Ahijah's Curse.
The blinded seer, the Shilonite, Ahijah, worshipped Yahveh's name; And when the queen of Israel came, An angel brought him second-sight.
Poems : Medley and Palestina / by J.W. DeForest [electronic text]
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- Poems : Medley and Palestina / by J.W. DeForest [electronic text]
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- De Forest, John William, 1826-1906
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- New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company
- 1902
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"Approach!" he bade, "and bow the knee! I know thee, wife of Ephraim's king; I know the query thou dost bring. Go, bear thy husband God's decree.
"'Because thou floutest Me,' He saith; 'Because thou madest gods of gold, And leddest Jacob from my fold, I summon Nebat's sons to death;
"'The dog shall tear them in the street, The vulture tear them in the field; Their bones shall whiten, unconcealed, Beneath the scorn of alien feet.'
"And thou, O weeping mother, fly To find thy stricken one alive; Yet even while thy steps arrive Beneath thy portal, he shall die."