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A Temple Service.
From where He ruled, ordained a deed,
To help our need,
And show the heathen, Israel
Was yet loved well.
To help our need,
And show the heathen, Israel
Was yet loved well.
people.
Under their king, even where he sat,
Girt round with sin,
As with a garment, foul and fat,
Without, within.
Girt round with sin,
As with a garment, foul and fat,
Without, within.
There, in his builded pleasant place,
His windowed room,
That curtained out the summer days,
Was sent a doom.
His windowed room,
That curtained out the summer days,
Was sent a doom.
priests.
A secret message from the Lord,—
Was not the sword
Of swift Ehud the pen of it?
The scribe was fit.
Was not the sword
Of swift Ehud the pen of it?
The scribe was fit.
He wrote it where it might be read,
Wrote it and fled;
We kept the fords and slew them, till
None were to kill.
Wrote it and fled;
We kept the fords and slew them, till
None were to kill.
people.
A day among the days is thus
A feast; there is
A man of all the tribes o’er us
A judge for this.
A feast; there is
A man of all the tribes o’er us
A judge for this.