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.]