<t /><p class="poetry">Listen to me, you coastlands!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Pay attention, you people who live far away!p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> summoned me from birth;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Prior to this<n id="1" /> Absalom had set up a monument<n id="2" /> and dedicated it to himself in the King&#8217;s Valley, reasoning &#8220;I have no son who will carry on my name.&#8221; He named the monument after himself, and to this day it is known as Absalom&#8217;s Memorial.p>