[Grimne] as? Thy king? Remem

[Winland]

Committed to me. _Scenes VIII and IX._ {JOAD, JOSABET, JOAS, ZACHARIAH,
ABNER, SALOMITH, LEVITES, AND THE CHOIR.} {JOSABET (_to Joad_).} My
lord, Did you o'erhear that haughty queen? {JOAD.} I heard the whole,
and I bewailed your anguish. To lend you aid, these Levites and myself,
Were close at hand, resolved to die with you. (To Joas.) May God watch
over you whose courage, child, Has just returned this noble testimony
Unto His name! I recognize, dear Abner, This important service: bear in
mind The hour when Joad expects you. We, whose sight This inpious,
murderous woman has defiled, Whose prayers has interrupted, will return:
And let immaculate blood, shed by my hands, Cleanse to the marble what
her steps have touched. {THE CHORUS.} _One of the daughters of the
Choir._ What star has burst upon our sight? What will that marvellous
child one day become? He braveth pompous haughtiness, And will not let
himself be lured By any of her dangerous baits. _Another._ Whilst each
to Athaliah's god With incense to the altar runs, A child unfearing
publishes That God alone eternal is, And speaks as once Elijah spoke
Before the other Jezebel. _Another._ Who will reveal to us thy secret
birth Dear child? Art thou some holy prophet's son? _Another._ And thus
the lovely Samuel was seen To grow beneath the tabernacle's shadow;
Become the Hebrews' hope and oracle. May'st thou like him console our
race! _Another sings._ O blessed, a thousand times, The child that loves
the Lord, Who early hearkens to His voice, Whom God, Himself, doth deign
to teach! Far from the world he, nurtured, is adorned By all heaven's
blessings from his birth; And the contagious company of the bad Doth
alter not his innocence. _All the Choir._ O ha
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