Poems: Parable of the Old Men and the Young

So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went, / And took the fire with him, and a knife. / And as they sojourned both of them together, / Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father, / Behold the preparations, fire and iron, / But where the lamb for this burnt-offering? / Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps, / And builded parapets and trenches there, / And stretch ed forth the knife to slay his son. / When lo! an angel called him out of heaven, / Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, / Neither do anything to him. Behold, / A ram caught in a thicket by its horns; / Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him. / But the old man would not so, but slew his son. .