SWATHED in that frame-work quaint, contented rest
Ev’n on the rail, my child, as thou art hung:
Soon to thy mother’s heart shalt thou be press’d,
Soon on her back in old dependence slung:
On Nile’s proud stream, in lodgment worse was flung,
And harder severance from maternal arms,
He from Egyptian breasts who pity wrung,
Reserved avenger of his people’s harms:
As his, thy sister stands to watch alarms:
Contented rest — One who in manger lay,
Than thou or Amram’s son had holier charms:
To Him, poor Indian, thou hast found the way:
Thy mother goes, within His house of prayer,
Blest rite with hundreds of her race to share.
(George Jehoshaphat Mountain)
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