JOSEPH SENDS FOR HIS FATHER WHO COMES TO EGYPT.
}Then Joseph to his bretheren thus did say,
Unto my father pray make haste away,
Take food and waggons here, and do not stay,
They went, and Jacob's spirits did revive,
To hear his dearest Joseph was alive,
It is enough, then did old Jacob cry,
I'll go and see my Joseph e'er I die;
And he had reason for resolving so,
For God appear'd to him and bid him go.
Then into Egypt Jacob went with speed,
Both he, his wives, his sons, and all their seed.
And being for the land of Goshen bent,
Joseph himself before him did present.
Great was their Joy they on that meeting shew'd,
And each the others cheeks with tears bedew'd.
Then Joseph did his aged father bring
Into the royal presence of the King,
Whom Jacob blest, and Pharaoh lik'd him well,
And bid him in the land of Goshen dwell.