Whose Chronicles we wondering hear.

Ezra and Nehemiah, now,

Esther the beauteous mourner show.

Job speaks in sighs, David in Psalms,

The Proverbs teach to scatter alms;

Ecclesiastes then comes on,

And the sweet Song of Solomon.

Isaiah, Jeremiah then

With Lamentations takes his pen,

Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea’s lyres