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