Seba Smith

“ And often at the healing hour
He feebly toward the fountain bore him,
But all too late to feel its power,
For one had always stepp'd before him.
A stranger came and look'd awhile
On him who there in anguish lay,
Then kindly said, with holy smile,
'Hebrew, arise and go thy way!'
As forth into the world that hour,
With footsteps light, the Hebrew trod,
'I've felt,' he cried, 'the Almighty's power,
I've heard the voice of God.'
This work was published before January 1, 1928, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”