Wasn’t Pharaoh a Rascal

Because he wouldn’t let the children of Israel go three days’ journey into the wilderness, to celebrate the Paschal?


In ’73, a modest volume of poems was published by an Hon. and Rev. gentleman of Central New York,[3] in which occur the following rather surprising verses: (not consecutively, but here and there.)

O bright shining morn of the year,

I cannot foretell thy events;

Trusting in God, why should I fear,

Though having so many relents!

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I looked on his form; ’twas like mine;