King David

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“But the lightning which explodes and fashions planets, maker of planets and suns, is in him. On one side elemental order, sandstone and granite, rock-ledges, peat-bog, forest, sea and shore; and on the other part, thought, the spirit which composes and decomposes nature,—here they are, side by side, god and devil, mind and matter, king and conspirator, belt and spasm, riding peacefully together in the eye and brain of every man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Loose me from tears, and make me see aright
How each hath back what once he stayed to weep;
Homer his sight, David his little lad!”
—Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856–1935)