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17 Jacob's Funeral.

When seventeen long year's Jacob had dwelt,

Behold, the fatal hand of death he felt :

To Joseph he commits the special care

Of his great funeral, and tells him where

He would be laid, which was fulfilled at large,

According to the tenor of his eharge ;

For having yielded up his vital breath,

He dropped into the frozen arms of death.

Numbers of mourning coaches out of hand

Prepared were ; thus to his native land

He was conveyed a sleeping place to have,

Near to the borders of his father's grave.

Upright he was, and just in all his ways ;

Pray now observe the number of his days,

He was, when he dropt off this earthly stage,

One hundred and forty-seven years of age.