Home > Authors Index > Browse all available works of Thomas Moore > Text of Go Forth To The Mount
A poem by Thomas Moore |
||
Go Forth To The Mount |
||
________________________________________________
Title: Go Forth To The Mount Author: Thomas Moore [More Titles by Moore] (AIR.--STEVENSON.)
Bring myrtle and palm--bring the boughs of each tree
[2] "For since the days of Joshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so; and there was very great gladness."-- _Ib_. 17. [3] "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon."--_Josh_. x. 12. [4] "Fetch olive-branches, and pine-branches, and myrtle-branches, and palm-branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths." --_Neh_. viii. 15. [5] "And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground."--_Josh_. iii. 17. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |