3 Odes of Solomon

  True poetry -- pure and simple

1 No way is hard where there is a simple heart.
2 Nor is there any wound where the thoughts are upright:
3 Nor is there any storm in the depth of the illuminated thought:
4 Where one is surrounded on every side by beauty, there is nothing that is divided.
5 The likeness of what is below is that which is above; 
  for everything is above: what is below is nothing but the imagination 
  of those that are without knowledge.
6  ...  Hallelujah.

  The beauty of God's creation.

1  As the work of the husbandman is the ploughshare:
   and the work of the steersman is the guidance of the ship:
2  So also my work is the Psalm of the Lord:
   my craft and my occupation are in His praises:
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   This Ode is a musical gem.

1  As the wings of doves over their nestlings;
    ... 
2  So also are the wings of the Spirit over my heart:
3   ... 
5  He has richly blessed me and my head is with Him:
   and the sword shall not divide me from Him, nor the scimitar;
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