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ÆSOP Aholibamah Aiur akin allied ancient appellation applied Arabs Ases ash tree Asir Baal battle beautiful bird birth born bull burning Cæsar called Caphtor Celts Christian connected dale daughter descendants divine dwelling place earth English father feminine field fire French Gaels gave name German given gives glorious glory gods Goths Greek HACHMONI hair Hebrew Hence hill Hindoo honour horse identical Irish island Italian Jehovah Jews John JOKTAN Jotuns king known land language Lebaoth lion literally living Loki Lord maker means Milesian mother mountain NAAMAH nations Nethinim noble origin patronymic Pelops persons PHYGELLUS Picts priest prince proper names raven river Roman sacred Saxon Scythians serpent servant Shebarim shield sons Spanish spear stone strong sword takes thee Thor's thou town unto valley warrior well-known whence wife wolf woman wood word worship ZIBIAH
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Page 33 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 47 - He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone, At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
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Page 46 - ... the house that Jack built. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT 31 This is the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, 5 That killed the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 94 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 31 - Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness : According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
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Page 91 - From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day...