A Song of Solomon

by Josephine Preston Peabody

King solomon was the wisest man   Of all that have been kings. He built an House unto the Lord;   And he sang of creeping things. Of creeping things, of things that fly,   Or swim within the seas; Of the little weed along the wall,   And of the cedar-trees. And happier he, without mistake,   Than all men since alive. God’s House he built; and he did make   A thousand songs and five.

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