when Anna died, he buried her with his father. But Tobias departed with his wife and his sons to Ecbatana unto Raguel his father in law, and he grew old in honour, and he buried his father and mother in law magnificently, and he inherited their substance, and his father Tobit's. And he died at Ecbatana of Media, being a hundred and seven and twenty years old. And before he died he heard of the destruction of Nineveh, which Nebuchadnezzar and Ahasuerus took captive; and before his death he rejoiced over Nineveh. 115 Metre of Solomon's Song The metre of Solomon's Song will be found to be both regular and beautiful when once its principle is caught. It presents points of resemblance and difference when compared with the metres of Wisdom literature, as discussed in the volumes of this series containing Proverbs and Job. 1. The poem is in what I have called 'Antique Metre': the metre of the poetry contained in the historical books of the Bible. Its law is simple. A unit or 'strain' of Antique Metre consists of a single couplet of alternate parallelism, of which either line may be strengthened by an additional parallel line, but not both. The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh, My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: He looketh in at the windows, He sheweth himself through the lattice. My beloved spake, and said unto me. Here are three strains': the second is a simple couplet; the third has its first line supplemented, and the first has its second |