A thousand threads, ten-thousand strands
are tied to the child's arm.
They hope the child will live a good long life,
a year for every inch of cord!

They make a fake tiger, and hope it will seem real,
then hang the ferocious beast outside the door.
If the evil spirits have any brains at all
when they see this thing, they will not be afraid.

You think I am happy:
in my heart, I suffer!
A fake smile on my face, I play the p'i-p'a:
but the tune is wild, music never written down.

South of the house, north of the house
young men plant the fields,
singing field songs as they work,
tunes that ring out loud.
How different from the young " knights-errant "
of the neighboring town:
daubing rouge upon their faces,
falcons perched on arms!

Bride loved old words, and found her pleasure marred
On the first night, her expectations jarred,
And thirty inches short of being a yard.

Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchishua, Saul's sons.
And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house.
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.

And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.
Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the Lord is with him.
Whereupon Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.
And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.

25. And there came great mourning upon Israel, in every place where they were;
26. And the rulers and elders groaned, the virgins and young men were made feeble, and the beauty of the women
27. Was changed. Every bridegroom took up lamentation, she that sat in the marriage chamber was in heaviness.
28. And the land was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all the house of Jacob was clothed with shame.

8. Her temple is become as a man that was glori-
9. Ous: her vessels of glory are carried away into captivity, her infants are slain in her streets, her young men
10. With the sword of the enemy. What nation hath not inherited her palaces, and gotten possession of her spoils?
11. Her adorning is all taken away; instead of a free woman she is become
12. A bond woman: and, behold, our holy things and our beauty and our glory are laid waste, and the Gentiles have
13. Profaned them. Wherefore should we live any longer?