358.
"Out from the heart of nature rolled
The burdens of the Bible old;
The litanies of nations came,
Like the volcano's tongue of flame,
Up from the burning core below,—
The canticles of love and woe."
Emerson, The Problem.
359. See this point fully discussed in Ritter, Palestine (Am. ed.), Vol. I. pp. 81-151.
360. See Weil, Biblical Legends, for the Mohammedan traditions concerning Solomon.