Lord! ’tis possessed, not seen from Pisgah’s height.

We deeply feel this high beneficence;

And ages hence our children shall recite

Of Thy protecting grace their Father’s sense,

And, when they name their Home, Proclaim Thy Providence!”


NOTES.[23]

[23] These notes were mostly written for the poem as first published in 1832;—none after 1847, when the author died.—[Editor.]

CANTO FIRST.