So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a
knife
And as they sojourned both of them together,
Issac the first born
spake and said, "My father,
behold the preparations, fire and
iron,
but where the lamb for this burnt offering?"
The Abram
bound the youth with belts and straps
and builded parapets and trenches
there,
and stretched forth the knife to slay his son.
When lo! An angel
called him out of heaven,
saying, "Lay not thy hand upon the
lad,
neither do anything to him. Behold
a ram, caught in a thicket by
its horns;
offer the ram of pride instead of him."
but the old
man would not so, but slew his son
and half the seed of Europe, one by one.
