Goeth out.\\nDavid. Now, impatient eyes,\\nPrepare your curtains for the deepening night\\nAnd deign not to accept of other joy\\nUntil Bathsheba is before you led\\nPrepare for sleep and, when its spell descends,\\nIf, haply, dreams reveal her beauteous face,\\nYe shall not fear awaking, for at last\\nThe living form shall fancy s craft defy.\\nPLACE II. A street in Jerusalem the next morning. Nathan\\nentereth.\\nNathan. Praise thou the Lord, my soul, that after\\nyears\\nOf wandering and woe, the holy ark,\\nWhereon His spirit dwells, hath found its rest\\nUpon the hill of fair Jerusalem,\\nThe King of Kings establishing His throne\\nIn Israel s heart to sanctify the earth.\\nLet Zion from her towers sing for joy\\nAnd glad Moriah its thanksgiving raise,\\nLet Judah s voice shout back to Lebanon\\nAnd every tribe of Abram s seed rejoice.\\nFrom Jordan s valley to the greater sea.\\nExalt the Lord, my soul, that thou hast seen.\\nAfter a stay of twenty humbled years,\\nThe ark of Moses by King David brought\\nFrom Kirjath-jearim to ever end\\nIts pilgrimage, and tabernacle find\\nOn hallowed ground where David s faithful arm.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0294.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 281\\nBlessed of the Lord, shall guard it from the rage\\nOf heathen foes and overthrow their hosts,\\nHis kingdom fixed in Zion evermore.\\nHow joyful is my heart as I descend\\nFrom service at the morning offering\\nBefore the curtained tent by David set\\nTo screen the holy ark until the Lord\\nPermit the temple which his heart would raise.\\nWhy doth the Lord deny His servant grace\\nTo do this righteous thing? In vain I strive\\nTo see the judgment that withholds the hand\\nOf Israel s king from consecrated toil\\nIn building Him an house wherein to dwell.\\nThe Lord s all-seeing wisdom knoweth best,\\nSeek thy abode and question not His will.\\n[Bathsheba and a Servant of David enter beyond.]\\nBut vdio are these which talk a little hence\\nThe man is surely one of David s house\\nAnd, if my vision doth not sadly fail,\\nThe woman is Bathsheba by her walk\\nAs she consents to go apart with him.\\nWhat Cometh here to pass? She reads a scroll.\\n[Bathsheba and Servant go forth.\\nAnd now together do I see them glide,\\nWith screening raiment, to the way beyond\\nWhich ends but at the palace of the king.\\nAlas! What dread foreboding seizeth me?\\nMy limbs do tremble so that now in vain\\nI seek to follow after them. The Lord\\nGrant in His mercy that my eyes did err\\nIn their dread witness, or, if this, indeed,\\nWas fair Bathsheba, that no evil fall", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0295.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "282 THE HEART OF DATID\\nUpon her or bring David s soul to shame.\\nReturn, unhappy Nathan, to thy house\\nAnd keep thy peace until a Higher Voice\\nDoth council thee. The Lord is very wise l,\\nBeyond the feeble finding out of men.\\nPLA CE III. The Palace of David.\\nDavid. At length my morning labor is at end\\nAnd restless watches of the night forgot\\nIn expectation s promise. Never yet\\nIn tarrying for the battle s fitting hour\\nAmid the witless clamor of a camp.\\nHath eagerness so striven with delay.\\nBut hark Approaching footsteps catch my ear.\\nBehold my messenger and at his side\\nBathsheba cometh.\\n[Bathsheba enter eth with a Messenger.]\\nMessenger. Gracious king, behold\\nThy mission done and here Uriah s wife\\nAwaits thy royal bidding.\\n[Messenger goeth out.\\nDavid. If the wife\\nOf one Uriah, loose thy veil and speak.\\nIf so thou wouldst, ere I do talk with thee\\nOf things of weighty import.\\nBathsheba. O my lord,\\nGreat king of Israel, let thy servant ask\\nWhat tidings hast thou heard of Joab s host,\\nThat thus thine handmaid is before thee led?\\nIf I be not too bold, I do entreat\\nMy lord the king to tell me speedily\\nThe worst that may befallen. It is said", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0296.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 283\\nUriah liveth not? Or else, perchance,\\nThat he is sorely smitten? Let the king\\nHide nothing from me.\\nDavid. Woman, do not fear\\nOr let such tender eyes beget sad tears.\\nUriah hath no hurt whereof to weep.\\nBathsheba. Then why, O king, is this thy servant\\ncalled\\nTo stand before thee\\nDavid. Good Bathsheba, know\\nThat other harm may come than any ill\\nOf flesh.\\nBathsheba. What meanest thou, my lord the king?\\nDavid. A fretting spirit, cunning to devise\\nEvil against its rulers and stir up\\nUnseemly strife; such spirit is abroad\\nIn Joab s host contending with my law\\nAnd bringing shame upon me in the camp.\\nWhereof are certain captains whom I hold\\nIn much distrust concerning this reproach.\\nWhat council hath Uriah Dost thou know\\nThe secrets of his going?\\nBathsheba. Let the king\\nBe of good courage for, though there be lack\\nSince many days of tidings from my lord,\\nThe king may surely in Uriah trust.\\nDavid. Dost thou say truly that, since many days,\\nThou hast no tidings? Hast thou then no fear?\\nBathsheba. I fear not, for I know my lord is wont\\nTo think but of his duty, and the war\\nRobs me of love that he may honor thee,\\nDavid. Nay, fair Bathsheba, out of thine own mouth\\nDoth witness come against him. If he fail", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0297.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "284 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nIn much communication of his heart\\nTo keep so fruitful and so rich a vine\\nClose clinging to his life, how may his king\\nNow take assurance of his faithfulness?\\nBathsheba. The king is gracious.\\nDavid. Nay, I cannot be\\nFor thy fair presence graciousness subdues\\nAnd leaves me homage only. Verily,\\nNot since the day when my triumphant eyes,\\nViewing the singers of lamented Saul,\\nFirst noted woman s comeliness, have they known\\nSo bright a vision.\\nBathsheba. O My lord the king\\nIs surely blind and in his words misled.\\nDavid. Rather have I been blind until to-day\\nAnd erring in past praise, for never yet\\nHath countenance so lovely led away\\nDistrust from its due vigilance, or mind\\nOf woman reigned in such sweet dignity\\nAs all distrust to banish; yet perchance.\\nSince my brief life hath been so compassed\\nWith perils and betrayals and its blooms\\nOf joyful trust so withered, I, in truth,\\nMay err in this brief judgment aiid in thee\\nSee one whose hidden heart may be in league\\nWith that deceitful spirit of the camp,\\nFeigning strange ignorance of what thy lord\\nDoth plot or purpose to beguile thy king\\nUntil the blow hath fallen one who shares\\nWith this unloving Hittite, alien hopes\\nTo those of Israel s chosen heritage\\nAnd Zion s true defenders. Canst thou swear,\\nBathsheba, thou art faithful to my reign?", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0298.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 386\\nBathsheba. As the king liveth, so my loyal heart\\nDoth daily pray that thou, my lord the king,\\nMayest each year lead the hosts of Israel forth\\nTo greater victories over heathen foes\\nThat Israel s daughters in thy strength may find\\nTheir fortress and their song; that Israel s age\\nMay banish sorrow in beholding thee.\\nAnd that proud Israel s children may partake\\nTo latest manhood this rich heritage\\nKing David s self undying as his fame.\\nDavid. My royal blessing on thy noble soul\\nFor its sweet comfort. Thou art one indeed\\nOf Abram s daughters.\\nBathsheba. How can such as I,\\nA flower in Zion s wall, add my perfume\\nTo the rich spices of a nation s praise?\\nDavid. A nation s incense, sweet as it hath been,\\nIs bought and kindled by the fickle will\\nAnd trust of men, but such a flower as this,\\nWith its free, fragrant offering to its king.\\nIs precious above spices and should bloom\\nNot in the wall, but in the fairest court\\nOf Israel s palace. Nay Bathsheba, hear,\\nI said not mine, but Israel s.\\nBathsheba. Doth the king\\nForget that to Uriah first is due\\nMy loyalty of heart\\nDavid. Nay, fairer pearl\\nThan all in this rich crown, aye, fairer crown\\nUpon a Hittite s brow than aught I wear,\\nThou art Uriah s, and by thee he reigns.\\nWhile yet my subject, more supremely king.\\nBut, by thy word, this higher dignity", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0299.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "286 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nIs most unjustly borne; I trust no more,\\nThan if he made my rule an open scorn,\\nA soldier in my host who puts away\\nFrom his heart s throne and daily reverence\\nA queen so altogether beautiful.\\nAnd canst thou truly, fair Bathsheba, owe\\nThy faith to one who, in the tender morn\\nOf love s sweet life, forgets its rare delight,\\nOr fails to mend persistent, day by day,\\nHis household web, by absence rudely torn,\\nWith fine, far-reaching threads of tender words\\nCanst thou bestow such love as, in thy youth.\\nWas dreamt of for this long and dumb neglect\\nIs such a tribute as thy bosom holds\\nDeserved in truth by alien blood so cold.\\nWhen thine own king doth languish for its joy\\nFor all that heart taught, as was his, to love\\nTrue Israel s greatness, beating with his own\\nIn zeal for Israel s glory and, if joined\\nTo his, sufficient to that glory gain\\nBathsheba. My lord the king thou dost bewilder me,\\nUnhappy truly, in deserted pain,\\nDavid. Be loyal then, Bathsheba, to thy king\\nAnd put thy pain away, remembering\\nThat thou dost govern David s happiness\\nThen shall his pride two mighty realms possess\\nAnd his high love be henceforth ruled by thee.\\nHe swears it, fair Bathsheba.\\nBathsheba. Doth my king\\nForget his wives who nigh these very walls\\nHave vantage ground in contest for his heart\\nAnd speedily may turn its brief desire\\nFrom one too needful of its tenderness\\nTo think of outcast wretchedness to come", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0300.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 287\\nDavid. Yea, I forget them, I forget the joy\\nOf all I ever loved before thy face\\nAnd in thy nature s sweet supremacy.\\nloveliest rose of Israel, grant my prayer.\\nSee! David kneels to raise the fallen gates\\nOf thy dark eyes, that but one messenger\\nOf yielding love, one joy begotten tear,\\nMay prove that thou art loyal to thy king\\nIn all thy beauty, as in all thy soul.\\nBathsheba. Stay, O my king, some all unconscious\\nspell\\nOf these sad eyes hath maddened thee. Delay\\nBut one day yet for judgment and control\\nOf this wild passion, which doth terrify\\nMy inmost soul by all its suddenness\\nBy all its chance of woe. Delay a while,\\nEre all the power of thy royal tongue\\nLoose honor s clinging raiment and expose\\nMy trembling form to thy compelling eyes.\\nBreaking, perchance too late to spare my shame.\\nThe charm my face hath worked to its despair\\nIf thou dost lure me but to cast away.\\nDavid. Nay, beautiful Bathsheba, not alone\\nThy face hath vanquished me and not to-day\\nWas all thy thraldom won.\\nBathsheba. V/hat meanest thou?\\nDavid. Gladly I tell thee. Yesterday at eve\\n1 knew thee first when, looking wistfully\\nBeyond my palace parapet, I saw\\nA radiant vision and with ravished eyes\\nThy form in its enchantment, unprofaned\\nBy jealous raiment, whiter than a dove", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0301.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "288 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAmong the olives, tender as a star\\nAt eventide, in every grace complete,\\nAnd when the lattice closed my heart was faint\\nWith love of thee, Bathsheba, and the hours\\nWere hateful until I could see again\\nThy beauty and beseech its treasured bliss.\\nForgive my heart s device. Forget thy king\\nSave as thy lover loving not alone\\nThy face, but that within thee which confirms\\nAll good reports which thronged upon mine ear-\\nAnd yet were lacking. Let thy flush of shame,\\nTransformed to love, assure the happy gift\\nThat vision made me and thy heart be mine.\\nThou yieldest, my delight, my own white roe,\\nMy pearl of Israel s daughters. This, indeed.\\nIs loyalty to David. Let his kiss\\nBe on thy lips the royal seal of joy.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0302.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "PART III.\\nOVER A MONTH HATH GONE BY,\\nPLACE I. A room in the King s Palace. David walketh to\\nand fro.\\nDavid. How vain a thing is any might of man\\nTo bind and hold his dearest pleasure long;\\nNight robs the victor of his flying foe\\nAfter a day of strife. Age cools the blood\\nWhen man hath but the art of living found\\nIn temperate joy. The chill of winter sweeps\\nUpon the husbandman when fruitful land\\nBegins to yield full bounty to his toil.\\nAnd love, though bidden by a kingly will,\\nHath no respect withal. I make decrees\\nThat bear upon my people heavily\\nTo meet the greed of wars and I affix\\nUpon the scroll this thin and brittle seal,\\nWhich yet doth guard my will throughout the course\\nOf weary years unbroken, but when these\\nMy passionate lips do set the seal of love\\nUpon my heart s decree that, out of all\\nThe fair assembly of great Israel,\\nOne sad, forsaken woman may be mine,\\nThe seal is broken. In a little month,\\nTrouble doth come to taunt my royalty\\nAnd tear the cherished secret from my breast,\\nOr bring the one I love to open shame.\\nO woe be on the witless messenger", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0303.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "290 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nThat, with the waning of another moon\\nSince last I saw Bathsheba a delay\\nOf grievous yearning for her fond embrace,\\nOf troubled doubt, of hope with dimming eyes,\\nShould bring to me these tiding of dismay.\\nFor she hath sent saying I am with child.\\nLove hath been fruitful verily, and soon.\\nBut such full fruit without the unclouded sun\\nOf honor s light upon it, doth not come\\nTo sweet and ruddy ripeness, but must bear\\nA bitterness until its final fall.\\nYet shall the secret rest where it hath birth,\\nFor when, obedient to my will supreme\\nBut yesterday by swiftest horse conveyed,\\nJoab doth send Uriah from the toil\\nOf Rabbah s siege to sweet Jerusalem\\nAnd glad repose on fair Bathsheba s breast,\\nThen may I also sleep without a care\\nSaving the jealous pang which I, the king.\\nMust yield this Hittite captain loathfully,\\nLetting my envy vainly strive with fear\\nAnd portioned love a base contentment breed.\\n[A Servant enter eth.]\\nServant. My lord the king, a captain of the host\\nOf Joab waits without. What is thy will\\nDavid. Conduct him hither. Now my soul forget\\nContempt of thy poor self in will to gain\\nA sure escape by this compelled device.\\n{Uriah enter eth led by Servants.]\\nDavid. My greeting, brave Uriah, thou art come\\nWith loyal speed to fair Jerusalem,", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0304.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 291\\nContent, perchance, to at my bidding gain\\nA rest from warfare?\\nUriah. Nay, my lord the king\\nTo whom I owe all reverence, I was loath\\nTo leave the camp when all who bear thy spears\\nAwait the instant combat, but I heard\\nAt eventide from Joab thy command\\nAnd, parting from the host at early dawn,\\nMy good horse brought me hither. Here am I\\nTo serve thee, whatsoever be thy will.\\nDavid. I ask no service, ere thou seekest rest,\\nBeyond brief tidings of the weary siege.\\nHow doth my nephew Joab? Is it well\\nThat thus his skill is profitless?\\nUriah. My lord\\nAnd royal master, there is naught to wish\\nFor Joab s health or subtle craft in war\\nOr will to serve thee, but his task is hard.\\nFor proud King Hanun hath a strong defense\\nAnd much provision. Not alone the walls\\nOf Rabbah and her ditches wide and deep\\nDefy our strength, but, were the city won,\\nThere still remains the lofty citadel\\nTo give attack despite, from whence the foe\\nMight make our battle vain and smile in scorn\\nYet many days upon us.\\nDavid. Hast not thou\\nDevised some way to humble Rabbah s king?\\nUriah. Thy servant bows to Joab s greater skill.\\nDavid. Proud Ammonites, the evil day shall come\\nWhen I will smite ye utterly and loose\\nThe fury of my wrath upon your heads.\\nAccursed brood, in vain may women mourn", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0305.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "292 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nWhen I go down to battle. I will hale\\nYour haughty ones before me and their flesh\\nThe harrow and the saw shall tear away,\\nThe axe shall slaughter and the flame consume\\nUntil your name shall vanish from the earth.\\nSo be it unto me, if this my word\\nIs not fulfilled upon them. Tell me yet\\nOf Joab s host. How fares Jashobeam,\\nThat mighty captain whose avenging spear\\nThree hundred slew, and Eleazar brave\\nWho with me in the barley field withstood\\nThe Philistines attack at Pas-dammim,\\nAnd valiant Abishai, one in might\\nWith strong Jashobeam, and, in his skill,\\nThe strength of Joab both my sister s sons\\nBut Abishai most faithful He it was\\nWho brought me water once from Bethlehem\\nAt jeopardy of life, with other two.\\nAnd tell me yet, Uriah but in vain\\nI ask for all to whom my heart doth cleave\\nAmong my thirty captains or among\\nThe thousands whom they gather to the war.\\nAssure me only that of those I love\\nNo soul hath fallen in these latter days.\\nUriah. None, O my king, who stands pre-eminent\\nHath had the joy of yielding life for thee.\\nBut all, impatient, wait upon the breach\\nOf Kabbah s walls to shed their stagnant blood\\nIn deeds of greater valor than the past.\\nDavid. Enough, my worthy captain, for to-night.\\nThou must be weary of thy journey long\\nAnd of the stern endurance of the camp.\\nThou hast a spouse, if I may trust report.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0306.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 293\\nHaste to her arms that her long watching yield\\nTo sudden joy and fondest love renewed.\\nI would not longer keep thy eager heart\\nFrom its due pleasure. Hie thee to thy house\\nAnd wash thy feet after long journeying,\\nAnd warm thee by the fire and at the side\\nOf her thou lovest. Peace be with thee there.\\n[To Servant.] Lead thou this chieftain to the palace\\ngate\\nAnd bid Benaiah, captain of my guard,\\nTo give him honor in attendance due\\nWhile he abideth in Jerusalem.\\n[Uriah howeth the knee and goeth out with a\\nServant. David, after a space, saith to\\nanother servant\\nSeek thou my steward. Bid him come to me.\\n[Servant goeth out.\\nPerchance within Eliam s poor abode\\nThey lack whereof to give befitting cheer\\nTo this its unawaited Hittite son\\nWho, hungering, may have but little will\\nFor other joy than slumber. Soft desire\\nWaits on indulgence of gross appetite,\\nWherefore, that every goad may be supplied,\\nI will despatch a fitting nourishment\\nAnd gain the favor of the house withal.\\n[A Steward enter eth.]\\nUriah, valiant captain of the host\\nOf Joab, hath to-night come from the camp\\nAnd goeth unawaited to his house.\\nI pray thee choose from out my evening feast\\nA dish of meat, well spiced and savory.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0307.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "294 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nThe best which thou preparest for my board,\\nAnd tarry not to send it after him\\nTo where Eliam dwelleth. Do not fail.\\nPLACE II. An open court of David s Palace, with plants and\\nflowers. Abigail, Maacah and Handmaid.\\nMaacah. Good woman, whence hath my sweet Tamar\\ngone\\nHandmaid. I left her, gracious mistress, in the shade\\nOf goodly cedar trees without the court\\nAnd, as she willed to walk awhile alone\\nAmid the garden by the lily beds\\nTo pluck of them and of the fragrant myrrh\\nAnd gather pomegranates for a gift\\nTo certain poor who sit about the gate,\\nI came to do thy service.\\nMaacah. Hast thou seen\\nMy comely Absalom?\\nHandmaid. Not since the morn\\nWhen he went from the palace.\\nMaacah. Go thy way\\nAnd presently return again to me.\\n[The Handmaid goeth out.\\nThus is it that my beauteous Absalom,\\nSince he of late a joyful sojourn made\\nWith my fond father Talmai, seeks release\\nFrom all restraint and order of the house,\\nAnd scarce know I what may be done to stay\\nHis restless spirit in maturing years,\\nAmbitious now and proud beyond control.\\nWhat dost thou counsel, gentle Abigail?\\nAbigail. When Chileab, my princely son, doth fret\\nAt household quiet, I do counsel him", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0308.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 295\\nTo seek the mount beyond and try his skill\\nAmid the soldiers of the royal camp\\nIn casting the light javelin, or else,\\nMindful of his great father s youthful fame,\\nAt practice with the sling, which exercise\\nDoth teach a useful cunning to his hand\\nOr, when he fails, doth mend his haughtiness;\\nYet I am lonely in his absence long\\nAnd, since the king hath kept so much apart,\\nI envy thee, gay Maacah, thy joy\\nIn having, ever faithful at thy side,\\nA daughter such as Tamar, gentle-eyed\\nAnd with a heart in love forever new,\\nSeeking kind services in very zeal\\nTo comfort all about her guileless life;\\nA maiden of such goodness, Tamar seems\\nUnfitted for this low and bitter world\\nOf treacherous device and foul desire\\nBeyond the patience of a soul less pure.\\nAye, once again, I envy thee the love\\nOf this fair daughter ever at thy call,\\nFor thus thou mayest not feel the double pain\\nOf solitary hours such as mine.\\nFain would I be the cherished only spouse\\nOf any humble man too rich in love\\nAnd poor in purse to seek another s breast,\\nFor since the mighty measure but by gold\\nThe number of their wives and concubines,\\nWhat joy hath any woman to partake,\\nAfter a day, a week, a moon of bliss.\\nHer portion of a weary king s caress.\\nDespite all mocking gems and rich attire\\nAnd every good but what the heart doth need.\\n20", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0309.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "896 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nMaacah. What aileth David, thinkest thou His eye\\nDoth truly give our charms but light esteem\\nSince e en a moon gone by.\\nAbigail. Perchance he grieves\\nAt Rabbah s long defiance.\\nMaacah. Yet I count\\nFull many days of siege ere it befell\\nHis mighty spirit thus to turn away\\nFrom love s sweet comfort and a father s joys.\\nNo little time ago he banished care\\nAnd weariness of rule in light discourse\\nWith Absalom and Tamar, making mirth\\nOf his rash pride and of her artless trust.\\nYet mingling tender counsel with his words\\nBut now my son and daughter ask in vain\\nFor their great father s sweet companionship.\\nHis heart is heavy with some hidden care.\\nAbigail. Tis said Uriah, captain of the host\\nOf Joab, came at even from the camp.\\nPerchance his tidings may lift up again\\nThe king s sad spirit and return to us\\nHis radiant eyes, his words of tenderness.\\nMaacah. Nay, Abigail, it is not on the chance\\nOf Rabbah s siege that David s spirit waits.\\nSome woman s smile hath won him for a time,\\nAs oft before, from our too vain caress.\\nTake heart, thou surely shouldst not be sore\\nAt some new greed of this our lord s desire.\\nRemember, since he took me as a spoil\\nOf war, to, with Ahinoam and thee.\\nEnjoy his favor, there hath Haggith been,\\nAnd Abital, and Eglah, nor a lack\\nOf other wives out of Jerusalem,", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0310.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 297\\nAnd concubines besides, to stir our hate.\\nThe fickle king will yet return to beg\\nOur hearts when he doth tire once again\\nOf this, some new conceit of idle days.\\nAbigail. Would it were so, that he might pay his\\nvows\\nOf love once more as in the early time.\\nBut this hath perished for us utterly.\\nMaacah. Aye, verily as hot youth perisheth,\\nNor may we mourn our lot, good Abigail,\\nFor these same fleeting years will quell the lust\\nOf David s spirit and give temperance\\nIn such wise measure that he will forsake\\nThe arms of younger women to restore\\nHis heart to thee, so early in its trust.\\nAnd me, the mother of his Absalom.\\nAbigail. By this thy reasoning, Ahinoam\\nAnd Michal should have precedence of me.\\nMaacah. Nay, Michal s angry pride and bitter tongue,\\nIn jealousy perchance of all the wives\\nThat David since hath taken to his heart.\\nHave made her an abhorrence to the king,\\nAnd she of Jezreel thou needst not fear.\\nSave as the mother of his lawful heir\\nThat subtle Amnon whom my heart mistrusts.\\nI fear her not, nor shall I vex myself\\nThat David keeps aloof. I thank the gods\\nOf mine own land that I am not so weak\\nAs thus to make our roving lover vain.\\nOne good ensueth from this new neglect,\\nThat it hath joined us in a common cause\\nAnd made me better know thee, Abigail\\nFor, ere this temper overcame our lord.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0311.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "298 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nI was SO envious of thy early right\\nTo royal favor that my soul was blind\\nTo all thy wisdom, grace and gentleness,\\nWhich now I cherish with a sister s care.\\nAbigail. Nor less thy cheerful mind doth ease the\\nload\\nOf my heart s burden, Maacah, and raise\\nMy fainting hope to better life again,\\n[They embrace.\\nPLACE III. A room in the King s Palace David entereth with\\nAttendants at the coming of darkness.\\nServant. My lord the king, thy steward is at hand\\nAnd fain would speak with thee.\\nDavid. Bid him come in.\\n{Steward entereth.]\\nWhat wouldst thou, steward\\nSteward. May it please the king\\nAs thou didst bid thy servant, so I sent\\nAt even, to Eliam s house below,\\nA savory mess of meat for him they call\\nUriah, captain in thine host, but none\\nKnew of his coming or had seen his face.\\nDavid. What meaneth this?\\nServant. Uriah went not out\\nAt eventide beyond the palace gate.\\nBut tarried with thy servants at the door,\\nNor went down to his house, and, when at night\\nThe watch was set, he wrapped him in his cloak\\nAnd lying down, as he were at the camp,\\nWith but a shield to rest his head upon.\\nHe slept amid thy men until the dawn.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0312.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 299\\nDavid. And now where is he?\\nServant. Still amid thy guard.\\nAnd waiting at the door to know thy will.\\nDavid. Let him be called before me.\\nServant. I obey.\\n[Servant goeth out.\\nDavid. Retire all. I would speak privily.\\n[Uriah enter eth led by a Servant. Servants go forth.]\\nGood morrow, stern Uriah, what is this\\nMy household have but told me Camest thou\\nNot from thy journey? Why then didst thou not\\nGo to thy dwelling, rather than forsake\\nThe comfort of thy house for such cold rest\\nAs only those in Joab s camp endure?\\nDidst thou indeed sleep at the palace door?\\nUriah. I did, my lord the king.\\nDavid. And wherefore thus,\\nIn such rude slumber under no command,\\nGive up thine ease, the welcome of thy house,\\nAnd put its fond and anxious hearts to shame?\\nWhy shun the long embrace of thy young wife\\nWho doth not lack, if what is said be true.\\nIn comeliness, and whose unhappy sighs\\nThy throbbing heart should hasten hence to quell,\\nEre all the city mock at thy delay\\nUriah. My lord the king, there is not of thine host\\nOne who, before thy servant, seeks to guard\\nMore faithfully thy statutes or perform\\nWith all his heart the pleasure of thy will\\nWho serves thee with more reverence and love\\nFor all thy wisdom, for thy uprightness\\nBefore the Lord, to Whom alike we bow", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0313.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "300 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd, seeing that the God of all our strength\\nHath called thee and anointed thee the king\\nOf all His chosen seed, my soul doth joy\\nIn serving Him when I obey thy word.\\nAnd serving thee when Him I magnify\\nBut, whilst the heathen yet do vainly stand\\nTo mock His glory and defy thy power,\\nMy soul would put all lesser joy aside\\nFor Zion s banner, and remember not\\nThe happy rule my little kingdom craves\\nIn zealous service of thy hallowed throne.\\nBehold the ark whereon Jehovah dwells\\nBetween the cherubim, it yet abides,\\nAs on its desert pilgrimage of old.\\nWithin a curtained tent, its lowly place,\\nUntil thy sword hath smitten all its foes.\\nIn tents, moreover, wait the faithful hosts\\nOf Israel and Judah and the chief\\nOf thousands, lordly Joab and his trust.\\nFull many mighty captains, scorning ease\\nOr dainty living while a foe defies.\\nAnd that beloved band I lead to war\\nWho take example of the toil I bear\\nAll these are on the open field encamped.\\nCounting their hardship light for Israel s sake.\\nAnd shall I then go down into my house\\nTo play the glutton and be drunk with wine\\nAnd dally with my wife in slothful lust.\\nAs void of understanding and of shame\\nTo leave my post forsaken at the front\\nOf honor? As thou livest, O my king.\\nAs thy soul lives, I will not do this thing.\\nLet me, I pray thee, hasten to the camp", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0314.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 301\\nThat I may share the battle we attend\\nAnd leave all other joy to days of peace\\nWhen Kabbah s walls have fallen.\\nDavid. Tarry here\\nBut this day also and, to-morrow morn,\\nI promise thee that I will let thee go.\\nSo eat now with me, for I would inquire\\nOf more that appertaineth to the siege.\\nFor which I have not sooner summoned thee\\nLest I might mar the gladness of thy house\\nAnd drag thee, loathful, from thy wife s embrace,\\nWhich seemeth, verily, a needless care.\\nHo, servant.\\n[A Servant enfereth.]\\nTake my captain in thy charge\\nA moment, that he lay his armor by\\nAnd fit himself to share my meat with me.\\nBid ye my steward that he here may spread\\nOur table, failing not to prove his skill\\nAnd sending us of Zabdi s choicest wine.\\nAnd make excuse to good Mephiboslieth\\nAnd others of my banquet hall to-night,\\nThat I would with Uriah talk alone.\\n[Uriah and the Servant go forth.\\nDid ever virtue climb so mad a height?\\nOr hath Uriah knowledge of my sin\\nThat, with so rich a prize for long desire,\\nHe shunneth her whose faith I have betrayed\\nAnd doth, with such a wily argument,\\nThus pierce my spirit through as with a sword?\\nHe taunteth me that I do dwell in ease\\nAmid the riches of my royal house\\nErewhile the ark and Israel s captains all", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0315.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "302 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAbide in tents, as waiting on the Lord.\\nAye, surely he reproacheth me, his king.\\nYet, if it be so, he dissembleth\\nWith art so rare, my soul abased bows\\nEeiore the image of such holy zeal,\\nIntegrity so pure and undefiled.\\nO, could I flee the snare wherein I lie,\\nMy soul would prove Uriah. If, indeed,\\nHis heart were single in its uprightness.\\nThis captain should stand first below my throne\\nAnd fill the void which Jonathan hath left,\\nMy heart atoning thus its evil deed.\\nAn hour yet remaineth, if therein,\\nWith dainty meats and lust provoking wine,\\nI stir desire in Uriah s heart\\nAnd send him yet to fair Bathsheba s bed.\\nMy shame will hide itself and human eyes\\nWill never know my honor s emptiness.\\nBut, if I cannot bend this higher will,\\nFlee thou, my soul, before my dark despair.\\n[A Steward and Attendants fetch a table bounti-\\nfully spread. Then Uriah entereth with Servant.\\nThe Steward and Servants go without.\\nMy valiant captain, welcome to my board.\\nI drink thy welfare in my choicest wine.\\nUriah. My lord the king, I thank thee. May my life\\nEnd when I cease thy righteous rule to serve.\\nDavid. Let this dish tempt a warrior s appetite\\nAnd, if its savor please thee, raise thy cup\\nThat we may drink to Joab. Nay again.\\nOr I will think thou dost belie his skill.\\nUriah. Save thee, O king, I count him as the first,\\nSince Abner s death in leading hosts to war,", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0316.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 303\\nIn cunning to array his diverse force\\nAnd judgment when and where to smite the foe.\\nDavid. And thinkest thou he cleaveth to his king\\nWith fitting love and fear and willeth not\\nTo set himself in some unlawful place?\\nUriah. I think he feareth thee, but who can read\\nThe heart of man to know if love abides\\nBehind his service or unwonton grace?\\nYet could I swear to Joab s faithfulness.\\nDavid. And my brave captains?\\nUriah. They do wait on thee\\nAs do thy fingers on the valiant arm\\nThat slew the hungry lion and the bear\\nWhen thou didst tend the flock.\\nDavid. A brimming cup\\nTo these my mighty men. Aye, drink again,\\nUriah. My heart is nothing loath to such as these,\\nAnd in so red and excellent a wine.\\nDavid. Aye, is it not, my captain Surely none,\\nI will be sworn, from Ammon s camps despoiled\\nCan hold compare with this from Hebron s vale.\\nAnd now partake of spiced venison\\nThat thou mayest testify my steward s skill.\\nOne further thing I would inquire of thee\\nConcerning all my thousands in the camp,\\nDost thou consider they are true to me?\\nUriah. Aye, as the heavy locks of tawny hair\\nUpon thy head, will these men cling to thee.\\nDavid. But hair doth fall with trouble or with age.\\nAnd even thus the color of their faith\\nMay turn with some dire chance, and, in a day,\\nOr month, or year, their numbers may be thinned,\\nLeaving their king with unprotected brow", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0317.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "304 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nTo vainly seek a shelter in distress.\\nYet would I not reproach them I do prize\\nTheir present faith above my jeweled crown,\\nFor it would be poor covering alone.\\nDrink then to these good fighting men of mine.\\nUriah. Gladly, my valiant king, and let us drink\\nAgain to that brave thousand whom I lead,\\nDavid. With all my heart, Uriah, Let me fill\\nThy golden cup twice over for the thought.\\nA captain s band are as his children dear.\\nAnd now enough of war,\\nUriah. Nay, goodly king,\\nI do not weary of it. There, in truth.\\nMy children are and I do hasten back\\nTo-morrow gladly, to partake their toil.\\nDavid. Then, if thou wilt, to-morrow, but thy heart\\nShould not forget its happy bondage here.\\nUriah. They are my children verily. Thy speech.\\nGood David, is most just.\\nDavid. Then drink again\\nTo thy secure return. But tell me yet\\nI pray thee, of thy wife, how is she called?\\nUriah. Of my wife, sayest thou, my valiant king?\\nDavid. Aye, of thy wife.\\nUriah. Bathsheba is my wife.\\nWho sayeth she is not?\\nDavid. Thou dost not heed.\\nIs then Bathsheba comely?\\nUriah. Aye, my lord,\\nBathsheba is most fair, a chosen lamb\\nThat I do cherish well in peaceful days.\\nDavid. And why not now, Uriah Let us drink\\nA cup well filled to that fair wife of thine,", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0318.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 3P5\\nThus doing honor to this set of gold\\nWhich Toi, king of Hamath, gave to me.\\nAnd take again of meat, a mountain hart,\\nOne of a herd from Lebanon s cool heights\\nWhich came to me from Hiram, Tyre s king.\\nThen drink we now to fair Bathsheba s joy.\\nThou sighest, brave Uriah. Why should now\\nThy spirit fall? Is all not well with thee?\\nUriah. Those peaceful days will come and love\\nwithal.\\nDavid. Love waiteth thee, why turn thy soul away\\nFrom present joy Hast thou no yearning sweet\\nFor this young wife s embrace so long deferred,\\nFor each beguiling art by which she drew,\\nLi bygone days, the net of love so close\\nAbout thy willing mind Dost thou not see\\nEyes dark and soft as Bethlehem s clear well\\nWhich seem to overflow in tender plea\\nFor thee to draw of love and slack thy thirst\\nIn its abundance? Do no tender lips\\nGather the red of poppies for their bloom\\nBeneath thy kisses, and as softly give\\nTheir loving answer as the orange tree\\nFloating its blossoms on the evening wind?\\nAnd her white bosom, wilt thou leave it cold\\nAs ripened fruit beneath a midnight moon,\\nNor turn to taste a bounty all thine own?\\nUriah, thou hast now thy king s release\\nFrom every weary service of the war.\\nThy honor hath no bond. Thy heart is free\\nTo follow its desire. Get thee down\\nTo take delight in thy Bathsheba s love,\\nIn thine own house and thy well won repose,", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0319.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "306 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd I, thy king, will multiply thy wealth\\nAnd ever suit my favor to thy joy.\\nUriah. The king is gracious. Let us talk of this\\nAfter the fall of Rabbah.\\nDavid. Nay, but now.\\nUriah. Thou knowest I must start at early dawn\\nFor Joab s camp. Can I no message bear?\\nYet, write it, O my king, for these thy cups\\nHave made my head unfit for any trust.\\nDavid. And wilt thou not, on this last night go down\\nTo thine own house and fair Bathsheba s bed?\\nUriah. What sayest thou Aye, she is very fair,\\nAnd when we smite these dogs of Ammonites\\nOh, we shall smite them, hip and thigh, my lord\\nI bid thee come and see, and we shall drink\\nAgain, amid thy captains, of the spoil.\\nBut I must get me hence. Tis surely time\\nTo set the night watch. One more cup to thee.\\nLet the king live forever. Fare thee well.\\nDavid. Farewell, Uriah, give no joy delay.\\nEre I do sleep I will a parchment write\\nFor Joab. One will give it thee at dawn.\\nIf thou art found with purpose to depart\\nPerchance a long farewell.\\n[Uriah goeth out of the apartment.\\nHe knoweth not\\nHow darker than the night may be his path,\\nHow terrible its ending, if he fail\\nTo go from hence to his own dwelling place\\nAnd witlessly Bathsheba s honor save.\\nYon window overlooks the palace court.\\n[Goeth to a window.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0320.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND EATHSHEBA 307\\nHere will I watch to know Uriah s choice.\\nIf he doth pass the gate, my troubled heart\\nShall be delivered. If he turn again\\nTo sleep with these my servants at the door,\\nBut one dread act remaineth. Lo he goes\\nAcross the pavement with unsteady feet,\\nThe night lamps flickering with anxious eyes\\nAmid the gloom above him. He doth pause.\\nHe answereth the challenge of the watch\\nAnd now, O woe is me, he turns within.\\nRise, stricken soul, face thou this last despair.\\nAcquaint thyself with evil and attend\\nA night which this poor mortal shall not know,\\nThough he do pass to death. For, thrusting thee\\nFrom thy high throne in my disturbed brain,\\nThere sits the evil spirit which gat hold\\nOf Saul to his destruction when I fled\\nBefore his wrath, as in the wilderness\\nThe timid partridge from the hunter flies.\\nBut then my soul was mightier than to-day,\\nIn that I would not take fair Abigail\\nUntil the Lord Himself had Nabal slain.\\nYet shall not stern Uriah to my shame\\nEvade the spirit which provoketh me\\nTo bloody doing, lest he live to see\\nBathsheba great with child and drag her up\\nBefore the judges of all Israel,\\nThat she be stoned in all the people s sight\\nAs it is written in the holy law.\\nFor, should he know the thing his wife hath done,\\nNo royal bribe his outraged soul could quell\\nOr shield us from his righteous enmity,\\nAnd, as betraying waves wash to and fro", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0321.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "308 THE HEART OF DAVIB\\nThe blood that stains them, so would many tongues\\nCast on us both the spittle of their scorn,\\nAnd overwhelm us utterly at last.\\nNay, if like Saul, I perish in my sin,\\nThis man must die to hide her guilt and mine\\nA scapegoat, though atonement never come.\\nDishonored king, would that the multitude\\nCould cast its pitiless stones on thee alone.\\nBut this were vain, and thou must live to save\\nBathsheba from the peril thou hast wrought.\\nThe man must die. O David, in thy heart\\nThou truly hadst cause for sudden fear\\nWhen Uzzah, putting hand upon the ark.\\nFell for his error, smitten of the Lord,\\nAnd thou, convicted in the Holy wrath,\\nDidst say How shall the Lord s ark come to me?\\nAnd turn it from Jerusalem aside\\nDread now, the curtained tent wherein it rests\\nIn yonder awful gloom, refusing thee\\nThe house these guilty hands had sought to raise;\\nHide thee in trembling from its presence pure\\nLest, from the glory amid the cherubim.\\nThe lightning of the wrathful Holy One\\nShould slay thee in a moment and consume\\nThy very ashes from the face of earth\\nShun thou the wise and good about thy throne,\\nLest they reproach their king and turn aside\\nMaking lament for Israel. But hark\\n[A trumpet sounds.\\nThe trumpet upon Zion s battlements\\nDoth sound the morning watch. I can not now\\nDelay in fruitless meditation more.\\nUriah s will is set to hasten hence.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0322.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 309\\nHe never shall return. To Joab s eye\\nShall this dread scroll my guilty secret take,\\nSmiting the hand that bears it. But my sin\\nCompels no less a sacrifice than blood.\\n[Writeth.\\nBrave Joab, chiefest captain of my host,\\nThis secret message is my royal will,\\nWhereof sufficient reason guideth me.\\nSet ye Uriah, who doth bear this scroll\\nAnd others for thee, in the battle s front.\\nThe forefront of the battle s hottest rage,\\nAnd then retire ye from roundabout,\\nThat he may there be smitten and may die.\\nDestroy the scroll thou readest. David, king.\\n[David seals several scrolls.\\nHo servant.\\n[A Servant entereth.]\\nAs thou livest, do not fail\\nTo give Uriah, captain in my host,\\nWhen at the dawn of day he setteth forth\\nFor Joab s camp, these scrolls to bear to him.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0323.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "PART IV.\\nPLACE I. The House of Eliam. Bathsheba seated alone.\\nBathsheba. Aye, verily, doth not this last reproach\\nSuffice to free me from so cold a lord\\nAnd quit my heart of love, if not of fear.\\nTwo idle days within Jerusalem\\nHath stern Uriah passed, two cruel days\\nWhen every hireling did speak of him\\nWhile yet he came not down to honor me.\\nTwo lonely niglits, and now behold him fled\\nAt cock crowing to Joab s camp again,\\nWithout a care to leave me desolate.\\nHath he indeed suspicion of my shame\\nNay, this thing cannot be or he had come\\nWith wrath to chasten, nor could David turn\\nHim silent from this evil to the host.\\nAnd hath not David, since I sent him word\\nOf what hath fallen to me, surely brought\\nUriah hither to conceal my fault.\\nEntreating him to come down to his house\\nAnd rest him from the weariness of wars\\nNo other thing than lack of love for me\\nCould thus have taught a froward countenance\\nAnd held Uriah from a wife s embrace.\\nNor, as the days of Kabbah s strong defense\\nAre all unnumbered, shall I see again\\nWith feigned joy my lord until too late\\nTo save my broken honor. What shall shield", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0324.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 311\\nMy soul from its distress, if he come not\\nAh woe is me and utterly undone,\\nIf I be brought to judgment for my shame,\\nFailing to conquer nature or to keep\\nMy bitter secret close from prying eyes.\\nIt is but little since it seemed secure\\nWithin my breast and all its ceaseless strife\\nWith conscience, pride, the day s allotted toil,\\nA father s blind affection and the pledge\\nOf wedlock, as a tumult I could quell,\\nA pain which rarely ventured messages\\nFrom David s heart could gently soothe away.\\nBut, now that stern Uriah brings to naught\\nThe king s device, my brief transgression climbs\\nFrom its uncovered grave to drag me down.\\nOh for a place of refuge, a defense\\nFrom those who persecute with poisoned tongues\\nAn erring woman to the gates of death,\\nUnpitied, unprotected and despised;\\nRend thou thy garments, poor unhappy one.\\nThat all the innocency of thy youth,\\nThe wisdom of thy teaching and the grace\\nOf thine adornment and thine honor true\\nShould thus contemptuously come to shame\\nBefore the sight of Israel. Who can save\\nThy beauty now, Bathsheba? Not the king.\\nNo taint shall come to David. Though he swear\\nBefore the judges that his love prevailed,\\nI yet shall swear another ravished me\\nAnd that I know him not. Oh thou, my king.\\nMy royal lover, mighty over all\\nAnd lovely in the riches of thy heart,", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0325.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "313 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nThe fulness of thy grace, would thou couldst know\\nHenceforth Bathsheba s love is only thine,\\nHer bosom pillow for thy head alone,\\nHer spirit loyal to none else but thee,\\nHer beauty, at its best, a gift too small\\nTo pledge her deep desire evermore.\\nWould thou couldst bend again to charm my soul\\nWith thy sweet lips and give me of their balm\\nOf words so fond, of thoughts so heavenly bright\\nThat, in their comfort and dominion strong,\\nI might contend with my calamity\\nAnd arm my groaning soul to meet her woes.\\nPLACE II. The Camp of Israel before Rabbah. Joab, Abishai\\nand Soldiers hard by.\\nJoab {aside]. This favor to Uriah bodeth ill\\nTo my high station. Doubtless hath the king\\nDispleasure in my vain endeavor here\\nTo conquer Rabbah, and deviseth means\\nWith this shrewd Hittite to abase my head.\\nI needs must press the war without delay\\nEre his return with some authority\\nI dare not question to arrest my arm.\\nAbisliai, thinkest thou the king hath called\\nUriah to our hurt?\\nAbishai. The thing is strange\\nYet, brother, do not vex thyself thereat.\\nDoubtless our uncle knoweth the repute\\nOf this man s truth and proved integrity\\nAnd seeketh certain knowledge of the war.\\nIt is not in Uriah s heart to turn\\nHis voice against thee. Therefore put away\\nThine idle fear and think but of the siege.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0326.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 313\\nJoab. Aye, surely, it admitteth not delay.\\nThis very morning will I make assault\\nTo keep acquaintance with the foe s defense\\nAnd stay the murmuring within our camp,\\nWhile yet Uriah lingereth. Do thou set\\nThy thousands in array. I will essay\\nThe war of this same Hittite, as he spake\\nSince many days. If it beget success,\\nHis mission will be vain or I shall win\\nHis favor by accord with his device.\\nAnd if it fail, his be the first reproach.\\nAbishai. Nay, Joab, it were surely just to wait\\nUriah s coming ere this thing be done.\\nLest the reproach be thine.\\nJoab. Abishai cease,\\nThou hast but to obey my fixed intent.\\nDo thou betake thee to the northern wall\\nAnd there dispose the engines of the siege\\nIn semblance of attack, while I prepare\\nA company to burden yonder gate\\nWith fuel for the all consuming flame\\nAnd here, with these my fighting men, await\\nThe movement of the foe s extremity.\\nAbishai. But who will lead this desperate advance\\nTo burn the gates beneath yon battlements,\\nWhere stone and lance and burning pitch attend\\nTo make the boldest spirit justly quail\\nJoab. In truth I know not. This indeed requires\\nA mettle that is adverse to the will\\nOf all vainglorious hearts. Hast thou a man\\nTo take such hardy leadership?\\nAbishai. Not I,\\nNor would I ask my valiant captains lives", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0327.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "314 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nFor unavailing slaughter, where the foe\\nMay scornful laugh behind their sure defense.\\nJoah. Perchance a measure of the finest gold\\nWould bribe this service.\\nAbishai. Nay, nor ten would buy\\nThe man thou needest, for the task is death.\\nAnd he who faceth it without a fear\\nIs of a stuff no kingdom s gold may bribe\\nAnd heedeth but the soul s command within.\\nI know but one who so hath lifted up\\nHis zeal above desire. Lo he comes.\\nJoab. Confusion! Doth Uriah come indeed\\nSo speedily from David? Aye, tis he.\\nNow shall my pride be smitten utterly\\nOr sorely chastened, here before the camp,\\nAnd all its craft uncovered. Let me face\\nThe king s displeasure as a soldier may.\\n[Uriah entereth.]\\nMy greeting good Uriah.\\nUriah. Hail to thee,\\nMy chieftain Hail Abishai\\nJoab. What hath turned\\nThy feet so soon from fair Jerusalem,\\nFrom thine own household, from my lord the king?\\nUriah. My lord, I had no will to tarry thence,\\nAbove the camp s discomfort, or renounce\\nMy portion in the strife of Israel s host.\\nJoab. And didst thou then acquaint my lord the king\\nWith thy device to enter Rabbah s walls,\\nAnd hasten hither with his favor armed?\\nUriah. Nay Joab, it becometh not my tongue\\nTo hold such council save with thee alone", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0328.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 315\\nThe leader of our might in open field.\\nThese letters do I bear thee from the king,\\nWhich I had given up at eventide\\nBut that my horse was lamed upon the way.\\nJoab [aside]. Now hath mine hour come. Uriah, go\\nWith this my brother for a cup of wine\\nTo thy refreshment, while I read alone\\nIn these few scrolls the pleasure of the king.\\n[Uriah and Abishai go forth. Joab readeth.\\nSupplies will reach the camp of this anon\\nBehaiah, captain of my royal guard\\nHath set in goodly order certain bands\\nAnd thus, and thus, which here await thy need.\\nOur ranks suffice. As yet my sword is mine.\\nThe royal armorer doth further send\\nTen thousand bucklers and a like increase\\nOf bows and spears to meet the waste of war.\\nThe thing is wisely ordered. What is this\\nAs the Lord liveth, this is passing strange.\\nThe hottest battle and retire ye.\\nThat he may there be smitten and may die.\\nAnd can it be Uriah of the host\\nThe writing is the king s beyond dispute.\\nPoor Hittite, verily I needed not\\nTo fear thy power. Like a gourd it lies\\nAll withered in the flame of David s ire.\\nYet whence doth come this mystery of hate\\nWhich makes my envy dumb, this bloody will\\nOf Israel s righteous king against the soul\\nI counted next in honor to his own.\\nIn mine own secret heart? What poison lurks\\nWith fatal strength in flowers deemed so fair?\\nThe path is dangerous wherein I tread", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0329.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "316 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd passeth comprehension. For a time\\nI am delivered joyful from my fears,\\nAnd naught remaineth but to gather up\\nThis unawaited harvest, while the sun\\nOf royal favor on my power shines\\nAnd do this bloody deed without delay.\\nNow have I such a vantage of the king\\nIn this dark secret, that the long reproach\\nOf Abner s blood is covered, and I hold\\nHis honor, aye the power of his throne.\\nIn grasp so firm that I can banish fear.\\nAnd henceforth live in proud disdain of foes.\\nFor, verily Uriah doth not bear\\nThe burden of iniquity alone.\\n[Uriah entereth.]\\nWhere is Abishai?\\nUriah. He hath gone in haste\\nTo set his battle gainst the northern wall,\\nSince it appeareth thou hath made resolve\\nTo strive again to-day for mastery.\\nJoab. Aye, verily, and further have I willed\\nTo put thy skill and valor to the test\\nThy skill in that device thou spakest of.\\nFull many days gone by, to end the war.\\nThy valor in the leadership of those\\nWho carry fuel forth to yonder gates\\nThat the unsparing flames their beams consume.\\nUriah. But this is rather service to allot\\nA captain of an hundred, since it yields\\nNo chance of valiant strife ere death descend\\nFrom Rabbah s towers to make sacrifice\\nOf those who press their humble service near.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0330.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 317\\nI fear not death, but fain would take its pall\\nIn leading on my thousand through the wreck\\nOf burning timbers, in a swift pursuit\\nOf Ammonites who sally to repel\\nOur rude aggression, striving sword to sword,\\nAs seemeth more the measure of my force,\\nWitih those who best withstand our bloody way.\\nJoab. I deemed Uriah needed but to hear\\nHis chieftain s call for duty to obey,\\nAnd, since none other seeketh to sustain\\nThe place of peril thou didst e en devise,\\nI cannot now do battle as I would\\nOr either prove thy valor or thy skill.\\nUriah, Enough, my chieftain, tis a vain conceit.\\nPerchance, that moves me. Thou shalt never need\\nTo prove my valor more. Give me but time\\nTo seek my armor and I wait the band\\nThou dost appoint to carry out thy will.\\nJoab. Thou needst not a greater weight of brass\\nTo hinder thee. Let what thou hast suffice.\\nAttend the troop that I shall send to thee\\nIn yonder trenches. I must needs prepare\\nMy battle, lest the foe do issue forth\\nFrom yonder gates to put thy men to flight\\nWhen I will go to aid thee and pursue\\nA vantage to their innermost defense.\\nUriah and his Servants go forth by one\\nway and Joab by another.\\n1st Soldier. Now are we like to smite these Am-\\nmonites\\nOr lend our beards, like David s messengers.\\nTo most uncivil barbers.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0331.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "318 THE HEART OF DAVID\\n2nd Soldier. W hat is this?\\nDo they, to spare their labor at one s beard,\\nTake off the head as well?\\nist Soldier. Aye, it may be.\\nBut dost thou fight and knowest not whereof\\nThou fightest?\\n2nd Soldier. Even so, nor am I first\\nThat striveth, knowing nothing of his cause.\\n1st Soldier. Thy wit doth serve thee better than thine\\nears\\nOr this unstained javelin.\\n3rd Soldier. Nay, the lad\\nWill prove his courage yet upon the field.\\n4th Soldier. Aye, tis a valiant stripling, I will wage.\\n1st Soldier. In truth, he learneth somewhat. Let it\\npass.\\nI will inform thee why we thus are set\\nAt strife with Amnion. Nahash was their king.\\nProving a friend to David in his need,\\nAnd Nahash died, and Hanun in his stead\\nReigned over Amnion. Wherefore, David said\\nI will show kindness unto this the son\\nOf Nahash, for his father s love to me.\\nAnd David sent to comfort him, by mouth\\nOf certain servants, at his father s death\\nAnd when these men were come into the land\\nOf Ammon, Hanun in conceit of youth\\nListened to princes who persuaded him\\nThat rather did they enter to spy out\\nAnd overthrow his city, than with thought\\nTo honor Nahash or to comfort him.\\nWhereat, King Hanun David s servants took", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0332.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 319\\nAnd had them shaven of but half their beards\\nAnd, to their buttocks, cut their garments off,\\nSending them thus way. Which David heard\\nAnd had his people go to seek them out,\\nFor they were greatly shamed, and bid them rest\\nIn Jericho until their beards were grown.\\n2nd Soldier. And, let us trust, their garments scanti-\\nness\\nWas somewhat lengthened also. Verily,\\nThe Ammonitish tailors are no more\\nThan these their barbers, men to be desired.\\n^rd Soldier. Perchance we yet shall teach them how\\nto use\\nTheir shears in better fashion, else our swords\\nMerit no higher service in our hands.\\n2nd Soldier. Aye, we shall teach them. Would that\\nDavid now\\nCould take the razor to King Hanun s chin\\nAnd leave his princes garments to our care,\\nThey would be strangely altered in design.\\n[Trumpet sounds.\\n1st Soldier. The time for words is ended. Do ye hear\\nThe trumpet s call to battle? Now prepare\\nTo put young zeal to proof in valiant arms.\\n[Joab and his Follozvers return.\\nJoab. At length the stir of war again awakes\\nMy slothful camp. Once more is hfe a joy\\nAnd every heart is eager as my own.\\nBehold how swiftly doth Uriah lead\\nHis burdened companies to yonder gates.\\nEre yet the foe hath sounded an alarm.\\nAh, now ye see upon their battlements", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0333.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "320 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nThe sons of Ammon hastening to defend.\\nOur troop is nearing. Yet a moment more\\nAnd it will reach its goal. Hear ye the twang\\nOf angry bow strings. Now, alas, men swarm\\nOn yonder wall, Uriah surely gains\\nHis purpose in despite of all their war.\\nSee ye that smoke arise before the gates\\nWill Hanun open now their haughty front\\nTo save them from the fire Aye, behold\\nThey turn upon their bearings. Now beware\\nThe coming foe, my captains. See, they pour\\nUpon the troop and drive the remnant back.\\nIt seemeth I can yet behold a spot\\nWhere, steadfast as a stone amid the brook,\\nUriah parts the current of our foes.\\nAh, now the stream pours onward unrestrained,\\nThe Hittite s helm hath fallen. Haste away.\\nMy captains, that your thousands which await\\nThis coming onset may their bucklers bear\\nWith firmest arm and their set spears maintain\\nTo meet and turn the shock and backward drive\\nThese Ammonites all bleeding to their dens.\\n[Captains hasten forth. Contending Men of war\\nappear. Confusion of attack from the enemy.\\nStand firm, my valiant men. Let no one fear\\nThese howling dogs. Thus let them feel our might.\\n[Joab fights, the enemy is dismayed.\\nTheir ranks are parted. Follow up your blows,\\nPress on my men. They flee. Now in pursuit\\nAnd let your spears drink all the blood they will.\\nSlay Ammon to his gates and yet beyond.\\n[Soldiers -fighting pass beyond, pursuing their foes.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0334.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 321\\nThe king did bid me, when Uriah fell,\\nMy soldiers to retire roundabout,\\nThat he be surely given up to death,\\nBut I am fain to let my host pursue\\nThe fleeing foe to Rabbah s battlements,\\nThat it perchance may also pass within\\nAnd make their refuge vain. Alas, too late\\nMy companies those yawning gates attain.\\nFor now they close again in sullen strength\\nAnd swallow up their pitiful attack\\nBefore our baffled spears. Ho Bid them sound\\nThe trumpet to call ofif my thousands all.\\nThe rain of death from Rabbah s battlements\\nDenyeth further honor to our strife.\\nAnd leaveth but too many in their blood\\nTo share the lot of David s sacrifice.\\n[Trumpets sound.\\nYet who is this my soldiers bear to me.\\nSo tenderly sustaining as they move?\\nTis e en Uriah, stricken grievously\\nBut living still, whom thus their pitying hands\\nDo witlessly bring hither to my shame.\\nIf death ensueth not from these his wounds,\\nThe mischief of this evil day will fall\\nUpon me bitterly. Would I could flee.\\nThis onset is more terrible to bear\\nThan all the measure of King Hanun s rage.\\n[Uriah is tenderly borne in by several Soldiers\\nand laid dozvn.\\nWhat, can this be Uriah ye have brought?\\n1st Soldier. Alas, my lord, it is thy captain brave.\\nJoab. And is he sorely smitten?\\n2nd Soldier. Unto death.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0335.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "333 THE HEART OF DAVID\\n1st Soldier. So we do fear, yet, finding life in him,\\nWe could, for honor of his valiant soul.\\nBut bring him hither with a chance to save.\\nJoab. Where did ye find him?\\njst Soldier. Nigh to Rabbah s gates\\nAnd fifty Ammonites about him slain\\nDid prove how well his sword was building up\\nA groaning fortress of his wrathful foes\\nAgainst themselves, when some malignant shaft\\nFrom Rabbah s battlements with aim accurst\\nBowed down the noblest soul of Israel s host\\nAnd brought us this calamity.\\nJoab. Ye loved\\nUriah passing well\\n2nd Soldier. He loved us,\\nAnd was a chieftain worthy to beget\\nA royal line to rule in righteousness.\\nJoab. Beware, lest in these treasonable words\\nThou dost reproach King David.\\n1st Soldier. Hark, he speaks.\\nUriah. Is it the voice of Joab?\\nJoab. Here am I.\\nUriah. Hath Rabbah fallen\\nJoab. Nay Uriah, vain\\nIs all the expectation of our strife.\\nUriah. Ah woe is me. Are many soldiers slain\\nOf Israel s camp?\\nJoab. Alas, too many sleep\\nBeyond the trump of any war again.\\nHow is it with thee?\\nUriah. Joab, I shall lead\\nThe troop that passeth down the vale of death,", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0336.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 323\\nFor this my wound is mortal. Bend thine ear,\\nThat I may speak to thee for those I love.\\nI have a wife in Zion, excellent\\nIn every noble virtue. Do thou say\\nThat all the secret yearning of my heart\\nAwaited honor s bidding to regain\\nThe light of her fair countenance, the bliss\\nOf an affection which I did not dare\\nTo taste ere peaceful days, lest I should prove\\nUnworthy of my duty and my king\\nWhich I awaited Israel s kingdom won\\nTo sanctify, as doth a bridegroom wait.\\nIn chaste integrity through lingering days\\nOf sweet desire, for a father s hand\\nTo render him the maiden all his own.\\nBid her take comfort, as she mourns for me.\\nThat I was smitten in the battle s front\\nOf Israel s war, for David and the Lord.\\nHave patience with me for my lips grow cold.\\nAnd do thou say for me unto the king.\\nWho to his servant hath been very kind.\\nThat I have loved him faithfully and striven\\nWith all my heart and this my alien hand,\\nAs far as in my humble valor lay,\\nTo serve him, and the glory of his reign.\\nAnd say that thou didst see Uriah drink\\nHis ebbing blood as one last cup of wine.\\nCrying Live David ever in the Lord.\\nAh cruel death Yet let God s will be done.\\nMy pure dream of a righteous life is o er.\\nJoah. He dieth. Surely tis a soldier s end.\\nStay not to here lament him. Bear away\\nHis body to a fitting burial.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0337.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "324 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd bid ye others search the bloody field\\nFor Israel s servants fallen and the spoil\\nOf smitten Ammonites ere nig ht descend.\\nAnd send ye to me, with no tarrying,\\nA messenger appointed to convey\\nThese tidings to Jerusalem to the king.\\n[Soldiers bear off the body of Uriah.\\nNow shall I surely in King David s sight\\nFind favor, though the shame of this defeat\\nDoth vex my spirit, forasmuch as blood\\nHath sealed his high displeasure and hath hid\\nMy evil in some dark iniquity.\\n[A Messenger entereth.]\\nHast thou made ready to depart in haste\\nWith tidings for King David?\\nMessenger. Aye, my lord.\\nJoab. I charge thee that thou tell my lord the king\\nOf everything concerning this our war,\\nOf whose device it was, of how we set\\nThe battle in array, and of its course\\nOn either side, and say ye unto him.\\nSurely the men against our force prevailed\\nAnd came out unto us into the field.\\nAnd we were then upon them to pursue\\nEven unto the entering of the gate.\\nWhereat, the bowmen of King Hanun s host\\nFrom off the wall upon thy servants shot\\nSuch deadly arrows that advance was vain.\\nAnd when, with this, thy tongue hath made an end\\nOf matters of the war before the king,\\nIf it should be so that his wrath arise\\nAnd he say of me. Why approached ye", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0338.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 325\\nSo nigli unto the city in the fight?\\nKnew ye not they would shoot ye from the wall\\nWho smote Abimelech the cruel son\\nOf Jerubbesheth? Verily, did not\\nA woman cast a piece of millstone down\\nUpon him from the wall so that he died\\nIn Thebez Why went ye so near the wall\\nThen say thou thus Uriah of thine host,\\nThe Hittite, is dead also. This from me.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0339.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "PART V.\\nNINE MONTHS HAVE PASSED.\\nPLACE I. A rootn in the Palace opening upon a garden.\\nDavid and Bathsheba.\\nDavid. How doth my heart rejoice again, my love,\\nThat thou art from thy days of childbed free\\nTo walk forth in our garden at my side,\\nBeneath the fragrant almond trees in bloom\\nAnd by the beds of spices at the springs,\\nOr here to sit with all thy pleasant words\\nTo cheer my kingly labors and inspire\\nUnwittingly, for each petition made.\\nMore gracious answer than my fixed intent.\\nBathsJwba. Ah verily, my lord, my king, my spouse,\\nThy heart doth seem to dearly cherish me\\nDespite these nine moons since the chance of war\\nRemoved Uriah and thy rescue came\\nTo snatch me from destruction to the bliss\\nOf this high refuge, and despite release.\\nIn this last month of childbed, from mine eyes\\nWhen thou wert free to seek another s charms.\\nDavid. Aye, as thou livest, I do love thee more,\\nMy sweet Bathsheba, than all Israel s fair.\\nAnd, with the springtime of this happy year\\nWhich giveth me the first fruits of thy womb,\\nMy heart, exultant, counteth thy return\\nTo all life s joys a blossoming again\\nOf love in purer and more peaceful sway.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0340.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 327\\nIt hath desire but for thee alone,\\nDelighting to behold thy beauty clad\\nIn this thy raiment of fine needlework,\\nAll wrought with gold and odorous of myrrh,\\nAs doth become the queen of David s pride.\\nAnd, now that thou canst share my happy throne.\\nWith ornaments of Ophir s finest gold\\nShall I bedeck thee and appoint to serve\\nThy pleasure daughters of subjected kings,\\nFaint stars about the fulness of the moon.\\nAnd all that seek my favor shall bring gifts\\nOf every precious thing throughout the earth\\nTo thee, my best beloved, my most fair.\\nBathsheba. And this sweet child which love hath given\\nus.\\nShall he have precedence of all thy sons?\\nDavid. Such is my heart s desire, but thou dost know\\nThat he hath not just title to my throne,\\nYet if, with riper years, thy graces fall\\nTo his most favored heritage, he may,\\nIn very deed, be hailed as Israel s king.\\nNo urgent thing is this. Let us delight\\nIn the indulgence of these balmy days\\nOf full prosperity and promised peace,\\nIn riches of the house and of the heart,\\nNor vainly now imagine future care.\\nBathsheba. Thy words are ever wise, my royal spouse,\\nAnd, like the dew of Hermon s barren sides,\\nBring consolation down in sorrow s night.\\nAs I put out of mind the cold neglect\\nOf stern Uriah in his valiant end,\\nWhich I did mourn with my forgiving tears,\\nSo will I give the years that are to come", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0341.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "328 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nTo faith of better things and we aHke\\nCan deeper love in that a secret fault,\\nUnknown to any man, hath chastened us\\nAnd bindeth now our hearts forever one.\\nKiss me again, beloved, there is none\\nLike unto thee, high tower of my soul,\\nAnd let thy sometimes brooding spirit hold\\nIts present joy to make my gladness full.\\n[A Servant entereth.]\\nServant. My lord the king, there waiteth at the door\\nThe prophet Nathan who would speak with thee.\\nBathsheba. Let me go hence; my troubled memories\\nWould bring disquietude before his face.\\nI yet am all too weak to meet his eyes.\\n[Bathsheba hasteneth away, but pauseth\\nbehind a curtain.\\nDavid. Let Nathan come before me.\\nServant. I obey.\\n[Nathan entereth.]\\nDavid. The Lord be with thee, Nathan.\\nNathan. And with thee.\\nDavid. Thy visitations have been very few\\nThese many days and burdened as with care,\\nAnd, since a month thy countenance is strange.\\nNathan, I have been in communion with the Lord.\\nDavid. Doth any sorrow vex thee? Let thy tongue\\nAcquaint me with it and command my will.\\nNathan. My lord the king, I have a weighty cause\\nTo bring, today, before thy judgment seat.\\nDavid. The king attends. My honored Nathan,\\nspeak.\\nNathan. There were two men who in one city dwelt.\\nThe one was rich, the other very poor.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0342.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 329\\nThe rich man had exceeding many flocks\\nAnd lowing herds. The poor man nothing had,\\nSave only one ewe lamb which he had bought\\nAnd nourished, and it grew up with him\\nAnd with his children, and of his own meat\\nDid eat and likewise drank of his own cup,\\nAnd in his bosom lay and unto him\\nWas as a daughter. And there came that way\\nA traveler to the rich man, and he spared\\nTo take of his own flock and his own herd\\nTo dress for that wayfaring man who came\\nUnto him, but he took the poor man s lamb\\nAnd slew and dressed it for the stranger s need.\\nDavid. As the Lord liveth, he that thus hath done\\nShall now restore fourfold the lamb he slew,\\nAnd, for that he hath done so base a thing\\nAnd had no pity, he shall surely die.\\nNathan. Thou art the man. Thus saith to thee the\\nLord,\\nThe God of Israel. I anointed thee\\nKing over Israel, and from the hand\\nOf Saul delivered thee, and to thee gave\\nThy master s house and thy proud master s wives\\nInto thy bosom, and I yet bestowed\\nThe house of Judah and of Israel,\\nAnd, if this bounty had too little been,\\nI would, moreover, unto thee have given\\nThe kingdoms of the heathen and the ends\\nOf earth for thy possession and thy seed.\\nWherefore hast thou the Lord s commandment now\\nDespised, to do evil in His sight?\\nFor thou hast killed Uriah with the sword.\\nThe Hittite thou hast slain by Ammon s hand", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0343.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "380 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd taken his wife unto thee as thine.\\nTherefore the sword shall never from thy house\\nDepart, because tliou hast despised ^le\\nAnd taken imto tliee Uriah s wife.\\nThus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up\\nEvil against thee out of thine own house.\\nAnd I will take thy wives before thine eyes\\nAnd give them to thy neighbor. He shall lie\\nith thy wives in the sight of yonder sun,\\nFor thou didst do it secretly, but I\\nill do this thing before all Israel\\nUpon the housetop and before the sun.\\nDavid. O Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord!\\nNathan. The Lord hath also put away thy sin.\\nThou shalt not die, howbeit, as thy deed\\nHath given to the enemies of the Lord\\nAbout thee great occasion to blaspheme.\\nThe child bom unto thee shall surely die.\\n[Bathsheba crieth and falleth in a swoon. Servants\\nhastily carry her forth. Nathan goeth out.\\nDavid. Stay Xathan, leave me not in all my woe.\\nThese fearful words to my repentant soul\\nAre better from the Lord and from thy lips\\nThan loneliness with e^ il and despair.\\nTarry, I do beseech thee.\\n[Serz ants enter, troubled in spirit.]\\nServant. Let my lord\\nThe king forgive his ser\\\\-ants if they bring\\n111 tidings to him, but the Httle child.\\nThy youngest bom, is stricken suddenly\\nAnd lieth in so desperate a case", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0344.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 331\\nThat, as the queen doth yet lack consciousness,\\nWe were constrained to seek thee.\\nDavid. Have they sent\\nTo fetch the king s physician?\\nServant. Aye, my lord,\\nWith diligence, ere yet the child was sick\\nThat he might give his succor to the queen.\\nDavid. Seek other aid. My power here is vain.\\n[Servants go forth.\\nNow am I weak, though an anointed king.\\nj\\\\Iy bones are broken and my soul is faint.\\nNo longer may I seek Bathsheba s side\\nLest she abhor me. I can neither heal\\nThe infant s ills of flesh nor hers of heart.\\nThe Lord is more long suffering than man.\\nTo Him who smites me can I only turn\\nFor mercy in the depths of my distress.\\n[David kneeleth.\\nO Lord, rebuke me not in all Thy wrath,\\nNor in Thy hot displeasure chasten me.\\nThine arrows pierce my soul. Thy heavy hand\\nDoth press me sore and mine iniquities\\nDo ovenvhelm me. I am e en become\\nA b} ^vord to the heathen and a scorn\\nTo all my lovers and desired friends.\\nConfusion is before me and the shame\\nOf just reproach by the blasphemer s tongue.\\nFor how should I Thy statutes now declare\\nOr seek Thy covenant who thus have cast\\nThy words behind me, for I am become\\nPartaker with adulterers, my mouth\\nBy lying and deceit hath been defiled.\\nInnumerable evils compass me", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0345.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "333 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nAnd I do groan, abhorring all my sin.\\nHear Thou my prayer, O Lord, behold my tears,\\nLet not this lamb be made a sacrifice\\nAnd take the terror of Thy stroke away.\\nFor fearfulness and trembling have got hold\\nUpon me, and a horror of my deed.\\nThy fierce wrath goeth over me. I lie\\nIn all its darkness as amid the slain.\\nspare me that I may recover strength\\nBefore I wander hence and be no more.\\n1 will declare this my iniquity\\nAnd sorrow for my sin. O gracious Lord\\nOf my salvation, spare the innocent\\nFrom sacrifice and cast me not away.\\n[David goeth into the garden and falleth upon\\nhis face upon the ground. The Steward and\\nsome Elders of the household enter.\\n1st Elder. Behold, how sorely doth the king lament\\nFlis stricken child. I pray my lord the king\\nTo rise and seek his bed, lest, lying here\\nOn this cold ground, some illness come to pass.\\n2nd Elder. Aye, let the king consider. Is it wise\\nThat Israel s guarding shepherd thus should put\\nHis life in peril for one suckling lamb?\\nStezvard. Let me, O king, beseech thy deafened ear,\\nSince morning thou hast eaten nothing. Take,\\nI pray thee, somewhat for thy nourishment,\\nLest in thy grief a faintness come to thee.\\nThe body should not share the spirit s pain.\\nA savory dish attends thee. Rise and eat.\\n1st Elder. Thy steward speaketh well. O mighty\\nking,\\nForget not that, when thy brave spirit sinks,", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0346.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 333\\nIt striketh terror into many hearts\\nAnd leadeth unto harm on every side.\\n2nd Elder. Our task is vain. No longer vex the king.\\nWe will attend the evening that his grief\\nMay then, perchance, abate and leave a way\\nFor needful nourishment and soothing words.\\nBut yonder walk our royal mistresses,\\nTheir pleading better may avail with him.\\n[Elders go forth hastily. Abigail and Maacah\\ndraw nigh.\\nMaacah. I marvel not those elders summoned us.\\nCan it indeed be David, Israel s king,\\nWho thus doth lie lamenting on the ground\\nThe ailing child of his last concubine.\\nLike some young husbandman of witless mind?\\nSpeak thou to him. I would not such a lord.\\nAbigail. David, what sorrow thus should humble\\nthee?\\nArise, let not thy more than forty years\\nSo ill endure a child s infirmity.\\nDost thou, beguiled by this Bathsheba s art,\\nForget the faithful consorts of thy youth\\nAnd all their lawful tributes to thy love,\\nThat thou dost cast thy majesty aside\\nAnd bring us to reproach? Gird up thy loins\\nAnd be again our lord and Zion s king.\\nWilt thou not hear the voice of Abigail?\\nAm I, who pled thy cause in other days\\nAnd brought thee Nabal s riches with my heart\\nIn thine extremity, to turn aside\\nAnd be forsaken for a younger breast,\\nSharing the lot of Michal s loneliness?", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0347.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "334 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nHath my strong Chileab whom I bore to thee\\nA jealous cause in yonder suckling s wail?\\nMaacah. And shall I, taken captive by thy sword\\nAnd trembling witness of its bloody wrath\\nWhen thou didst neither man nor woman spare\\nIn all my smitten land, when thou didst spoil\\nIts once fair cities and its happy vales,\\nShall I, who yet in treasonable love\\nHave given thee thy beauteous Absalom\\nAnd gentle Tamar, not a whit less fair,\\nBe cast away when this my comeliness\\nWhich thou didst call my children s heritage\\nSufficient dower of thy captive spouse,\\nDoth fade at last? Shall I be left to seek\\nWith my proud ofifspring, my subjected land\\nOf Geshur and my father Talmai s arms.\\nThe scorn of all my kindred in my shame?\\nAbigail. Let us away, fair Maacah. As a stone\\nThe king of Israel lietli. We do waste\\nAlike our pleading and our just reproach.\\nMaacah. Yet, though he be as stone, tis said of men\\nThat walls have ears to hear. He may take heed\\nOf certain whisperings amid the courts\\nOf this fair house concerning her we hate\\nAnd this her child in eight brief months begot\\nSince brave Uriah s death. For further saith\\nReport that false Bathsheba, ere the king\\nDid fetch her from her mockery of grief.\\nWas seen of David s guard to enter here.\\nAnd, yet again, that Joab, now returned\\nFrom Ammon s siege and in Jerusalem\\nTo with the king take council of the war,\\nDoth strangely smile at this and hold his peace.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0348.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 335\\nGood Abigail, in vain we tarry here.\\nLet us go hence and take what joy we may\\nAmid our children, while our fallen king\\nLaments this infant s sickness less or more,\\nAnd, it may hap, some darker sorrow still.\\nPL A CE II. The same. Seven days have passed. David lieth\\nyet on the ground. The Steward and Elders come toward him.\\nist Elder. What tidings now?\\n2nd Elder. Alas, the child is dead.\\nTis but a moment since the spirit passed\\nFrom that poor suckling and its wailing ceased.\\nist Elder. When was it stricken? Scarcely do I know\\nFrom anxious service.\\n2nd Elder. Tis the seventh day\\nSince we did hasten at the nurse s cry\\nTo seek the king s physician.\\n1st Elder. Even so,\\nA month of feeble life, a week of pain,\\nAnd all is ended. What availeth pride.\\nOr love, or riches, or a kingly crown?\\n2nd Elder. Enough of words. Go ye unto the king\\nAnd tell him that the infant is no more.\\n1st Elder. Nay, do you go, it is not in my heart.\\nWhen thus the king hath fasted seven days\\nWith lamentation sore, to speak of death.\\nsnd Elder. But surely one must venture, lest he grieve\\nTo his undoing, for behold he lies\\nUpon the earth as one in battle slain,\\nThe hue of death upon him and his flesh\\nAll wasted by his fasting and his woe.\\nSteward go thou and pray that he do eat.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0349.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "336 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nSteward. Behold, while this his child was yet alive.\\nWe spake unto him and he would not hear\\nOur voices. How will he then vex himself,\\nIf we do tell him that the child is dead?\\nI cannot, at my peril, do this thing.\\nDavid. Is the child dead?\\nist Elder. My lord, the child is dead.\\nDavid. Give me thy hand, for I am very weak,\\nAnd help me to arise. Now lead me hence\\nThat I be washed and in apparel new\\nBe clad that I may seek the holy ark\\nAnd worship with a spirit cleansed of sin.\\nThen will I eat in mine own house again.\\nStezvard. Nay, let me serve thee now, my lord the\\nking.\\nDrink but a cup of wine, for thou art faint.\\n[Steward hasteneth to David and offereth\\nwine; the King drinketh.\\nDavid. It doth suffice. I bid ye lead me hence.\\n2nd Elder. What thing is this, my lord, that thou hast\\ndone?\\nWhile yet the child was living, thou didst fast\\nAnd weep, but when to-day the child is dead.\\nThou hast arisen and commanded food.\\nDavid. While he was yet alive I fasted sore\\nAnd wept, for I bethought me, who can tell\\nWhether God will be gracious unto me\\nThat he may live, but now that he is dead,\\nWherefore should I continue thus to fast?\\nCan I bring back the parted soul again\\nTo my poor infant? I shall go to him.\\nBut he shall nevermore return to me.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0350.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 337\\nPLACE III. The chamber of Bathsheba. Bathsheba bowedin\\ngrief. Nathan entereth.\\nNathan. The Lord abide, Bathsheba, in thine heart\\nAnd strengthen thee to bow before His will,\\nMaking His face to shine upon thy gloom.\\nBathsheba. Nathan, thy mercy in this bitter hour\\nComes like a balm of Gilead, for my heart\\nIs rent with lamentation for the child\\nMy lovely lamb which they did take away\\nThis morning on its bier to give the ground.\\nI strove but yesterday to soothe its pain\\nAnd now my breast shall never warm it more,\\nOr these unwearied arms my blessing hold.\\nNathan. Rest thee, my dear Bathsheba, seek the sleep\\nThou needst after eight long days of woe.\\nBathsheba. Nay, gracious Nathan, nor yet can I rest,\\nFor they have said that David lieth without\\nUpon the ground, abased in sore distress\\nSince the child s illness and refuseth food.\\nI pray thee seek him lest he also die\\nAnd I be doubly stricken in mine heart.\\nNathan. O comfort thee, Bathsheba, for the king\\nRose up when he did hear the child was dead,\\nAnd washed and was anointed, and betook\\nHimself to worship in the curtained tent\\nWhere rests the ark, and afterwards did eat.\\nAnd slept in happy peace throughout the night.\\nBathsheba. Praise God that yet he liveth and is well,\\nMy tower of defense, my loving spouse.\\nNo strength but his could such contrition pass.\\nAnd wherefore came he not to comfort me?", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0351.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "338 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nNathan. He dreaded lest his face should be despised\\nAnd bid me crave thy pardon for his sin\\nEre he should seek thee.\\nBathsheba. Do thou bid him come\\nAnd learn the greeting which my heart doth hold.\\nYet tarry, Nathan, lest thou think my soul\\nIs worthy to condemn him for a fault\\nHe bore to shelter me from shame and death,\\nI will to thee confess as dark a sin\\nAnd ease its cruel burden ere I rest.\\nNathan. Nay, my poor child, I know whereof thy soul\\nDoth bow in its contrition.\\nBathsheba. Yet dost thou,\\nO righteous Nathan, thus endure my face\\nAnd comfort me?\\nNathan. Aye, dear Bathsheba, thine\\nWas such temptation as no woman s heart\\nIn Israel might withstand, for David s love\\nIs as a ravening lion in its strength\\nAnd thou wast comfortless when it compelled\\nThy youthful beauty and thy gentle soul.\\nPerchance my zeal for David had its part\\nIn doing thine imagination wrong.\\nYet, whatsoever thing led thee to fall,\\nThy soul hath since, in bitter sacrifice\\nAnd penitent lament, atonement made\\nFor its transgression, and the Lord hath turned\\nHis wrath aside and waiteth now to bless.\\nAnd of thy seed, in token that the Lord\\nAccepteth David s penitence and thine,\\nThe first shall be a son whom He shall love\\nAnd give to him, beyond the kings of earth,\\nRiches and glory and, in greater fame,", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0352.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 339\\nWisdom and understanding to exceed\\nThe ancient east and Egypt, and a heart\\nOf largeness as the sand upon the shore.\\nBathsheba. O Nathan, thou art very merciful.\\nI thank the Lord for these thy tender words\\nWhich greatly do uphold me in my grief.\\nIf thou canst teach my father to forgive\\nAs thou hast done, I yet shall hope again.\\nBehold my David cometh. Ever thus\\nHe entereth with every hope that springs\\nFrom my deep heart to seek a higher joy.\\n[David entereth, and, after regarding Bathsheba, fondly\\nembraceth her.]\\nDavid. Thou dost forgive, Bathsheba.\\nBathsheba. What am I?\\nMy king, my best beloved, to reproach\\nOr put away my heart s supreme delight,\\nMy sweetest consolation in distress.\\nDavid. So shall I be and more in every joy\\nOf faithful years before all Israel\\nWhile life remaineth, for the Lord hath sent\\nForgiveness to His servant and shall bless\\nAnd sanctify our love to higher ways.\\nWherefore, that none may further vex my soul,\\nI will confess my sin unto the Lord\\nBefore the people of Jerusalem,\\nThat He forgive its wickedness and put\\nThe heathen and mine enemies to shame\\nWho mock at my calamity, and show\\nThe wonders of His mercy to the heart\\nThat bows itself in penitence to Him.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0353.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "840 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nNathan. Now David, shall the Lord His love restore\\nFor this thy just repentance in His sight\\nAnd in thy people s, shamed of thy sin.\\nDavid. His gentleness hath made me great. His love\\nDoth most bestow where meekness waits His will.\\nIn my great sorrow have I learned to heed\\nThe God of my salvation and to serve\\nHis grace alone and not the pride of man.\\nGo thou, good Nathan, bid the people meet\\nBefore the curtained tent to hear their king.\\nBid Abigail and Maacah all my wives\\nAnd these my jealous sons of them begot,\\nAnd bid Benaiah, captain of my guard,\\nZiba and Micah, lame Mephibosheth,\\nAnd all that wait upon me in mine house.\\nSee thou that haughty Joab heareth me,\\nAnd brave Abishai, and my captains all\\nOf Israel s host who now in Zion rest,\\nAnd Zadok and Abiathar the priests,\\nEliam, Ethan, Heman, Gad the wise.\\nJehoshaphat, recorder of my reign,\\nAnd all who either love me or abhor.\\nNathan. I go to do thy will. The Lord bestow\\nHis spirit that thy uprightness prevail\\nAnd gain its recompense in Israel s heart.\\n[Nathan goeth out.\\nBathsheba. How marvelous, my love, is thy just soul\\nIn its abasement. I would hinder thee.\\nPleading my need of comfort from thy lips\\nAnd all thy grievous fasting in excuse.\\nBut that I dare not let my love abate\\nThe glory of thy righteousness. I bow\\nIn anguish that my beauty should have wrought", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0354.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 341\\nSo deep a snare and turned thy faithful feet\\nFrom walking in the perfect way of God.\\nHenceforth Bathsheba liveth but to serve\\nAnd magnify the honor of her king.\\nDavid. O beautiful Bathsheba, comfort thee,\\nLet thy sweet spirit be at peace within\\nAnd thy deep heart forget itself in mine.\\nWhich giveth thee the fulness of its love,\\nThe high dominion of its tenderness.\\nWhat ill of body, persecuting tongue.\\nCalamity of wealth or woman s snare\\nCan turn me from the rapture of thy smile,\\nThe joyful inspiration of thine eyes.\\nThe love that springs from sorrow sanctified?\\nBathsheba. Ah this is thine, my spouse, unceasingly.\\nDavid. Then shall it all my wanton strength restore\\nBeyond the hurt of fasting and of woe,\\nAnd in the Lord s forgiveness shall I stand\\nDefying yet the heathen and in song\\nExtolling present mercies, thus upheld\\nTo bear the fiery judgment which shall come\\nBy prophecy of Nathan from His hand.\\nBathsheba. Yet hath the prophet spoken words of joy,\\nEre thou didst enter, which withdrew my soul\\nFrom hopeless lamentation, for he spake\\nOf one to be begotten in our love\\nWho shall be glorified throughout the earth\\nFor riches, and for wisdom as is not.\\nNor yet hath been, among the sons of men.\\nDavid. Did Nathan verily speak thus to thee?\\nBathsheba. As thy soul liveth, David, my beloved,\\nBy this he banished weeping from mine eyes\\nAnd stilled the groaning of my wounded breast.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0355.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "343 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nDavid. Then let our hearts rejoice for, in the faith\\nThat God remembereth His promise made\\nWhen I would build an house unto His name,\\nWe may behold our offspring lifted up\\nIn majesty to glorify His word,\\nAnd take no thought for sorrows yet to be.\\nBathshcba. And wilt thou now, my David, make me\\npledge\\nThat my first son in lawful love begot\\nShall be appointed to succeed thy reign\\nAnd govern Israel s tribes in righteousness?\\nDavid. I swear it, dear Bathsheba, as I live\\nAnd stand in expectation to lift up\\nMy voice in full confession of my sin.\\nBathsheba. So is my grieving ended. Go thy way\\nThe Lord be with thee to accept thy voice\\nAnd yet redeem from every dreaded ill.\\nHere will I sit with meek and prayerful heart\\nTo listen for the shout Long live the king,\\nAnd here attend thy coming in the bliss\\nOf gratitude that David is mine own.\\n[David emhraceth Bathsheba and goeth out.\\nPLACE IV. An open place before the Tabernacle. All the persons\\nof this writing amid the assemblage except Bathsheba.\\nNathan. Ye men of Judah and of Israel,\\nKing David, servant of the righteous Lord\\nAnd mighty leader of your valiant host,\\nDoth call you in his great humility\\nTo know the evil deeds that he hath done\\nConcerning brave Uriah and his house.\\nAnd learn the peace that cometh to the soul\\nWhich maketh thus confession of its sin.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0356.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 343\\nLet all the people hear a,nd give their heart\\nTo him whose words the Lord hath san :tified\\nIn praises of His mercy and His love.\\n[David cometh forzuard.\\nDavid. Let Israel and Judah hear my words\\nWhich Heman, chief musician shall rehearse,\\nThat all who sin among the sons of men\\nMay learn to follow where their king hath led\\nAnd comfort take when heart and voice unite\\nTo magnify the Lord that keepeth him.\\nHave mercy upon me, O Lord my God,\\nAccording to Thy loving kindness and\\nThy multitude of tender mercies, blot\\nOut my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly\\nFrom mine iniquity and cleanse from sin.\\nFor I acknowledge my transgression and\\nMy sin is e er before me. Against Thee,\\nThee only, have I sinned and in Thy sight\\nThis evil done, that thou be justified\\nWhen Thou dost speak and clear when Thou dost judge.\\nBehold how shapen in iniquity\\nI was, and, in my mother s sin, conceived.\\nBehold, O Lord, Thou dost desire truth\\nIn inward parts and in the hidden part\\nShalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me. Lord,\\nWith hyssop and my soul shall yet be clean.\\nWash me and I shall whiter be than snow.\\nMake me to hear of joy and gladness that\\nThe bones which Thou hast broken may rejoice;\\nHide Thy face from my sins and blot away\\nAll mine iniquities. Create in me,\\nO God, a clean heart and renew within\\nA righteous spirit. Cast me not away\\n23", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0357.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "344 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nFrom Thy pure presence and take not from me\\nThy holy spirit. Unto me restore\\nThe joy of Thy salvation and uphold\\nMe with Thy spirit free. Then will I teach\\nTransgressors of Thy ways and unto Thee\\nShall sinners be converted, O, my God,\\nDeliver me from guiltiness of blood,\\nThou God of my salvation, and my tongue\\nShall sing aloud of all Thy righteousness.\\nO Lord, let Thou Thy spirit touch my lips\\nAnd this my mouth shall shew forth all Thy praise.\\nFor Thou dost not desire sacrifice,\\nElse would I give it. Thou delightest not\\nIn burning offerings. The sacrifice\\nThat pleaseth Thee a broken spirit is,\\nA broken and a contrite heart, O Lord,\\nThou wilt not now despise. Do good in Thy\\nGood pleasure unto Zion and build Thou\\nThe walls of fair Jerusalem around,\\nThen shalt Thou, O forgiving Lord, be pleased\\nWith sacrifices made in righteousness.\\nWith offerings and whole burnt offerings.\\nThen shall they offer bullocks on Thine altar.\\n{Psalm LI)", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0358.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "BOOK IV.\\nDAVID AND ABISHAG.\\nFrom i Kings, Ch. ist and 2nd, and\\nI Chronicles, Ch. XX to XXIX.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0359.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG.\\nTHE PERSONS WHO HOLD DISCOURSE IN THIS WRITING.\\nDAVID, the King of Israel and Judah.\\nSOLOMON, his son, Prince, afterwards King.\\nNATHAN, the Prophet.\\nZADOK, the Priest.\\nBENAIAH, a Captain of the Host.\\nJEHOSHAPHAT, a Recorder.\\nHUSHAI, the King^s Companion.\\nABISHAG, a Shunatnmite Maiden.\\nB ATHSHEB A, Wife of David, mother of Solomon.\\nServants of David and Solomon.\\nThe time of this Chronicle is in David s old age, and the place\\nhis bed cham.ber in the Palace at Jerusalem.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0360.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG.\\nTHE PARTS SET FORTH IN THIS WRITING.\\nPART I.\\nDavid and Jehoshaphat.\\nPART II.\\nDavid, Jehoshaphat, Benaiah, Hushai a\u00c2\u00abrf Abishag.\\nPART III.\\nDavid and Abishag. Then Bathsheba. Then Nathan, Zadok\\na\u00c2\u00abfl? Benaiah. Then David and Abishag.\\nPART IV.\\nDavid and Abishag. Then Nathan, Zadok, Benaiah a\u00c2\u00abrfHushai.\\nThen Solomon and Bathsheba.\\nPART V.\\nDavid, Abishag, Bathsheba and Solomon.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0361.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0362.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0363.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "w\\nDAVID AND ABISHAG.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0364.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG.\\nPART I.\\nPLACE.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A chamber of the palace. David, infirm of age and\\nwarmly wrapped, lieth on a couch, a crown and an harp at\\nhis side. Jehoshaphat is seated at a table hard by with\\nmany scrolls, and Hushai sitteth also nigh the king.\\nDavid. Jehoshaphat, our years as dry leaves fall\\nNigh to the end. My hoary head doth find\\nThis crown a burden, not alone in woes\\nBut even in its gold and marvelous gems.\\n[David putteth the crown on his head.\\nLo, under it I tremble who o ercame\\nIn youth the Hon and GoHath s strength,\\nAnd made Philistine hosts to flee in fear\\nBefore a might that knew no weariness.\\n[David replaceth the crown.\\nYet, though my life now seemeth of little worth\\nAnd doleful in its harvest, I would know\\nIf thou hast made its later records true.\\nThat men who seek for glory may give heed\\nTo gain it worthily before the Lord\\nAnd shun my errors while they praise my zeal,\\nLearning yet more the blessedness of peace.\\nJehoshaphat. My lord the king, wherein amid my\\nscrolls\\nShall I take up the record of thy reign?", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0365.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "350 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nDavid. Go back, my faithful scribe, to those glad days\\nWhen proud Bathsheba gave me Solomon,\\nGod s merciful atonement for my sin,\\nLove s richest offering, hope s highest trust,\\nTo make me still the curse of blood endure.\\nJehoshaphat. Lo, I have written all and how the Lord\\nLoved Solomon and gave to him the name\\nOf Jedediah to betoken it.\\nDavid. What followeth?\\nJehoshaphat. Then Joab worthily\\nDidst send for thee to leave the glory thine\\nOf overthrowing Rabbah, which was called\\nCity of Waters. This thy valor won\\nAnd the rich crown that now doth seem so vain,\\nAnd spoil in great abundance. And thy wrath\\nSmote all the people of that long defense\\nKilling with saw and harrow, axe and flame.\\nDavid. Yea, I forgot the mercy I had pled\\nOf God, in all the fierceness of my rage\\nAnd cruelty of vengeance. Verily\\nThe evil soul that smote Uriah down\\nWas still unbound and Hke the soul of Saul.\\nThus might despiseth pity, but even my age\\nIn all its weakness holdeth chastisement\\nFor two offenders yet whose crimes defy\\nCompassion often given. I pray thee draw\\nThis drapery about me. I am cold.\\nYouth s burning heart seemeth already quenched,\\nNo longer now excusing evil deeds:\\nThese justice smites, while sometimes merciful\\nTo sudden rage of spirit such as mine.\\nGod sees the heart.\\nJehoshaphat. Now shouldst thou rest, my lord.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0366.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG 351\\nDavid. Nay, do thou read the record. What is next?\\nJehoshaphat. Let me delay a space.\\nDavid. Read on to me.\\nJehoshaphat. Then will I hasten, for the record tells\\nOf woes within thy house, of Amnon s wrong\\nTo lovely Tamar and the just revenge\\nOf Absalom her brother, when he bade\\nHis kindred to the shearing of his sheep:\\nOf how, at Amnon s death, he fled from thee\\nAnd thy forgiveness of him in thy love,\\nWhen Joab s cunning gave thy heart excuse.\\nDavid. My beauteous Absalom!\\nJehoshaphat. Then must I read\\nOf his conspiracy against thy throne.\\nAnd thy departure in thy first distress\\nWith Zadok, Ziba and Abiathar,\\nReviled by Shimei of the house of Saul\\nWho followed cursing thee and casting stones,\\nCalling Thou bloody man of Belial.\\nThen, counseled by Ahithophel, thy son\\nFulfilled God s curse upon thee, to his shame,\\nIn his dishonor of thy concubines.\\nBut, scorning wiser teaching for thy fall,\\nWas smitten, to Ahithophel s despair.\\nDavid. Yea, truly in that day of dark distress\\nDidst thou, my friend Hushai, serve thy king\\nBy cunning counsel unto Absalom\\nThat overcame Ahithophel s device.\\nSince his was surer to beget mine end.\\nThy soft dissimulation, verily.\\nWas, by the grace of God, even as an host\\nTo bring confusion to rebellious foes.\\nFor this shrewd Gilonite, who turned away", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0367.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "852 THE HEART O F-DAVID\\nFrom service to his king, was very deep\\nIn every evil craftiness of the law\\nAnd stratagem of strife. Thy skill alone\\nDidst save me, unprepared, from the sword\\nAnd gain me time to make my throne secure.\\nHence thou art here companion of my choice\\nAnd counselor and comfort in my day\\nOf weakness, though it be rebellion now\\nOf treasonable years that none may quell.\\nHushai. My lord the king is gracious in his words,\\nBut, verily, I strove in thy distress\\nAnd opportunity for loyal zeal,\\nTo serve thee faithfully, despite the woes\\nOf cunning with thy son, the perils met\\nIn overcoming base Ahithophel,\\nThe troubles of deceit in righteousness\\nUntil, before thy power through the Lord,\\nThe hosts of Absalom were put to flight\\nAnd his sad life the oak to Joab gave.\\nDavid. Yea, Joab slew the pride of Israel;\\nFrom head to foot no blemish could be found\\nUpon him. Why was any spread within\\nTo contradict the glory of the clay?\\nHe, peradventure, was but chosen out\\nUnwittingly to serve the Lord s decree\\nOf chastisement for my iniquity\\nTo gain Bathsheba, he the one beloved\\nWho most of all could rend my heart with grief\\nBy any evil or ingratitude.\\nAlas, my Absalom, my cherished child.\\nJehoshaphat. Cannot my lord find joy in other sons?\\nLo, after Amnon by Ahinoam,\\nIs Chileab by Abigail conceived.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0368.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG 353\\nDavid. This child of Maori lacks his mother s zeal.\\nJehoshaphat. And after Absalom, whom Maacah bore,\\nComes Adonijah, a most goodly man.\\nThe son of Haggith, free from all reproach.\\nDavid. Yea, but his heart is hidden, and the pride\\nOf Absalom was of a kingly race\\nAnd strove for good or ill with zeal I loved.\\nJehoshaphat. Then there is Shephatiah from the womb\\nOf Abital, and Ithream whom the love\\nOf Eglah gave thee, six in Hebron born,\\nBut Absalom and Amnon now no more.\\nMoreover, in Jerusalem begot,\\nAre Shammuah and Shobab, Nathan too.\\nAnd Solomon beloved of the Lord,\\nThese four Bathsheba gave to thy desire.\\nLo others Ibhar and Elishua\\nAnd Nepheg, Elishama, Japhia\\nAnd Eliada and Eliphalet,\\nFifteen in all, who stand before thy face.\\nWith other sons of chosen concubines\\nIn due obedience.\\nDavid. Yea, they are dear\\nTo memories of love and sweet desire\\nMoons of the planets which have circled me\\nAnd shone in all the radiance of my heart.\\nBut three in brighter glory Michal first.\\nThe daring love of youth, perverted long.\\nNext Abigail the light in my distress\\nAmid the wilderness to hope renew.\\nAnd then Bathsheba, victim of my sin,\\nThe passion of my might and high renown,\\nRaised unto honor by my penitence\\nAnd all the mercy of the Lord, and blessed", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0369.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "354 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nIn Solomon who shall exalt my throne.\\nNow hast thou read the tale of all my sons.\\nBut, if the love of women often fails,\\nHow may I prove the heart of those they bear\\nWho cannot share the yearning that conceived\\nTheir being and are set in jealous watch\\nOf kingly heritage? Lo there is none\\nCreated in his beauty for a king\\nLike Absalom my proud and erring child.\\nBut since the Lord hath blessed Solomon\\nAnd promised to Bathsheba s son the rule\\nOf Israel in riches, righteousness\\nAnd wisdom over all the kings of earth,\\nMy soul hath comfort to my pledge maintain\\nIn crowning him above his brethren all,\\nWhatever justice jealousy may wear.\\nBut let me to thy record yet attend,\\nI break it grieving over Absalom.\\nJehoshaphat. Lo at thy nephew Joab s hard reproach.\\nDidst thou unto Jerusalem return\\nAnd kingly tasks, and ordering of peace,\\nPardoning Shemei, to Mephibosheth\\nRenewing love, and to Barzillai,\\nThat great and rich old man of Gilead,\\nProving thy gratitude for all his aid.\\nDavid. Yea he was good, and wise to be content\\nIn his own city, knowing that its joy\\nAnd honor could all kingly gift surpass.\\nJehoshaphat. Thereafter Israel and Judah strove\\nIn title to thy favor and ere long\\nSheba awoke rebellion in the camp\\nOf Israel. When Amasa went forth\\nTo smite the foe, then did the bloody hand", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0370.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG 335\\nOf jealous Joab slay him shamelessly\\nAnd, at the last, in Abel s hold beset\\nAn honored woman compassed Sheba s death.\\nThen came a famine, and the Lord decreed\\nUnto the Gibeonites from thy sad hand\\nIn dread atonement seven sons of Saul\\nWhose wrath had wronged these people in the past.\\nAnd Rizpah s two were given and the five\\nWhom Michal had brought up for Adriel,\\nHer sister s spouse. The seven all were hanged,\\nAnd Rizpah watched their bodies many days.\\nThen did thy pity order that their bones,\\nAnd those of Saul the king and Jonathan,\\nShould be together buried in the tomb\\nOf Kish, and but Mephibosheth is left.\\nDavid. Yea, I did save the son of Jonathan,\\nRemembering the covenant of love\\nBetween us that high covenant alone\\nWhich I have faithfully kept unto the end.\\nBut in my heart I would have saved all.\\nPoor Merab truly did not die too soon,\\nAnd Michal now but hateth me the more,\\nWho, in the woe of my anointing, seem\\nTo bear the guilt of all her kindred s blood.\\nAlas, how love hath ended. Aye alas\\nFor gentle Merab s hope. And what remains?\\nJehoshaphat. Here do I read the last of all thy strife\\nWith the Philistine hosts in valiant deeds\\nWhen, in thy failing strength, the hand that slew\\nGoliath lost its cunning and had found\\nIshbi-benob avenger of his doom\\nBut for Abishai s succor. Then no more,\\nSince other giants rose in heathen hosts,", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0371.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "356 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nWould any let thee seek the battle s front,\\nLest these should quench the light of Israel.\\nOf all thy mighty men, three most possessed\\nThe glory of thy valor and thy zeal.\\nFirst was Adino, of the captains chief,\\nWho slew in single strife eight hundred men,\\nAnd Eleazar after him, whose sword\\nTurned a defiant heathen host to flight.\\nAnd Shammah who was great in equal deed.\\nAnd after these, of thirty mighty men.\\nThree more of valiant heart, when thou didst yearn\\nFor water from the well of Bethlehem,\\nFetched it through pools of hot Philistine blood.\\nAnd thou didst make oblation to the Lord.\\nAnd yet again were three, Abishai loved.\\nBrother of Joab, but of greater soul.\\nWho smote three hundred, and Benaiah brave\\nAnd faithful unto thee in weal or woe.\\nWho slew a lion and three mighty foes\\nDavid. These will suffice to-day, for I am weak.\\nTurn thee to records of the kingdom s course.\\nJehoshaphat. These took the deeds of valor from thy\\nyears,\\nBut when thy skill in each device of war\\nHad set thy hosts by valiant captains led\\nTo yet again crush the Philistine pride\\nAnd end thy wars with these thy life-long foes,\\nThen did thy voice extol in mighty song\\nThe majesty and goodness of the Lord\\nAnd make thanksgiving to the King of Kings\\nFor all His grace to thee throughout thy years.\\nYet pride or fear too soon succeeded praise.\\nSince thou didst number all of Abram s seed", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0372.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG 357\\nTo find eight hundred thousand vaHant men\\nOf war in Israel and Judah s strength\\nFive hundred thousand. And the Lord was wroth\\nThat thou shouldst count, instead of trusting Him\\nWho taught thy single hand in youth His power,\\nAnd gave thee choice of His or man s rebuke.\\nThen didst thou trust His mercy more than man s\\nBut, in the pestilence His will ordained,\\nWere tens of thousands, seventy tis writ,\\nDestroyed before His judgment was fulfilled\\nAnd the confession of thy sin prevailed;\\nWhereat, upon Araunah s threshing floor\\nBy Gad s command, didst thou an altar raise\\nAnd make a sacrifice unto the Lord\\nBurnt offerings and offerings of peace.\\nBy these was God entreated for the land\\nAnd stayed the plague that chastened Israel.\\nMy lord the king, here doth my record end.\\nDavid. And it is faithful, telling as I would\\nThe punishments and blessings of His hand,\\nWho, raising me from poor but zealous youth\\nTo majesty beyond control of men,\\nHath ruled me yet from His almighty throne\\nTo break all pride and arrogant desire\\nAnd bring mine age to meeker faith and praise;\\nA Father still, beyond rebellious thought\\nOf kingly will or white infirmity.\\nAs Jesse was when I but watched his flock.\\nIs not the palace cold, my friend, to-day?\\nI cannot get me heat. Do thou again\\nWrap me a little closer. Ah how vaiti\\nIs purple raiment when it giveth not\\nThe comfort that I found in youth at night\\nOn Bethlehem s hills, close lying with my sheep.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0373.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "PART II.\\nPL A CE. The same. David upon his couch. Servants are re-\\nmoving food from before him, and smoothing his coverings.\\nDavid. The choicest meats have little savor now,\\nThere is no spice to give me hunger more\\nAs in my youth or in the wilderness,\\nAnd lo I can but taste and put away.\\n[A Servant enter eth.\\nServant. My lord the king, Benaiah of thine host\\nAnd Hushai do await to speak with thee.\\nDavid. Bid them come in.\\n\\\\The Servant bringeth in Benaiah, Hushai and\\nAbishag, the latter tarrying by a curtain.\\nDraw near, good friends, to me.\\nBenaiah. How fares my lord? I pray Jehovah s arm\\nIs roundabout thee to thy strength uphold.\\nDavid. The Lord sustaineth me, Benaiah, yet.\\nBut rather in my spirit than my flesh,\\nFor I must soon return unto the dust\\nFrom which He mouldeth all men and give up\\nMy soul unto His keeping evermore.\\nI get no warmth, my body waxeth cold\\nAnd kindred to the clay.\\nHushai. Nay, mighty king,\\nThe arm that slew Goliath cannot chill\\nAnd, were it cold, would yet have strength to smite\\nPhilistine foes, now humbled many years,\\nShould any yet defy thy majesty.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0374.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG 359\\nDavid. Thou canst, Hushai, better wield thy tongue\\nThan I my sword, who scarce can Hft my crown.\\nBehold me wrapped in wool of royal dye,\\nYet cold in all my bones and envious\\nOf any lusty youth, however poor.\\nHushai. Take courage, O my lord. Thy kingdom s\\ncares,\\nThe weariness of thy records and accounts,\\nThe jealousies that strive within thy house,\\nAnd lack of some beguiling tenderness\\nHave turned thy blood to water and beset\\nThy heart with sadness and a dread of woes\\nThat do thee ill.\\nDavid. How may I thrust them hence?\\nHushai. Our king hath need of comfort. Tis the\\nfault\\nOf age to gaze upon itself too long\\nWhen the wild stream of life becometh still,\\nAnd to o erstep the path of its descent\\nInto the dark unknown. Let but my lord\\nLook back upon the sunlight and again\\nThink of his joys of spirit in the past.\\nOh mighty king, remember all the shouts\\nOf praise thy valor spread amid the hosts\\nOf Israel and Judah. Let thine ear\\nAttend once more the clear exultant songs\\nOf women, when by thee Goliath fell,\\nHarken in proud imagination yet\\nTo many captives pleading thee to spare.\\nAnd, sweetest thought of all, remember still\\nThe loveliness of women who have turned\\nFrom every bond of comfort, race or faith\\nTo glory in the joy of thy desire.\\n24", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0375.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "860 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nDavid. Aye these are gladdening thoughts, but they\\nare dreams\\nThat fade in age s waking.\\nHushai. Nay, my lord.\\nLet not thy soul despair of kindred joys.\\nAt seventy thou art not now so old.\\nBehold, thy servants in their love for thee\\nHave taken counsel for thy happiness.\\nWe have considered, in thy weary days.\\nThe tenderness and fulness of thine heart,\\nTo give it consolation and renew\\nWarmth to thy bosom as in joyous years.\\nThis of thy will already have we asked.\\nSaying, Let there be sought out for the king\\nA virgin young and beautiful, to stand\\nBefore my lord and cherish him and lie\\nUpon his bosom that he may get heat.\\nWherefore, as thou didst not our thought deny,\\nWe since have sought a damsel young and fair\\nThroughout the coasts and breadth of Israel\\nAnd found a Shunammite, Abishag called.\\nAnd brought her hither to my lord the king.\\nCome forth Abishag, fear not to draw nigh.\\n[Abishag boweth doivn before David.\\nBehold her. She is fair to look upon\\nBeyond all virgins of thy kingdom known,\\nAnd glad of heart to seek thy royal grace.\\nDavid. Yea, she is very fair. Mine eyes rejoice\\nTo measure all her gifts of comeliness\\nWhat art thou called, fair maiden?\\nAbishag. O, my king,\\nAbishag is the name I humbly pray\\nThy voice may know in gracious tenderness.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0376.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG \u00c2\u00a761\\nDavid. I am persuaded thou shalt teach it this\\nWith no long tarrying. Ye have well done,\\nMy friends, in this your search to comfort me.\\nWherefore let all depart that I alone\\nMay talk with this fair damsel as I would.\\n[Benaiah, Hushai and Servants go forth.\\nTell me, Abishag, something of thy days.\\nAbishag. My lord the king, I know not how to speak,\\nSince all my days are few and they have passed\\nAt Shunem in the land of Issachar\\nWith nothing for my heart to chronicle\\nUntil thy servants sought me for thy smile.\\nDavid. But as I am so gladdened by thy face\\nAnd like thee well, tell me the little things.\\nTell of the dews that thus have made thee bloom.\\nAbishag. Lo when, my lord, I was no more a child\\nNor yet a woman, I was still withheld\\nIn peaceful household ways. I spun the flax\\nAnd broidered garments and, when I was taught\\nThe records and the laws of Israel,\\nThe books of Moses and the Judges rule.\\nThe power of Samuel, the reign of Saul,\\nHis wars and those of noble Jonathan\\nAnd of their death in battle nigh to us,\\nBefore my birth, on Mount Gilboa s side,\\nI most gave ear unto the valiant deeds\\nOf mighty men of war. And when I knew\\nOf all thy zeal and heard thy psalms rehearsed,\\nThy fame was my delight.\\nDavid. Thy loyal heart\\nBeguileth, fair Abishag, as thy face.\\nAnd how were passed thine hours of idleness?", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0377.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "362 THE HEART OF DSVID\\nAbishag. I, with my family, went to Israel s feasts\\nAnd on the Sabaoth to the sacrifice,\\nBut often on the housetop sat at eve\\nIn the refreshing wind that gave to us\\nGilboa s greeting. There I watched the stars\\nAnd yearned for some new life they might foretell.\\nThen lo, upon a day, came certain men\\nInto the village when I walked without\\nAnd sought my parents to discourse of me.\\nAnd many neighbors, who in idle hours\\nTalked of my beauty, questioned of the thing\\nTo my confusion when, amid them all.\\nThy servants led me forth to come to thee.\\nDavid. And was there then no youth to gain thy tears\\nAt thus forsaking him?\\nAbishag. Nay, O my king;\\nThough many young men of the place had sought\\nTo gain my favor, few were let within\\nMy father s house and none was dear to me,\\nOr worthy to detain my joyous feet\\nFrom serving thee, the gracious star s reward.\\nDavid. And hast thou seen no man to be desired\\nSince thou hast left thy village?\\nAbishag. Saving one,\\nNo man hath talked with me, for roundabout\\nThy servants journeyed with me watchfully.\\nTo guard me even from all curious eyes.\\nDavid. Who was the one, and how did he prevail\\nAgainst their duty?\\nAbishag. It was told to me\\nThat he was Adonijah of thy sons,\\nA prince of Israel. And lo, behold,\\nWhen we had come within Jerusalem", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0378.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG 863\\nAnd as my camel knelt and swayed to earth,\\nI slipped and would have fallen, had not thy son,\\nWho stood with others nigh the palace gates,\\nAided thy servants, seeing then my face\\nThe chance unveiled and speaking kindly words.\\nThese they could not deny and he, who knew\\nThy servants vestures, led thine handmaid in.\\nDavid. The thing is well. Had one of other house\\nAccosted thee, I should have little spared\\nMy careless servants for their rude mishap,\\nBut it is naught and now thou art secure.\\nCome nigh to me, Abishag, for mine eyes\\nAre not the eyes of youth. Nay, do not bow\\nAgain before me. Think me not thy king\\nBut one whose heart is open to thy trust\\nAnd grateful for thy dear companionship.\\nAh were the weight of half my years removed,\\nMy heart before thy beauty would awake\\nDesire to such valorous assault.\\nAnd voice to such a pleading tenderness,\\nThat thy dark eyes would speedily avow\\nA vain resistance and thy lips agree\\nTo new-found joy in long captivity.\\nAbishag. My lord, I know as well, from wide report,\\nThe valor of thy heart as of thy sword,\\nAnd, notwithstanding this thy hoary head,\\nThy dimmed eyes, thy body s feebleness.\\nSome far enchantment yet abides with thee\\nTo gladden me for all that might have been.\\nThy spirit holdeth to its tribute still.\\nEven as a mighty tree whose fading life\\nYieldeth to lesser neighbors in their shade\\nBut whose bared branches point unto the stars.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0379.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "364 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nDavid. Strife more than years hath made my branches\\nbare\\nAnd thou, perchance, mayest yet extend thy love\\nBeyond a reverence* for leafless age.\\nForgetting I am but a wrinkled king\\nBefore my time, from wars and much distress,\\nAnd shunning not these cold and withered hands\\nWhich have caressed so many a woman fair?\\nAbishag. Yea, I can love thee as all women love\\nA man whose heart adoreth loveliness\\nAnd dareth all things for them, even though cares\\nHave left him but the ruins of desire,\\nSince these are often beautiful in vines\\nOf an enduring, gentle, generous bloom,\\nWhile showing yet some glory of the past\\nAnd what their pillars have upheld before,\\nDavid. Lo, I was once a temple in my strength\\nWhose every marble pillar held unmoved\\nThe far outspreading roof of kingly love\\nAbove the tabernacle of my heart.\\nBut if, in time, the hearts of men dispute\\nThe will of patriarchs and kings, or men\\nOf riches and of power in the earth,\\nTo cherish many women in their love.\\nAs it hath ever been, they shall be wise\\nIn sparing jealousy and household strife\\nThrough single love such as the many know\\nIn sweeter higher joy if fitly wed,\\nYet grant the vigor of a shepherd s youth,\\nThe might of one who hath his thousands slain,\\nThe willing hearts of Israel s loveliness.\\nThe riches and the power to delight\\nAnd yet the singer s tenderness of soul.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0380.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG 365\\nAnd he who is so bountifully blessed\\nWill surely find excuse for all excess\\nIn these my days of joy and pardon one\\nWhose heart is great and full of gratitude.\\nBut as I draw thee to my bosom now,\\nMy fair Abishag, I do know in truth\\nThat I am but the ruin thou hast said,\\nThat seventy long years of care surpass\\nFor me an hundred of our father s peace.\\nYet rest a space, thou lovely Shunammite,\\nHere on my bosom. Take me to thy heart,\\nThou art a comfort to me. I perchance\\nMay find the warmth of body sought so long.\\nThy soul is good to me in this caress,\\nThy cheek a balm, thy tender arm a joy.\\nYet am I like the marble, gaining heat\\nBut from without when the sun shines thereon\\nAnd, at his parting, feeling none within.\\nYea, it is vain to dream of love again\\nAnd I would spare this weak similitude\\nTo which compassion only can reply.\\nAbishag. Nay, my dear lord, my heart is full of pride\\nThat Israel s king is gracious unto me.\\nThat ruddy David by fair maidens sung\\nHath found me beautiful, that one whose love\\nKings daughters have desired hath taken me\\nInto his bosom, and that he whose harp\\nSurpasseth all in praise hath spoken words\\nOf precious love as music to mine ears\\nWords I shall treasure as life s sweetest prize.\\nHow may the passion of a youth compare,\\nIn its few moons of secret joy and pain.\\nWith the great glory thou hast rendered now", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0381.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "366 THE HEART OF DAVITD\\nBy thus accepting me to soothe thine age\\nIn Israel s sight, renowned for years to be.\\nDavid. My fair Abishag, verily thy words\\nAre even sweeter than this fond caress\\nAnd greater consolation. I am cold\\nStill in my flesh, despite thy close embrace,\\nBut on the altar of my heart thy speech\\nHath kindled an enduring higher flame.\\nPress me a little lest the chill return.\\nYea, I am very old. Desire is dead.\\nThe love of youth hath passed for evermore.\\nBut thou, my lovely child, mayest cherish me,\\nBy such sweet words and faithful tenderness\\nAnd watchful care, to make the little time\\nThat yet remaineth like the peaceful hour\\nBefore the crimson setting of the sun.\\nThey who do stand without may witless smile\\nRegarding us and, in their idle thought.\\nConceive no bond but lustful dalliance.\\nYet we shall know a higher covenant\\nAbides between us. I have learned at last\\nThe wisdom that befitteth these my years\\nAnd put away the foolish vanities\\nForever that dispute their dignity.\\nLoving thee now less in thy comeliness\\nThan in the proven goodness of thy heart,\\nWhich I shall well reward, if any gift\\nCan fitly honor attribute so fair.\\nAnd thou, Abishag, cherishing thy king\\nAnd reverencing but his better deeds,\\nWilt, as a loving daughter, find thy joy\\nIn ministering to my feebleness.\\nBanishing heavy cares and vain regrets,", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0382.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG 367\\nLeading my every hope with gentle words\\nAnd giving peace in thy companionship\\nUntil the cistern fails, the harp is dumb.\\nWhen after, it may be, some generous tears\\nThy patience will be free, thy days thine own\\nTo, with my blessing, live as God may guide,\\nA princess in the household of my son.\\nNow let me kiss thy brow and ask of thee\\nTo let me turn again, and linger nigh,\\nFor I am very weary and would sleep.\\nRest will be sweeter with thee at my side.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0383.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "PART III.\\nPLACE.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The same. David upon his couch. Abishag\\nseated at his side.\\nAbishag. Now hast thou told me of thy Absalom\\nUnto the evil day when, by his hair,\\nHe hung amid the oak and was no more.\\nDavid. Yea and no woman s hair could equal his,\\nNo woman s face, unless it may be thine,\\nCould show his beauty. Had he wedded thee,\\nKings for thy daughters would have warred and thrones\\nSought for thy sons. Ah but for Tamar s woe\\nAnd all the wrath of Absalom thereat.\\nNo evil spirit might have come to him\\nTo end his days in wrong. Yet was my sin\\nBehind and under all.\\nAbishag. But tell me yet.\\nWas there no other beauteous daughter born\\nUnto thy love for many women fair?\\nDavid. She was the only flower in the wreath\\nOf children that my war bred ardor got\\nFrom woman s joy of valor, and her distress\\nHath bound her lovely spirit unto years\\nOf solitude, compassionate deeds and prayer.\\nWherefore I have no daughter, saving thee.\\nTo cheer my heart and minister to ills.\\nAbishag. And I shall faithful be, my lord the king,\\nMy father and my friend, to every need.\\nDavid. Thou hast my gratitude, fair child, the more\\nIn all thy youthful hope and joyfulness,", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0384.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG 36D\\nSince those amid my wives whom most I loved\\nAre also bent with years and sad with care\\nAnd vain contention for their sons desires\\nOf kingly heritage. In jealous age\\nThey will not or they cannot comfort me.\\n[A Servant enter efh.]\\nServant. My lord the king, Bathsheba at the door\\nAttends to speak with thee.\\nDavid. Go bid her come.\\n[The Servant bringeth Bathsheba.\\nWhat wouldst thou, Bathsheba?\\nBathsheba. Will the king\\nGrant that I speak a space to him alone?\\nDavid. Yea as thou wilt. Abishag go without\\nUntil I presently shall need thy care.\\n[Abishag and the Servant go forth.\\nBathsheba. My lord, thou swearest by the Lord thy\\nGod\\nUnto thy handmaid thus, Assuredly\\nShall Solomon thy son reign after me\\nAnd he shall sit secure upon my throne,\\nAnd now behold thine Adonijah reigns\\nThough thou dost know it not. But he hath slain\\nOxen and cattle and abundant sheep\\nAnd he hath called unto him all thy sons\\nTo feasting, and Abiathar the priest\\nAnd Joab, captain of the host, as well,\\nBut he hath not called Solomon thy son.\\nNow, as thou shouldst know, my lord, O king,\\nThe eyes of Israel are upon thee.\\nThat thou shouldst tell them who should sit upon\\nThe mighty throne of David after him,", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0385.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "370 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nElse it shall come to pass that when my lord\\nThe king at length shall with his fathers sleep,\\nI and my true son Solomon by thee\\nShall be esteemed offenders.\\nDavid. This alarm,\\nBathsheba, can but come of woman s dread\\nAnd jealousy, for otherwise mine ears\\nWould sooner have such woeful tidings known\\nFrom counselors about me.\\nBathsheba. Nay, my lord.\\nFor in thy troubled age they now withhold\\nFull many matters that would wake distress.\\nThe prophet Nathan told me and, as loth\\nAgain to be a messenger of woe.\\nHe bade me first to tell thee in my right\\nOf love and succor. He will follow me.\\nLo, even now I hear his voice without,\\n[A Servant enter eth.]\\nServant. My lord the king, Nathan the prophet\\nwaits.\\nDavid. Bring him to me. Must tears forever flow\\nFrom these poor sunken eyes? Is there no peace\\nThat some rebellious child shall not destroy\\nEre I have slept a kindred grief away\\n[Nathan entereth. Bathsheba goeth out.\\nO Nathan what doth bring thee here to me?\\nSpeak in thy fearless truth.\\nNathan. My lord, O king.\\nHast thou said Adonijah after me\\nShall reign and he shall sit upon my throne?\\nFor he is gone this day to En-rogel,\\nEven unto the stone of Zoheleth,", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0386.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG 371\\nAnd slain fat cattle and abundant sheep,\\nAnd called his brethren, even all thy sons.\\nAnd all the men of Judah serving thee,\\nAbiathar the priest and, furthermore,\\nJoab and other captains of the host,\\nAnd lo they eat and drink with him and say\\nGod save King Adonijah. But behold.\\nMe, even me thy servant, and the priest\\nZadok and great Benaiah, worthy seed\\nOf Jehoiada, and Bathsheba s son\\nThy servant Solomon hath he not called.\\nIs this thing ordered by my lord the king\\nAnd thou hast showed it not to Solomon\\nWho should upon thy throne sit after thee?\\nDavid. Call me Bathsheba.\\n[Nathan goeth forth and Bathsheba returneth.\\nAs the Lord doth live\\nAnd hath redeemed my soul from all distress,\\nEven as I sware unto thee by the Lord\\nThe God of Israel, saying in former time,\\nAssuredly shall Solomon thy son\\nReign after me and shall upon my throne\\nSit in my stead, so will I do this day\\nAnd certainly my word to thee fulfill.\\n[Bathsheba doeth reverence.\\nBathsheba. Let my lord David live forever king.\\nDavid. Bathsheba, age doth oft beget distrust\\nOf many things and if thy heart hath held\\nA doubt of me, let it be put away.\\nOur love hath been so often sanctified\\nBy faithfulness through persecuting years.\\nHath been so glorified in fond desire.\\nWhereof five sons, of which the first became", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0387.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "372 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nOur sacrifice, do but a portion prove\\nOf all our happiness that, though the mists\\nOf age surround, its glow must still remain,\\nAnd in the greatness promised of the Lord\\nTo Solomon, His pledge of pardoning grace,\\nLove hath its holiest consolation now.\\nBathsheha. O David, these thy words are passing\\nsweet\\nAs dreams of youth renewed. They do restore,\\nIn gathering years and oft assaulting cares,\\nA peace that long hath turned from my breast.\\nBut, if I may inquire, O my lord.\\nTo quell the only trouble that remains,\\nWherefore is this strange woman at thy side\\nDuring these latter days?\\nDavid. Distrust her not.\\nShe is a Shunammite my servants brought.\\nOf kindly spirit and proven tenderness,\\nTo cheer and cherish this my feeble age,\\nA virgin whom I know not, who bestows\\nA daughter s sweet compassionate love alone.\\nBut perils compass us and now, to prove\\nMy love for thee, I bid thee go without\\nAnd have my servants summon speedily\\nNathan again and Zadok and, of all\\nMy erring captains, true Benaiah here,\\nThat I may counsel with them.\\nBathsheha. They attend\\nWithout already, fearing but delay.\\nAnd I will call them. May the Lord defend\\nMy lord the king and Solomon my son.\\n{Bathsheha goeth out. Nathan, Zadok and\\nBenaiah come to David.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0388.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG 373\\nDavid. Ye faithful to your king, in this alarm\\nWords need be few but speedy acts our care.\\nGather to you the servants of your lord\\nAnd Solomon, and cause my son to ride\\nUpon my mule to Gihon. There do ye,\\nZadok and Nathan, then anoint him king\\nOf Israel and blow the trumpet there\\nSaying God save King Solomon, and then\\nYe shall come after him, that he may come\\nAnd sit upon my throne, for he shall be\\nKing in my stead. I have appointed him\\nTo be the ruler over Israel\\nAnd over Judah, as the Lord hath said.\\nFor now must younger hands the crown defend.\\nBenaiah. Amen. The Lord thy God His will perform.\\nAs He hath been with thee, my lord the king,\\nSo may He be with Solomon thy son\\nTo make his throne greater than this of thine,\\nSince all thy glory will he then complete.\\nWe go to do thy will.\\nDavid. The Lord sustain\\nAll that ye do.\\nNathan. How shall His promise fail?\\nGod s might abides, He never groweth old.\\n[Nathan, Zadok and Benaiah go forth.\\nDavid. There was but this to do before I die.\\nSince peril waiteth on my fleeting breath.\\nThat, with the sceptre I no more can hold\\nIn trembling hands, my chosen Solomon\\nMay guard the trust that God to me bestowed\\nAnd in His love reign wise and glorious,\\nBuilding unto Jehovah s prayer and praise\\nThe holy house at my offense withheld.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0389.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "374 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nYet in repentance have I known the joy\\nOf every preparation for his rule.\\nOver the host, the treasure and the grain\\nAnd fruit and flocks and service of the land,\\nHave I appointed officers by name\\nFor every task and station. To serve the Lord,\\nThe Levites and the priests know each his place\\nAnd duty in the offerings; no less\\nThe singers and musicians fitly stand,\\nJudges are set to give a just decree\\nAnd princes learn their tasks of government.\\nThough most the arts of music and of war\\nHave won my zeal, yet have I equal sought\\nTo set in order all the kingdom s course\\nAnd spare my son the toil that won my throne.\\nThen, for the holy house the Lord ordains,\\nHave I collected all the builder s need\\nAnd artisans and workmen. At their hands\\nAre goodly cedars, stones hewn for their place\\nOf diverse colors, onyx and precious gems,\\nAnd a great store of iron, silver, brass\\nAnd mighty wealth of gold in which the gifts\\nOf many share this offering to the Lord.\\nThese things have I declared unto all\\nThe congregation of Jerusalem,\\nThe princes and the people who rejoiced\\nIn all their offerings and in the full\\nAnd perfect preparation I have made\\nTo give the Lord an house on Zion s hill\\nIn this the land He promised when He dwelt\\nIn tents and journeyed long with Israel.\\nAnd unto Solomon have I bestowed\\nThe patterns of the temple in all its parts,", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0390.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG 375\\nAnd of all vessels and dedicated things\\nAnd ornaments of silver and of gold.\\nNow, therefore, as I to the people spake,\\nI say again the glory is the Lord s.\\nYea, unto Thee, O Lord, is all the power\\nThe greatness, majesty and victory,\\nFor all in heaven and in earth is Thine,\\nThine is the kingdom, Thou art head of all.\\nRiches and honor come alike to Thee\\nAnd in Thy hand it is to make men great.\\nI thank Thee and I praise Thy glorious name.\\nFor who are we, strangers and sojourners\\nAbiding not, that we should give to Thee?\\nThe silver and the gold are all Thine own.\\nI also know, O Lord, that Thou dost try\\nThe heart, with pleasure but in uprightness.\\nIn this my heart hath made its offerings\\nAnd all Thy people. Keep Thou this, O Lord,\\nThe God of Abraham and Israel,\\nIn the imagination and the thought\\nAnd hearts of all and guide them unto Thee,\\nAnd give to Solomon a perfect heart\\nTo keep Thy testimonies and commands\\nAnd statutes, that he do the things I would\\nAnd build Thy house of all I have prepared.\\nThus is my labor ended and I wait\\nBut for my son to take his heritage.\\nAnd overcome all who oppose his reign.\\nYet, as I meditate on man s desires,\\nI marvel not at Adonijah s deed\\nHe, saving Chileab, the eldest born\\nAnd worthiest of all my living sons\\nOf Hebron birth or that his brethren\\n25", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0391.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "876 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nShould, in my failing years, go after him\\nRather than Solomon a younger child\\nBegot too nigh my sin. But I may mourn\\nThe priest Abiathar s ingratitude.\\nKnowing from Nathan of Jehovah s choice\\nYet turning to the arrogance of men.\\nAnd surely subtle Joab had a thought\\nBut for his own advancement to sustain\\nThe mightiest. Lo how can I forgive\\nThis treason joined to his bloody deeds\\nIn slaying Abner and my Absalom?\\nHow are the ways of God past finding out,\\nThat I was from the sheepfold taken forth.\\nOf all my elder brethren, to attain\\nTo honor and the throne of Israel\\nAbove all princes of the house of Saul.\\nAnd that, of these my sons, the Lord should turn\\nFrom those begot in Hebron, now esteemed\\nIn man s estate and long experience\\nOf princely duty, to the child conceived\\nBy one I gained through dread iniquity?\\nYea, even might my younger sons forsake\\nBathsheba s seed in lingering reproach.\\nBut God doth bless the injured and atone\\nTo innocence for care unjustly borne,\\nAnd Solomon who in fair Zion s walls,\\nMy holy city, first beheld the sun.\\nBegotten of a daughter of its faith\\nBy mercy and forgiveness of the Lord,\\nHath still the radiance of love divine\\nAbout him to extol Jehovah s name\\nAnd promise in the place where He shall dwell.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0392.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG 377\\n[Abishag entereth.]\\nAbishag. How doth my lord the king? I fear the cares\\nOf thy discourse to-day hath taxed thee sore.\\nDavid. Aye verily, my daughter, but the waste\\nIs well if for my throne s endurance blessed,\\nElse is the feeble remnant of my life\\nOf little worth to me or Israel.\\nBut now my meditations are of peace.\\nGive me my harp. My trembling hands once more\\nWould seek its comfort and beloved reply;\\nPerchance it is our last communion sweet.\\n[Abishag giveth David his harp.\\nDavid. O all ye lands, make joyful praise to God\\nAnd serve the Lord with gladness. Come before\\nHis face with singing, know ye that the Lord\\nIs God alone. He made us, not ourselves.\\nWe are His people, yea we are the sheep\\nHe guardeth in the pasture of His grace.\\nO enter with thanksgiving at His gates\\nAnd go ye ever to His courts with praise.\\nBe thankful unto Him and bless His name.\\nThe Lord is good. His mercy and His truth\\nAre everlasting. Let all ages sing. {Ps. C)\\nAbishag. I know this beauteous psalm, with many\\nheard\\nThroughout the land, and I do bless the Lord\\nThat now I hear it from thy lips inspired.\\nDavid. Yea I have often sung in care or joy,\\nBut harken, child, to portions of a psalm\\nThat I have lately written for my son.\\nGive to the king Thy judgments, O my God,\\nAnd unto David s son Thy righteousness.\\nThat mountains to the people shall bring peace,", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0393.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "378 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nThat he shall help the needy and oppressed.\\nAnd shall redeem their souls from every woe,\\nComing like showers to the grateful earth.\\nAnd he shall reign supreme from sea to sea,\\nKings with their gifts shall bow before his might.\\nDaily in all the land shall he be praised,\\nHis name shall last forever as the sun\\nAnd in his wisdom shall the earth be blessed.\\nBlessed be the Lord the God of Israel\\nWhose might and mercy doeth wondrous things.\\nAye, blessed forever be His glorious name,\\nAnd with His glory let the earth be filled.\\nAmen, and now behold the prayers and song\\nOf David son of Jesse have an end.\\nAlas, my child, I sing but feebly now.\\nMy voice hath broken strings and this fond harp.\\nWhich hath so often triumphed in my zeal,\\nDoth chide my shrunken hand s infirmity.\\nI can but sing in spirit. Put it by.\\nFor I shall never strive to play again,\\nAnd keep it as a token of my love.\\nAbishag. My lord, no gift could grant me fuller joy.\\nLo! I shall guard it as a holy thing\\nNo other hand may shame, until thy son\\nHath built the temple thou hast long prepared,\\nThere in my age shall I make offering\\nOf this thy precious harp unto the Lord\\nAnd Israel whom it hath taught His praise.\\nDavid. Now give me warmer covering. I am cold\\nAnd weary. Let me sleep and sing in dreams.", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0394.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "PART IV.\\nPL A CE. The same. David upofi his couch as if asleep. Abishag\\nefitereth and anxiously regardeth him. David openeth his\\neyes.\\nDavid. Where hast thou been, Abishag? But a space\\nAgo I fell asleep in sweeter rest\\nBecause thou wert beside me, but I woke\\nAt the confusion in the streets without\\nThe singing and the shouting, and, behold!\\nMy comforter had fled.\\nAbishag. I did but go,\\nMy lord, hearing the noise thou speakest of.\\nTo know its meaning and, perchance, to still\\nThe tumult for thy rest, but all in vain.\\nDavid. And wherefore do they shout? Can it be true\\nThat Solomon is already Israel s king\\nAnd Adonijah fallen even as I\\nBut he in fear and I in thankfulness?\\nAbishag. Yea, as thou sayest, O my lord, the shouts\\nHail Solomon anointed and the flight\\nOf every foe arrayed against his throne.\\nDavid. The Lord be praised. What hast thou heard\\nthereof?\\nAbishag. This only, O my king.\\nDavid. Nay, king no more.\\nAbishag. Yea unto me thou art forever king,\\nThough all thy sons should rule what thou hast won,", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0395.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "380 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nFor none can take thy valor and thy song,\\nThese reign eternally. This jeweled crown\\nHath no dominion of such majesty,\\nIt knows but birth or power.\\n[A Servant entereth.]\\nServant. My lord the king,\\nNathan the prophet waiteth at the door\\nAnd others with him.\\nDavid. Bid them come to me.\\nBut raise me first, Abishag, in my bed.\\n[Abishag so doetJi as Nathan, Zadok,\\nBenaiah and Hushai come in.\\nNathan. Hail Valiant David, first of Judah s line\\nAnd father of the king of Israel.\\nDavid. Then is thy holy task fulfilled in deed\\nAnd Adonijah fallen?\\nZadok. Aye, my lord.\\nWhile all the land rejoiceth.\\nBenaiah. And the host\\nStands faithful to King Solomon defend.\\nDavid. And what of Adonijah? Let me not\\nGrieve that his blood is shed.\\nBenaiah. Nay, he is well.\\nDavid. Then tell me, Nathan, all that ye have done.\\nNathan. Behold, my lord, we who are here went down\\nWith Cherethites and Pelethites the band\\nWho guard the person of the king and led\\nSolomon on thy mule to Gihon s street,\\nAnd Zadok from the Tabernacle there\\nTook forth an horn of oil, anointing him.\\nWhereat they blew the trumpet and lo all", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0396.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG 881\\nThe people said God save King Solomon.\\nAnd all the people came up after him,\\nPiping with pipes, rejoicing with great joy,\\nSo that the earth rent with the sound of them.\\nZadok. Then, as one told who came from En-rogel,\\nThine Adonijah heard it and his guests\\nAs they had made an ending of the feast.\\nAnd Joab, when he heard the trumpet sound,\\nSaid Wherefore is this noise in Gihon heard?\\nAnd, while he spake, behold came Jonathan,\\nSon of Abiathar, and to the lad\\nSaid Adonijah at beholding him\\nCome in, thou hast good tidings, valiant youth.\\nBut low he answered Verily our lord\\nKing David hath made Solomon the king,\\nAnd told of us who went with Solomon,\\nAnointing him and causing him to ride\\nOn the king s mule, whereat the people there\\nRejoiced so that the city rang again.\\nMaking the tumult which they all had heard.\\nAnd all the guests of Adonijah rose\\nAfraid, and went each man unto his place.\\nAnd Adonijah feared to know the wrath\\nOf Solomon and to the altar fled.\\nHolding the horns thereof. And it was told\\nTo Solomon, and Adonijah s words\\nSaying Let Solomon the king declare\\nThis day he will not slay me with the sword,\\nSince I will serve him. Whereupon the king\\nSaid, If he show himself a worthy man,\\nThere shall not fall a hair of him to earth.\\nBut, wickedness prevailing, he shall die.\\nSo from the altar he was brought and bowed", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0397.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "383 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nHimself before King Solomon who said\\nIn mercy to him Go unto thine house.\\nNathan. Thus, O my lord, is all our tale declared,\\nSave that the king doth follow after us\\nTo seek thy blessing.\\nDavid. Surely hath the Lord\\nBeen with ye all who have performed my will,\\nAnd with the people, and amid my foes,\\nAnd in the heart of Solomon to turn\\nHis wrath against his brother to the grace\\nAnd mercy that doth glorify a king.\\nBenaiah. Now is rejoicing louder at thy gates\\nAnd Solomon the king is surely nigh.\\nBehold his messengers who go before.\\n[The Messengers of Solomon appear.\\nMessengers. Hail Mighty David, first of Judah s line,\\nLo Solomon, thy son the king, attends.\\n[Solomon, Bathsheha and a retinue come within.\\nAll. Hail to the king! Long live King Solomon!\\nDavid. And I, who now am freest of ye all,\\nRepeat Long live the king whom God doth crown.\\nSolomon. I greet thee, O my father, next to her\\nWho bore me, as the king of Israel,\\nYet, as thy son, thou art my king, and God\\nShall rule me also from His heavenly throne.\\nDavid. Thou speakest wisely, Solomon, for the child\\nA father guideth justly can attain\\nNo place above his counsel or the fear\\nOf God s commands the mighty King of Kings.\\nLo, I have heard that these anointed thee\\nAt Gihon and of all the people s joy.\\nAnd now I do bestow this jeweled crown", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0398.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG 383\\nOf Rabbah s king and bid thee to my seat\\nAs king of Judah and of Israel.\\n[Nathan giveth the crown to David who, as\\nSolomon boweth before him, placeth it upon\\nhis head, and then raiseth his hands.\\nAll. Hail to the king Hail to King Solomon\\nDavid. I bless thee, as the Lord of hosts shall bless,\\nWho from thy cradle hath appointed thee\\nTo greater wealth and wisdom than mine own\\nUpon the throne He gave me now thy trust.\\nBatlisheba. For all His grace I magnify the Lord.\\nWho Solomon and David long hath blessed.\\nDavid. My son, I go the way of all the earth,\\nBe therefore strong and show thyself a man,\\nAnd keep the charges of the Lord thy God\\nTo walk in all His ways, to truly hold\\nHis statutes and commandments, and no less\\nHis judgments and His testimonies writ\\nBy Moses in the law, that thou mayest find\\nProsperity in all that thou shalt do\\nWhithersoever thou dost turn thyself.\\nThat His word may continue which He spake\\nConcerning me that, if my children heed\\nTheir way to walk before the Lord in truth\\nTo walk with all their heart and all their soul.\\nThere shall not fail a man of David s line\\nUpon the throne of Israel. Beyond\\nThis higher charge are certain others due.\\nThou knowest well what Zeruiah s son,\\nE en Joab, did to my son Absalom,\\nAnd what he did to captains of the host.\\nTo wise and valorous Abner son of Ner\\nAnd Amasa the son of Jether, both", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0399.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "384 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nHe slew and shed the blood of war in peace.\\nAccording to thy wisdom, therefore do,\\nNor let his gray head seek in peace the grave.\\nAnd, Solomon, thou hast with thee the son\\nOf Gera Shimei a Benjamite,\\nWho cursed thy father with a grievous curse\\nThe day I went in flight from Absalom\\nTo Mahanaim, casting stones at me.\\nBut when I vanquished, Shimei came down\\nTo Jordan humbled and I sware to him\\nSaying 1 will not slay thee with the sword.\\nNow therefore I am sworn, but, as to thee.\\nHold him not guiltless, seeing thou art wise\\nAnd knowest what to him thou shouldst do\\nBut his hoar head bring to the grave in blood.\\nOn these avenge their crimes against the throne,\\nBut show thy kindness unto all the sons\\nOf Barzillai. Let them be of those\\nWho eat with thee, for so he honored me\\nWhat time I fled for fear of Absalom.\\nLo Solomon, thou hast my throne and crown\\nWhich came to me with thirty years of life\\nThat, care fraught, made me seem already old,\\nA crown I have defended forty years,\\nSeven in Hebron, three and thirty here\\nIn fair Jerusalem, from heathen foes.\\nSpreading for Abram s seed the promised land\\nJehovah gave, to glorify on earth\\nHis single might and majesty unseen\\nAgainst the evil nations that bow down\\nTo Baal, Dagon and all idols sought\\nIn every lewd desire, and that commit\\nIn all their groves and temples, night and day,", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0400.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG 385\\nAbominations to the Lord we praise.\\nGo forth in righteousness to serve the Lord\\nIn all thy ways, for He hath chosen thee,\\nAs all thy brethren know in reverence\\nAnd all the host and all in judgment know,\\nTo rule in Israel and build the house\\nWhich shall be ever holy to His name.\\nHe shall not fail thee or forsake until\\nThe work is finished. He shall honor thee\\nWith wisdom and with riches and with might\\nBeyond the kings of men and, if thou hold\\nTo His commandments, will establish thee\\nAnd this thy throne forever. But take heed\\nWhen He shall grant thee every full desire,\\nNot to forsake Him, lest He cast thee off.\\nSolomon. Thy words possess my soul. The Lord sus-\\ntain\\nThy servant until all shall come to pass\\nAnd guide me for the joy of Israel.\\nNathan. David my lord, I fain would speak to thee\\nBefore all these assembled at thy side.\\nDavid. Say what thou wouldst; O Nathan, I attend.\\nNathan. Behold, when Samuel, the mighty voice\\nOf God, the prophet-judge of Abram s seed.\\nWho chose a king for them at their desire\\nAnd chastened Saul for his rebellious pride.\\nAnd then anointed thee to gain his throne\\nWhen Samuel had given up the ghost.\\nThen were the prophets few to counsel thee\\nAnd tell the will of God who loved thy zeal.\\nOr to admonish thee, until He sent\\nThy servant, even me, to humbly wear\\nThe cloak of mighty Samuel s fearless soul.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0401.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "386 THE HEART OF DAVID\\nSo, at the first, I gave thy grateful heart\\nConsent to build a house unto the Lord.\\nAnd all thy ways were prospered in His sight\\nUntil thine arrogant desire slew\\nUriah, faithful captain of the host.\\nTo get his wife to thee. Then did I bear\\nThe terrors of Jehovah s punishment\\nWhich took the child of sin, thy concubines\\nAnd daughter gave to shame, and set thy house\\nAt variance in jealousy and blood\\nAnd dread rebellion and all bitterness.\\nAnd, furthermore, forbade thy bloody hand\\nTo build a holy temple to His name.\\nBut, notwithstanding all the judgment s curse,\\nWhen thou didst bow repentant and confess\\nIn tears and fasting thine iniquity\\nBefore the Lord and all in Israel,\\nThe mercy of Jehovah turned to thee.\\nAnd, counseled by His love, I sought again\\nThy face to comfort thee for all distress;\\nTo bless the second child Bathsheba bore.\\nThat he should sit in wisdom on thy throne\\nIn an exceeding glory and should build\\nWith pure and loving heart, the holy house\\nIt was thy will to raise unto the Lord.\\nLo Now his promises are counted sure.\\nTheir fruits have hidden all the tares of woe.\\nFor Solomon thy son is here our king\\nIn all the excellence of good desire\\nAnd righteous purposes and pious zeal\\nTo do thy will and to revere his God.\\nAnd all throughout the land do honor thee,\\nRiches and glory do thy couch surround,", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0402.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG 387\\nAnd peace is in thine house, and love abides\\nOn high to cherish thee until the end.\\nSo I, who have in sorrow spoken words\\nOf judgment for the Lord, do now rejoice\\nThat, by His grace, I now am come to bless.\\nOh happy David, He remembereth\\nThe pure heart of thy youth, the valiant years\\nOf many wars and perils in His trust.\\nThy many deeds of justice and of love,\\nAnd, to His joy, the riches of thy praise\\nIn songs that generations yet unknown\\nShall treasure for their power and loveliness\\nAnd sing for consolation of their souls.\\nAnd He doth bless thee even as a son.\\nAnd taketh thee to His bosom and His peace,\\nRenowned to all who serve Him evermore.\\nSolomon. How can I hold so great a father s fame?\\nOnly as God doth also bless my ways.\\n[Solomon emhraceth David and goeth forth,\\nfollowed by all save Abishag.\\nDavid. Sweet daughter, move these pillows that I rest.\\nMy work is ended. Now the shepherd s crook.\\nThe harp, the sling, the spear, the sword, the crown\\nAnd sceptre are but playthings for my dreams\\nAnd woman s love and victory s delight,\\nAnd love of men save Jonathan s alone\\nAre fading as, in peace and faith and joy,\\nI move upheld by God toward the veil\\nThat screens the holy place of love divine.", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0403.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "PART V.\\nPLACE. The same. David upon his bed asleep. Solomon,\\nBathsheba and Abishag stand nigh to him..\\nAbishag. I think, Bathsheba, that he sleepeth still.\\nBathsheba. Abishag, thou hast cherished faithfully\\nMy lord and, understanding all thy heart,\\nI thank thee in all love.\\nAbishag. Now he awakes.\\nDavid. Who standeth nigh, do I see Solomon?\\nSolomon. Yea, O my father, wouldst thou speak to\\nme?\\nDavid. Is all well with thee?\\nSolomon. Yea. I strive to reign\\nAs thou hast bidden me.\\nDavid. The Lord be praised.\\nI led my sheep O, Jonathan, thy love\\nSolomon. His spirit wandereth amid the past.\\nDavid. The spirit of the Lord it spake to me,\\nHis word was in my tongue. To me the God\\nOf Israel said The Rock of Israel spake\\nHe must, who ruleth over men, be just.\\nRuling forever in the fear of God\\nAnd He shall as the light of morning be,\\nWhat time the sun ariseth as a morn\\nWithout a cloud and as the tender grass\\nOut of the earth, clear shining after rain.\\nAlthough my house be not now so with God,\\nYet He an everlasting covenant", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0404.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "DAVID AND ABISHAG 389\\nHath made with me, ordered in all and sure,\\nFor this is my salvation and desire\\nSam. XXIII: 2-5.)\\nSolomon. He speaketh yet. What saith my father\\nmore?\\nBathsheba. I cannot hear. His words are very faint\\nHe faileth. O Abishag succor me.\\nThe soul of David passeth to the Lord.\\n[the end.]", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0405.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0406.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0407.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0408.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0409.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "Oct\\nf9oo", "height": "3004", "width": "1867", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0410.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2994", "width": "1925", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0411.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "mmwf^^l.9 CONGRESS\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0MWlHIIiiii\\n018 597 597 6", "height": "3157", "width": "2010", "jp2-path": "heartofdavidpsal00heat_0412.jp2"}}