Once upon a kingdom’s crest, reigned a king deemed as the best,
His name was Saul, strong and tall, in his youth, he dwarfed them all.
Strength in heart, a towering might, his command, a beacon of light.
Yet in time, his reign did wane, swept by ambition’s ceaseless rain.
He was the first to wear the crown,
A shepherd’s boy in Bethlehem’s town.
Anointed by the prophet’s hand,
He rose to rule the promised land.
With courage fierce and eyes so bright,
He led his people through the night.
Mighty Saul, once powerful, held the world within his pull,
In battle’s clamor, swift and cruel, he was never the fool.
He vanquished foes, in God’s own name, earned undying fame,
Yet from such heights, one can but fall, thus began the downfall of Saul.
Haunted now by God’s rejection, plagued by a ghostly reflection,
He sought the Witch of Endor’s direction, in dire desperation.
Shadows danced in his troubled mind, once clear, now confined,
His glory days far behind, in his heart, peace he couldn’t find.
From a king, to a hunted man, hounded across the desert’s span,
David’s rise marked his ban, a destiny no one can withstand.
Hounded by guilt, by fear, by strife, hunted, was the king’s life,
Once a ruler, sharp as a knife, now just a man in endless strife.
King Saul, once high and mighty, now wanders under the night’s treaty,
A monument to mortal frailty, a testament to God’s reality.
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