The Lord smote every firstborn in the land

Of Egypt, save where hyssop mixed with blood

Was sprinkled on the lintel of the door

And on the two side posts, as Moses had

Directed. Saviour of his people, son

Of Amram and of Jochebed, obscure

Levites, found in an ark of bulrushes

Afloat among the flags near by the spot

Where Pharaoh's daughter bathed, and yet, and yet—

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Zeresh

Was Moses not selected by the Lord

To lead the Israelites into the Land

Of Promise?

Mordecai

[As in soliloquy.]

And did he not talk with God

Upon the Mount of Sinai, when smoke

Enveloped all the peak, and even priests

Were not allowed upon that holy ground?

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