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A Second Book of Operas

CHAPTER IV
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Priests and people, the traitress and her dancing women, the lords of the Philistines, the rout of banqueters and worshippers--all hymn the praise of Dagon.

A brief supplication to Israel's God-- "And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand and of the other with his left.
"And Samson said, 'Let me die with the Philistines.' And he bowed himself with all his might: and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people that were therein.

So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.".


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