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Jubilate Agno: Fragment A

...uer malice is nobler, than to slay the lion. 

Let Barzillai bless with the Snail -- a friend in need is as the balm of Gilead, or as the slime to the wounded bark. 

Let Joab with the Horse worship the Lord God of Hosts. 

Let Shemaiah bless God with the Caterpiller -- the minister of vengeance is the harbinger of mercy. 

Let Ahimelech with the Locust bless God from the tyranny of numbers. 

Let Cornelius with the Swine bless God, which purifyeth all things for the poor. 

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Jubilate Agno: Fragment B Part 1

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Let Ibzam rejoice with the Brandling -- the Lord further the building of bridges and making rivers navigable. 

Let Gilead rejoice with Gentle -- the Lord make me a fisher of men. 

Let Zelophehad rejoice with Ascalabotes who casteth not his coat till a new one is prepared for him. 

Let Mahlah rejoice with Pellos who is a tall bird and stately. 

Let Tirzah rejoice with Tylus which is the Cheeslip and food for the chicken. 

Let Hoglah rejoice with Leontophonos who will ...Read more of this...

Jubilate Agno: Fragment C

...ejoice with Balsam of Peru, which sweats from a tree, that flowers like the Foxglove. 

Let Ebed rejoice with Balsam of Gilead. God be gracious to Stede. 

Let Jarib rejoice with Balsam of Capivi. The Lord strengthen my reins. 

Let Shimshai rejoice with Stelis Missletoe on Fir. 

Let Joiarib rejoice with Veronica Fluellen or Speedwell. 

Let Tatnai rejoice with the Barbadoes Wild Olive. 

Let Ezra rejoice with the Reed. The Lord Jesus make musick of it. Good Friday 1761. 

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Old King Cole

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“This pipe would never make me calm,
This bowl my grief would never drown. 
For grief like mine there is no balm 
In Gilead, or in Tilbury Town. 
And if I see what I can see, 
I know not any way to blind it;
Nor more if any way may be 
For you to grope or fly to find it. 

“There may be room for ruin yet, 
And ashes for a wasted love; 
Or, like One whom you may forget,
I may have meat you know not of. 
And if I’d rather live than weep 
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Song of Solomon

...thou
           hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of
           goats, that appear from mount Gilead.

22:004:002 Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which
           came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and
           none is barren among them.

22:004:003 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is
           comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within
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The Raven

...on this desert land enchanted—
    On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore—
Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!”
            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

    “Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore—
    Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
    It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
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