2 Semicho. But he, though blind of sight, Despised, and thought extinguish'd quite, With inward eyes illuminated, His fiery virtue roused From under ashes into sudden flame; Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order ranged Of tame villatic fowl; but as an eagle His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads. Depress'd and overthrown as seem'd, Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows, nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teem'd, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem'd; And, though her body die, her fame survives, A secular bird, ages of lives. Man. Come, come, no time for lamentation now, Nor much more cause; Samson hath quit himself Like Samson, and heroicly hath finish'd A life heroic, on his enemies Fully revenged; hath left them years of mourning, Through all Philistian bounds; to Israel And, which is best and happiest yet, all this Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Soak'd in his enemies' blood, and from the stream, Will send for all my kindred, all my friends, Home to his father's house: there will I build him Oft he seems to hide his face, But unexpectedly returns, And to his faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza mourns, And all that band them to resist His uncontrollable intent; His servants he, with new acquist Of true experience from this great event, |