day a solemn feast the people hold Dagon, their sea-idol, and forbid Laborious works, unwillingly this rest Their superstition yields me; hence with leave Of both my parents all in flames ascended His god-like presence, and from some great act Design'd for great exploits, if I must die Betray'd, captived, and both my eyes put out, Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze, To grind in brazen fetters under task With this heav'n-gifted strength? O glorious strength Lower than bondslave! Promise was that I Had been fulfill'd but through mine own default, 1 Judges xiii, 3, 11-20. meng enemies, ren, or beggary, or decrepis age! the prime work of Go to me's extinct, Anni, which might in part my grief have eased, I man or worm, the vilest here excel me; Searce half I seem to live, dead more than half. › dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, rrecoverably dark, total eclipse Vithout all hope of day! reated beam, and thou great Word, light, and light was over all; bereaved thy prime decree? is dark the moon,1 or near the change, and in conjunction with the sun. When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. She all in every part; why was the sight By privilege of death and burial From worst of other evils, pains, and wrongs, To all the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes. But who are these? for with joint pace I hear O change beyond report, thought, or belief! As one past hope, abandon'd, As by himself given over; In slavish habit, ill-fitted weeds O'er-worn and soil'd; Or do my eyes misrepresent? can this be he, That heroic, that renown'd, 1 Stretched out. Fei inm us lion zamg.' kui vanara zim'i Ther patel jacka mnder is les Cering wil'i far stel heimes in de inst. The jar of a feat ass, is sword of bone, A thonand re-ining fell, the Sower of Palestine Ia Ramasa-ieshi,' famone to ink day: Then by main forte poli'd up. and on his shockiers bore The gatea of Azza, post, and massy tar, Up to the hill by Hebron, seat of giants obl No journey of a Sabbath day, and loaded so; Like whom the Gentiles feign to bear up heav'n." Which shall I first bewail, Thy bondage or lost sight Prison within prison Inseparably dark? Thou art become, O worst imprisonment ! The dungeon of thyself; thy soul, Which men enjoying sight oft without cause complain, The Chalybes were famous in the old the best tempered steel was xv. 17. Ramath-lechi means the lifting up, or casting away, of the jaw-bone. 5 Another name for Gaza. The city of the Anakims, who were giants. Judges xv. 13, 14, Num. xiii. 33. 7 A Sabbath day's journey was, with the Jews, three-quarters of a geographical mile. 8 Atlas. |