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danger (for lie delighted to visit the trenches and nearest approaches, 
and to discover what the enemy did), as being so much beside the duty 
of his place, that it might be understood rather to be against it, he 
would say merrily, ‘ that his office could not take away the privilege 
of his age; and that a secretary in war might be present at the 
greatest secret in danger;* but withal, alleged seriously, ‘that it con¬ 
cerned him to be more active in enterprises of hazard than other men; 
that all might see that his impatiency for peace proceeded not from 
pusillanimity, or fear to adventure his own person.’ 
Clarendon. 
\ \THEN I went out to the gate through the city; 
’ ' "When I prepared my seat in the street; 
The young men saw me and hid themselves; 
The aged arose and stood up; 
The princes refrained talking; the nobles held their peace. 
When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; 
When the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; 
Because I delivered the poor that cried— 
The fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me. 
And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. 
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame; 
I was a father to the poor; 
And the cause which I knew not I searched out. 
My root was spread out by the waters, 
And the dew lay all night upon my branch; 
My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. 
Unto me men gave ear and waited; 
They kept silence at my counsel; 
After my words they spake not again, and my speech dropped upon 
them: 
They waited for me as for the rain; 
They opened their mouth, as for the latter rain. 
I chose out their way, and sat chief; 
I dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners. 
Book of Job. 
