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"What would we give to our beloved?"The heros heart, to be unmoved,"The poet's star turned harp, to sweep ,"The patriot's voice, to teach & rouse,"The monarch's crown, to light the brows"He giveth His beloved, sleep,
"O earth, so full of dreary noises!"O men, with wailing in your voices!"O delved gold, the wailers weep!:O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall!"God makes a silence through you all"and giveth His beloved sleep"
The psalmist David, whose words these are, was also a soldier & like us wandered far from home,& was often times lonely & weary; his words of
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