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Moses.
(Von Michel Angelo.)
Noch flammt die Stirne dir von Sinai’s Wettern,
Noch weht um dich Jehovah’s myst’scher Hauch –
Da horch! metall’ner Becken gelles Schmettern –
Da sieh! das gold...
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“And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.”—DEUTERONOMY xxxiv. 6.
BY Nebo’s lonely mountain,
On this side Jordan’s wave,
In a vale in the land of Moab,
There lies a lonely grave;
But no man built that sepulchre,
And no man saw it e’er;
For the angels of...