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With noise of battle and the dust of fray	A
Half hid in fog the gloomy mountain lay	A
But Succoth s watchers from their outer fields	B
Saw fits of flame and gleams of clashing shields	B
For where the yellow river draws its spring	C
The hosts of Israel travelled thundering	C
There beating like the storm that sweeps to sea	D
Across the reefs of chafing Galilee	D
The car of Abner and the sword of Saul	E
Drave Gaza down Gilboa s southern wall	E
But swift and sure the spears of Ekron flew	F
Till peak and slope were drenched with bloody dew	F
Shout Timnath shout the blazing leaders cried	G
And hurled the stone and dashed the stave aside	G
Shout Timnath shout Let Hazor hold the height	H
Bend the long bow and break the lords of fight	H
From every hand the swarthy strangers sprang	I
Chief leaped on chief with buckler buckler rang	I
The flower of armies Set in Syrian heat	J
The ridges clamoured under labouring feet	J
Nor stayed the warriors till from Salem s road	K
The crescent horns of Abner s squadrons glowed	K
Then like a shooting splendour on the wing	C
The strong armed son of Kish came thundering	C
And as in Autumn s fall when woods are bare	L
Two adverse tempests meet in middle air	L
So Saul and Achish grim with heat and hate	M
Met by the brook and shook the scales of Fate	M
For now the struggle swayed and firm as rocks	N
Against the storm wind of the equinox	N
The rallied lords of Judah stood and bore	O
All day the fiery tides of fourfold war	O
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But he that fasted in the secret cave	P
And called up Samuel from the quiet grave	P
And stood with darkness and the mantled ghosts	Q
A bitter night on shrill Samarian coasts	Q
Knew well the end of how the futile sword	R
Of Israel would be broken by the Lord	R
How Gath would triumph with the tawny line	S
That bend the knee at Dagon s brittle shrine	S
And how the race of Kish would fall to wreck	T
Because of vengeance stayed at Amalek	T
Yet strove the sun like king nor rested hand	U
Till yellow evening filled the level land	U
Then Judah reeled before a biting hail	V
Of sudden arrows shot from Achor s vale	V
Where Libnah lapped in blood from thigh to heel	W
Drew the tense string and pierced the quivering steel	W
There fell the sons of Saul and man by man	X
The chiefs of Israel up to Jonathan	Y
And while swift Achish stooped and caught the spoil	Z
Ten chosen archers red with sanguine toil	Z
Sped after Saul who faint and sick and sore	O
With many wounds had left the thick of war	O
He like a baffled bull by hunters pressed	A2
Turned sharp about and faced the flooded west	A2
And saw the star like spears and moony spokes	B2
Gleam from the rocks and lighten through the oaks	B2
A sea of splendour How the chariots rolled	C2
On wheels of blinding brightness manifold	C2
While stumbling over spike and spine and spur	D2
Of sultry lands escaped the son of Ner	D2
With smitten men At this the front of Saul	E
Grew darker than a blasted tower wall	E
And seeing how there crouched upon his right	H
Aghast with fear a black Amalekite	H
He called and said I pray thee man of pain	E2
Red from the scourge and recent from the chain	E2
Set thou thy face to mine and stoutly stand	H
With yonder bloody sword hilt in thy hand	H
And fall upon me But the faltering hind	H
Stood trembling like a willow in the wind	H
Then further Saul Lest Ashdod s vaunting hosts	Q
Should bear me captive to their bleak blown coasts	Q
I pray thee smite me seeing peace has fled	H
And rest lies wholly with the quiet dead	H
At this a flood of sunset broke and smote	H
Keen blazing sapphires round a kingly throat	H
Touched arm and shoulder glittered in the crest	H
And made swift starlights on a jewelled breast	H
So starting forward like a loosened hound	H
The stranger clutched the sword and wheeled it round	H
And struck the Lord s Anointed Fierce and fleet	H
Philistia came with shouts and clattering feet	H
By gaping gorges and by rough defile	E
Dark Ashdod beat across a dusty mile	E
Hot Hazor s bowmen toiled from spire to spire	D2
And Gath sprang upwards like a gust of fire	D2
On either side did Libnah s lords appear	D2
And brass clad Timnath thundered in the rear	D2
Mark Achish mark South west and south there sped	H
A dabbled hireling from the dreadful dead	H
Mark Achish mark The mighty front of Saul	E
Great in his life and god like in his fall	E
This was the arm that broke Philistia s pride	H
Where Kishon chafes his seaward going tide	H
This was the sword that smote till set of sun	Y
Red Gath from Michmash unto Ajalon	Y
Low in the dust And Israel scattered far	D2
And dead the trumps and crushed the hoofs of war	D2
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So fell the king as it was said by him	F2
Who hid his forehead in a mantle dim	F2
At bleak Endor what time unholy rites	G2
Vexed the long sleep of still Samarian heights	G2
For bowed to earth before the hoary priest	H
Did he of Kish withstand the smoking feast	H
To fast in darkness and in sackcloth rolled	H
And house with wild things in the biting cold	H
Because of sharpness lent to Gaza s sword	H
And Judah widowed by the angry Lord	H
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So silence came As when the outer verge	H2
Of Carmel takes the white and whistling surge	H2
Hoarse hollow noises fill the caves and roar	D2
Along the margin of the echoing shore	D2
Thus war had thundered but as evening breaks	I2
Across the silver of Assyrian lakes	I2
When reapers rest and through the level red	H
Of sunset peace like holy oil is shed	H
Thus silence fell But Israel s daughters crept	H
Outside their thresholds waited watched and wept	H
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Then they that dwell beyond the flats and fens	I2
Of sullen Jordan and in gelid glens	I2
Of Jabesh Gilead chosen chiefs and few	F
Around their loins the hasty girdle drew	F
And faced the forests huddled fold on fold	H
And dells of glimmering greenness manifold	H
What time Orion in the west did set	H
A shining foot on hills of wind and wet	H
These journeyed nightly till they reached the capes	I2
Where Ashdod revelled over heated grapes	I2
And while the feast was loud and scouts were turned	H
From Saul s bound body cord by cord they burned	H
And bore the king athwart the place of tombs	I2
And hasted eastward through the tufted glooms	I2
Nor broke the cake nor stayed the step till morn	Y
Shot over Debir s cones and crags forlorn	Y
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From Jabesh then the weeping virgins came	J2
In Jabesh then they built the funeral flame	J2
With costly woods they piled the lordly pyre	D2
Brought yellow oils and fed the perfect fire	D2
While round the crescent stately elders spread	H
The flashing armour of the mighty dead	H
With crown and spear and all the trophies won	Y
From many wars by Israel s dreadful son	Y
Thence when the feet of evening paused and stood	H
On shadowy mountains and the roaring flood	H
As through a rushing twilight full of rain	Y
The weak moon looked athwart Gadara s plain	Y
The younger warriors bore the urn and broke	T
The humid turf about a wintering oak	T
And buried Saul and fasting went their ways	I2
And hid their faces seven nights and days	I2

Henry Kendall

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