WHEN Jacob ‘s sons to Egypt went,
To purchase food their sole intent,
Which of the ten did Joseph bind,
And from the rest retain behind?
Of whom did Moses testify
He did not like his brethren die,
But taken from the things of time,
Translated , saw a heav’nly clime?
What officer of Pharaoh’s guard
His faithful servant kept in ward?
He being of a crime accus’d,
To commit which he had refus’d.
The son of Puah next I need,
Who did Abimelech succeed,
And, as from Scripture it appears,
Judg’d Israel three and twenty years.
Who bent his steps from Teman’s gate
To comfort Job ‘s afflicted state;
And, at his griefs severely pain’d,
Silent sev’n days and nights remain’d?
When Moses, on the banks of Nile,
Lay in the ark expos’d awhile;
While thus endanger’d desolate,
Who stood to watch the infant’s fate?
With jealousy of Israel fir’d,
What Moabitish king desir’d
Woe on their camp should be denounc’d?
But lo ! a blessing was pronounced,
Who cur’d a leprous Syrian lord,
And a dead child to life restor’d?
‘Twas he (his name you’ll quickly tell)
On whom Elijah ‘s mantle fell.
When Joshua bid the spies to go,
And reconnoitre Jericho,
Wire hid the men, and then releas’d,
When danger from pursuit had ceas’d,
Do you now ask at what I aim?
From these I seek to know the name
Of that twelfth portion of the year
When Sol in Libra doth appear.
(Elizabeth Hitchener)
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