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THEYWho is this, coming up out of the wilderness, like pillars of smoke, - with perfume of myrrh, and frankincense, besides all the aromatic powder of the merchant?

Lo! his couch, ‘tis Solomon's own, Threescore heroes, around it, - of the heroes of Israel:

All of them, grasping the sword, trained for war, - every man, with his sword upon his thigh, because of dread, in the night-time.

A palanquin, King Solomon made himself, of the trees of Lebanon:

The supports thereof, made he of silver, the couch thereof, of gold, the seat thereof, of purple, - the midst thereof, hath an inlay of love from the daughters of Jerusalem.

Go forth and gaze, ye daughters of Zion, upon King Solomon, - wearing the crown, wherewith his mother, crowned him, in the day of his marriage, and in the day of his heart gladness.