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Rh As to forsake the living God, and fall To worship their own work, in wood and stone, For gods! Yet him God the Most High vouchsafes To call by vision, from his father's house, His kindred and false gods, into a land Which he will shew him, and from him will raise A mighty nation, and upon him shower His benediction so, that in his seed All nations shall be blest. He straight obeys, Not knowing to what land, yet firm believes. I see him, but thou canst not, with what faith He leaves his gods, his friends, and native soil, Ur of Chaldæa, passing now the ford To Haran; after him a cumbrous train Of herds and flocks, and numerous servitude; Not wandering poor, but trusting all his wealth With God, who called him, in a land unknown. Canaan he now attains; I see his tents Pitched about Sechem, and the neighboring plain Of Moreh; there by promise he receives Gift to his progeny of all that land, From Hamath northward to the desert south —Things by their names I call, though yet unnamed— From Hermon east to the great western Sea; Mount Hermon, yonder sea, each place behold In prospect, as I point them on the shore Mount Carmel: here the double-founted stream.