...garden were in full bloom, the wild fig-tree calls the maiden to the shade which its leaves afford. " The little sycamore Which she planted with her hand,...She is laden with fruit, Redder than the ruby. The color of her leaves is as glass, Her stem is as the color of the opal * * • It is cool in her shadow....

...called her to come into its shade. This beautiful love song invites her with most enticing words : She is charming, her bower is green, Greener than...Her stem is as the colour of the opal, It is cool in the shadow. She sends her letter by a little maiden, The daughter of her chief gardener. She makes...

...calls the maiden to come into the shade of the fig-leaves as a trysting-place. " The little sycamore 1 Which she planted with her hand, She begins to speak, And her words are as drops of honey." We know that honey was valued in sacrificial rites. From the great papyrus of Eameses III., in which...

...have seemed as charming to the Egyptian of the Empire as ' Come into the garden, Maud,' does to us. ' The little sycamore Which she planted with her hand,...begins to speak, And her words are as drops of honey. * Erman, p. 387, and ' Records of the Past,' vi. 130. 270 She is charming, her bower is green, . ....

...wild fig-tree calls to the maiden to come into the shade of the fig leaves as a trysting place : " The little Sycamore, Which she planted with her hand...She is laden with fruit, Redder than the ruby, The color of her leaves is as glass, Her stem is as the color of the opal. . . . It is cool in her shadow....

...picture of the sycamore which shelters the lovers in the well-known love-poem of the Turin Papyrus ? The little Sycamore Which she planted with her hand,...colour of the opal . . . It is cool in her shadow. It is just after this charming description that the beloved sends forth her summons to her " brother,"...