And if he called another, Abra came.”
The lines thus incorrectly quoted are by Prior, and will be found in his “Solomon.” The monarch is speaking of a female slave who had a real affection for him,—
“And, when I called another, Abra came.”
Gladstone’s Heber
Mr. Gladstone, in his well-known article, entitled “Kin Beyond Sea,” misquoted the couplet from Heber’s “Palestine.” Instead of the lines,—
“No workman steel, no ponderous hammers rung,
Like some tall palm the stately fabric sprung”—
as incorrectly given by Mr. Gladstone, they should read,—
“No hammer fell, no ponderous axes rung,
Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.”