Earnestly did the prophet-statesman expostulate with Ahaz, telling him that the king of Assyria would prove "a razor to shave but too clean his desolate land."

"To him give all the prophets witness.

We have found the bones of the camel of the prophet Ad, upon which his revelation was engraved by him.'

Robert Browning, The Return of the Druses. L'ange de Dieu, Isabeau la belle, the "inspired prophet-child" of the Camisards.

Though love is strong to bring thee nigh, Ambition makes thee doubt; Ambition dulls the prophet-eye; It casts the unseen out.

Her death was as serene as her life was lofty; repeating, as she passed away, the aspirations of the prophet-king for his eternal home.

Thus the prophet interprets Israel's past, present, and future in its vital relation to the universal life of humanity, and declares that Israel is destined to be a prophet nation and to reveal Jehovah's character to all mankind.

Having announced this glorious prediction of the advent into our world of a divine Redeemer in the form of a man, by whose life and suffering and death the world should be saved, the prophet-poet breaks out in rhapsodies.

What the great prophet-priest says on this occasion we have every reason to believe expressed the true sentiments of George Eliot herself.

"And men my prophet-wail deride!

They bear marks of the careless impatience of rhythm and rhyme of one who though ever bursting into a natural trill of song, sometimes with more rhymes apparently than he intended, would yet rather let his thoughts pour themselves out in that unmeasured chant, that "poetry in solution," which is the natural speech of the prophet-orator.

CHORUS One of the dismal prophet-pack, it seems, That hunt the trail of blood.

For every sound of gladness Is a prophet-wind that tells Of a summer without sadness, And a love without farewells; And a heart that hath no ailing, And an eye that is not dim, And a faith that without failing Shall be complete in Him.

The world is about ustemptation is near; Oh, guide us, and shew us the pathway to God The feet of the prophets aforetime have trod!

My solitude had been kindly lent to me for the Summer by a friend, the prophet-proprietor of a certain famous Well of Truth some four miles away, whither souls flocked from all parts of America to drink of the living waters.

In each chord-note of that prophet-song, Blended in one harmonious throng: Such a chant, ere my voice has fled from death, Be it mine to mould of the parting breath.

An eagle high overhead Poised in the clouds screamed thrice, the prophet-bird Of Zeus, and sent by him.

that is, good ours, debtors ours, a prophet art thou.

I must hasten with my story Of the little room's true features, Seldom seen by mortal creatures; Lest my prophet-vision fading Leave me in the darkness wading.

What can the dreamer and the prophet foretell?

Carlyle was a great writer, but the names of these four gentlemen who, according to his standard, never did any "work" have a strangely permanent look about them compared with that of the prophet-journalist of Chelsea and Ecclefechan.

With joyful pride her heart is great: Her house, in all the land, Holds Him who conies, foretold by fate, With prophet-voice and hand.

If I can humble this prophet man, will you dissuade your nation from war and send them back to the sunset?" "Assuredly," he said wonderingly.