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The Immovable East: Studies of the People and Customs of Palestine Philip J. Baldensperger No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 103 - 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 is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 103 - My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
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Page 103 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.