...diff'unrfUur nnmcn tuum, &c. 352 358 Look not upon me because I am black, because the sun hath looked ujton me. My mother's children were angry with me. : they...vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept. Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth ! where tkaufeedest, where thou makest thyjlock to rest at noon...

...which fell so strangely on her ear as she sat in Christ Church gallery on that sultry July Sunday : " They made me the keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept." Jforfear. himself of a minute or two from dinner to tie up some carnations that had fallen down, and...

...the Canticles. Feint unquentum diffunditur nrnnen tuum, &c. 352 355 Look not upon me became lam Mack, because the sun hath looked upon me. My mother's children were angry irith me : they made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have J not kept. Tell me,...

...to my mother's children." The same allusion occurs in the complaint of the spouse: " Look not upon me because I am black, because the sun hath looked...with me ; they made me the keeper of the vineyards." x The children of one wife, scarcely looked upon the children of the other wives as their brothers...

...O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. 6 Look not upon we hereof as a bitter day. J keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept. 7 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth,...

...religion, amidst the activity of public duties. It is a striking confession of the Church of Christ, ' They made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept.' For there may be so entire an occupation in the religion of others, as to leave little time for the...

...thyself, set all straight at home, take heed of that of which the poor church complains, Cant. i. 6, " They made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept." Oh leave other things undone, rather than this great matter, which concerns the affairs of thine own...

...religion, amidst the activity of public dudes. It is a striking confession of the Church of Christ, ' They made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept.' For there may be so entire an occupation in the religion of others, as to leave little time for the...

...I am black : the sun hath looked upon me, and my mother's children were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept." But when figuratively interpreted, the sense is beautiful and plain. "Do not despise me, oh ! my friends,...

...surprise which the daughters of Jerusalem would feel when they beheld her countenance : " Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me." Females of distinction in Palestine, and even in Mesopotamia, are not only beautiful and well-shaped,...