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$ Mit'k $ fP & *<* deadly as # if eye of F $ te , JLnfL after , scuffle dang ' rpusly with the odds . A gjant well may fear a desperate man : And ye do look so mean and impotent , That I should scorn myself for shunning ypu . Issachar . I ne ' er was braved before .
Simeon . He dares and threats ! Reuben . Where ' er they sleep Clothe them with heaviness ! and with mad dreams JfJusiJy forge on the imagination , Tfeat they may quake , and from their limbs 4 istil Tnpse agonizing drops that horrpr greeds ! v * * * May they never Laugh again ! Simeon . Reuben , this is vain .
Reuben . Oh I never may the jocund harvest bell Ring its sweejt battery unto their earfy Tuning the anthem voluble ancl loud Sacred to plenty for the garner ^ full . Thus let them crave !—Bondsmen at strafcger'a $ gg }} f , Where choking l ? e their hire ! Judah * This is enough .
Reuben . Oh I I coujd weep that Joseph is no m £ *? e Till marble should be furrowed wjtj * my tearf ; Then , like the forlorn Image of despair , Sit dumb and think past words . Judah . I have a fear He will betray jis to our father ' s wrath . Reuben . Have you a fear ? You were a better man
Ere ypu ha 4 worked a cause to fear your frienda . ? * f t jr What well were deep enough to hold my grief ? What secret place would hide my anguish up ? Old Jacob , too , Sobs at the sight , and groaneth in my ear , And wrings bis hands , and ravishetty \ m be $ ? 4 » And takes no relish in his faltering prayers .
Come forth , Despair , and fold me in thine arms I Thou giant mandrake with the livid skip , And ireful eye , and meagre , sinewy form J Come forth , and glare upon me , King of tombs I A whirlwind singeth in thy scanty hair , $# 4 rocjts unfix them underneath thy hand $ ;
44 Jkiprrid shrieks a smjle creeps o er tj * y li p % An ^ i ^ lowU of danger li * ll tbfe to repose . Thou iron wrestler I wrinkling Fate ' s ? n ^ t , Ai * ouse thy boiiing brain , and frpni thy Bed Of blasted rushes intgrft ^ lj ; wi |; h |> rjiar . r Take thy pale lamp that ' s fed of dea ^ men ' 5 ey ^ ° And smile upon Ulify victimJ—« etil , ^ spair ^ —pp . 40-- ^ -8 (> .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 161, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/35/
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