Exodus

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With thy staff and robes came a princely Jew,
  a prophet, a Levite son in exile;
for out of the blood and sweat of sinew
  did that journey begin on the blue Nile.
Who brought to bear God’s will this land upon
  for cursed he Egypt in the desert sand,
and forty years wandered in freedom won
  into the covenant land of Canaan.
Born of the Israelites that Hebrew slave
  led the twelve tribes in great exodus home,
and from Horeb brought down in God’s engrave
  Ten Commandments upon tablets of stone.
Out of the valleys to Pisgah he trod -
great lawgiver and judge and voice of God.


             Written: March 1995

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