...word most sweetly at times. I know that scripture, " His mouth is most sweet ;" and that, " My heloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away." I have felt him descend into his own hlessed word, and move in it with life and power and...

...Solomon's 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...age of Solomon. I think there is no question but, in the first speech, he remembered those two passages. Cant, ii 10, &c. and vii. 11, 12, which are...

...bids us live, And signs our passports to the gates of Heaven ! * Altered from the Song of Solomon : " My beloved spake and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away," &c. THOUGHT ON SHIPBOARD.^ BREASTING the billows in our home-bound bark, The ocean lies...

...spirit of ca»trrn poetry, and very often not unlike what we meet with in Homer, who is generally plw« near the age of Solomon. I think there is no question...but the poet, in the preceding speech, remembered these two passages, which arc spoken on the like occasion, and fill™ with the same pleasing images...

...he looketh forth at the windows, shewing to converse with the Bride. himself through the lattice. 10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. 11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone ; 12 The flowers appear on the...

...With thy glad and stately air : 'Mid all that brightest, fairest is, Oh ! yet most bright and fair ! Rise up, my love, my fair one, And come away, for, lo! The Winter's past—the rain is o'er, And softest breeaes blow. The turtle's pleasant voice is heard Amid...

...place to the wintry clouds and storms of the world ; 2 and therefore she hastens to tell of the sub1 My Beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my Love, my lair one, and come away. For lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear...

...the poor sinner can well understand the language of the church, and that feelingly, when she said " My beloved spake, and said unto me, rise up, my love, my fair one, and come a-way, for lo, the winter (the darkness ihat enveloped thy soul) is past, the rain or floods of affliction are over and gone,...

...standelh behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice. 10 Aly th day. 24 IT And God" said, Let the earth brin^ forth th one,and come away. 11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone ; 12 The flowers appear...

...for thy caresses are better than wine'M Would he have applied to the Supreme Being the language, " My beloved spake and said unto me, ' Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away ' " t Would Solomon, who, in his prayer at the dedication of the temple, used the sublime...