 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...  The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal - Page 841783Full view - About this book
 | Chalmers Izett Paton - Freemasonry - 1873 - 560 pages
...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 grapes give a good smell : Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away " (Song of Solomon ii. 10-13).... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1874 - 420 pages
...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...her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape perfume the air." In this passage the most general expression is first used : " The winter is past;"... | |
 | James Aitken Wylie - 1874 - 650 pages
...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 grape give a good smell." Like that balmy morning, so exquisitely painted in these words, that broke... | |
 | 1875 - 932 pages
...gone : the flowers appear on the earth: the time of the singing ot birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land: the fig-tree putteth forth her green figs." Here is an exact and loving observation of Nature. He who wrote this was attentive to the migration... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1875 - 780 pages
...in the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land ; the fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with tender grapes give a good smell" — all calling upon the loved and fairest one of believing hearts... | |
 | Christian Souvenir, Christian souvenir - Devotional calendars - 1875 - 304 pages
...of the turtle, the still small music of the Holy Spirit's voice whispering peace to the conscience, is heard in our land. The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs (fruitfulness in every good word and work shall evidence thy revival in grace), and the vines with... | |
 | Samuel Martin - 1878 - 304 pages
...now the winter is past, the flowers appear on the earth, " the time of the singing of birds is come." The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and "the vines with the tender grapes give a goodly smell." Here, too, is " a new song in the mouth of praise to our God." 4. I sometimes... | |
 | Congregationalists - 1879 - 314 pages
...blessed God." Then, too, with the spring comes a Call to Hope. King Solomon heard it when he wrote, " the fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender " — or half-formed — "grapes give a good smell." And we may hear it too, as over tree and hedge... | |
 | 1879 - 1248 pages
...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 fig», and CAN 281 the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one,... | |
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