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Beauteous and bright is he among the tribes; As when the sun attired in glistering robe Comes dancing from his oriental gate, And, bridegroom-like, hurls through the gloomy air His radiant beams: such doth King David show, Crowned with the honour of his enemies’ town, Shining in riches like the firmament, The starry vault that overhangs the earth: So looketh David, King of Israel.
Beauteous and bright is he among the tribes; As when the sun attired in glistering robe Comes dancing from his oriental gate, And, bridegroom-like, hurls through the gloomy air His radiant beams: such doth King David show, Crowned with the honour of his enemies’ town, Shining in riches like the firmament, The starry vault that overhangs the earth: So looketh David, King of Israel.
Approximate author period: c. 1575 AD · renaissance
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- George Peele
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- Approximate author period: c. 1575 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1552–1598)
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 163 · printed citation: George Peele · subject: DAVID
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