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 When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the 
men were greatly ashamed: and the read more 
 When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the 
men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho 
until your beards be grown, and then return. 
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
 An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,
 And fell adown his shoulders with losse care.  
 An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,
 And fell adown his shoulders with losse care. 
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
 It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief 
could be assuaged by baldness.
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 It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief 
could be assuaged by baldness.
 [Lat., Stultum est in luctu capillum sibi evellere, quasi calvito 
maeror levaretur.] 
 But she is vanish'd to her shady home
 Under the deep, inscrutable; and there
  Weeps in a read more 
 But she is vanish'd to her shady home
 Under the deep, inscrutable; and there
  Weeps in a midnight made of her own hair. 
 For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness?
 [Lat., Cui flavam religas comam
  Simplex read more 
 For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness?
 [Lat., Cui flavam religas comam
  Simplex munditiis?] 
The hair is the richest ornament of women.
The hair is the richest ornament of women.
 Beware of her fair hair, for she excels
 All women in the magic of her locks;
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 Beware of her fair hair, for she excels
 All women in the magic of her locks;
  And when she winds them round a young man's neck,
   She will not ever set him free again.