DAVID'S VICTORY Words by Hannah More: Chorus of Women, David and Goliath, part 5 (1782). Tune: David's Victory, Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony, p. 140. PREPARE! your festal rites prepare! Let your triumphs rend the air! Idol gods shall reign no more, We the living Lord adore! Let heathen hosts on human helps repose, Since Israel's God has routed Israel's foes. Let remotest nations know, Proud Goliath's overthrow: Fall'n, Philistia! is thy trust, Dagon's honour laid in dust! Who fears the Lord of Glory, need not fear The brazen armour, nor the lifted spear. See, the routed squadrons fly! Hark! their clamours rend the sky! Blood and carnage stain the field! See, the vanquish'd nations yield! Dismay and terror fill the frighten'd land; While conq'ring David routs the trembling band. Lo! upon the tented field, Royal Saul has thousands kill'd! Lo! upon th' ensanguin'd plain, David has ten thousand slain! Let mighty Saul his vanquish'd thousands tell, While tenfold triumphs David's victories swell.