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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355176" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>David</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is not always to the strong<br>Victorious battle shall belong.<br>This found Goliath huge and tall:<br>Mightiest giant of them all,<br>Who in the proud Philistian host<br>Defiëd Israel with boast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>With loud voice Goliath said:<br>'Hear, armed Israel, gatherëd,<br>And in array against us set:<br>Ye shall alone by me be met.<br>For am not I a Philistine?<br>What strength may be compared to mine?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Choose ye a man of greatest might:<br>And if he conquer me in fight,<br>Then we will all servants be,<br>King of Israel, unto thee.<br>But if I prove the victor, then<br>Shall Saul and all his armëd men<br>Bend low beneath Philistian yoke.'<br>Day by day these words he spoke,<br>Singly traversing the ground.<br>But not an Israelite was found<br>To combat man to man with him,<br>Who such prodigious force of limb<br>Displayed. Like to a weaver's beam<br>The ponderous spear he held did seem.<br>In height six cubits he did pass,<br>And he was armed all o'er in brass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Him we will leave awhile, and speak<br>Of one, the soft down on whose cheek<br>Of tender youth the tokens bare.<br>Ruddy he was and very fair.<br>David, the son of Jesse he,<br>Small sized, yet beautiful to see.<br>Three brothers had he in the band<br>Of warriors under Saul's command;<br>Himself at home did private keep<br>In Bethlem's plains his father's sheep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Jesse said to this his son:<br>'David, to thy brothers run,<br>Where in the camp they now abide,<br>And learn what of them may betide.<br>These presents for their captains take,<br>And of their fare inquiries make.'<br>With joy the youth his sire obeyed.-<br>David was no whit dismayed<br>When he arrivëd at the place<br>Where he beheld the strength and face<br>Of dread Goliath, and could hear<br>The challenge. Of the people near<br>Unmoved he asked, what should be done<br>To him who slew that boasting one,<br>Whose words such mischiefs did forebode<br>To the armies of the living God?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'The king,' they unto David say,<br>'Most amply will that man repay.<br>He and his father's house shall be<br>Evermore in Israel free.<br>With mighty wealth Saul will endow<br>That man: and he has made a vow;<br>Whoever takes Goliath's life,<br>Shall have Saul's daughter for his wife.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>His eldest brother, who had heard<br>His question, was to anger stirred<br>Against the youth: for (as he thought)<br>Things out of his young reach he sought.<br>Said he, 'What moved thee to come here,<br>To question warlike men? say, where<br>And in whose care are those few sheep<br>That in the wilderness you keep?<br>I know thy thoughts, how proud thou art:<br>In the haughtiness of thy heart,<br>Hoping a battle thou mayst see,<br>Thou comest hither down to me.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Then answered Jesse's youngest son<br>In these words: 'What have I done?<br>Is there not cause?' Some there which heard,<br>And at the manner of his word<br>Admired, report this to the king.<br>By his command they David bring<br>Into his presence. Fearless then,<br>Before the king and his chief men,<br>He shows his confident design<br>To combat with the Philistine.<br>Saul with wonder heard the youth,<br>And thus addressed him: 'Of a truth,<br>No power thy untried sinew hath<br>To cope with this great man of Gath.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Lowly David bowed his head,<br>And with firm voice the stripling said:<br>'Thy servant kept his father's sheep.-<br>Rushing from a mountain steep<br>There came a lion, and a bear,<br>The firstlings of my flock to tear.<br>Thy servant hath that lion killed,<br>And killed that bear, when from the field<br>Two young lambs by force they seized.<br>The Lord was mercifully pleased<br>Me to deliver from the paw<br>Of the fierce bear, and cruel jaw<br>Of the strong lion. I shall slay<br>The unrighteous Philistine this day,<br>If God deliver him also<br>To me.' He ceased. The king said, 'Go:<br>Thy God, the God of Israel, be<br>In the battle still with thee.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>David departs unarmed, save<br>A staff in hand he chanced to have.<br>Nothing to the fight he took,<br>Save five smooth stones from out a brook;<br>These in his shepherd's scrip he placed,<br>That was fastened round his waist.<br>With staff and sling alone he meets<br>The armëd giant, who him greets<br>With nought but scorn. Looking askance<br>On the fair ruddy countenance<br>Of his young enemy-'Am I<br>A dog, that thou comest here to try<br>Thy strength upon me with a staff?'<br>Goliath said with scornful laugh.<br>'Thou comest with sword, with spear, with shield,<br>Yet thou to me this day must yield.<br>The Lord of Hosts is on my side,<br>Whose armies boastful thou'st defied.<br>All nations of the earth shall hear<br>He saveth not with shield and spear.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Thus David spake, and nigher went,<br>Then choosing from his scrip, he sent<br>Out of his slender sling a stone.-<br>The giant uttered fearful moan.<br>The stone though small had piercëd deep<br>Into his forehead, endless sleep<br>Giving Goliath-and thus died<br>Of Philistines the strength and pride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Lamb">Charles Lamb</a><div class=q>
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Who in the proud Philistian host
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