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The son of Amram spurns the regal prize, From the rich scene the zealous hero flies, And dwells ’mongst Israel’s sons. Resigned he bears The servile yoke, and every burden shares; Rather than violate Jehovah’s trust, And live the pampered slave of sordid lust, He quits the Egyptian court, and, undismayed, Seeks poverty’s inhospitable shade.
The son of Amram spurns the regal prize, From the rich scene the zealous hero flies, And dwells ’mongst Israel’s sons. Resigned he bears The servile yoke, and every burden shares; Rather than violate Jehovah’s trust, And live the pampered slave of sordid lust, He quits the Egyptian court, and, undismayed, Seeks poverty’s inhospitable shade.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Samuel Hayes (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 400 · printed citation: Samuel Hayes · subject: MOSES
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