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Title: Birds of the Bible
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924
Subjects: Nature in the Bible
Publisher: Cincinnati, Jennings and Graham New York, Eaton and Mains
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hat Thou niightest still the enenij and the avenger. When 1 consider the heavens, the \vork of Thy fingers,The moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained ;What is man that Thou art mindful of him?Or the son of man, that Thou visitest him ? For Thou hast made him l)ut little lower than Ood, And crownest him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the work of Thy hands ;Thou hast put all things under his feet. AU sheep and oxen. Yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea ; Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Thj name in all the earth ! Again, in what niight be called a Festal Hymn, hementioned Icatlicred creatures in his poems of praise ofthe Almighty: Praise the Lord from the earth.Ye dragons and all deeps :Fire and hail, snow and vapor;Stormy wind, fulfilling His word: Mountains and all hills ;Fruitful trees and all cedars:Beasts and all cattle ;Creeping things and flying fowl :
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lUKDS OF THE POETS i:ja Kings of the earth and all i)eoples;Princes and all judges of the earth.Both young men and maidens ;Old men and children : Let them praise the name of the Lord ;For His name alone is exalted ! There is a poetic outburst in Kcclesiastes, in wliich tliobirds arc given a couj)kt that never lias been surj)asse(l,so that I will quote the wliolo of it: Remember also thy Creator in the daj^s of thy jouth ; Or ever the evil days come, And the years draw nigh, ^^hen thou shalt saj-, I have no i)leasure in them : Or ever the sun, And the light. And the moon. And the stars.Be darkened,And the clouds return after the rain : In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, And the strong men shall bow themselves, And the grinders shall cease because they are few. And those that look out of the windows be darkened, And the doors shall be shut in the street; When the sound of the grinding is low, And one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, And all the daughters of m

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