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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 4.

Four heads have I, but body none, And without any legs I run. 'Midst bliss supreme my lot was cast, And joys that could not be surpassed.

Yet these delights did I forsake, And far away my course I take; Yet, while I wander far or nigh, Still ever in my bed I lie.

SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 5.

Of nature hard, and yet of purpose soft, The livelong night it bore its lord aloft; More vast by far than common mortals know And fitted well to lay the oppressor low.

Now lowlier still the lord lies in the grave, While for a trophy conquerors kept the slave.

SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 6.

By changing seasons gently nursed, From out of a tender bud it burst, And in a wood it flourished first.

Alas! not long; the forest glade, Resigns its trust; behind it fade Its sylvan home and woodland shade.

Death came; but though men called it dead, A second diverse life it led- A thing of wonder and of dread.

Then the old life resumed its power, And, in a dark and anxious hour, Sweet blooms arose, and fruit and flower.

SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 7.

In the water, in the air, and in the busy brain, Busy once, but nevermore to hate or love again; One of five, all like itself, in deadly deed united, And yet delivering those in whom the Lord of Hosts delighted SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 8.

Take from my whole my first away, Behold it then our direst day, Since Time his course began.

Restore again my several part, My whole brings peace to careworn hearts, And rest to weary man.