. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . captive band,When heart, and voice, and orisons, and vo\v=, Refused the haughty victors stern command To move great Sions festal lay sublime, To mingle heavenly strains of joy with tears,To sing the Lords song in a strangers clime, And chant the holy hymn to heathen ears. 20* 222 SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY. Down by Euphrates side they sat and wept,In sorrow mute, but not to memo
. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . captive band,When heart, and voice, and orisons, and vo\v=, Refused the haughty victors stern command To move great Sions festal lay sublime, To mingle heavenly strains of joy with tears,To sing the Lords song in a strangers clime, And chant the holy hymn to heathen ears. 20* 222 SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY. Down by Euphrates side they sat and wept,In sorrow mute, but not to memory dead. O Sion! voice and barp in stillness slept,But the pure mindful tear for thee was shed. To thee, beloved Sion ! vain were givenBlessing and honour, wealth and power ; in vain The glorious present majesty of HeavenIrradiates thy chosen, holy fane. Falln from thy God, the heathens barbarous handDespoils thy temple, and thine altar stains; Reft of her children, mourns the parent in her dwellings death-like silence reigns. Rise, sacred tree, on Thamess gorgeous shore,To warn the people, and to guard the throne; Teach them their pure religion to adore, And foreign faiths, and rites, and pomp, The box, buxus se?npervirens, which in our gardenborders is so diminutive a shrub, becomes, in warmerclimates, a handsome tree of considerable height. Itshardness, durability, and yet comparative lightness, BOX.—BAY. 223 render it an invaluable wood for the turner, mathe-matical instrument maker, and especially for the woodengraver. The prophet Isaiah mentions the box-tree asone of the chief ornaments of Mount Lebanon. Theglory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, thepine tree, and the box together. Isa. lx. 13. And indepicting the future glorious state of the church, hesays, I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine,and the box tree together. Isa. xli. 19. There are two species of this plant. One of theseis the common box, which is found all over
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