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Slow glides the Nile; amid the margin flags, Closed in a bulrush ark, the babe is left; Left by a mother’s hand. His sister waits Far off; and pale, ’tween hope and fear, beholds The royal maid, surrounded by her train, Approach the river bank; approach the spot Where sleeps the innocent: she sees them stoop With meeting plumes; thy rushy lid is ope’d, And wakes the infant smiling in his tears.
Slow glides the Nile; amid the margin flags, Closed in a bulrush ark, the babe is left; Left by a mother’s hand. His sister waits Far off; and pale, ’tween hope and fear, beholds The royal maid, surrounded by her train, Approach the river bank; approach the spot Where sleeps the innocent: she sees them stoop With meeting plumes; thy rushy lid is ope’d, And wakes the infant smiling in his tears.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Grahame (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 400 · printed citation: Grahame · subject: MOSES
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