All boys were to be killed - and so she hid
Her firstborn son in rushes in the Nile
And set her daughter to see that he did
Not drown. There came toward her after a while
Pharaoh's own daughter, who discovered him,
And took him for her own, raised by a nurse
Who was his mother. In his age his vim
Did not allow him to permit the curse
And whipping of a slavedriver to slay
A Hebrew - and he slew the overseer.
He fled, but was sent back by God to say
What Pharaoh was not soft enough to hear:
To let God's people go, by God's command
Who led them out thence with a mighty hand.
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