...composition. To illustrate this observation, a specimen shall be given afterwards of such metaphors as I have been describing ; with respect to similes, take the following specimen : Behold, thon art fair, my love ; thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Mount Gilead : thy teeth...

...• Behold, Ihou art fair, my love; behold, thon art fair; thou hast dove's eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Oilead.' The language of this and of the following verses is purely Eastern. This symbolical language...

...Isracl. Behold, thou art fair, my love ; Behold, thou art fair ; Thou hast doves' eyes within thy loeks ; Thy hair is as a flock of goats That appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a shorn flock of sheep Which came up from the washing. All are paired, And none among them is bereaved....

...Israel. Behold, thou art fair, my love ; Behold, thon art fair ; Thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks ; Thy hair is as a flock of goats That appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a shorn flock of sheep Which came up from the washing. All are paired, And none among them is bereaved....

...: Behold, thou art fair, my love ; behold, thou art fair ; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks : thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead, Cant. iv. i. Lo, the dove-like eyes of the Church are within her locks ; and her hair is not as a hidden...

...dove's eyes " (i. 15). The same thought is again intimated — "Thou hast dove's eyes within thy locks ; thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from Mount Gilead " (iv. 1). In the former passage the voluptuous, dreamy softness which the imagination of eastern poets...

...they descended from the mountains, I was reminded of the expression in the Song of Solomon (iv. 1), ' Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from Mount Gilead.' Goats' milk was formerly, as it is now, a favourite article of food in the East : hence in Prov. xxvii....

...for beds were made of it (see Sam. xix. 26). Jesus, when He calls His church His bride, says that her "hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from Mount Gilead." (Song of Solomon iv. 1.) The goat was the emblem of the Macedonian Empire. And in Daniel's vision,...

..." Behold, thou art fair, my love ; behold, thou art fair ; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks : thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing ; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren...

...1, ' Behold, thou art fair, my love, behold^thou art fair : thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks : thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead ;' ver. 2, ' Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which come up from the washing...