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(From The Man in the Iron Mask)
SO Moses, servant of the Lord, died there, | |
| Out in the land of Moab, as the Lord | |
| Had spoken. He buried him, also, | |
| Over against Beth-peor, in a vale | |
| Of Moab; but, unto this day, no man | 5 |
| Knoweth his sepulchre, nor yet can tell | |
| Where Moses, servant of the Lord, is laid. * * * * * | |
| Now ere he died, we read that Moses clomb | |
| (The Holy Spirit moving him thereto) | |
| Up from the plain of Moab to the mount | 10 |
| Called Nebo, from a lofty peak whereof— | |
| The towering peak of Pisgah—God the Lord | |
| Showed him (yea! even from Pisgah that o’erlooks | |
| The walled and towered pride of Jericho) | |
| The land of Gilead stretching out to Dan, | 15 |
| And all of Naphtali and Ephraim, | |
| Manasseh and all Judah’s wide expanse | |
| Unto the utmost sea: | |
| The balmy-breathing south,—the fertile plain | |
| Of Jericho, the palm-tree city hight, | 20 |
| In one glad dream of beauty unto Zoar! | |
| And when the servant of the Lord had looked | |
| One eagle-look on that fair map below | |
| (As he was bid), thus spake to him the Lord: | |
| “This is the land I sware to Abraham, | 25 |
| To Isaac, and to Jacob when I said, | |
| ‘Lo! I will give it for an heritage | |
| For thee and thine, and for thy seed for aye.’ | |
| Now have I causéd thee to look on it, | |
| And see it with thine eyes; yet know, O man! | 30 |
| That never from this awful peak shalt thou, | |
| Descending, cross unto those pleasant plains | |
| Thus fully to possess them. Thou shalt die | |
| Here,—where thou standest, and be gathered in | |
| Unto thy people,—as upon Mount Hor | 35 |
| Thy brother Aaron, who with thee once sinned | |
| So grievously at Meribah.” | |
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