Samuel Ben Nahman

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    Let no one’s heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
    Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 17:32.

    David, of Goliath.

    When long ago I saw her ride
    Under Ben Bulben to the meet,
    The beauty of her country-side
    With all youth’s lonely wildness stirred,
    She seemed to have grown clean and sweet
    Like any rock-bred, sea-borne bird....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)