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Article: Abraham and Isaac: I.(Poem)
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- Ploughshares
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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Abraham and Isaac: I
He took him outside and said, "Look toward heaven
and count the stars, if you are able to count them."
And He added, "So shall your offspring be."
I have lived in tents and know how faint a trace
we leave behind us on the earth;
how, when the body fails, the soul ...
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