Had turned from his dumb idols to the living

God, and wandered out from kindred, home and race,

Led by his faith in God alone; and she would

Tell us,—(we were three,) my brother Aaron,

The Hebrew girl thou sentest to call a nurse,

And I, her last, her loved and precious child;

She would tell us that one day our father

Abraham heard a voice, bidding him offer

Up in sacrifice the only son of his

Beautiful and beloved Sarah; that the father’s