Petra, a Poem: to Which a Few Short Poems Are Now Added

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Petra, a Poem: to Which a Few Short Poems Are Now Added
Burgon John William
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Numb. zz. 14 — 21.
32 Scan well that brow, — and dost thou mark no line, No stamp of feature that resembles thine ?
Does nought recall an old ancestral tale : — Two brothers bred in Hebron's happy vale ; — Far Manure's oak — ^where blaz'd their altar fires ; — And Manure's cave — ^where sleep your common sires Or if such plea, all cruel as thou art !
Can wake no softness in thy savage heart, Yet feel for these — the youthful and the fair, The weary mother, and her fainting care !
Yea, feel for
...all, — the mighty, orphan host*, Which God, in love, hath guided to thy coast ; — Borne up on eagles' wings, — and fondly fed With angels' food, — and through ihe desert led By cloud and flame ; — and now, their wand'rings o'er.
Speeds on their way to Canaan's quiet shore. — But what spake Edom ? Taunting words of ill, — And that keen knife, — a brother's threat to kill !
k It can scarcely be oecessary to suggest in illastration of the preced* ing verses the history of Isaac's two sons: — Mamre, (or Hebron) where Abraham **bmU an altar to the Lord'* (Gen.


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