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Joseph's First Dream.
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In Canaan lived a man of righteousness,
Whom the great God in love was pleas'd to bless
With twelve sweet sons, one Joseph called by name,
Whose worthiness we'll to the world proclaim.
Being endued with blessings from above,
He gained the favour of his father's love,
Now while his brothers hated him, behold !
He dream'd a dream, which unto them he told ;
Our sheaves of wheat, it was to me revealed
Saying, " As we were binding in the field
That mine arose upright, and yours around,
Stood making low obedience to the ground."
These words of his, they did anger breed ;
They say, must you reign over us indeed ?
The like of this was never known before
Thus for his dreams they hated him the more.
