When he came to himself again, he said to Abraham, “Was that thy voice, or was it the voice of God?”
Abraham answered, “It was the voice of the meanest of His creatures.”
“Then your God must be great and mighty, and a King of kings.”
Nimrod now suffered Abraham to depart, and as his anger was abated, the child remained in his father’s house, and no attempts were made against his life.
Here must be inserted a legend of the childhood of Abraham, which I have ventured to render into verse.
THE GIFT OF THE KING.
Nimrod the Cushite sat upon a throne
Of gold, encrusted with the sapphire stone,
And round the monarch stood, in triple rank,
Three hundred ruddy pages, like a bank