King David

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“Like to the tree of Tantalus she fled,
And seeming lavish, sav’de her maydenhead.
Ne’re king more sought to keepe his diademe;
Than Hero this inestimable gemme.”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)

“It reminded me of Prometheus Bound. Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)