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Saddled his ass, and called his son,
To go that very morn
A three days journey to a spot
Which God to them would show;
And Isaac, with the two young men,
At once prepared to go.
At length the Mount appeared in sight,
And Abraham told his men,
"I yonder go to worship God,
And will come back again."
Much Isaac wondered what it meant,
But he obeyed his sire,
And took the wood upon his arms,
To build his funeral pyre.
Upon the mountain now they stand,
And Isaac meekly cries,
"Behold the fire and wood! but where's
The lamb for sacrifice?"
When they had reached Moriah's top,
The father told his son,—
And Isaac willingly was bound,
That God's will might be done.
