ut down 55
VII Belshazzar's Feast 60

ORATORY

I The Oration of Moses at the Rehearsal of the
Blessing and the Curse 67
II A Discourse on Immortality and the Covenant
with Death 75
III Isaiah: The Great Arraignment 84
IV Isaiah: The Covenant with Death 87
V Isaiah: The Utter Destruction and the Great
Restoration 90
VI Ezekiel: The Sword of the LORD 93
VII Ezekiel: Wreck of the Goodly Ship Tyre 98
VIII Prophetic Sentences (from Jeremiah) 101

WISDOM

Wisdom Brevities 107
Essays
i Wisdom's Way with her Children 112
ii Prosperity and Adversity are from the Lord 113
iii Against Gossip 114
iv On the Tongue 115
v Choice of Company 116
vi The Wisdom of Business and the Wisdom of
Leisure 120
vii Life as a Joy shadowed by the Judgment (with
a Sonnet: The Coming of the Evil Days) 123
Sonnets
i The Sluggard 125
ii The Mourning for the Fool 126
iii The Two Paths 126
iv The Creator has made Wisdom the Supreme Prize 127
v Watchfulness of Lips and Heart 129
vi Wisdom and the Fear of the Lord 130
vii Wisdom and the Strange Woman 132

LYRICS

I An Elegy of a Broken Heart 141
II The Creator's Joy in his Creation 143
III Song of Moses and Miriam 149
IV Deborah's Song 152
V David's Lament 158
VI David's Song of Victory 160
VII The Bride's Reminiscences: a Lyric Idyl 165
VIII Jeremiah: The Battle of Carchemish 168
IX A Song of Zion Redeemed (from the Isaiahan Rhapsody) 170
X Isaiah: Doom of Babylon 175