“By Nebo’s lonely mountain,
On this side Jordan’s wave,
In a vale in the land of Moab,
There lies a lonely grave.”

—  Cecil Frances Alexander

Hymn: The Burial of Moses http://www.bethanyipc.org.sg/poems/bulletin080113.htm

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British hymn-writer and poet 1818–1895

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