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Genesis XXIV

By Arthur Hugh Clough

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Who is this man             that walketh in the field,     O Eleazar,             steward to my lord?     And Eleazar             answered her and said,     Daughter of Bethuel,             it is other none     But my lord Isaac,             son unto my lord,     Who, as his wont is,             walketh in the field,     In the hour of evening,             meditating there.     Therefore Rebekah             basted where she sat,     And from her camel             lighting to the earth,     Sought for a veil             and put it on her face.     But Isaac also,             walking in the field,     Saw from afar             a company that came,     Camels, and a seat             as where a woman sat;     Wherefore he came             and met them on the way.     Whom, when Rebekah             saw, she came before,     Saying, Behold             the handmaid of my lord;     Who, for my lords sake,             travel from my land.     But he said, O             thou blessed of our God,     Come, for the tent             is eager for thy face.     Shall not thy husband,             be unto thee more than     Hundreds of kinsmen             living in thy land?     And Eleazar answered,             Thus and thus,     Even according             as thy father bade,     Did we; and thus and             thus it came to pass:     Lo! is not this             Rebekah, Bethuels child.     And, as he ended,             Isaac spoke and said,     Surely my heart             went with you on the way,     When with the beasts             ye came unto the place.     Truly, O child             of Nahor, I was there,     When to thy mother             and thy mothers son     Thou madest answer,             saying, I will go.     And Isaac brought her             to his mothers tent.

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Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) was an English poet whose work explores Victorian doubt and moral uncertainty. His poems "Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth" and "The Latest Decalogue" are sharp, thoughtful, and still widely anthologized.

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