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diff --git a/43247-h/43247-h.htm b/43247-h/43247-h.htm index cfc5c8a..daecc44 100644 --- a/43247-h/43247-h.htm +++ b/43247-h/43247-h.htm @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Epic of Saul, by William Cleaver Wilkinson. @@ -186,46 +186,7 @@ div.tn { </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Epic of Saul, by William Cleaver Wilkinson - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Epic of Saul - -Author: William Cleaver Wilkinson - -Release Date: July 18, 2013 [EBook #43247] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EPIC OF SAUL *** - - - - -Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43247 ***</div> <hr class="tb" /> @@ -246,8 +207,8 @@ Internet Archive) formed at Jerusalem against the life of the apostle, which in the sequel led to a prolonged suspension of his free missionary career. It embraces the incidents of his removal -from Jerusalem to Cæsarea, of his imprisonment at the latter -place, of his journey to Rome for trial before Cæsar, and of +from Jerusalem to Cæsarea, of his imprisonment at the latter +place, of his journey to Rome for trial before Cæsar, and of his final martyrdom. The design of the poem as a whole is to present through conduct on Paul's part and through speech from him, a living portrait of the man that he was, together @@ -443,7 +404,7 @@ recommends pursuing against them a policy of guile.</p> <span class="i0">One upright pillar in a fallen state.<br /></span> <span class="i0">Fallen, for Rome had pushed her foaming wave<br /></span> <span class="i0">Of conquest far into the East, and laid<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Judæa under deluge, quiet now,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Judæa under deluge, quiet now,<br /></span> <span class="i0">But deep, of domination absolute—<br /></span> <span class="i0">A weight as of the sea upon her breast.<br /></span> <span class="i0">Jerusalem was glorious to behold,<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span> @@ -452,7 +413,7 @@ recommends pursuing against them a policy of guile.</p> <span class="i0">Alas, but more her glory, more her shame!<br /></span> <span class="i0">For all her glory was the Roman's now,<br /></span> <span class="i0">The queen a vassal at a tyrant's feet,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">She Cæsar serving who should serve but God.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">She Cæsar serving who should serve but God.<br /></span> <span class="i0">And, worse disgrace than heathen servitude,<br /></span> <span class="i0">There recreant Jews were found, and more and more,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Who their hearts sold to their captivity,<br /></span> @@ -494,7 +455,7 @@ recommends pursuing against them a policy of guile.</p> <span class="i0">False children unto Abraham, to vex<br /></span> <span class="i0">Our nation's peace and shame us to our foes.<br /></span> <span class="i0">The son of Joseph suffered his desert,<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span> -<span class="i0">Accurséd, on the tree, pretender vile,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Accurséd, on the tree, pretender vile,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Who out of Nazareth came forth to claim<br /></span> <span class="i0">Messiahship, the gift of David's line,<br /></span> <span class="i0">And trailed a glorious banner in the dust,<br /></span> @@ -549,7 +510,7 @@ recommends pursuing against them a policy of guile.</p> <span class="i0">In words that flamed like lightning and that smote<br /></span> <span class="i0">Like thunder-stones, against those grovelling men<br /></span> <span class="i0">Who Israel taught to grovel at the feet<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Of Galilæan Jesus crucified,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of Galilæan Jesus crucified,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Accepted for the Christ, forsooth, of God!<br /></span> <span class="i0">Such wish, becoming purpose, Saul has brought<br /></span> <span class="i0">This evening to Gamaliel, with high hope,<br /></span> @@ -793,7 +754,7 @@ recommends pursuing against them a policy of guile.</p> <span class="i0">Forthwith the captain of the temple goes,<br /></span> <span class="i0">His band attending, and, no violence shown—<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span> <span class="i0">For fear was on them of the people, lest<br /></span> -<span class="i0">They stone them—leads the Galilæans in.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They stone them—leads the Galilæans in.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Robed venerably each in rich array<br /></span> <span class="i0">Of purple, and fine linen, glistering white<br /></span> @@ -809,7 +770,7 @@ recommends pursuing against them a policy of guile.</p> <span class="i0">And, while the high-priest of their nation, throned<br /></span> <span class="i0">Middle and chief among the councillors,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Denouncing asked: "Did we not straitly bid<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Forbear to teach in this accurséd name?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Forbear to teach in this accurséd name?<br /></span> <span class="i0">And, lo, ye fill Jerusalem with bruit,<br /></span> <span class="i0">And seek to bring on us this person's blood!"—<br /></span> <span class="i0">While thus, sternly, he spoke, those simple men<br /></span> @@ -842,7 +803,7 @@ recommends pursuing against them a policy of guile.</p> <span class="i0">The steady, prompt obedience, the serene<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span> <span class="i0">Courage that dared, without defying, all<br /></span> <span class="i0">The terrors brandished by the Sanhedrim—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">This spirit, strange in those despiséd men,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">This spirit, strange in those despiséd men,<br /></span> <span class="i0">As with a soft and subtle atmosphere<br /></span> <span class="i0">Enfolding and suffusing him, subdued<br /></span> <span class="i0">The solid temper of his mind, the strong<br /></span> @@ -885,7 +846,7 @@ recommends pursuing against them a policy of guile.</p> <span class="i0">A full and fell accord conjoined them there!—<br /></span> <span class="i0">Was doubt or question to the Sanhedrim;<br /></span> <span class="i0">But in what chosen way their chosen goal,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The doom of death for those accurséd men,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The doom of death for those accurséd men,<br /></span> <span class="i0">With safe sure speed, most prudently, to reach—<br /></span> <span class="i0">This doubt embroiled a vehement debate.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> @@ -972,7 +933,7 @@ recommends pursuing against them a policy of guile.</p> <span class="i0">And were at peace! In that secure retreat<br /></span> <span class="i0">Withdrawn, the secret place of the Most High,<br /></span> <span class="i0">The angel of the Lord encamping round,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Composédly at leisure they looked out<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Composédly at leisure they looked out<br /></span> <span class="i0">And saw the wicked plot against the just,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Vainly, and gnash upon him with his teeth!<br /></span> <span class="i0">Within their hearts they knew his day would come.<br /></span> @@ -1174,7 +1135,7 @@ scourging is finally resolved upon.</p> <span class="i0">Should rise for speech—and that beloved gray head<br /></span> <span class="i0">Before me bowed, unready yet—might seem<br /></span> <span class="i0">Unseemly. But to speak after he speaks,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">My own reveréd guide, the guide of all,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">My own reveréd guide, the guide of all,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Would be, should I then speak to differ, more<br /></span> <span class="i0">Unseemly still. And what I have to say,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Being my thought, burns in me to be said,<br /></span> @@ -1330,7 +1291,7 @@ scourging is finally resolved upon.</p> <span class="i0">And reverence his in ample revenue,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Was easy master of the Sanhedrim:<br /></span> <span class="i0">On him the council rested and revolved,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">As on a fixéd centre and support.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">As on a fixéd centre and support.<br /></span> <span class="i0">And now 'Gamaliel! let us hear at last<br /></span> <span class="i0">Gamaliel's word' was suddenly the sole,<br /></span> <span class="i0">The simultaneous, silent thought to all.<br /></span> @@ -1410,11 +1371,11 @@ scourging is finally resolved upon.</p> <span class="i0">I dread to trust myself, lest I, myself<br /></span> <span class="i0">Obeying, misdeem myself obeying God.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"Hearken, my children. These accuséd men<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"Hearken, my children. These accuséd men<br /></span> <span class="i0">Unlikely, most unlikely, choice of Heaven<br /></span> <span class="i0">To be His prophets, seemed, and seem, to me.<br /></span> <span class="i0">I look at them and find no prophet mien;<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span> -<span class="i0">I listen and their Galilæan speech<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I listen and their Galilæan speech<br /></span> <span class="i0">Offends me; and far more the scandal is<br /></span> <span class="i0">To think what message they propound to us.<br /></span> <span class="i0">Their person and their message I reject—<br /></span> @@ -1683,7 +1644,7 @@ knowing it, Saul's own beloved sister Rachel.</p> <span class="i0">That fountain darkling in the depths of self<br /></span> <span class="i0">Whence into light all streams of being flowed.<br /></span> <span class="i0">Saul daily, nightly, waking, sleeping, dreamed<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Of a new nation, his belovéd own,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of a new nation, his belovéd own,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Resurgent from the dust consummate fair,<br /></span> <span class="i0">And, for chief corner-stone, with shoutings reared<br /></span> <span class="i0">To station in the stately edifice—<br /></span> @@ -2073,7 +2034,7 @@ knowing it, Saul's own beloved sister Rachel.</p> <span class="i0">And ever a blessing true it is to men<br /></span> <span class="i0">To bend the neck beneath an equal yoke<br /></span> <span class="i0">Of ruler strong and wise and just to rule.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then will at last the Gentiles blesséd be<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Then will at last the Gentiles blesséd be<br /></span> <span class="i0">In Abraham, when, from Abraham's loins derived<br /></span> <span class="i0">Through David, God's Anointed shall begin,<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span> <span class="i0">In David's city, His long government<br /></span> @@ -2147,10 +2108,10 @@ knowing it, Saul's own beloved sister Rachel.</p> <span class="i0">With their illiterate 'Lo, here!' 'Lo, there!'"<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">At this increasing burst of scorn from Saul,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Exultant like the pæan and the cry<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span> +<span class="i0">Exultant like the pæan and the cry<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span> <span class="i0">That rises through the palpitating air<br /></span> <span class="i0">When storming warriors take the citadel,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Once more from Rachel's fixéd eyes the tears<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Once more from Rachel's fixéd eyes the tears<br /></span> <span class="i0">Of sympathetic exultation flowed—<br /></span> <span class="i0">The sister with the brother, as in strife<br /></span> <span class="i0">Before the battle striving equally,<br /></span> @@ -2439,7 +2400,7 @@ the course of the controversy.</p> <span class="i0">He proudly, confidently deemed, against<br /></span> <span class="i0">Whatever counter force of eloquence—<br /></span> <span class="i0">This tenure his he saw relaxed, dissolved,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Evanishéd, as it had never been.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Evanishéd, as it had never been.<br /></span> <span class="i0">Perplexed, astonished, but impenetrable,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Though dashed and damped in spirit and in hope,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Angry he stood, recoiled upon himself.<br /></span> @@ -2579,7 +2540,7 @@ the course of the controversy.</p> <span class="i0">Resentment fated to bear bitter fruit,<br /></span> <span class="i0">But melt at last in gracious shame and tears.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">With fixéd look impassible, he gazed<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With fixéd look impassible, he gazed<br /></span> <span class="i0">At Stephen, while, in altered phase, that pure<br /></span> <span class="i0">Effulgence of apostleship burned on:<br /></span> <span class="i0">"Nor, brethren, let this word of mine become<br /></span> @@ -3179,14 +3140,14 @@ depths of dejection over the fallen state of his fortunes.</p> <span class="i0">Though not quite on his errand; Rome agrees<br /></span> <span class="i0">To wink, while we indulge ourselves in what<br /></span> <span class="i0">To us will be self-rule resumed, to her,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A spasm of our Judæan savagery.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A spasm of our Judæan savagery.<br /></span> <span class="i0">Thus is the way made eligibly clear<br /></span> <span class="i0">For brother Mattathias with those stones<br /></span> <span class="i0">He raves about on all occasions—rubbed<br /></span> <span class="i0">Smooth, they must be, as David's from the brook,<br /></span> <span class="i0">With constant wear in Mattathias' hands!<br /></span> <span class="i0">Was it not grim to hear him talk that day?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">His dream of Maccabæan blood aboil<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[130]</a></span> +<span class="i0">His dream of Maccabæan blood aboil<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[130]</a></span> <span class="i0">Within his veins has been too much for him,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Made him a monomaniac on this point;<br /></span> <span class="i0">He sees before him visionary stones,<br /></span> @@ -3550,7 +3511,7 @@ out threatening and slaughter against the Christian church.</p> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"But when," said Saul, forestalling ruefully<br /></span> <span class="i0">The expected and the dreaded change and fall<br /></span> -<span class="i0">From such a chanted pæan to his praise—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">From such a chanted pæan to his praise—<br /></span> <span class="i0">"But when"—<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i10">"But when, O Saul," she said, "when he,<br /></span> @@ -4142,7 +4103,7 @@ Mary, with their brother Lazarus, see him going, and follow.</p> <span class="i0">And that far more which never tongue could say,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Surges upon me, surge on surge of thought<br /></span> <span class="i0">And feeling, like an overflowing flood,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Belovéd, then, how weak I am, how frail,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Belovéd, then, how weak I am, how frail,<br /></span> <span class="i0">How low and like to die! I lean toward thee,<br /></span> <span class="i0">As if the oak should lean upon his vine."<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> @@ -4460,7 +4421,7 @@ house until morning.</p> <span class="i0">Which late from Saul ye heard concerning wounds<br /></span> <span class="i0">Intended to this Jewish commonwealth,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Ye now have heard forsooth again from these—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">How temple, law, and well-belovéd ways<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[188]</a></span> +<span class="i0">How temple, law, and well-belovéd ways<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[188]</a></span> <span class="i0">Bequeathed us by our fathers from of old<br /></span> <span class="i0">Are threatened in the message that I preach.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> @@ -4685,7 +4646,7 @@ house until morning.</p> <span class="i0">Meantime a different scene has quietly<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[197]</a></span> <span class="i0">Been passing unperceived. That company<br /></span> <span class="i0">Of ministering women Rachel found,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Salomé, and the Marys, blessed name!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Salomé, and the Marys, blessed name!<br /></span> <span class="i0">With others who had followed and bewailed<br /></span> <span class="i0">When Jesus suffered—these, joined now by those<br /></span> <span class="i0">From Bethany, with Lazarus, prevailed<br /></span> @@ -4695,7 +4656,7 @@ house until morning.</p> <span class="i0">Nigh Stephen, and in undertones could speak<br /></span> <span class="i0">With him, and hear his words.<br /></span> <span class="i30">"Weep not for me,"<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He said, "ye blesséd! I am well content.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He said, "ye blesséd! I am well content.<br /></span> <span class="i0">I think how short the way is, not how sharp,<br /></span> <span class="i0">To Jesus where just now I saw Him. There<br /></span> <span class="i0">He stood in heaven on the right hand of God.<br /></span> @@ -4704,7 +4665,7 @@ house until morning.</p> <span class="i0">I spring toward Him with joy unutterable.<br /></span> <span class="i0">I shall not feel the pain, which will but speed<br /></span> <span class="i0">Me thither. He hath overcome the world.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Be of good cheer, belovéd, ye who wait<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Be of good cheer, belovéd, ye who wait<br /></span> <span class="i0">A little longer to behold His face.<br /></span> <span class="i0">For you too He hath overcome the world.<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[198]</a></span> <span class="i0">Be strong, be faithful, be obedient,<br /></span> @@ -4810,7 +4771,7 @@ house until morning.</p> <span class="i0">This seen by those, they soon responsively<br /></span> <span class="i0">Resumed composure like his own, and walked,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Following, molested not, at small remove<br /></span> -<span class="i0">From the belovéd martyr, cheering him,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">From the belovéd martyr, cheering him,<br /></span> <span class="i0">And cheered, with sense of some society.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">So, on, with going less precipitate,<br /></span> @@ -4823,7 +4784,7 @@ house until morning.</p> <span class="i0">Austere, impassive, automatic men<br /></span> <span class="i0">Armed, who, though few they might be, yet meant Rome.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Arrived at length at the accurséd spot,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Arrived at length at the accurséd spot,<br /></span> <span class="i0">They stay. The ground about was strewn with stones,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Rejected fragments from the quarry cleft,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Flakes from the mason's chisel, interspersed<br /></span> @@ -4923,7 +4884,7 @@ house until morning.</p> <span class="i0">Melted away meanwhile the multitude<br /></span> <span class="i0">In silence, and, soon after, all were gone<br /></span> <span class="i0">Save the true lovers of the man. Then these<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Gathered together round the accurséd spot,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Gathered together round the accurséd spot,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Now hallowed, where he stood to suffer, where<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[207]</a></span> <span class="i0">He prayed, and where he fell, and whence he rose<br /></span> <span class="i0">Deathless, leaving the sacred body there,<br /></span> @@ -4941,7 +4902,7 @@ house until morning.</p> <span class="i0">"And wash it from the pool of Siloam."<br /></span> <span class="i0">Then Lazarus, with three fellow-helpers more—<br /></span> <span class="i0">Nathanael, Israelite indeed, was there,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Joseph of Arimathæa too had come,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Joseph of Arimathæa too had come,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Later, and Nicodemus, by nightfall,<br /></span> <span class="i0">These were the chosen four, with Lazarus—<br /></span> <span class="i0">Making a litter of their robes, took up<br /></span> @@ -5051,9 +5012,9 @@ tomb.</p> <span class="i0">Or in the shadows of Gethsemane."<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"Ruth," Rachel said, "the Angel of the Lord<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Round His belovéd, like the mountains round<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Round His belovéd, like the mountains round<br /></span> <span class="i0">Jerusalem, encampeth ever; he<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Of God's belovéd is, and guarded well!"<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of God's belovéd is, and guarded well!"<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">But Ruth scarce listened; she insisting said:<br /></span> <span class="i0">"Perhaps of Stephen some report thou bringest,<br /></span> @@ -5357,7 +5318,7 @@ tomb.</p> <span class="i14">"I feel that thou hast told me all<br /></span> <span class="i0">Most truly, Rachel, as most tenderly.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Thus, then, God giveth His belovéd sleep,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Thus, then, God giveth His belovéd sleep,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Thus also! And He doeth all things well!<br /></span> <span class="i0">Amen!"<br /></span> @@ -5366,7 +5327,7 @@ tomb.</p> <span class="i0">From both, and Ruth, regarding Rachel, said:<br /></span> <span class="i0">"Even so! But, Rachel, us not yet doth God<br /></span> <span class="i0">Will thus to sleep. Still, otherwise to sleep—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For His belovéd are not also we?—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For His belovéd are not also we?—<br /></span> <span class="i0">May be God's gift to us. Thou surely needest,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Body and spirit, rest."<br /></span> @@ -5470,7 +5431,7 @@ tomb.</p> <span class="i0">Was laid the sacred dust of Stephen down<br /></span> <span class="i0">And sealed within a rock-hewn sepulchre.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Joseph of Arimathæa, he who sought<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Joseph of Arimathæa, he who sought<br /></span> <span class="i0">And gained from Pilate leave to take away<br /></span> <span class="i0">The body of Jesus crucified, had sent<br /></span> <span class="i0">To Bethany, betimes, before the hour<br /></span> @@ -5568,7 +5529,7 @@ tomb.</p> <span class="i0">Rejoice, rejoice, for Stephen could not die!<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"Comfort ye Ruth; thrice among women she<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Lives blesséd, who, from wife to him, became,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Lives blesséd, who, from wife to him, became,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Widowed, partaker of his martyrdom!<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"Hosanna to the Son of David, Who,<br /></span> @@ -5666,7 +5627,7 @@ of every need.</p> <span class="i0">This, scandal against scandal doubtful weighed,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Would be the hard alternative to Saul.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"Belovéd brother Saul," so Shimei spoke,<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[239]</a></span> +<span class="i0">"Belovéd brother Saul," so Shimei spoke,<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[239]</a></span> <span class="i0">"<em>I</em> mourned at Stephen's funeral to-day.<br /></span> <span class="i0">Not loud, you know, but deep, my mourning was;<br /></span> <span class="i0">Not loud, for I am modest, and my wish<br /></span> @@ -6374,7 +6335,7 @@ his vote against the man.</p> <span class="i0">How failed the hand of brute authority<br /></span> <span class="i0">Against this strange faith of the Nazarene.<br /></span> <span class="i0">Thine undertaking I less disapproved<br /></span> -<span class="i0">After our hearing of the Galilæans.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">After our hearing of the Galilæans.<br /></span> <span class="i0">Something perceived in them, or through them felt,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Disturbed me with a strange solicitude,<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_270" id="Page_270">[270]</a></span> <span class="i0">Which the ill fortune of thine own assay<br /></span> @@ -6874,7 +6835,7 @@ his vote against the man.</p> <span class="i0">Instead of Saul, to accuse the prisoner.<br /></span> <span class="i0">With plausible glib mendacity, he said:<br /></span> <span class="i0">"Not only is this fellow heretic<br /></span> -<span class="i0">After the manner of those Galilæans,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">After the manner of those Galilæans,<br /></span> <span class="i0">But myself saw with mine own eyes just now<br /></span> <span class="i0">How he the idlers in the street stirred up<br /></span> <span class="i0">To most unseemly act of violence<br /></span> @@ -6950,7 +6911,7 @@ his vote against the man.</p> <span class="i0">Saul, in his secret mind with anguish torn,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Gazed at the man forsworn against, maligned,<br /></span> <span class="i0">And almost envied him. A look of peace<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Was on him like a light of fixéd stars,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Was on him like a light of fixéd stars,<br /></span> <span class="i0">So constant, and so inaccessible<br /></span> <span class="i0">Of change through jar, through stain, so clear, so fair!<br /></span> <span class="i0">He listened to the voices round him loud,<br /></span> @@ -6980,7 +6941,7 @@ his vote against the man.</p> <span class="i0">And sun and moon and stars for me ordained.<br /></span> <span class="i0">I praise Him as the Lord of life and light,<br /></span> <span class="i0">And Giver of light and life to dead and blind.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">All glory to His ever-blesséd Name!"<br /></span> +<span class="i0">All glory to His ever-blesséd Name!"<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The simple ecstasy from which he spoke,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Illuminated, and the holy power<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_295" id="Page_295">[295]</a></span> @@ -7031,7 +6992,7 @@ his vote against the man.</p> <span class="i0">He loves his blasphemy, give him his fill,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Whet him his appetite, make him blaspheme<br /></span> <span class="i0">His own Lord God, the man of Nazareth.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For that thrice damnéd name require from him,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For that thrice damnéd name require from him,<br /></span> <span class="i0">At every lash, an imprecation loud,<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_297" id="Page_297">[297]</a></span> <span class="i0">On pain of instant death should one curse fail!"<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> @@ -7058,7 +7019,7 @@ his vote against the man.</p> <span class="i0">In linen pure and fine, and laid away<br /></span> <span class="i0">In secret, not unwept or unbewailed<br /></span> <span class="i0">Of such as loved him for the love he bore,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Quenchless by death, to the Belovéd Name.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Quenchless by death, to the Belovéd Name.<br /></span> </div></div> <hr class="chap" /> @@ -7084,7 +7045,7 @@ that Shimei proposed, namely, the arrest of the apostles. His men fail him at the pinch, and Saul bitterly upbraids them, declaring strongly that their renegade behavior only determines him the more sternly to root utterly out the -pestilent Galilæan heresy, at whatever cost of exertion and +pestilent Galilæan heresy, at whatever cost of exertion and blood and tears.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_301" id="Page_301">[301]</a></span></p> @@ -7292,10 +7253,10 @@ blood and tears.</p> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">As, gradually, Saul with his retinue<br /></span> <span class="i0">Drew near the spot, so large a following<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Of arméd men, led by a chief whose fame<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of arméd men, led by a chief whose fame<br /></span> <span class="i0">Was rife now through Jerusalem for deeds<br /></span> <span class="i0">And purposes of uttermost revenge<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Against the Galilæan heresy,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Against the Galilæan heresy,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Gathered about their course a growing crowd,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Who, urged by various thought and feeling, watched<br /></span> <span class="i0">What might that minatory march intend.<br /></span> @@ -7375,7 +7336,7 @@ blood and tears.</p> <span class="i0">Within you, and, from hands through fear relaxed,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Harmless will drop those miscreant stones which now,<br /></span> <span class="i0">With your poltroonery, ye invoke to fall<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In well-deservéd doom upon your heads!"<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In well-deservéd doom upon your heads!"<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Upbraided thus, they, by that spokesman, said:<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_313" id="Page_313">[313]</a></span> <span class="i0">"Stoning may lightly be despised by men<br /></span> @@ -7468,7 +7429,7 @@ blood and tears.</p> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Saul, in the light of luminous wrath, foresaw<br /></span> <span class="i0">Nigh, and saluted, that career, which thence,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">After Judæan cities overrun<br /></span> +<span class="i0">After Judæan cities overrun<br /></span> <span class="i0">With havoc at his hand to Jesus' name,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Will bear him ravening on Damascus road!<br /></span> </div></div> @@ -7485,7 +7446,7 @@ blood and tears.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_318" id="Page_318"> </a></span></p> -<p>After further persecution accomplished by him in Judæa, +<p>After further persecution accomplished by him in Judæa, Saul, with spirits recovered, sets out for Damascus to carry thither the persecuting sword. Pausing on the brow of hill Scopus to survey Jerusalem just left, he soliloquizes. At the @@ -7517,7 +7478,7 @@ quite passed the bounds of Samaria.</p> <span class="i0">Not yet his fill of slaughter supped, though forth<br /></span> <span class="i0">Afar the timorous flock of Jesus now<br /></span> <span class="i0">Were from before his restless, ravening, fierce,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Rapacious sword out of Judæa fled<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Rapacious sword out of Judæa fled<br /></span> <span class="i0">To alien lands remote, beyond the heights<br /></span> <span class="i0">Of Hermon with their everlasting snows,<br /></span> <span class="i0">And farther to the islands of the sea—<br /></span> @@ -7557,7 +7518,7 @@ quite passed the bounds of Samaria.</p> <span class="i0">The acclivity surmounted of a hill,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Whence downward dipped his road, declining north,<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_321" id="Page_321">[321]</a></span> <span class="i0">And farewell glimpse gave of Jerusalem,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Saul rein drew on his foamy-flankéd steed,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Saul rein drew on his foamy-flankéd steed,<br /></span> <span class="i0">And, about winding him, paused, looking back.<br /></span> <span class="i0">His retinue, far otherwise than he<br /></span> <span class="i0">Mounted, part even on foot, with sumpter beasts<br /></span> @@ -7624,14 +7585,14 @@ quite passed the bounds of Samaria.</p> <span class="i0">A turm of horse, large not, but formidable,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Caparison and armor gleaming bright,<br /></span> <span class="i0">And with a nameless air forerunning them<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Of wide-renownéd might invincible<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of wide-renownéd might invincible<br /></span> <span class="i0">Expressed in that momentous rhythmic tread<br /></span> <span class="i0">Four-footed, underneath which from afar<br /></span> <span class="i0">With pulse on pulse now rock to iron rang.<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_324" id="Page_324">[324]</a></span> <span class="i0">The cavalcade, by slow degrees more slow,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Moved up the acclivity till, reached the brow,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Sank to a walk their pace, when Saul perceived<br /></span> -<span class="i0">An arméd escort was convoying one<br /></span> +<span class="i0">An arméd escort was convoying one<br /></span> <span class="i0">Thereby betokened an ambassador,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Somewhither posting on affair of state,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Or haply citizen of high degree<br /></span> @@ -7745,7 +7706,7 @@ quite passed the bounds of Samaria.</p> <span class="i0">"With his Ionic strain mellifluous<br /></span> <span class="i0">Of wonder-loving artless narrative";<br /></span> <span class="i0">Thucydides, the soul of energy;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Æschylus, Titan; happy Sophocles;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Æschylus, Titan; happy Sophocles;<br /></span> <span class="i0">With soft Euripides unfortunate;<br /></span> <span class="i0">Then Socrates, "Who wrote no books," said Saul,<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_329" id="Page_329">[329]</a></span> <span class="i0">"Or wrote most living books in living men;<br /></span> @@ -7972,7 +7933,7 @@ quite passed the bounds of Samaria.</p> <span class="i0">"The Hebrew spirit is severe and says,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'The fool it is who in his secret heart,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Rebelling, wills no God.' 'The Hebrew spirit,'<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Said I? Forget those unadviséd words;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Said I? Forget those unadviséd words;<br /></span> <span class="i0">For to speak so is not the Hebrew spirit.<br /></span> <span class="i0">God is a jealous God; His glory He<br /></span> <span class="i0">Will to another not divide; and God<br /></span> @@ -8113,7 +8074,7 @@ quite passed the bounds of Samaria.</p> <span class="i2">'To generation, following hard the line<br /></span> <span class="i2">'Of such as hate Me, endless mercy shown<br /></span> <span class="i2">'To such as love Me and observe My law.<br /></span> -<span class="i2">'Curséd be he who dares to disobey';<br /></span> +<span class="i2">'Curséd be he who dares to disobey';<br /></span> <span class="i0">And Ebal, with its countless multitude,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Thundered to Gerizim a loud 'Amen!'<br /></span> <span class="i0">While heaven above and the wide world around<br /></span> @@ -8152,8 +8113,8 @@ quite passed the bounds of Samaria.</p> <span class="i0">A city here the tetrarch Philip built,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Or raised to more magnificent, which then,<br /></span> <span class="i0">In honor of dishonorable name<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Imperial, Tiberius Cæsar, he<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Called Cæsarea, and Philippi too<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Imperial, Tiberius Cæsar, he<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Called Cæsarea, and Philippi too<br /></span> <span class="i0">Eponymous therewith for surname joined;<br /></span> <span class="i0">But Paneas, earlier name, clung to the place,<br /></span> <span class="i0">As to this day it clings in Banias.<br /></span> @@ -8171,7 +8132,7 @@ quite passed the bounds of Samaria.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_348" id="Page_348"> </a></span></p> -<p>Coming together again at Cæsarea Philippi (Paneas, Banias) +<p>Coming together again at Cæsarea Philippi (Paneas, Banias) after an interval of days, Saul and Sergius cross the southern spur of Hermon. A violent thunderstorm comes slowly up during the afternoon, which gives Sergius occasion, @@ -8467,7 +8428,7 @@ for the last stage of their journey to Damascus.</p> <span class="i0">And land that Moses never was to see,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Save as afar in prospect from the mount,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Because unworthy judged to enter there,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Who unadviséd words in haste let slip,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Who unadviséd words in haste let slip,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Unworthy judged, and meekly by himself<br /></span> <span class="i0">Recorded judged unworthy—such a man,<br /></span> <span class="i0">To such a people, so long led by him,<br /></span> @@ -8734,7 +8695,7 @@ his journey on foot, blind, led by the hand into Damascus.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Without the limits of this earthly sphere,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Immeasurable distances beyond<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The region of the utmost fixéd stars,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The region of the utmost fixéd stars,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Nay, high above all height, transcending space,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Transcending time, subsists a different world,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Invisible, inapprehensible<br /></span> @@ -8782,7 +8743,7 @@ his journey on foot, blind, led by the hand into Damascus.</p> <span class="i0">Than yesterday, forever, through more fair<br /></span> <span class="i0">Disclosure, dawn on dawn, eternally<br /></span> <span class="i0">Made of the glory of the face of Him<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In whom to His belovéd God still shines.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In whom to His belovéd God still shines.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Morn such had risen once more in Paradise,<br /></span> <span class="i0">When there a group elect together drawn,<br /></span> @@ -9058,7 +9019,7 @@ his journey on foot, blind, led by the hand into Damascus.</p> <span class="i0">Will kindle the dark earth with many a ray,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Never to be extinguished, of heaven's light<br /></span> <span class="i0">Caught from the torch that this world-wandering man,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">This flying angel fledged with wingéd feet<br /></span> +<span class="i0">This flying angel fledged with wingéd feet<br /></span> <span class="i0">Tireless, this heart of love unquenchable,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Has borne abroad, when, now the good fight fought,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Finished his course, the faith full kept, he, last,<br /></span> @@ -9152,382 +9113,6 @@ his journey on foot, blind, led by the hand into Damascus.</p> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's The Epic of Saul, by William Cleaver Wilkinson - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EPIC OF SAUL *** - -***** This file should be named 43247-h.htm or 43247-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/3/2/4/43247/ - -Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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