LIV + 

The Death of Moses + 

My Father’s hope! my childhood’s dream! + 

The promise from on high! + 

Long waited for! its glories beam + 

Now when my death is nigh. + 

My death is come, but not decay; + 

Nor eye nor mind is dim; + 

The keenness of youth’s vigorous day + 

Thrills in each nerve and limb. + 

Blest scene! thrice welcome after toil⁠— + 

If no deceit I view; + 

O might my lips but press the soil, + 

And prove the vision true! + 

Its glorious heights, its wealthy plains, + 

Its many-tinted groves, + 

They call! but He my steps restrains + 

Who chastens whom He loves. + 

Ah! now they melt⁠ ⁠… they are but shades⁠ ⁠… + 

I die!⁠—yet is no rest, + 

O Lord! in store, since Canaan fades + 

But seen, and not possest? + 