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,