| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | The “Moses” of Michael Angelo | | By Robert Browning |
| | | AND who is He that sculptured in huge stone, | |
| Sitteth a giant, where no works arrive | |
| Of straining Art, and hath so prompt and live | |
| The lips, I hasten to their very tone? | |
| Moses is He—Ay, that makes clearly known | 5 |
| The chin’s thick boast, and brow’s prerogative | |
| Of double ray; so did the mountain give | |
| Back to the world that visage, God was grown | |
| Great part of! Such was he when he suspended | |
| Round him the sounding and vast waters; such | 10 |
| When he shut sea on sea o’er Mizraim. | |
| And ye, his hordes, a vile calf raised, and bended | |
| The knee? This Image had ye raised, not much | |
| Had been your error in adoring Him. | | | | |
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