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And then when this conquest had rendered him vain |
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The dream of |
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His dreams did this Daniel, so learned explain |
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Nebuchadnezzar. |
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And speedy his ruin, and lengthy the season, |
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Nebuchadnezzar becomes |
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That he lived like a brute, through the loss of his reason. |
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deranged. |
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His nails were like claws, and, like feathers, his hair |
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The King’s hair grows like |
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Dan. |
Like the ox and the ass did the maniac fare! |
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Eagle feathers. |
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And the years that he suffered are numbered as seven, |
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He is restored to reason and |
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When reason, returning, gave glory to Heaven. |
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Gives God the glory. |
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Q – Query of a Queen |
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And then when the reign of Belchazzar begun, |
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Belchazzar reigns. |
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Belchazzar, of Nebuchadnezzar, the son, |
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A man’s hand writes upon |
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And when at the height of the feasting and riot |
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the wall at the feast of |
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A hand on the wall made those revelers quiet. |
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Belchazzar. |
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The wisest were called, and their wisdom displayed, |
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At the commendation of the |
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By being most truly and sorely dismayed! |
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Queen, Daniel or Belteshazzar |
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Such quaking and quailing had never been seen, |
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is brought before the King |
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O where is Belteshazzar, then queried the Queen. |
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Then Daniel was called, and his learning displayed. |
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Daniel interprets the writing |
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And the truth was revealed, and the heathen dismayed, |
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and Babylon is taken the |
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And Belchazzar was conquered, Belchazzar was slain, |
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same night. |
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And then did the conquering Darius reign. |
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Darius reigns. |
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R – Retribution |
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And then when the mightier Darius reigned, |
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Daniel is greatly preferred by |
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VI |
Then great were the favors his favorite gained |
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Darius, and hated by the |
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For Daniel was placed in the highest of places |
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envious nobles. |
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There greeted with frowning and envious faces. |
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And envy accomplished what none could defeat, |
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Through the strategy of the |
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Though the heart of the King was with sorrow replete. |
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dissatisfied nobles, Daniel is |
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And Daniel was cast to the lions but bidden, |
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cast into the Den of Lions. |
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To trust to his God, from whom nothing is hidden. |
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And his God heard his prayers, and He answered as well, |
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Daniel is unmolested by the |
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And great was the woe that those others befell. |
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lions, but his enemies are |
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No lion would eat him, though cast in their den! |
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ravenously devoured by them. |
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But gladly devoured the libelous men! |
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S – Seventieth (year) |
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And with Cyrus the King, and with Darius dead, |
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Cyrus reigns, and the |
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Isaiah |
The Israelites cause, then this Israelite plead! |
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prophecy of Isaiah, made |
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For this was the Cyrus, the Israelites claimed, |
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nearly 200 years before, is |
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As this was the Cyrus, that Isaiah named! |
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fulfilled. |
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He’d told them of Judah grown over with briars! |
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The end of the seventy years |
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Dan. |
And when he’d reproved them he told them of Cyrus! |
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Captivity, computing from the |
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And now that the seventy years had been ended, |
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Captivity of Daniel. |
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The pleadings of Daniel to Heaven ascended, |
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And thus were the words of the prophet fulfilled |
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Cyrus proclaims liberty to the |
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Ezra |
When the Jews were permitted the Temple to build, |
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captive Jews, and encourages |
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For King Cyrus made and proclaimed a decree |
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them to rebuild the city and |
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That granted permission to build it, we see! |
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temple. |
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But ere to complete it the people were able, |
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Cyrus dies. |
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II |
Whilst under the guidance of prince Zerubbabel. |
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Smerdis or Artaxerxes reigns. |
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Good King Cyrus died, and his fated successor, |
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The Samaritans obtain their |
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Succeeded in proving an hated aggressor. |
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decree against he Jews. |
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T – Temple |
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And yet when the King Artaxerxes was slain, |
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Smerdis or Artaxerxes slain. |
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They thought not, or sought not assistance to gain, |
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Till Haggai recalled them, reproved their delay, |
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Haggai’s reproof. |
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And the Temple completed in Darius’ day! |
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The Temple is completed. |
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For Darius sought for and found the decree, |
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Xerxes confirms to the Jews all |
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VI |
That Cyrus had wisely recorded, you see! |
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the privileges granted them by |
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Then Darius completed, what Cyrus begun, |
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his father, King Darius. |
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And all was confirmed by Xerxes, his son. |
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