Meditations on the Sacred Book of Canticles. [In Verse. With the Text.]1853 |
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... once his heav'n affianced bride , ( Though to be won by servitude and toil , ) And ( t ) Rachel kiss'd , and , as he kiss'd her , wept , And years were days when measured by his love ; So , meeting in thine own ( u ) appointed hour ...
... once his heav'n affianced bride , ( Though to be won by servitude and toil , ) And ( t ) Rachel kiss'd , and , as he kiss'd her , wept , And years were days when measured by his love ; So , meeting in thine own ( u ) appointed hour ...
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... once , now marred and bent Is dark with gather'd foulness ! In his heart Is that embitter'd fountain , whence proceed All ( k ) evil thoughts , all life - debasing crimes . And as in ( 1 ) water face with face agrees , So man , howe'er ...
... once , now marred and bent Is dark with gather'd foulness ! In his heart Is that embitter'd fountain , whence proceed All ( k ) evil thoughts , all life - debasing crimes . And as in ( 1 ) water face with face agrees , So man , howe'er ...
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... once forget , I will enlighten thee - Go forth and trace Imprinted footmarks , age by age impressed On Canaan's pathway - on the narrow road Of faith and holiness . Go forth and trace ( h ) How prophets witness'd and how ( i ) martyrs ...
... once forget , I will enlighten thee - Go forth and trace Imprinted footmarks , age by age impressed On Canaan's pathway - on the narrow road Of faith and holiness . Go forth and trace ( h ) How prophets witness'd and how ( i ) martyrs ...
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... ( b ) Isa . xxxv . 3 , 4 ; 1 Thess . v . 14 . ( d ) 2 Cor . ii . 13 ; vii . 13 . ( c ) 1 Thess . v . 23 . ( e ) Rom . xv . 30 ; Phil . i . 19 Whose joyful lustre is once more beheld With supplications both BOOK OF CANTICLES . 41.
... ( b ) Isa . xxxv . 3 , 4 ; 1 Thess . v . 14 . ( d ) 2 Cor . ii . 13 ; vii . 13 . ( c ) 1 Thess . v . 23 . ( e ) Rom . xv . 30 ; Phil . i . 19 Whose joyful lustre is once more beheld With supplications both BOOK OF CANTICLES . 41.
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Whose joyful lustre is once more beheld With supplications both for yours and you ? And know ye not that the fair plant of grace ( ƒ ) Has firmest basis on the ploughed - up heart , And shoots forth there , with ever - growing force ...
Whose joyful lustre is once more beheld With supplications both for yours and you ? And know ye not that the fair plant of grace ( ƒ ) Has firmest basis on the ploughed - up heart , And shoots forth there , with ever - growing force ...
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Page 31 - How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Page 130 - If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: And if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
Page 54 - Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
Page 35 - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
Page 39 - BY night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth : 1 sought him, but I found him not. I will rise now, and go about the city In the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Page 82 - In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine. I the Lord do keep it ; I will water it every moment: Lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
Page 27 - Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense. Thou art all fair, my love ; there is no spot in thee.
Page 100 - I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
Page 21 - O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, In the secret places of the stairs, Let me see thy countenance, Let me hear thy voice; For sweet is thy voice, And thy countenance is comely.
Page 45 - I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, and by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.