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"They say Scotland is no conquered country, young woman, but I'm thinking there must be some mistak' in the matter, as we, her children, are so drowsy-headed and apt to be o'ertaken when we least expect it." "Nay, my good friend, you mistake my meaning.
'A safe stronghold our God is still; A trusty shield and weapon; He'll help us clear from all the ill That hath us now o'ertaken. 'Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of His holiness. 2. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. 3.
'He that has effected his good will, has o'ertaken my act. From the field he tracks his hero to the chair of state. First we have the news of the victory in the city, and its effect:
It is so comforting to creep away now and then for a good talk with them. I always feel so happy out here." "'And so in mountain solitudes o'ertaken As by some spell divine, Their cares drop from them like the needles shaken From out the gusty pine," quoted Gilbert. "They make our little ambitions seem rather petty, don't they, Anne?"
And in like manner he doth very decently shut up relations of things said or done, by adding some sentence wherein he declares his judgment of them. As when he personates some of the gods saying, on the occasion of the adultery of Mars and Venus discovered by Vulcan's artifice, See the swift god o'ertaken by the lame! Thus ill acts prosper not, but end in shame.
"I am sure that my time is come. Good Edward, I beseech you, bring me a priest that he may shrive me." "There is no priest in all the castle walls, Francis Stafford. Know you not that priests and all such popery are forbid? I will call a chirurgeon." "Nay; do not so," said the girl. "What this weakness that has o'ertaken me may be, I know not, unless it be death.
In nothing else is the sense of Power so embodied in the pulse of song. And the words are as formidable as the tune. Carlyle caught their massive, rugged strength in his great translation: A safe stronghold our God is still, A trusty shield and weapon; He'll help us clear from all the ill That hath us now o'ertaken....
"'Our brother seemeth distraught, and perchance will do himself some injury if he be not tended with care and watched over. Bind him, to make sure that he hurt not himself in this strange madness that hath o'ertaken him, making him fancy harm even in this healing balm.
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