A TESTIMONY.
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The earth is fattened with our dead;
She swallows more and doth not cease;
Therefore her wine and oil increase
And her sheaves are not numbered;
Therefore her plants are green, and all
Her pleasant trees lusty and tall.
She swallows more and doth not cease;
Therefore her wine and oil increase
And her sheaves are not numbered;
Therefore her plants are green, and all
Her pleasant trees lusty and tall.
Therefore the maidens cease to sing.
And the young men are very sad:
Therefore the sowing is not glad,
And mournful is the harvesting.
Of high and low, of great and small,
Vanity is the lot of all.
And the young men are very sad:
Therefore the sowing is not glad,
And mournful is the harvesting.
Of high and low, of great and small,
Vanity is the lot of all.
A King dwelt in Jerusalem;
He was the wisest man on earth;
He had all riches from his birth.
And pleasures till he tired of them;
Then, having tested all things, he
Witnessed that all are vanity.
He was the wisest man on earth;
He had all riches from his birth.
And pleasures till he tired of them;
Then, having tested all things, he
Witnessed that all are vanity.
