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Jacob's Funeral.
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When seventeen long year's Jacob had dwelt,
Behold, the fatal hand of death he felt :
To Joseph he commits the special care
Of his great funeral, and tells him where
He would be laid, which was fulfilled at large,
According to the tenor of his eharge ;
For having yielded up his vital breath,
He dropped into the frozen arms of death.
Numbers of mourning coaches out of hand
Prepared were ; thus to his native land
He was conveyed a sleeping place to have,
Near to the borders of his father's grave.
Upright he was, and just in all his ways ;
Pray now observe the number of his days,
He was, when he dropt off this earthly stage,
One hundred and forty-seven years of age.
