The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses

Produced by Al Haines

THE DEATH OF SAUL: - AND OTHER - EISTEDDFOD PRIZE POEMS - AND - MISCELLANEOUS VERSES. - BY - J. C. MANNING - (CARL MORGANWG. - SWANSEA: - J. C. MANNING, 9, CASTLE STREET. - AND ALL BOOKSELLERS. - PRICE SIX SHILLINGS.

DEATH OF SAUL - AND - OTHER POEMS. - THE EISTEDDFOD COMMITTEE - AND THE - "DEATH OF SAUL."

TO THE PUBLIC.

PREFACE.

SWANSEA.——J. C. MANNING. - TO THE - MOST HONOURABLE THE MARQUESS OF BUTE: - WITH A GRATEFUL SENSE OF HIS LORDSHIP'S GENEROUS AND - OTHERWISE DISINTERESTED DESIRE, - IN ACCEPTING THE DEDICATION OF THE WORK, - TO ALONE FURTHER THE VIEWS AND ENCOURAGE THE LITERARY - ASPIRATIONS OF THE WRITER, - THIS VOLUME, - BY HIS LORDSHIP'S PERMISSION, - IS DEDICATED, - WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OF RESPECTFUL ADMIRATION OF HIS - TALENT AND WORTH, - BY HIS LORDSHIP'S OBLIGED AND OBEDIENT SERVANT, - THE AUTHOR. - DEATH OF SAUL. - PRIZE POEM. - WREXHAM NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD, 1876.

HISTORICAL NOTE.

THE ISRAELITES DEMAND A KING, AND SAUL IS GIVEN TO RULE OVER THEM.

SAUL DISAPPOINTS THE EXPECTATIONS OF JEHOVAH, AND IS VISITED WITH THE ALMIGHTY'S DISPLEASURE.

SAUL, DESERTED BY THE ALMIGHTY, CONSULTS THE WITCH OF ENDOR, AND HIS FALL IS FORETOLD BY THE SPIRIT OF THE DEAD PROPHET.