| Harold Pinter, Anthony Astbury, Geoffrey Godbert - Poetry - 1997 - 164 pages
...sorrier than the marriage of two deaths. Translated by ROBERT LOWELL ANONYMOUS 5TH CENTURY BC Psalm 137 I By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept: when we remembered thee, O Sion. 2. As for our harps, we hanged them up: upon the trees that are therein. 3 For they that led us away... | |
| John Hollander - Education - 1997 - 342 pages
...when I could conclude that the English Church's prayer book provided the canonical text for Eliot: "By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept: when we rememberrd thee O Sion. / As for our harps we hanged them up: upon the trees that arc there-in." The... | |
| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...0 give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endureth for ever. 1438 Psalm 137 vl existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. 5323 A Portrait of the Artist 1439 Psalm 139 v.13 1 will give thanks unto thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 1440 Solemnization... | |
| Richard L. Crocker - Music - 2000 - 270 pages
...and liturgical use Super ilumina Babylonis, illic sedimus, et flevimus, dum recordaremur tui, Sion. By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion. Included in the pool of chants used after Pentecost (usually on the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost).... | |
| David Norton - Bibles - 2000 - 526 pages
...banality. To go back to his first Bible (which he later slightly improved) makes blatant the contrast: 'by the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered Sion. As for our harps, we hanged them up upon the trees, that are therein'. This amounts to more than... | |
| Daniel J. Vitkus - History - 2001 - 416 pages
...understand the meaning of that psalm24 penned by those captive Jews held in Babylonish captivity as now: "By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept when we remembered thee, O! Sion," when we remembered thee, O! England. O! good friends, we hope these our sighs will come to your ears... | |
| Elizabeth Canham - Religion - 2001 - 132 pages
...from home and the temple on Mount Zion, the center of their worship and faith. They bewail their lot: By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered you, O Zion. As for our harps, we hung them up on the trees in the midst of that land. For those who... | |
| Charles Williams, Florence Sarah Conway Williams - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 338 pages
...possible) yearn even more for home. Miss P., Mr. Budgen, & I have just been reciting a Psalm—"By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept: when we remembered thee O Zion!"' 62 Though, as I pointed out, I always use the plural Zions: one for the earthly Zion which... | |
| Frances Heiman - Fiction - 2002 - 418 pages
...that was called Sacred Poems. I said the Psalm out loud now but whispered it so he couldn't hear me... "By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the willow trees we hung up our harps." I stopped when Jeffrey came in and put soap... | |
| Presbyterian Publishing Corporation - Music - 2001 - 904 pages
...Hah Myuh Re -mem -her Zi-on, Zi - on; Woo Ree Deul Eun Wool Ut Neh we sat down and cried for home. 1 By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered you, 0 Zion. 2 As for our harps, we hung them up on the trees in the midst of that land. 3 For those... | |
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