em, our Lord was wroth with these three
men and said to them: Ye have not spoken rightfully, as my servant Job
hath spoken. Take ye therefore seven bulls and seven wethers and go to
my servant Job and offer ye sacrifice for you. Job my servant shall pray
for you. I shall receive his prayer and shall take his visage. They went
forth and did as our Lord commanded them. And our Lord beheld the visage
of Job, and saw his penance when he prayed for his friends. And our Lord
added to Job double of all that Job had possessed. All his brethren came
to him, and all his sisters, and all they that tofore had known him, and
ate with him in his house, and moved their heads upon him, and comforted
him upon all the evil that God had sent to him. And each of them gave
him a sheep and a gold ring for his ears. Our Lord blessed more Job in
his last days than he did in the beginning. And he had then after
fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen,
one thousand asses. And he had seven sons and three daughters. And the
first daughter's name was Jemima, the second Kezia, and the third
Keren-happuch. There was nowhere found in the world so fair women as
were the daughters of Job. Their father Job gave to them heritage among
their brethren, and thus Job by his patience gat so much love of God,
that he was restored double of all his losses. And Job lived after, one
hundred and forty years, and saw his sons and the sons of his sons unto
the fourth generation, and died an old man, and full of days.

THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold,
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.

Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,
That host with their banners at sunset were seen;
Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown,
That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown.

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,
And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd;
And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,
And their hearts but once heaved, and forever grew still.

And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide,
But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride:
And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf,
And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.

And there lay the rider, distorted and pale,
Wit