no cavalry
(or if there is)

goes
something like to
paraphrase
the KJV

I lift up my eyes to the hills
from
whence comes my help
my help comes from
the Lord

now
it might be
a question mark
is called
for
after help

because
the hills are not the source
but the Lord who saves
and
keeps

not that
hills
are unhelpful
both to distract and thus allow
reminding of direction
so
to pray
even wish
of
desperation

if
better
that is more faithful
perhaps prophetic
in the way
that
youth may envision
while
the old
dream dreams

any setting
then
(or
whence)
for who shall aid us
but
God who has the power and love
to make it

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Psalm 121
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
(KJV)

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