[BURPEE] CHARLES HEAVYSEGE 29 
Zaph, the evil spirit, to marshal his band, and infatuate the Philistines, 
so that each man shall take his fellow for an enemy. Zaph unwillingly 
obeys. Meanwhile the Hebrews, ignorant of their celestial champion, 
are filled with gloomy forebodings. Says one: 
There is a nameless vapor in the air, 
That puts out merriment. 
Well, all must die! and hath it not been written,— 
Man is a pipe that Life doth smoke, 
As saunters it the earth about ; 
And when ’tis wearied of the joke, 
Death comes and knocks the ashes out. 
Jonathan alone seems to be possessed of the hope that God will 
even yet deliver them from the hands of their enemies. Accompanied 
by his armour-bearer, he goes by night to the camp of the Philistines, 
and as he reaches the fortress the garrison is discovered in an uproar, 
