OF MONUMENTS AND WELLS

OF MONUMENTS AND WELLS

Tell us, oh great pyramid,
Mighty tombstone of the past,
What lasting good your builder did,
Whose bones you once held fast?

How many men of Jacob's seed
On desert sands did fall,
‘Ere this monument to pride and greed,
rose solid, strong, and tall?

Only scholars know your builder now,
Useless cenotaph, you stand
In silent testimony , how
Once he ruled this land!

The fathers of those wretched slaves,
Who built you for your king,
Are remembered, though in unmarked graves;
Of their deeds, their children sing!

Pharaoh's name is seldom mentioned,
But of Jacob, men still tell;
Pharaoh built a useless monument,
But Jacob built a well.
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