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Manasseh lord of Judah and the son	A
Of him who favoured of Jehovah saw	B
At midnight when the skies were flushed with fire	C
The splendid mystery of the shining air	D
That flamed above the black Assyrian camps	E
And breathed upon the evil hosts at rest	F
And shed swift violent sleep into their eyes	G
Manasseh lord of Judah when he came	H
To fortify himself upon his throne	I
And saw great strength was gathered unto him	J
Let slip satanic passions he had nursed	K
For years and years and lo the land that He	L
Who thundered on the Oriental Mount	M
Girt round with awful light had set apart	N
For Jacob s seed the land that Moses strained	O
On Nebo s topmost cone to see grew black	P
Beneath the shadow of despotic Sin	Q
That stalked on foot ways dashed with human blood	R
And mocked high Heaven by audacious fires	S
And as when Storm that voice of God is loud	T
Within the mountained Syrian wilderness	U
There flits a wailing through the wilted pines	V
So in the city of the wicked king	W
A voice like Abel s crying from the ground	X
Made sorrow of the broken evening winds	Y
And darkness of the fair young morning lights	Z
And silence in the homes of hunted men	A2
But in a time when grey winged Autumn fogs	B2
Shut off the sun from Carmel s seaward side	C2
And fitful gusts did speak within the trees	D2
Of rain beyond the waters while the priests	E2
In Hinnom s echoing valley offered up	F2
Unhallowed sacrifices unto gods	G2
Of brass and stone there came a trumpet s voice	H2
Along the bald bleak northern flats and then	A2
A harnessed horseman riding furiously	L
Dashed down the ridge with an exceeding cry	I2
Of Esarhaddon Esarhaddon haste	J2
Away ye elders lo the swarthy foe	K2
Six leagues from hence hath made the land a fire	C
And all the dwellers of the hollowed hills	L2
Are flying hitherwards before a flame	H
Of fifty thousand swords At this the men	A2
Of Baal turned about set face and fled	M2
Towards the thickets where the impious king	W
Ringed round by grey gaunt wizards with the brand	N2
Of Belial on their features cowered low	K2
And hid himself amongst the tangled thorns	O2
And shivered in a bitter seaborn wind	P2
And caught the whiteness of a deathly fear	Q2
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There where the ash pale forest leaves were touched	R2
By Morning s shining fingers and the inland depths	S2
Sent out rain plenished voices west and south	T2
The steel clad scouts of Esarhaddon came	H
And searched and found Manasseh whom they bound	X
And dragged before the swart Assyrian king	W
And Esarhaddon scourge of Heaven sent	U2
To strange Evil at its chiefest fanes	S2
And so fulfil a dread divine decree	L
Took Judah s despot fettered hand and foot	V2
And cast him bleeding on a dungeon floor	W2
Hard by where swift Euphrates chafes his brink	X2
And gleams from cataract to cataract	Y2
And gives the gale a deep midwinter tone	I
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So fared Manasseh for the sins which brought	Z2
Pale featured Desolation to the tents	S2
Of alienated Judah but one night	A3
When ninety moons of wild unrest had passed	B3
The humbled son of Hezekiah turned	C3
Himself towards the wall and prayed and wept	D3
And in an awful darkness face to face	S2
With God he said I know O Lord of Hosts	S2
That Thou art wise and just and kind and I	I2
Am shapen in iniquity but by	I2
The years of black captivity whose days	S2
And nights have marked my spirit passing through	E3
Fierce furnaces of suffering and seen	F3
It groping in blind shadows with a hope	G3
To reach Thy Hand by these O Father these	S2
That brought the swift sad silver to my head	M2
Which should have come with Age which came with Pain	H3
I pray Thee hear these supplications now	I3
And stoop and lift me from my low estate	J3
And lend me this once my dominionship	G3
So I may strive to live the bad Past down	K3
And lead henceforth a white and wholesome life	L3
And be thy contrite servant Lord indeed	M3
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The prayer was not in vain for while the storm	N3
Sang high above the dim Chaldean domes	S2
While in the pines the spirit of the rain	H3
Sobbed fitfully Jehovah s angel came	H
And made a splendour of the dungeon walls	S2
And smote the bars and led Manasseh forth	O3
And caught him up nor set him down again	A2
Until the turrets of Jerusalem	P3
Sprang white before the flying travellers	S2
Against the congregated morning hills	S2
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And he the broken man made whole again	A2
Was faithful to his promise Every day	Q3
Thereafter passing bore upon its wings	S2
Some shining record of his faultless life	L3
Some brightness of a high resolve fulfilled	R3
And in good time when all the land had rest	F
He found that he had lived the bad Past down	K3
And gave God praise and with his fathers slept	D3
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Thus ends the story of Manasseh If	S3
This verse should catch the eyes of one whose sin	Q
Lies heavy on his soul who finds himself	T3
A shame faced alien when he walks abroad	U3
A moping shadow when he sits at home	V3
Who has no human friends who day by day	Q3
Is smitten down by icy level looks	S2
From that cold Virtue which is merciless	S2
Because it knoweth not what wrestling with	W3
A fierce temptation means if such a one	A
Should read my tale of Hezekiah s son	A
Let him take heart and gather up his strength	X3
And step above men s scorn and find his way	Q3
By paths of fire as brave Manasseh did	Y3
Up to the white heights of a blameless life	L3
And it will come to pass that in the face	S2
Of grey old enmities whose partial eyes	S2
Are blind to reformation he will taste	J2
A sweetness in his thoughts and live his time	Z3
Arrayed with the efficient armour of	A4
That noble power which grows of self respect	B4
And makes a man a pillar in the world	C4

Henry Kendall

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