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Flight Into Midian / The love of Moses for his race soon found / A stern expression. Pharaoh was building / A pyramid; ambitious, cold and proud, / He scrupled not at means to gain his ends.
When he feared the growing power of Israel / He stained his hands in children's blood, and held / A carnival of death in Goshen; but now / He wished to hand his name and memory / Down unto the distant ages, and instead / Of lading that memory with the precious / Fragrance of the kindest deeds and words, he / Essayed to write it out in stone, as cold / And hard, and heartless as himself.