With me is Wisdom’s name and praise:

With me are Hope, and Knowledge high,

And sacred Fear, and peaceful days.

Be strong all ye that love your God:

He maketh Wisdom to abound

Like Tigris swollen with vernal flood,

Like broad Euphrates harvest-crowned.

Through garden-plots my course I took

To bathe the beds of herb and tree:

Then to a river swelled my brook:—