...upon the mown grass ; as showers that water the earth ;" and thy song shall be that of the church, " My Beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love,...my fair one, and come away. 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...

...with hopeful and longing fear, when we wait for the voice which shall say to the least of penitents, " Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away; for, lo, the winter is past:"—sorrow and sin, anguish and cold fear, dark days and lingering nights, penance after sins,...

...relish with it, more taking than at its first coming to the man. Hence says the spouse, Can. ii. 10. ' My beloved spake and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.' Talking of it thus on your way from the church, and in your own houses, will be most beneficial...

...the book of Canticles, in which there is a noble spirit of eastern poetry, and very often not unlike what we meet with in Homer, who is generally placed...beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair-one, and come away ; for lo the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear...

...would utterly be contemned. Stay ye me with raieins, comfort me with apples : For I am nick of love. My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and oomc nway, ic. The fig tree riponeth her green figs, And the vines are in blossom, They give forth...

...it at the Song of Solomon ii. When I came to the 10th verse, light from heaven broke into my soul: "My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair cue; and come away." 0 what condescension for God to speak to such a sinner as I in such language as...

..." which in his times he shall shew" (Titus ii. 13; Isaiah xxxiii. 17; 1 Tim. vi. 14-16). Ver. 10. " My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away." Not only " the voice" but the words of Jesus are now heard, and they are precious because...

...Solomon's book of Canticles, in which there is a noble spirit of eastern poetry, and very oflen not unlike what we meet with in Homer, who is generally placed near the age of Solomon. 1 think there is no question but, in the Grst speech, he remembered those two passages. Cant. ii. 10,...

...Canticles (Song of Solomon), in which there is a noble spirit of eastern poetry, and very often not unlike what we meet with in Homer, who is generally placed near the age of Solomon. There is no question that the poet, in the speech that follows, remembered those two past-ages which...

...spirit of eastern poetry, and very often not unlike what we meet with in Homer, who is generally plaeed near the age of Solomon. I think there is no question but the poet, in the preeeding speeeh, remembered these two passages, whieh are spoken on the like oeeasion, and filled...