. Birds of the Bible . king of Lebanon witli its sweetairs, fragrant spices, flowers, fruit trees, and song birds. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree ripeneth her green figs, And the vines are in blossom, They give forth their fragrance. Then Solomon in a song, addressed the Almighty asif He were a dove: O my dove, That art in the clefts of the rock, In the covert of the steep place, Let me see thy countenance. Let me hear thy voice, Fo
. Birds of the Bible . king of Lebanon witli its sweetairs, fragrant spices, flowers, fruit trees, and song birds. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree ripeneth her green figs, And the vines are in blossom, They give forth their fragrance. Then Solomon in a song, addressed the Almighty asif He were a dove: O my dove, That art in the clefts of the rock, In the covert of the steep place, Let me see thy countenance. Let me hear thy voice, For sweet is thj voice. And thj countenance is comely. In this manner the attributes of the beautiful rockdove, that nested in shelving granite and wild places, servedto poitrav the Creator. And a little later, in an attemptto materialize Jehovah, this ])0(t twice used the birds: My beloved is white and ruddy, The chiefest among ten thousand. 11 is head is as the most fine gold, His locks are bushy, and black as a PELICAKS / xcUl haste me to a shelter. From the stornt/j wind and tempest. BIKUS OF THE TOKTS 121 His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks ;Washed with milk and fitly checks are as a bed of spices,As banks of sweet herbs. This I consider uiisur]);issed of its kind. Solomon wasso very great he never amplified liis tliought until he lostit. Just a few clear outlines sufficed, and literature neversustained greater loss than that we have handed downto us, only so few of the one thousand and five ])oems he re-corded that he wrote. His comparisons and poetic imagerynever have been equaled. Throughout his songs the moststriking lines greet us and, after these thousands of years,set our hearts singing. He was a master of the art ofencompassing a poem in a line, as were the ancients ofmany nations. Take for example that vessel previously mentioned,that was found in the pyramids. On the bottom was writ-ten in Chinese this poem, clear cut and concise as thes
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