...fresh springs are in thee." And when the captivity comes, the love only grows greater in the loss: "By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let...

...moreover, contains a number of echoes of the Psalms, and above all of Psalm 137 and its third verse: 'For they that led us away captive required of us then a song, and melody, in our heaviness.' Why the prophetic, Biblical note to Palamas's poem? We need to recall that it is a thinly disguised...

...hymn is meet in Sion, and to Thee shall the vow be performed in Jerusalem. But to-day we have sung, By the waters of Babylon we sat down and •wept, when we remembered Sion. Observe, that in the former it is said, For Thee, O God, a hymn is meet in Sion; but here, By...

...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...

...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...

...It does not name the tree on which the Israelites hung their harps. "By the waters of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered thee, O Sion. As for our...therein. For they that led us away captive required of us men a song and melody in our heaviness. Sing us one of the songs of Sion." The translation in the Holy...

...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...

...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)....

...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...

...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...