Samson Agonistes
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: Blackwood Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: Blackwood Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SAMSON AGONISTES. t. A little onward lend thy guiding hand / To these dark steps, a little further on ; / For yonder bank hath choice of sun or shade. There I am wont to sit, when any chance Relieves me from my task of servile toil, 5 Daily in the common prison else enjoined me, Where I, a prisoner chained, scarce freely draw The air, imprisoned also, close and damp, Unwholesome' draught. But here I feel amends -- The breath of heaven fresh blowing, pure and sweet, 10 With day-spring born ; here leave me to respire. This day a solemn feast the people hold To Dagon, their sea-idol, and forbid Laborious works. Unwillingly this rest Their superstition yields me ; hence, with leave 15 Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease -- Ease to the body some, none to the mind From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets armed, no sooner found alone 20' But rush upon me thronging, and present ' j - 25 Times past, what once I was, and what am now. Oh, wherefore was my birth from Heaven foretold Twice by an. Angel, who at last, in sight /" Of both my parents, all in flames ascended From off the altar where an offering burned, As in a fiery column charioting His godlike presence, and from some great act Or benefit revealed to Abraham's race ? Why was my breeding ordered and prescribed'' As of a person separate to God, Designed for great exploits, if I must die , Betrayed, captived, and both my eyes put out, Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze, To grind in brazen ...
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