. Saul. 14. All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!Hast thou loved the white locks of thy father, whose sword thou didst guardWhen he trusted thee forth with the armies, for glorious reward ?Didst thou see the thin hands of thy mother, held up as men sungThe low song of the nearly-departed, and hear her faint tongueJoining in while it could to the witness, * Let one more attest,I have lived, seen Gods hand through a lifetime, and all was for best ?Then they sung through their tears in strong triumph, not much, but the thy brothers, and help and the contest, the worki
. Saul. 14. All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!Hast thou loved the white locks of thy father, whose sword thou didst guardWhen he trusted thee forth with the armies, for glorious reward ?Didst thou see the thin hands of thy mother, held up as men sungThe low song of the nearly-departed, and hear her faint tongueJoining in while it could to the witness, * Let one more attest,I have lived, seen Gods hand through a lifetime, and all was for best ?Then they sung through their tears in strong triumph, not much, but the thy brothers, and help and the contest, the working whence grewSuch result as, from seething grape-bundles, the spirit strained true: 15 And the friends of thy boyhood — that boyhood of wonder and hope,Present promise and wealth of the future beyond the eyes scope,—Till lo, thou art grown to a monarch ; a people is thine ;And all gifts, which the world offers singly, on one head combine!On one head, all the beauty and strength, love and rage (like the
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