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SAID one who led the spears of swarthy Gad	A
To Jesse s mighty son My Lord O King	B
I halting hard by Gibeon s bleak blown hill	C
Three nightfalls past saw dark eyed Rizpah clad	A
In dripping sackcloth pace with naked feet	D
The flinty rock where lie unburied yet	E
The sons of her and Saul and he whose post	F
Of watch is in those places desolate	G
Got up and spake unto thy servant here	H
Concerning her yea even unto me	I
Behold he said the woman seeks not rest	J
Nor fire nor food nor roof nor any haunt	K
Where sojourns man but rather on yon rock	L
Abideth like a wild thing with the slain	M
And watcheth them lest evil wing or paw	N
Should light upon the comely faces dead	O
To spoil them of their beauty Three long moons	P
Hath Rizpah daughter of Aiah dwelt	Q
With drouth and cold and rain and wind by turns	R
And many birds there are that know her face	S
And many beasts that flee not at her step	T
And many cunning eyes do look at her	U
From serpent holes and burrows of the rat	V
Moreover spake the scout her skin is brown	W
And sere by reason of exceeding heat	D
And all her darkness of abundant hair	X
Is shot with gray because of many nights	Y
When grief hath crouched in fellowship with frost	Z
Upon that desert rock Yea thus and thus	A2
Fares Rizpah said the spy O King to me	I
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But David son of Jesse spake no word	B2
But turned himself and wept against the wall	C2
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We have our Rizpahs in these modern days	D2
Who ve lost their households through no sin of theirs	E2
On bloody fields and in the pits of war	F2
And though their dead were sheltered in the sod	G2
By friendly hands these have not suffered less	H2
Than she of Judah did nor is their love	I2
Surpassed by hers The Bard who in great days	D2
Afar off yet shall set to epic song	J2
The grand pathetic story of the strife	K2
That shook America for five long years	L2
And struck its homes with desolation he	I
Shall in his lofty verse relate to men	M2
How through the heat and havoc of that time	N2
Columbia s Rachael in her Rama wept	O2
Her children and would not be comforted	P2
And sing of Woman waiting day by day	Q2
With that high patience that no man attains	R2
For tidings from the bitter field of spouse	S2
Or son or brother or some other love	I2
Set face to face with Death Moreover he	I
Shall say how through her sleepless hours at night	T2
When rain or leaves were dropping every noise	U2
Seemed like an omen every coming step	T
Fell on her ears like a presentiment	T2
And every hand that rested on the door	F2
She fancied was a herald bearing grief	V2
While every letter brought a faintness on	W2
That made her gasp before she opened it	T2
To read the story written for her eyes	X2
And cry or brighten over its contents	Y2

Henry Kendall

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