...call'd Astarte, queen of Heaven, with crescent horns To whose bright image nightly by the moon 440 Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs ; In Sion...though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell 445 To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels...

...mountains of the leopards." herds, or dens for wild beasts. And, lastly, we have the story of Thammuz — " Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels...summer's day : While smooth Adonis, from his native rock. Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded." These testimonies show the propriety...

...call'd Astarte, qaeen of Heaven, with crescent horns To whose bright image nightly by the moon 440. • Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs ; In Sion...though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell 445 To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels...

...romantic, and suitable to what we read among the ancients of the worship which was paid to that idol. -Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thummuz yearly wounded : the love tale Infected Sion's...

...to the celebrity of Byblus as a chief seat of the polluted worship of Venus and Adonis.1 " Thammnz came next behind. Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured...ditties, all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis, from its' native rock, Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz, yearly wounded." Paradise...

...serve for huts for shepherds, or dens for wild beasts. And, lastly, we have the story of Thammuz — " Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels...summer's d-ay : While smooth Adonis, from his native rook, Ran purple to the sea. supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded." These testimonies show...

...Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs ; In Sion also not unsung, where stood Her temple on th' offensive mountain, built By that uxorious king, whose...summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected Sion's...

...call'd Astarte", queen of Heaven, with crescent horns : To whose bright image nightly by the moon, Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs: In Sion...fell ' ^ To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, _ , Whose annual wound, in Lebanon, allured - — The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In amorous...

...uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell 445 To idols foul. Thamnmz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured...summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock 450 Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded: the love-tale Infected Sum's...

...declared to be a great abomination. Next he beheld the Phenician idolatry, in women weeping for Tammuz, " Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels...summer's day ; While smooth Adonis, from his native rock, Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz, yearly wounded." — MILTON. This is declared...