GO on! Go on! Don't wait for me! @3Isaac was Abraham's son@1 -- Yes, certainly -- @3And as they clomb Moriah@1 -- I know! I know! @3A type of the Messiah@1 -- Just so! just so! Perfectly right; and then the ram Caught in the -- @3listening?@1 Why of course I am! @3Wherefore, my brethren, that was counted@1 -- yes -- @3To Abraham for righteousness@1 -- Exactly, so I said -- At least -- but go a-head! @3Now mark The conduct of the Patriarch -- "Behold the wood!" Isaac exclaimed@1 -- By Jove, an Oxford hood! "@3But where@1" -- What long straight hair! "@3Where is the lamb?@1" You mean -- the ram: No, no! I beg you pardon! There's the Churchwarden, In the Clerk's pew -- Stick tipped with blue -- @3Now Justification@1 -- "By Faith?" I fancy; Aye, the old equation; Go it, Justice! Go it, Mercy! Go it, Douglas! Go it, Percy! I back the winner, And have a vague conception of the sinner -- Limbs nude, Horatian attitude, Nursing his foot in Sublapsarian mood -- More power To you my friend! you're good for half-an-hour. Dry bones! dry bones! But in my ear the long-drawn west wind moans, Sweet voices seem to murmur from the wave; And I can sit, and look upon the stones That cover Hallam's grave. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO MAKE A PRAIRIE by EMILY DICKINSON THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER A SNOWFLAKE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH AMPHIPOLIS by ANTIPATER OF THESSALONICA FALLING STARS by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER COMPENSATION by MARION L. BERTRAND JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 3 by WILLIAM BLAKE |