...black, but comely, Oye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. 6 hildren, and upon the children's children, onto the third and to the me vineyards; but mine own vineyard have 1 not kept. 7 Tell me, O thou whom rrly soul loveth, where...

...flock to rest at noon :for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?'] Look not upon me because I am black, because the sun...vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept. She laid down her pen, and was thoughtful; her elbow resting on the escrotoire she wrote upon, her...

...not amongst the queens, we may gather froni the description she is made to give of herself: — "I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,...curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me, because I am btarfc, because the sun hath looked upon me; my mother's children were angry with me ; they made me...

...what is our duty, as we are busy about that which is not. The spouse confesseth this, Cant. i. 6, " They made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept ;" she could not mind theirs and her own too : our own iron will cool while we are heating another's....

...diff'unrfUur nnmcn tuum, &c. 352 358 Look not upon me because I am black, because the sun hath looked ujton me. My mother's children were angry with me. : they...vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept. Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth ! where tkaufeedest, where thou makest thyjlock to rest at noon...

...which fell so strangely on her ear as she sat in Christ Church gallery on that sultry July Sunday : " They made me the keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept." Jforfear. himself of a minute or two from dinner to tie up some carnations that had fallen down, and...

...brethren, and an alien to my mother's children." The same allusion occurs in the complaint of the spouse: " Look not upon me because I am black, because the sun...with me ; they made me the keeper of the vineyards." x The children of one wife, scarcely looked upon the children of the other wives as their brothers...

...will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee. 5 I sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every...head ; and I will make it as the mourning of an onl 6 Look not upon we because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me : my mother's children were...

...were Arabs burnt by the sun; but that it refers to the tents is evident from Canticles, i. 5., " I am black but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem :...as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon." See the Song of Maisuna, wife of Moawiah, in Abulfeda, Reiska, p. 116., which presents a true picture...

...the nations ; and all the righteous who do what is right before thee, love thy precepts." Ver. 5. " I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,...as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon." When the house of Israel made the calf, their faces became black a» the sons of Ethiopia, who dwell...