The Finding of Moses (poem)

"The Finding of Moses" is a poem by the Irish street poet Zozimus (b. circa 1794 – d. 3 April 1846). It describes, in broad Dublin dialect, the Finding of Moses, an event in the early life of Moses recorded in the Old Testament.

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 * In Agypt's land contaygious to the Nile,
 * Old Pharao's daughter went to bathe in style,
 * She tuk her dip and came unto the land,
 * And for to dry her royal pelt she ran along the strand:
 * A bull-rush tripped her, whereupon she saw
 * A smiling babby in a wad of straw,
 * She took it up and said in accents mild,
 * "Tare-an-ages, girls, which o'yees own the child?"