"Saul in the Council Stephen's face saw shine As it had been an angel's, but his heart To the august theophany was blind-- Blinded by hatred of the fervent saint, And hatred of the Lord who in him shone, What blindfold hatred such could work of ill In nature meant for utter nobleness, Then how the hatred could to love be turned, The proud wrong will to lowly right be brought, And Paul the 'servant' spring from rebel Saul-- This, ye who love in man the good and fair, And joy to hail retrieved the good and fair-- From the unfair and evil, hearken all And speed me with your wishes while I sing."-- --_From the Proem._ _APPRECIATIVE CRITICISMS._ "Decidedly impressive and attractive.... One never wants to lay the book down, and reads it through with increasing, rather than flagging interest."--THE SPECTATOR, London. "Dr. Wilkinson's Epic of Saul is daring in conception, subtle in analysis, exquisite in delineation, stately in movement, dramatic in unfolding, rythmical in expression, reverent in tone, uplifting in tendency. The Poem of Saul is as truly an epic as Milton's Paradise Lost." --REV. GEORGE DANA BOARDMAN, D.D. _8vo, Cloth, Gilt top, 386 pp. Price, $1.50, post-free._ _"Epic of Saul," and "Epic of Paul" together, $3.00._ FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers, New York * * * * * Transcriber's note: The ad page has been moved from the beginning to the end of the book. Minor typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected without note. Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed. Mismatched quotes are not fixed if it's not sufficiently clear where the missing quote should be placed. The cover for the eBook version of this book was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain. End of Project Gutenberg's The Epic of Paul, by William Cleaver Wilkinson