)" Later, in verse 10, he states " like a wise architect I placed a foundation, then another builds.

Chapter 4 ( Sura-e-Nisa ), verse 3 of the Quran states that a man may only be married to four women at the most, should he be able to treat them all fairly and equally.

Willingly or not — the 11th-century Prophecy of Berchán, a verse history in the form of a supposed prophecy, states that it was not a voluntary decision — Constantine abdicated in 943 and entered a monastery, leaving the kingdom to Malcolm.

As the verse states

Willingly or not — the 11th-century Prophecy of Berchán, a verse history in the form of a supposed prophecy, states that it was not a voluntary decision that Constantine II abdicated in 943 and entered a monastery, leaving the kingdom to Malcolm.

Some of these similarities include that, in parallel to Skaði and Njörðr in Skáldskaparmál, Hadingus is chosen by his wife Regnhild after selecting him from other men at a banquet by his lower legs, and, in parallel to Skaði and Njörðr in Gylfaginning, Hadingus complains in verse of his displeasure at his life away from the sea and how he is disturbed by the howls of wolves, while his wife Regnhild complains of life at the shore and states her annoyance at the screeching sea birds.

One verse " God created man in his own Image " states that God imagined the form of humans, taking image as a root word for imagine, mistakenly understood as man to look like God.

In verse IX. 4, Krishna states:

1 Timothy, however, states that certain Church leaders should have but one wife: " A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach " ( chapter 3, verse 2 ; see also verse 12 regarding deacons having only one wife ).

Surah Al-Ma ' idah verse 48 states:

Surah Al-Ankabut verse 46 states:

Surah Al-Baqara verse 113 states:

For example, verse 4: 113 states ; " God reveals the Book ( i. e. the books of revealed religion, especially The Qur ' an ) to you, and wisdom, and teaches you that which you did not know.

In Genesis ( chapter 47, verse 24-the New International Version ), it states " But when the crop comes in, give a fifth of it to Pharaoh.

On this verse a midrash on the book of Mishle ( English Proverbs ) states that " These two verses stem from an independent book which existed, but was suppressed!

However, Suskin states in Show Tunes that " As the writing progressed and the extent of Bernstein's lyric contributions became less, the composer agreed to rescind his credit ... Contrary to rumor, Sondheim did not write music for the show ; his only contribution came on " Something's Coming ", where he developed the main strain of the chorus from music Bernstein wrote for the verse.

Welch states that the story falsely claims that the chapter 53: 1-20 and the end of the chapter are a unity, that the date for the verse 22: 52 is later than 53: 21-7, and almost certainly belongs to the Medinan period.

" Stephan Grundy states that Sága and Sökkvabekkr may be by-forms of Frigg and Fensalir used for the purpose of composing alliterative verse.

In the song " Sweet Home Alabama " by Lynyrd Skynyrd, a verse states that:

The Qur ' an further states that Abraham's descendants were given the " Book and the Wisdom " ( IV: 54 ), and this fact is reinforced in a verse which states that Abraham's family was one of those in which the gift of prophecy was established as a generic trait ( XIX: 58 ).

The Qur ' an in verse 21: 22 states: " If there were numerous gods instead of one, heavens and the earth would be in a sorry state ".

" The reason for this procedure is that the Hebrew word for " blessed " ( baruch ) is related to " knee " ( berech ); while the verse in Psalms states, " The Lord straightens the bent.

The navel is mentioned structurally in the text in between verses that describe the curvaceous beauty of a woman the verse just above the line mentioning the navel states ( song of songs 7: 1 ".... your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.

So far these remarks, like most criticisms of Hardy, have tacitly assumed that his poetry is all of a piece, one solid mass of verse expressing a sensibility at a single stage of development.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

" The impact of the Huntley-Brinkley Report on popular culture of the 1960s can be illustrated by a verse from the 1965 song " So Long, Mom ( A Song for World War III )" by the satirist Tom Lehrer:

So the conventional patterns of accentual and accentual-syllabic English verse are perceived as regularly rhythmic, whereas to the listener, syllabic verse generally is not distinguishable from free verse.

The Queers song " Feeling So Groovy " has the verse " I'm really not that dumb you know / got lots of beer and Tuinals ".

The second verse contains the line " Your mother warned you there'd be days like these ," which might be thought of as contradicting the first line of the song: " So no one told you life was gonna be this way.

During live performances with the Melvins in the 9 / 11-Afghanistan-Iraq War era, Jello substituted " Muslims " for " Russians " in the verse " So what's ten million dead, if it's keeping out the Russians?

So if it turns out they want to do a song for five minutes longer, they can actually loop through the material again so that you're not suddenly stuck with black screens halfway through the fifth verse.

So fierce was the competition, in fact, that one of Oriel's Fellows commemorated the event in Greek verse.

It is now common for this to be sung in a circle of linked arms that are crossed over one another as the clock strikes midnight for New Year's Day, although it is only intended that participants link arms at the beginning of the final verse, co-ordinating with the lines of the song which contain the lyrics to do so.

In 1992 one commentator who claimed to be able to contact Nostradamus under hypnosis even had him ' interpreting ' his own verse X. 6 ( a prediction specifically about floods in southern France around the city of Nîmes and people taking refuge in its collosse, or Colosseum, a Roman amphitheatre now known as the Arènes ) as a prediction of an undated attack on the Pentagon, despite the historical seer's clear statement in his dedicatory letter to King Henri II that his prophecies were about Europe, North Africa and part of Asia Minor.

As an expression of the many Evangelical beliefs, ' Amazing Grace ' serves as an example: the very first stanza ( verse ) for instance expresses Newton's sense of past sinfulness, as a ' wretch ', but also conversion, from being ' lost ' and ' blind ' to ' now I see '.

* The thirty syllable, Celtic verse form Englyn from the Welsh language is another interesting variation of the quatrain, and is also now popular in the English language.

In the cut second verse, Robin's servant says that he has changed his name from Adam Goodheart to Gideon Crawle since he is now a " bad Bart.

Language is also important in relation to Tranio and Lucentio, who appear on stage speaking a highly artificial style of blank verse full of classical and mythological allusions and elaborate metaphors and similes, thus immediately setting them aside from the more straightforward language of the Induction, and alerting the audience to the fact that we are now in an entirely different milieu.

The latter verse is the celebrated Savitri, now termed as the Gayatri mantra, with which Savitr was in later times invoked at the beginning of Vedic study.

Lennon returned to the subject in the lyrics of three of his subsequent songs: in the 1968 Beatles song " Glass Onion " he sings " now here's another clue for you all — the walrus was Paul ", ; in the third verse of " Come Together " he sings the line " he bag production, he got walrus gumboot ", and in his 1970 solo song " God ", admits " I was the walrus, but now I'm John.

At Oxford, Bridges became friends with Gerard Manley Hopkins, who is now considered a superior poet but who owes his present fame to Bridges ' efforts in arranging the posthumous publication ( 1918 ) of his verse.

Heroic hexameters were used by Homer, whose phrases and Ionian vocabulary became the mainstay of Tyrtaeus's verse, even though that was composed for Doric-speaking Spartan audiences —"... a measure of the extent to which the Ionian epics had by now created among the Greeks a cultural unity which transcended dialect and ethnic rivalry ".

The marriage two months later of Frances Howard and Robert Carr, now the Earl of Somerset, was the court event of the season, celebrated in verse by John Donne.

The thirty-three hymns praise most of the major gods of Greek mythology ; at least the shorter ones may have served as preludes to the recitation of epic verse at festivals by professional rhapsodes: often the singer concludes by saying that now he will pass to another song.

Betjeman records his appreciation of Bowra in his verse autobiography Summoned by Bells ; he evokes an evening spent dining with Bowra in a passage which concludes: " I wandered back to Magdalen, certain then ,/ As now, that Maurice Bowra ’ s company / Taught me far more than all my tutors did.

Áedán appears as a character in Old Irish and Middle Irish language works of prose and verse, some now lost.

In mid 1773 Fergusson attempted his own publication of Auld Reekie, now regarded as his masterpiece, a vivid verse portrait of his home city intended as the first part of a planned long poem.

Apart from God Save the Queen, the New Zealand national anthem is now traditionally sung with the first verse in Māori ( Aotearoa ) and the second in English ( God Defend New Zealand ).

A complete listing is impossible, since a sort of loose blank verse has become a staple of lyric poetry, but it would be safe to say that blank verse is as prominent now as it has been any time in the past three hundred years.

There is no trace of imitation or derivation from an alien source in the genius of this poet ... he resemblance between the tragic verse of Tourneur and the tragic verse of Shakespeare is simply such as proves the natural affinity between two great dramatic poets, whose inspiration partakes now and then of the quality more proper to epic or to lyric poetry.

The manuscript's title is " An old manuscript containing the Parliament of Bees, found in a hollow tree in a garden in Hibla, in a strange language, and now faithfully translated into easy English verse by John Day, Cantabridg.

* Aeschylus: A renowned tragic poet, he is named by Pisthetaerus as the author of a verse about heroes being shot with their own arrows / feathers ( line 808 ) – the verse was borrowed from the now lost play Myrmidons.

The most compelling arguments that suggest the removal of part of the same verse text we now have relate to the shape and character of the erasure itself.