(Which wise men have told\par\tab From their fathers, and have not hid it;
For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age,\par\tab And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day:\par\tab The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not,\par\tab Until I have declared thy strength unto {\i the next} generation,\par\tab Thy might to every one that is to come.
With us are both the grayheaded and the very aged men,\par\tab Much elder than thy father.
I will show thee, hear thou me;\par\tab And that which I have seen I will declare
Unto whom alone the land was given,\par\tab And no stranger passed among them):
Knowest thou {\i not} this of old time,\par\tab Since man was placed upon earth,