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POTIPHAR'S WIFE
Fierce from her arms: and, all alight, he spoke
Angrily thus: "Take, too, thy skirt, and shroud
Yon stars that gaze upon us from God's sky!
Cover, with fine-wove webs, the angry eye
Angrily thus: "Take, too, thy skirt, and shroud
Yon stars that gaze upon us from God's sky!
Cover, with fine-wove webs, the angry eye
XLVI.
"Of dread Jehovah, watching everywhere!
Bind His free winds, and bid them whisper naught!
Lay hand upon His lightnings, flashing clear,
And bribe them not to strike! Let there be brought
His thunders, muzzled, to thy bower; and win
Their awful voices to forgive our sin!"
"Of dread Jehovah, watching everywhere!
Bind His free winds, and bid them whisper naught!
Lay hand upon His lightnings, flashing clear,
And bribe them not to strike! Let there be brought
His thunders, muzzled, to thy bower; and win
Their awful voices to forgive our sin!"
XLVII.
"Fear'st thou those stony eyes thou didst enfold,
And shall not I my fathers' Lord fear more,
Whose glance none may shut out,
Whose eyes behold All things in every place?
Tempted full sore, Lady of Egypt! Was thy witless slave:
Now breaks he from thee, better faith to save!"
"Fear'st thou those stony eyes thou didst enfold,
And shall not I my fathers' Lord fear more,
Whose glance none may shut out,
Whose eyes behold All things in every place?
Tempted full sore, Lady of Egypt! Was thy witless slave:
Now breaks he from thee, better faith to save!"
