CHAPTER XXXVI.
THE QUEEN OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID.

“The harp the monarch minstrel swept,

The king of men, the loved of heaven.

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It softened men of iron mold;

No ear so dull, no soul so cold

That felt not, fired not to the tone,

Till David’s lyre grew mightier than the throne;

Since then, though heard on earth no more,