An Affair of Honor by Richard Marius

Author:Richard Marius [Marius, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-82428-8
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-07-11T00:00:00+00:00

Glenn, careful and respectful, nodded to Arceneaux and guided him with a light touch to a little wooden lectern by the grave, and Arceneaux put his Bible down.

When we’ve been there, ten thousand years,

Bright shining as the sun,

We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise

Than when we first begun.

The singing died away and across the long slant of the cemetery a silence came back, and the crowd pushed closer. “I’m sorry I didn’t think to bring a mike and a speaker,” Glenn whispered. “We didn’t expect this crowd.”

Arceneaux nodded. He opened his Bible.

O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.

Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

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