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| GO where a foot hath never trod, | |
| Through unfrequented forests flee; | |
| The wilderness is full of God, | |
| His presence dwells in every tree. | |
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| To Israel and to Egypt dead, | 5 |
| Moses the fugitive appears, | |
| Unknown he lived, till o’er his head | |
| Had fallen the snow of fourscore years. | |
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| But God the wandering found | |
| In his appointed time and place, | 10 |
| The desert sand grew holy ground, | |
| And Horeb’s rock a throne of grace. | |
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| The lonely bush a tree became, | |
| A tree of beauty and of light, | |
| Involved with unconsuming flame | 15 |
| That made the moon around it night. | |
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| Then came the Eternal voice that spake | |
| Salvation to the chosen seed, | |
| Thence went the Almighty arm that brake | |
| Proud Pharaoh’s yoke, and Israel freed. | 20 |
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| By Moses, old and slow of speech, | |
| These mighty miracles were shown; | |
| Jehovah’s messenger! to teach | |
| That power belongs to God alone. | |
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