Dreamwork

Is it possible the speaker of these lyrical verses was dreaming? And what does this say about her fears? 

The oldest among us remember the days of daily Bible reading in public schools. While some wax nostalgic for those times, in truth it was a rather boring exercise for most.

Such was the case in Toms River High School in Toms River, New Jersey. Each week a student was chosen to read a series of Bible passages — their choice — over the P.A. system, as part of the dreaded “opening exercises.” No one paid much attention to that disembodied voice, until one particular week.

It was already Wednesday or Thursday before some students began to sit up at their homeroom desks, and take notice of the words they were hearing, in the venerable King James Version:

How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter!
The joints of thy thighs are like jewels. ...
Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor;
thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies.
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
Thy neck is like a tower of ivory...

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