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I must only read one other.

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I think I'll make it
"Judith of Bethulia."

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This is a biblical story, not
in the canon of the Protestant

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Bible, but well-known.

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"She saved Israel
from the invader.

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Beautiful as the
flying legend of some

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leopard she had not yet chosen
her great captain, or Prince

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depositary to her
flesh, and our defense;

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and a wandering beauty is a
blade out of its scabbard.

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You know how dangerous,
gentlemen of threescore?

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May you know it yet ten more."

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In each fifth line,
there's a question asked,

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which is answered in
a short, sixth line.

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"Nor by process of veiling
she grew the less fabulous.

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Gray or blue veils, we
were desperate to study

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the invincible emanations
of her white body,

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and the winds at her ordered
raiment were ominous.

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Might she walk in the market,
sit in the council of soldiers?

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Only of the extreme elders.

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But a rare chance
was the girl's then,

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when the Invader
trumpeted from the South,

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and rumbled from the
North, beleaguered the city

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from four quarters of the
earth, our soldiery too

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craven and sick to aid her--

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where were the arms could
countervail this horde?

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Her beauty was the sword.

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She sat with the elders, and
proved on their blear visage

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how bright was the weapon
unrusted in her keeping,

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while he lay surfeiting
on their harvest heaping,

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wasting the husbandry of
their rarest vintage--

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and dreaming of the
broad-breasted dames

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for concubine?

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These floated on his wine.

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He was lapped with bay leaves,
and grass and fumiter weed,

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and from under the wine-film
encountered his mortal vision,

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for even within his tent she
accomplished his derision,

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she loosed one veil and
another, standing unafraid;

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and he perished.

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Nor brushed her with
even so much as a daisy?

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She found his destruction easy.

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The heathen have all perished.

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The victory was furnished.

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We smote them hiding in our
vineyards, barns, annexes,

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and now their white bones
clutter the holes of foxes,

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and the chieftain's
head with grinning

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sockets, and varnished--

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is it hung on the sky
with a hideous epitaphy?

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No, the woman keeps the trophy.

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May God send unto our
virtuous lady her Prince!

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It is stated she went
reluctant to that orgy,

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yet a madness fevers
our young men,

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and not the clergy
nor the elders

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have turned them
unto modesty since.

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Inflamed by the thought of
her naked beauty with desire?

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Yes, and chilled with
fear and despair."

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Thank you.

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