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| ACROSS the sea, along the shore, | |
| In numbers more and ever more, | |
| From lonely hut and busy town, | |
| The valley through, the mountain down, | |
| What was it ye went out to see, | 5 |
| Ye silly folk of Galilee? | |
| The reed that in the wind doth shake? | |
| The weed that washes in the lake? | |
| The reeds that waver, the weeds that float?— | |
| A young man preaching in a boat. | 10 |
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| What was it you went out to hear | |
| By sea and land, from far and near? | |
| A teacher? Rather seek the feet | |
| Of those who sit in Moses’ seat. | |
| Go humbly seek, and bow to them, | 15 |
| Far off in great Jerusalem. | |
| From them that in her courts ye saw, | |
| Her perfect doctors of the law, | |
| What is it came ye here to note?— | |
| A young man preaching in a boat. | 20 |
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| A prophet! Boys and women weak! | |
| Declare, or cease to rave: | |
| Whence is it he hath learned to speak? | |
| Say, who his doctrine gave? | |
| A prophet? Prophet wherefore he | 25 |
| Of all in Israel tribes?— | |
| He teacheth with authority, | |
| And not as do the Scribes. | |
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