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First Line: Go where a foot hath never trod
Last Line: That power belongs to god alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Bible; Egypt; God; Jews; Moses; Judaism


GO where a foot hath never trod,
Through unfrequented forests flee;
The wilderness is full of God,
His presence dwells in every tree.

To Israel and to Egypt dead,
Moses the fugitive appears,
Unknown he lived, till o'er his head
Had fallen the snow of fourscore years.

But God the wandering found
In his appointed time and place,
The desert sand grew holy ground,
And Horeb's rock a throne of grace.

The lonely bush a tree became,
A tree of beauty and of light,
Involved with unconsuming flame
That made the moon around it night.

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.

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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