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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=478633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Goliath Of Gath</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">SAMUEL, Chap. xvii.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">YE martial pow'rs, and all ye tuneful nine,<br>Inspire my song, and aid my high design.<br>The dreadful scenes and toils of war I write,<br>The ardent warriors, and the fields of fight:<br>You best remember, and you best can sing<br>The acts of heroes to the vocal string:<br>Resume the lays with which your sacred lyre,<br>Did then the poet and the sage inspire.<br> Now front to front the armies were display'd,<br>Here Israel rang'd, and there the foes array'd;<br>The hosts on two opposing mountains stood,<br>Thick as the foliage of the waving wood;<br>Between them an extensive valley lay,<br>O'er which the gleaming armour pour'd the day,<br>When from the camp of the Philistine foes,<br>Dreadful to view, a mighty warrior rose;<br>In the dire deeds of bleeding battle skill'd,<br>The monster stalks the terror of the field.<br>From Gath he sprung, Goliath was his name,<br>Of fierce deportment, and gigantic frame:<br>A brazen helmet on his head was plac'd,<br>A coat of mail his form terrific grac'd,<br>The greaves his legs, the targe his shoulders prest:<br>Dreadful in arms high-tow'ring o'er the rest<br>A spear he proudly wav'd, whose iron head,<br>Strange to relate, six hundred shekels weigh'd;<br>He strode along, and shook the ample field,<br>While Phoebus blaz'd refulgent on his shield:<br>Through Jacob's race a chilling horror ran,<br>When thus the huge, enormous chief began:<br> "Say, what the cause that in this proud array<br>"You set your battle in the face of day?<br>"One hero find in all your vaunting train,<br>"Then see who loses, and who wins the plain;<br>"For he who wins, in triumph may demand<br>"Perpetual service from the vanquish'd land:<br>"Your armies I defy, your force despise,<br>"By far inferior in Philistia's eyes:<br>"Produce a man, and let us try the fight,<br>"Decide the contest, and the victor's right."<br> Thus challeng'd he: all Israel stood amaz'd,<br>And ev'ry chief in consternation gaz'd;<br>But Jesse's son in youthful bloom appears,<br>And warlike courage far beyond his years:<br>He left the folds, he left the flow'ry meads,<br>And soft recesses of the sylvan shades.<br>Now Israel's monarch, and his troops arise,<br>With peals of shouts ascending to the skies;<br>In Elah's vale the scene of combat lies.<br> When the fair morning blush'd with orient red,<br>What David's fire enjoin'd the son obey'd,<br>And swift of foot towards the trench he came,<br>Where glow'd each bosom with the martial flame.<br>He leaves his carriage to another's care,<br>And runs to greet his brethren of the war.<br>While yet they spake the giant-chief arose,<br>Repeats the challenge, and insults his foes:<br>Struck with the sound, and trembling at the view,<br>Affrighted Israel from its post withdrew.<br>"Observe ye this tremendous foe, they cry'd,<br>"Who in proud vaunts our armies hath defy'd:<br>"Whoever lays him prostrate on the plain,<br>"Freedom in Israel for his house shall gain;<br>"And on him wealth unknown the king will pour,<br>"And give his royal daughter for his dow'r."<br> Then Jesse's youngest hope: "My brethren say,<br>"What shall be done for him who takes away<br>"Reproach from Jacob, who destroys the chief.<br>"And puts a period to his country's grief.<br>"He vaunts the honours of his arms abroad,<br>"And scorns the armies of the living God."<br> Thus spoke the youth, th' attentive people ey'd<br>The wond'rous hero, and again reply'd:<br>"Such the rewards our monarch will bestow,<br>"On him who conquers, and destroys his foe."<br> Eliab heard, and kindled into ire<br>To hear his shepherd brother thus inquire,<br>And thus begun: "What errand brought thee? say<br>"Who keeps thy flock? or does it go astray?<br>"I know the base ambition of thine heart,<br>"But back in safety from the field depart."<br> Eliab thus to Jesse's youngest heir,<br>Express'd his wrath in accents most severe.<br>When to his brother mildly he reply'd.<br>"What have I done? or what the cause to chide?<br> The words were told before the king, who sent<br>For the young hero to his royal tent:<br>Before the monarch dauntless he began,<br>"For this Philistine fail no heart of man:<br>"I'll take the vale, and with the giant fight:<br>"I dread not all his boasts, nor all his might."<br>When thus the king: "Dar'st thou a stripling go,<br>"And venture combat with so great a foe?<br>"Who all his days has been inur'd to fight,<br>"And made its deeds his study and delight:<br>"Battles and bloodshed brought the monster forth,<br>"And clouds and whirlwinds usher'd in his birth."<br>When David thus: "I kept the fleecy care,<br>"And out there rush'd a lion and a bear;<br>"A tender lamb the hungry lion took,<br>"And with no other weapon than my crook<br>"Bold I pursu'd, and chas d him o'er the field,<br>"The prey deliver'd, and the felon kill'd:<br>"As thus the lion and the bear I slew,<br>"So shall Goliath fall, and all his crew:<br>"The God, who sav'd me from these beasts of prey,<br>"By me this monster in the dust shall lay."<br>So David spoke. The wond'ring king reply'd;<br>"Go thou with heav'n and victory on thy side:<br>"This coat of mail, this sword gird on," he said,<br>And plac'd a mighty helmet on his head:<br>The coat, the sword, the helm he laid aside,<br>Nor chose to venture with those arms untry'd,<br>Then took his staff, and to the neighb'ring brook<br>Instant he ran, and thence five pebbles took.<br>Mean time descended to Philistia's son<br>A radiant cherub, and he thus begun:<br>"Goliath, well thou know'st thou hast defy'd<br>"Yon Hebrew armies, and their God deny'd:<br>"Rebellious wretch! audacious worm! forbear,<br>"Nor tempt the vengeance of their God too far:<br>"Them, who with his Omnipotence contend,<br>"No eye shall pity, and no arm defend:<br>"Proud as thou art, in short liv'd glory great,<br>"I come to tell thee thine approaching fate.<br>"Regard my words. The Judge of all the gods,<br>"Beneath whose steps the tow'ring mountain nods,<br>"Will give thine armies to the savage brood,<br>"That cut the liquid air, or range the wood.<br>"Thee too a well-aim'd pebble shall destroy,<br>"And thou shalt perish by a beardless boy:<br>"Such is the mandate from the realms above,<br>"And should I try the vengeance to remove,<br>"Myself a rebel to my king would prove.<br>"Goliath say, shall grace to him be shown,<br>"Who dares heav'ns Monarch, and insults his throne?"<br> "Your words are lost on me," the giant cries,<br>While fear and wrath contended in his eyes,<br>When thus the messenger from heav'n replies:<br>"Provoke no more Jehovah's awful hand<br>"To hurl its vengeance on thy guilty land:<br>"He grasps the thunder, and, he wings the storm,<br>"Servants their sov'reign's orders to perform."<br> The angel spoke, and turn'd his eyes away,<br>Adding new radiance to the rising day.<br> Now David comes: the fatal stones demand<br>His left, the staff engag'd his better hand:<br>The giant mov'd, and from his tow'ring height<br>Survey'd the stripling, and disdain'd the fight,<br>And thus began: "Am I a dog with thee?<br>"Bring'st thou no armour, but a staff to me?<br>"The gods on thee their vollied curses pour,<br>"And beasts and birds of prey thy flesh devour."<br> David undaunted thus, "Thy spear and shield<br>"Shall no protection to thy body yield:<br>"Jehovah's name------no other arms I bear,<br>"I ask no other in this glorious war.<br>"To-day the Lord of Hosts to me will give<br>"Vict'ry, to-day thy doom thou shalt receive;<br>"The fate you threaten shall your own become,<br>"And beasts shall be your animated tomb,<br>"That all the earth's inhabitants may know<br>"That there's a God, who governs all below:<br>"This great assembly too shall witness stand,<br>"That needs nor sword, nor spear, th' Almighty's<br> hand:<br>"The battle his, the conquest he bestows,<br>"And to our pow'r consigns our hated foes."<br> Thus David spoke; Goliath heard and came<br>To meet the hero in the field of fame.<br>Ah! fatal meeting to thy troops and thee,<br>But thou wast deaf to the divine decree;<br>Young David meets thee, meets thee not in vain;<br>'Tis thine to perish on th' ensanguin'd plain.<br> And now the youth the forceful pebble slung<br>Philistia trembled as it whizz'd along:<br>In his dread forehead, where the helmet ends,<br>Just o'er the brows the well-aim'd stone descends,<br>It pierc'd the skull, and shatter'd all the brain,<br>Prone on his face he tumbled to the plain:<br>Goliath's fall no smaller terror yields<br>Than riving thunders in aerial fields:<br>The soul still ling'red in its lov'd abode,<br>Till conq'ring David o'er the giant strode:<br>Goliath's sword then laid its master dead,<br>And from the body hew'd the ghastly head;<br>The blood in gushing torrents drench'd the plains,<br>The soul found passage through the spouting veins.<br> And now aloud th' illustrious victor said,<br>"Where are your boastings now your champion's<br> "dead?"<br>Scarce had he spoke, when the Philistines fled:<br>But fled in vain; the conqu'ror swift pursu'd:<br>What scenes of slaughter! and what seas of blood!<br>There Saul thy thousands grasp'd th' impurpled sand<br>In pangs of death the conquest of thine hand;<br>And David there were thy ten thousands laid:<br>Thus Israel's damsels musically play'd.<br> Near Gath and Edron many an hero lay,<br>Breath'd out their souls, and curs'd the light of day:<br>Their fury, quench'd by death, no longer burns,<br>And David with Goliath's head returns,<br>To Salem brought, but in his tent he plac'd<br>The load of armour which the giant grac'd.<br>His monarch saw him coming from the war,<br>And thus demanded of the son of Ner.<br>"Say, who is this amazing youth?" he cry'd,<br>When thus the leader of the host reply'd;<br>"As lives thy soul I know not whence he sprung,<br>"So great in prowess though in years so young:"<br>"Inquire whose son is he," the sov'reign said,<br>"Before whose conq'ring arm Philistia fled."<br>Before the king behold the stripling stand,<br>Goliath's head depending from his hand:<br>To him the king: "Say of what martial line<br>"Art thou, young hero, and what sire was thine?"<br>He humbly thus; "The son of Jesse I:<br>"I came the glories of the field to try.<br>"Small is my tribe, but valiant in the fight;<br>"Small is my city, but thy royal right."<br>"Then take the promis'd gifts," the monarch cry'd,<br>Conferring riches and the royal bride:<br>"Knit to my soul for ever thou remain<br>"With me, nor quit my regal roof again."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Phillis+Wheatley">Phillis Wheatley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=478633" data-title="Goliath Of Gath de Phillis Wheatley" data-description="SAMUEL, Chap. xvii. 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