Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity

Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.1 King Solomon had not yet attained middle ageforty-five; yet the fame of his wisdom and comeliness, of the grandeur of his life and the pomp of his court, had spread far beyond the limits of Palestine. In Assyria and Phnicia; in Lower and Upper gypt; from ancient Tabriz to Yemen and from Ismar unto Persepolis; on the coast of the Black Sea and upon the islands of the Mediterranean,all uttered his name in wonder, for there was none among the kings like unto him in all his days. In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of gypt, in the fourth year of Solomons reign over Israel, in the month of Zif,2 did the king undertake the erection of the great temple of the Lord in Mount Moriah, and the building of his palace in Jerusalem. Fourscore thousand stonesquarers and threescore and ten thousand that bare burthens wrought without cease in the mountains, and in the outskirts of the city; while ten thousand hewers that cut timber, out of a number of eight and thirty thousand, were sent each month, by courses, to Lebanon, where they spent a month in labour so arduous that they rested for two months thereafter. Thousands of men tied the cut trees into flotes, and hundreds of seamen brought them by sea to Jaffa, where they were fashioned by Tyrians, skilled to work at turning and carpentry. Only at the rearing of the pyramids of Khephren, Khufu, and Mencheres, at Ghizeh, had such an infinite multitude of labourers been used. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 33444
Author: Kuprin, A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich)
Release Date: Aug 16, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Translator: Guerney, Bernard Guilbert, 1894-1979