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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ARABIAN NIGHTS: PSALM OF BATTLE, by ANONYMOUS First Line: God is praise and glory Last Line: Beside an eternal river of scented honey Subject(s): Death;fights;victory; "dead, The; | |||
GOD is praise and glory; Therefore glory and praise be unto Him Who led me by the hand in stony places, Who gave me a treasure of gold and a throne of gold And set a sword of victory in my hand! He covered the earth with the shadow of my kingdom, And fed me when I was a stranger Among strange peoples; When I was lowly He accounted me And He has bound my brow about with triumph. His enemies fled before my face like cattle; The Lord breathed upon them and they were not! Not with the ferment of a generous wine But with death's evil grape He has sent them drunken into the darkness. We died, we died in the battle, But He has set us upon happy grass Beside an eternal river of scented honey. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SITTING BULL IN SERBIA by WILLIAM JAY SMITH TO THE EXCELLENT ORINDA by PHILO PHILIPPA EPIGRAM OCCASIONED BY CIBBER'S VERSES IN PRAISE OF NASH: 1 by ALEXANDER POPE THE GIFT OF THE GODS by JOHN GODFREY SAXE TO CHRISTOPHER NORTH by ALFRED TENNYSON BEAU NASH by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER BEAU NASH AND THE ROMAN, OR THE TWO ERAS by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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