Versos English John Reade But who is this advancing with gay attendant crowd

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But who is this advancing with gay attendant crowd

by (1826–)

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But who is this advancing with gay attendant crowd? O Jephthah! dost remember now the vow that thou hast vowed? Why is thy face so ghastly pale? why sinks thy noble head? Thy daughter’s blood must now atone for all that thou hast shed!