Choose thou her resting-place.
“The sepulchres of those we love,
We place at thy command;
Against the plea thy grief hath made
We close not heart nor hand.�
The patriarch rose and bowed his head,
And said, “One place I crave;
’Tis at the end of Ephron’s field,
And called Machpelah’s cave.
“Entreat him that he sell to me