Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By I. “A little child, in bulrush ark”William Johnson Fox (1786–1864)
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Came floating on the Nile’s broad water;
That child made Egypt’s glory dark,
And freed his tribe from bonds and slaughter.
In Israel’s temple of its sages;
That child, by lessons wise and good,
Made pure the temples of past ages.
Young hearts to Freedom still aspiring;
Though nursed in Superstitious chain,
If human minds be still enquiring,—
On dreams of long the world commanding;
The ark of Moses is afloat,
And Christ is in the temple standing.