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were in captivity in a strange land, an incident occurred 

 which, to that nation at least, made the Willow an emblem 

 of the deepest of sorrows, namely, sorrow for sin found out 

 and visited with its due punishment : " By the rivers of 



TUB HUNTINGDON WILLOW. 



Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we 

 remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the 

 Willows in the midst thereof. For there they that 



