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Moses the Meek was thirty cubits high,

The staff he strode with—thirty cubits long;

And when he leapt, so muscular and strong

Was Moses that his leaping neared the sky

By thirty cubits more: we learn thereby

He reached full ninety cubits—am I wrong?—

When, in a fight slurred o'er by sacred song,

With staff outstretched he took a leap to try

The just dimensions of the giant Og.