And bowed his sorrowing head;

“I’ve come,� he said, “to buy a place

Where I may lay my dead.

“I am a stranger in your land,

My home has lost its light;

Grant me a place where I may lay

My dead away from sight.�

Then tenderly the sons of Heth

Gazed on the mourner’s face,

And said, “Oh, Prince, amid our dead,