King David

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“So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear,
Farewell remorse! All good to me is lost;
Evil, be thou my Good: by thee at least
Divided empire with Heaven’s King I hold,
By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign;
As Man ere long, and this new World, shall know.””
—John Milton (1608–1674)

“Almost any noble verse may be read, either as his elegy or eulogy, or be made the text of an oration on him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)