<h2> Parable of the Old Men and the Young </h2>
<p>So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,<br/>
And took the fire with him, and a knife.<br/>
And as they sojourned both of them together,<br/>
Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,<br/>
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,<br/>
But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?<br/>
Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps,<br/>
And builded parapets and trenches there,<br/>
And stretch\ed forth the knife to slay his son.<br/>
When lo! an angel called him out of heaven,<br/>
Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,<br/>
Neither do anything to him. Behold,<br/>
A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;<br/>
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.<br/>
But the old man would not so, but slew his son. . . .<br/></p>
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