1. Victorian literature
... . Ruskin explains that the woman could use her power to make all in her garden right, to flower and blossom with a quote from the Song of Solomon, 4:16, "Come, though south, and breathe upon my garden, that the spices of it may flow out". In paragraph 16 Ruskin keeps up the poetic mode, " sought Him in vain, all through the night; sought Him in ... in life, sowing his seed; the woman is there to cherish and protect those that he has sown by being an " angel keeper". He then quotes from chapter 2, verse 15 of the Song of Solomon again to confirm the woman's role in life, and that is for h...
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