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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SOLOMON AND BALKIS. Solomon King of the Jews and the Queen of Sheba, Balkis, Talk on the ivory throne, and we well may conjecture their talk is Solely of things sublime: why else has she sought Mount Zion, Climbed the six golden steps, and sat betwixt lion and lion? She proves him with hard questions: before she has reached the middle He smiling supplies the end, straight solves them riddle by riddle; Until, dead-beaten at last, there is left no spirit in her, And thus would she close the game whereof she was first beginner: O wisest thou of the wise, world's marvel and well-nigh monster, One crabbed question more to construe or vulgo conster Who are those, of all mankind, a monarch of perfect wisdom Should open to, when they knock at spheteron do?that's, his dome ? The King makes tart reply: Whom else but the wise his equals Should he welcome with heart and voice since, king though he be, such weak walls Of circumstance?power and pomp?divide souls each from other That whoso proves kingly in craft I needs must acknowledge my brother. Come poet, come painter, come sculptor, come builder ?whate'er his condition, Is he prime in his art ? We are peers My insight has pierced the partition Arid hails?for the poem, the picture, the statue, the building?my fellow Gold's gold though dim in the dust: court-polish soon turns it yellow. But tell me in turn, O thou to thy weakling sex superior, That for knowledge hast travelled so far yet seemest no whit the wearier, ? Who are those, of all mankind, a queen like thyself, con - summate In wisdom, should call to her side with an affable ' Up hither, come, mate ' The Good are my mates?how else ? Why doubt it ? the Queen upbridl...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459090842 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459090845 |
| Weight | 0.19 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.11 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 48 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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