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$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$"Such is the mandate from the realms above,
"And should I try the vengeance to remove,
"Myself a rebel to my king would prove.

"Goliath say, shall grace to him be shown,

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"Who dares heav'ns monarch, and insults his throne?"

$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$"Your words are lost on me," the giant cries,
While fear and wrath contended in his eyes,
When thus the messenger from heav'n replies:

"Provoke no more Jehovah's awful hand

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"To hurl its vengeance on thy guilty land:
"He grasps the thunder, and, he wings the storm,
"Servants their sov'reign's orders to perform."

The angel spoke, and turn'd his eyes away,

Adding new radiance to the rising day.

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Now David comes: the fatal stones demand
His left, the staff engag'd his better hand:

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