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"Never," says Dean Milman, "was ruined city lamented in language so exquisitely pathetic. And in the midst of all this calamity there is no rebellion against God; it is only the cry of a desolate but trusting soul to a just and faithful Ruler. THE PROVERBS, in the Hebrew Bible, is called "Mishle," or sometimes "Mishle Shelomoh."
The same warmth and historical verisimilitude is found again in Asenath Bat- Potipherah. From the same period dates the first volume of fables by Gordon, published at Vienna, in 1860, under the title Mishle Yehudah, forming the second part of his collected poems, and being itself divided into four books.
A few specimens of his Mishle, or maxims, follow: "Truth springs from research, justice from intelligence. "On the day of thy birth thou didst weep, and those about thee were glad. On the day of thy death thou wilt laugh, and those about thee will sigh. "Think not what is sweet to thy palate is sweet to thy neighbor's palate.
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