Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE DEATH OF MOSES, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER



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THE DEATH OF MOSES, by                    
First Line: See moses nebo's slopes ascend
Last Line: From doors against thee barred!
Subject(s): Bible; Death; Moses; Dead, The


See Moses Nebo's slopes ascend,
The Promised Land to view;
His God alone doth him attend,
To hear his last adieu.

"Thy brother died!" this ere his eyes
By gathering mists were dim,
As if to say that in the skies
Kind friends awaited him.

The peoples' need who can forget?—
Much still remains undone:
The land beyond the Jordan yet
Remaineth to be won.

With light still filling all his sky,
He does not claim release;
But now shall close that eagle eye,
And all his exploits cease.

So dying on that mountain slope,
Doubtless his soul was stirred
To think that life's one master-hope
By Sin had been deferred.

Dost thou, too, miss a vanished face—
Some one who now doth dwell
Beyond this "bourne of Time and Place?"
'Twill help thee to farewell.

Let not thy soul be filled with dread
Though toilers disappear,
And your long-cherished hopes seem dead—
There is a Joshua near.

This priceless lesson likewise learn—
Sin shall thy steps retard—
Forgetting this, thou too shalt turn
From doors against thee barred!





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