. Stories from the Hebrew . r banners at sunset were seen ;Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown,That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. And the angel of death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed ;And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved and forever grewstill. And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide,But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride ;And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf,And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider
. Stories from the Hebrew . r banners at sunset were seen ;Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown,That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. And the angel of death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed ;And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved and forever grewstill. And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide,But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride ;And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf,And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail; 124 THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB And the tents were all silent, the banners alone,The lances unlifted, the trumpets unblown. And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,And the idols are broken in the temple of Baal;And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord. Lord Byron. XXIV.—NEBUCHADNEZZAR. EBUCHADNEZZAR,* the king of Babylon, once con-quered the city of Jerusa-lem. Among his prisonerswas Daniel,2 a wise youngprince of Judah. God gave himknowledge and skill in all learn-ing and wisdom, and the powerto understand all visions anddreams. He, and three otheryoung princes, were often brought before the king, whofound them ten times better in all matters of wisdomthan any other persons in his realm. Once the king dreamed a dream which troubled himgreatly as he lay awake at night, but the next morninghe had forgotten it. He called the wisest men of hiskingdom and commanded them to tell him what he haddreamed and what the dream meant. They told himit was impossible for any man to tell him what he hadforgotten, especially as it had really never existed andwas but the baseless fabric of a drearn. When Daniel heard of the kings trouble, he askedGod to tell him the dream. God revealed it to him in 1 Nebuchadnezzar = nebu-kad-nezzar. 2 Daniel = danyel. 126
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