Who is this
youth, fresh from wooly fields,
Emissary
bearing bread and cheese
To trembling
troops in tented camp?
It had been
priorly said,
When a
skillful harpist was sought
To allay the
darkness of a tortured king’s soul,
“I have seen
a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite,
Skillful in
playing,
A man of
valor
A man of war
Prudent in
speech,
A man of
good presence”
And then
this final note, the capstone cadence,
“And the
Lord is with him.” . . .