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**SONGS**

 * Christina Rossetti:**

1. ACROSS THE UNIVERSE

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup

They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe

Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind

Possessing and caressing me

Jai Guru Deva OM

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes

They call me on and on across the universe

Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box

They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe

Jai Guru Deva OM

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Sounds of laughter shades of live are ringing through my open ears

Inciting and inviting me

Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns

It calls me on and on, across the universe

Jai Guru Deva OM

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Nothing's gonna change my world

Jai Guru Deva

Jai Guru Deva

Jai Guru Deva

Jai Guru Deva

Jai Guru Deva [fade out]

Blue: personification Red: Imagery Orange: Hyperbole

2. BEAUTIFUL

When I see you

I run out of words to say (oh oh)

I wouldn't leave you

'Cause you're that type of girl to make me stay (oh oh)

I see the guys tryna' holla

Girl I don't wanna bother you

'Cause you're independent and you got my attention

Can I be your baby father?

Girl I just wanna show you

That I love what you are doin' hun

I see you in the club

You gettin' down good

I wanna get with you, yeah

I see you in the club

You showin' thugs love

I wanna get with you

You're so beautiful

So damn beautiful

Said you're so beautiful

So damn beautiful

[Akon & Colby O'Donis]

You're so beautiful

beautiful

beautiful

beautiful

You're so beautiful

beautiful

beautiful

beautiful

You're so beautiful

[Colby O'Donis]

Like the clouds you

Drift me away, far away (yeah)

And like the sun you

Brighten my day, you brighten my day (yeah)

I never wanna see you cry cry cry

And I never wanna tell a lie lie lie

Said I never wanna see you cry cry cry

And I never wanna tell a lie lie lie

[Akon]

I see you in the club

You gettin' down good

I wanna get with you, yeah

I see you in the club

You showin' thugs love

I wanna get with you

You're so beautiful

So damn beautiful

Said you're so beautiful

So damn beautiful

[Akon & Colby O'Donis]

You're so beautiful

Beautiful

Beautiful

Beautiful

You're so beautiful

Beautiful

Beautiful

Beautiful

[Kardinal Offishall]

Kardinal told you

Whether the sky blue or yellow

This fella ain't that mellow

If it ain't about you (you)

Hourglass shape make the place go (ooohhh)

Waistline makes my soldier salute

I'mma brute (brute)

High from your high heel game

High heels push up ya ass last name

And you livin' in the fast lane

Eyes like an angel (goddess)

Watch my yellin' as she undress

Spotless, heartless, bad to the bone

Make me wanna go put me in the triple-X zone (zone)

Lames don't know how to talk to you

So let me walk with you, hold my hand

I'mma spend them grands, but after you undress

Not like a hooker, but more like a princess

Queen, empress, president

Pull anywhere you go on Earth

'Cause your beautiful (okay?)

[Akon]

I see you in the club

You gettin' down good

I wanna get with you (ohh yeah)

I see you in the club

You showin' thugs love

I wanna get with you

You're so beautiful

So damn beautiful

Said you're so beautiful (so beautiful)

So damn beautiful (so beautiful)

[Akon & Colby O'Donis]

You're so beautiful

beautiful

beautiful

beautiful

You're so beautiful

beautiful

beautiful

beautiful

You're so beautiful

[Akon]

Where'd you come from? You're outta this world to me

You're a symbol of what every beautiful woman should be (oooh wee) (ohh ohh)

[Colby O'Donis]

I never wanna see you cry cry cry (don't cry)

And I never wanna tell a lie lie lie (oh yeah)

Said I never wanna see you cry cry cry (ohhhh)

And I never wanna tell a lie lie lie (lieee)

[Akon]

I see you in the club

You gettin' down good

I wanna get with you (ooh yeah)

I see you in the club

You showin' thugs love

I wanna get with you

You're so beautiful

So damn beautiful

Said you're so beautiful

So damn beautiful

You're so beautiful

Blue: Simile Red: Repetition Green: Personification

3. AIRPLANES

Can we pretend that airplanes In the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now Wish right now, wish right now

Can we pretend that airplanes In the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now Wish right now, wish right now

Yeah, I could use a dream or a genie or a wish To go back to a place much simpler than this' Cause after all the partyin' and cashin' and crashin' And all the glitz and the glam and the fashion

And all the pandemonium and all the madness There comes a time where you fade to the blackness And when you starin' at that phone in your lap And you hopin' but them people never call you back

But that's just how the story unfolds You get another hand soon after you fold And when your plans unravel in the sand What would you wish for if you had one chance?

So airplane, airplane, sorry I'm late I'm on my way so don't close that gate If I don't make that then I'll switch my flight And I'll be right back at it by the end of the night

Can we pretend that airplanes In the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now Wish right now, wish right now

Can we pretend that airplanes In the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now Wish right now, wish right now

Yeah, somebody take me back to the days Before this was a job, before I got paid Before it ever mattered what I had in my bank Yeah, back when I was tryin' to get a tip at subway

And back when I was rappin' for the thrill of it But nowadays we rappin' to stay relevant I'm guessin' that if we can make some wishes out of airplanes Then maybe, oh, maybe I'll go back to the days

Before the politics that we call the rap game And back when ain't nobody listened to my mix tape And back before I tried to cover up my slang But this is for the hater, what's up, [Incomprehensible]

So can I get a wish to end the politics? And get back to the music that started this shit So here I stand, and then again I say I'm hopin' we can make some wishes out of airplanes

Can we pretend that airplanes In the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now Wish right now, wish right now

Can we pretend that airplanes In the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now Wish right now, wish right now

I could really use a wish right now I, I, I could really use a wish right now A wish, a wish right now

Blue: Personification Maroon: Imagery Pink: Tone


 * King Solomon:**

4. LIKE A ROCK

Stood there boldly

Sweatin' in the sun

Felt like a million

Felt like number one

The height of summer

I'd never felt that strong

Like a rock

I was eighteen

Didn't have a care

Working for peanuts

Not a dime to spare

But I was lean and

Solid everywhere

Like a rock

My hands were steady

My eyes were clear and bright

My walk had purpose

My steps were quick and light

And I held firmly

To what I felt was right

Like a rock

Like a rock, I was strong as I could be

Like a rock, nothin' ever got to me

Like a rock, I was something to see

Like a rock

And I stood arrow straight

Unencumbered by the weight

Of all these hustlers and their schemes

I stood proud, I stood tall

High above it all

I still believed in my dreams

Twenty years now

Where'd they go?

Twenty years

I don't know

Sit and I wonder sometimes

Where they've gone

And sometimes late at night

When I'm bathed in the firelight

The moon comes callin' a ghostly white

And I recall

I Recall

Like a rock. standin' arrow straight

Like a rock, chargin' from the gate

Like a rock, carryin' the weight

Like a rock

Lihe a rock, the sun upon my skin

Like a rock, hard against the wind

Like a rock, I see myself again

Like a rock

Red: Simile Blue: Repetition Orange: Hyperbole

5. Rolling Stone

Once upon a time you dressed so fine

You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?

People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"

You thought they were all kiddin' you

You used to laugh about

Everybody that was hangin' out

Now you don't talk so loud

Now you don't seem so proud

About having to be scrounging for your next meal.

How does it feel

How does it feel

To be without a home

Like a complete unknown

Like a rolling stone?

You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely

But you know you only used to get juiced in it

And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street

And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it

You said you'd never compromise

With the mystery tramp, but know you realize

He's not selling any alibis

As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes

And say do you want to make a deal?

How does it feel

How does it feel

To be on your own

With no direction home

Like a complete unknown

Like a rolling stone?

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns

When they all come down and did tricks for you

You never understood that it ain't no good

You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you

You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat

Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat

Ain't it hard when you discover that

He really wasn't where it's at

After he took from you everything he could steal.

How does it feel

How does it feel

To be on your own

With no direction home

Like a complete unknown

Like a rolling stone?

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people

They're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made

Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things

But you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe

You used to be so amused

At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used

Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse

When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose

You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

How does it feel

How does it feel

To be on your own

With no direction home

Like a complete unknown

Like a rolling stone?

Lavender: imagery Green: repetition Dark Blue: Simile

6. ITS MY LIFE

This ain't a song for the broken-hearted

No silent prayer for the faith-departed

I ain't gonna be just a face in the crowd

You're gonna hear my voice

When I shout it out loud

It's my life

It's now or never

I ain't gonna live forever

I just want to live while I'm alive

It's my life

My heart is like an open highway

Like Frankie said

I did it my way

I just wanna live while I'm alive

It's my life

This is for the ones who stood their ground

For Tommy and Gina who never backed down

Tomorrow's getting harder make no mistake

Luck ain't even lucky

Got to make your own brakes

It's my life

And it's now or never

I ain't gonna live forever

I just want to live while I'm alive

It's my life

My heart is like an open highway

Like Frankie said

I did it my way

I just want to live while I'm alive

'Cause it's my life

Better stand tall when they're calling you out

Don't bend, don't break, baby, don't back down

It's my life

And it's now or never

'Cause I ain't gonna live forever

I just want to live while I'm alive

It's my life

My heart is like an open highway

Like Frankie said

I did it my way

I just want to live while I'm alive

It's my life

And it's now or never

'Cause I ain't gonna live forever

I just want to live while I'm alive

It's my life

My heart is like an open highway

Like Frankie said

I did it my way

I just want to live while I'm alive

'Cause it's my life!

Brown: Hyperbole Maroon: Simile Blue: imagery


 * James Joyce:**

7. **Without Me** Obie Trice.

Real name no gimmicks

Two trailer park girls go round the outside,

Round the outside, round the outside

Two trailer park girls go round the outside,

Round the outside, round the outside

Guess who's back, back again

Shady's back, tell a friend

Guess who's back, guess who's back?

Guess who's back, guess who's back?

Guess who's back, guess who's back?

Guess who's back?

I've created a monster, 'cause nobody wants to

See Marshall no more they want Shady

I'm chopped liver

Well if you want Shady, then this is what I'll give ya

A little bit of weed mixed with some hard liquor

Some vodka that will jump start my heart quicker

Then a shot when I get shocked at the hospital

By the doctor when I'm not cooperating

When I'm rocking the table while he's operating "Hey"

You waited this long to stop debating

Cause I'm back, I'm on the rag and ovulating

I know you got a job Ms. Cheney

But your husband's heart problem is complicated

So the F-C-C won't let me be

Or let me be me so let me see

They tried to shut me down on M-T-V

But it feels so empty without me

So come on and dip, bum on your lips

that, *** on your lips and some on your**


 * And get ready 'cause this ** **is about to get heavy**


 * I just settled all my lawsuits, " ** **you, Debbie!"**


 * [Chorus] **


 * Now this looks like a job for me **


 * So everybody just follow me **


 * 'Cause we need a little controversy **


 * 'Cause it feels so empty without me **


 * I said, this looks like a job for me **


 * So everybody just follow me **


 * 'Cause we need a little controversy **


 * 'Cause it feels so empty without me **


 * Little hellions kids feeling rebellious **


 * Embarrassed, their parents still listen to Elvis **


 * They start feeling like prisoners helpless **


 * 'Til someone comes along on a mission and yells " *****"**


 * A visionary, vision is scary, could start a revolution **


 * Pollutin' the air waves a rebel **


 * So let me just revel and bask **


 * In the fact that I got everyone kissing my ***

And it's a disaster such a catastrophe

For you to see so damn much of my *** you ask for me**


 * Well I'm back, fix your bent antennae **


 * Tune it in and then I'm gonna enter **


 * Into the front of your skin like a splinter **


 * The center of attention back for the winter **


 * I'm interesting, the best thing since wrestling **


 * Infesting in your kids ears and nesting **


 * "Testing attention please" **


 * Feel the tension soon as someone mentions me **


 * Here's my ten cents, my two cents is free **


 * A nuisance, who sent, you sent for me? **


 * [Chorus] **


 * A-tiskit a-taskit, **


 * I go *** for tat with anybody who's talking this and that

Chris Kirkpatrick, you can get your *** kicked**


 * Worse than them little Limp Bizkit bastards **


 * And Moby, you can get stomped by Obie **


 * You thirty six year old bald headed ***, blow me

You don't know me, you're too old

Let it go its over, nobody listens to techno

Now lets go, just give me the signal

I'll be there with a whole list full of new insults

I've been dope, suspenseful with a pencil

Ever since Prince turned himself into a symbol

But sometimes this just seems

Everybody only wants to discuss me

So this must mean I'm disgusting

But it's just me I'm just obscene

Though I'm not the first king of controversy

I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley

To do black music so selfishly

And use it to get myself wealthy

"Hey" there's a concept that works

Twenty million other white rappers emerge

But no matter how many fish in the sea

It will be so empty without me

Blue: Oxymoron Red: Repetition Green: Assonance

8. When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be

Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree

There will be an answer, let it be

For though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see

There will be an answer, let it be

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be

There will be an answer, let it be

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be

Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be

Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

And when the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me

Shine until tomorrow, let it be

I wake up to the sound of music, Mother Mary comes to me

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah, let it be

There will be an answer, let it be

Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah, let it be

Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

Blue: consonance Orange: Metaphor Red: Personification

Absolutely no one that knows me better
 * 9. Stuck Like Glue**

No one that can make me feel so good

How did we stay so long together?

Everybody, everybody said we never would

And just when I, I start to think they're right

That love has died

[Chorus]

There you go making my heart beat again,

Heart beat again

Heart beat again

There you go making me feel like a kid

Won't you do it and do it one time?

There you go pulling me right back in

Right back in

Right back in

And I know, whoa oh

I'm never letting this go, whoa oh

I'm stuck on you, whoa oh whoa oh

Stuck like glue

You and me baby we're stuck like glue

Whoa oh whoa oh, Stuck like glue

You and me baby we're stuck like glue

Some days I don't feel like trying

Some days you know I wanna just give up

When it doesn't matter who's right, fight about it all night

Had enough

You give me that look

"I'm sorry baby let's make up"

You do that thing that makes me laugh

And just like that

[Chorus]

Whoa oh, whoa oh

You almost stay out, too stuck together from the ATL

Whoa oh, whoa oh

Feeling kinda sick?

Just a spoon full of sugar make it better real quick

I say, (whoa oh, whoa oh)

Whatcha gonna do with that?

(Whoa oh, whoa oh)

Come on over here with that

Sugar sticky sweet stuff

Come on give me that stuff

Everybody wants some

Melodies that get stuck

Up in your head, whoa oh, whoa oh(X3)

(Whoa oh, whoa oh)

Stuck like glue

You and me together, say, it's all I wanna do

I said

[Chorus]

There you go making my heart beat again,

Heart beat again

Heart beat again

There you go making me feel like a kid

Won't you do it and do it one time

There you go pulling me right back in

Right back in

Right back in

And I know, whoa oh

I'm never letting this go, whoa oh

There you go making my heart beat again

Heart beat again

Heart beat again

There you go making me feel like a kid

Won't you do it and do it one time

There you go pulling me right back in

Right back in

Right back in

And I know, whoa oh

I'm never letting this go, whoa oh

I'm stuck on you, whoa oh whoa oh

Stuck like glue

You and me baby we're stuck like glue

Whoa oh whoa oh, Stuck like glue

You and me baby we're stuck like glue

Whoa oh, whoa oh

Stuck like glue

You and me baby we're stuck like glue

Red: Hyperbole Blue: Simile Pink: Repetition

**POEMS**

 * Christina Rossetti:**

1. Consider the Lilies of The Field

FLOWERS preach to us if we will hear:--

The rose saith in the dewy morn:

I am most fair;

Yet all my loveliness is born

Upon a thorn.

The poppy saith amid the corn:

Let but my scarlet head appear

And I am held in scorn;

Yet juice of subtle virtue lies

Within my cup of curious dyes.

The lilies say: Behold how we

Preach without words of purity.

The violets whisper from the shade

Which their own leaves have made:

Men scent our fragrance on the air,

Yet take no heed

Of humble lessons we would read.

But not alone the fairest flowers:

The merest grass

Along the roadside where we pass,

Lichen and moss and sturdy weed,

Tell of His love who sends the dew,

The rain and sunshine too,

To nourish one small seed.

2. DREAM LAND

HERE sunless rivers weep

Their waves into the deep,

She sleeps a charmed sleep:

Awake her not.

Led by a single star,

She came from very far

To seek where shadows are

Her pleasant lot.

She left the rosy morn,

She left the fields of corn,

For twilight cold and lorn

And water springs.

Through sleep, as through a veil,

She sees the sky look pale,

And hears the nightingale

That sadly sings.

Rest, rest, a perfect rest

Shed over brow and breast;

Her face is toward the west,

The purple land.

She cannot see the grain

Ripening on hill and plain;

She cannot feel the rain

Upon her hand.

Rest, rest, for evermore

Upon a mossy shore;

Rest, rest at the heart's core

Till time shall cease:

Sleep that no pain shall wake;

Night that no morn shall break

Till joy shall overtake

Her perfect peace. _

3. Symbols

I watched a rosebud very long Brought on by dew and sun and shower,

Waiting to see the perfect flower:

Then, when I thought it should be strong,

It opened at the matin hour

And fell at evensong.

I watched a nest from day to day,

A green nest full of pleasant shade,

Wherein three speckled eggs were laid:

But when they should have hatched in May,

The two old birds had grown afraid

Or tired, and flew away.

Then in my wrath I broke the bough

That I had tended so with care ,

Hoping its scent should fill the air;

I crushed the eggs, not heeding how

Their ancient promise had been fair:

I would have vengeance now.

But the dead branch spoke from the sod,

And the eggs answered me again:

Because we failed dost thou complain?

Is thy wrath just? And what if God,

Who waiteth for thy fruits in vain,

Should also take the rod?


 * King Solomon:**

4. Book of Proverbs Chapter 1

The use and end of the proverbs. An exhortation to flee the company of the wicked: and to hearken to the voice of wisdom. 1:1. The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, 1:2. To know wisdom, and instruction: 1:3. To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity: 1:4. To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding. 1:5. A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth shall possess governments. 1:6. He shall understand a parable and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings. 1:7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. 1:8. My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 1:9. That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck. 1:10. My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them. 1:11. If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause: 1:12. Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit. 1:13. We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils. 1:14. Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse. 1:15. My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths. 1:16. For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 1:17. But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings. 1:18. And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls. 1:19. So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors. 1:20. Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets: 1:21. At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying: 1:22. O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge? 1:23. Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words. 1:24. Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded. 1:25. You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions. 1:26. I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared. 1:27. When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you: 1:28. Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me: 1:29. Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord, 1:30. Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof. 1:31. Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices. 1:32. The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. 1:33. But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.

5. The Song of Songs

The Song of songs, which is Solomon's.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth:

for thy love is better than wine.

Because of the savor of thy good ointments

thy name is as ointment poured forth,

therefore do the virgins love thee.

Draw me, we will run after thee:

the King hath brought me into his chambers:

we will be glad and rejoice in thee,

we will remember thy love more than wine:

the upright love thee.

I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,

as the tents of Kedar,

as the curtains of Solomon.

Look not upon me, because I am black,

because the sun hath looked upon me:

my mother's children were angry with me;

they made me the keeper of the vineyards;

but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest,

where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon:

for why should I be as one that turneth aside

by the flocks of thy companions?

If thou know not, O thou fairest among women,

go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock,

and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.

The Bride and the Bridegroom

I have compared thee, O my love,

to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.

Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels,

thy neck with chains of gold.

We will make thee borders of gold

with studs of silver.

While the King sitteth at his table,

my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.

A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me;

he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.

My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire

in the vineyards of Enge'di.

Behold, thou art fair, my love;

behold, thou art fair;

thou hast doves' eyes.

Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant:

also our bed is green.

The beams of our house are cedar,

and our rafters of fir.

I am the rose of Sharon,

and the lily of the valleys.

As the lily among thorns,

so is my love among the daughters.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood,

so is my beloved among the sons.

I sat down under his shadow with great delight,

and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

He brought me to the banqueting house,

and his banner over me was love.

Stay me with flagons,

comfort me with apples:

for I am sick of love.

His left hand is under my head,

and his right hand doth embrace me.

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,

by the roes, and by the hinds of the field,

that ye stir not up, nor awake my love,

till he please.

The voice of my beloved!

Behold, he cometh

leaping upon the mountains,

skipping upon the hills.

My beloved is like a roe or a young hart:

behold, he standeth behind our wall,

he looketh forth at the windows,

showing himself through the lattice.

My beloved spake, and said unto me,

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.

6. Book of Proverbs Chapter 2

2:1. My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee, 2:2. That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence. 2:3. For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence: 2:4. If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure: 2:5. Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God: 2:6. Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge. 2:7. He wilt keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity, 2:8. Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints. 2:9. Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path. 2:10. If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul: 2:11. Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee, 2:12. That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things: 2:13. Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways: 2:14. Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in the most wicked things: 2:15. Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous. 2:16. That thou mayst be delivered from the strange woman, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words; 2:17. And forsaketh the guide of her youth, 2:18. And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell. 2:19. None that go in unto her, shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life. 2:20. That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just. 2:21. For they that are upright, shall dwell in the earth; and the simple shall continue in it. 2:22. But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly, shall be taken away from it.


 * James Joyce: **

7. A Prayer Again!

//Come, give, yield all your strength to me!//

From far a low word breathes on the breaking brain

Its cruel calm, submission's misery,

Gentling her awe as to a soul predestined.

Cease, silent love! My doom!

Blind me with your dark nearness, O have mercy, beloved enemy of my will!

I dare not withstand the cold touch that I dread.

Draw from me still

My slow life! B end deeper on me, threatening head,

Proud by my downfall, remembering, pitying

Him who is, him who was!

Again!

Together, folded by the night, they lay on earth. I hear

From far her low word breathe on my breaking brain.

//Come!// I yield. Bend deeper upon me ! I am here.

Subduer, do not leave me! Only joy, only anguish,

Take me, save me, soothe me, O spare me! 8. ALONE The noon's greygolden meshes make

All night a veil,

The shorelamps in the sleeping lake

Laburnum tendrils trail.

The sly reeds whisper to the night

A name-- her name-

And all my soul is a delight,

A swoon of shame.

9. Be Not Sad

Be not sad because all men

Prefer a lying clamour before you :

Sweetheart, be at peace again -- -

Can they dishonour you?

They are sadder than all tears;

Their lives ascend as a continual sigh.

Proudly answer to their tears:

As they deny, deny.