HYMN XXVI.

“ Look not upon me because I am swarthy.”  Solomon’s Song, i. 6.

“Nac edryched neb i gloffi,”

Daughters fair of David’s city,
Stare not with disdain upon
Me because my face is swarthy,
For, if sunburnt, it is comely
As the curtains of the costly
Corridors of Solomon.