Anomalies A – Z: Ishmael

Who has loosed the wild ass,
put away the leather quirt?
The same who freed the swift ass
and who gave him the desert,

the place of salt, as a home,
a vast wilderness to roam.
And though he does wrestle
he’ll forever be nestled

with his descendants and kin,
blessed, and blessed, and blessed again.
Harken to this, hear it well,
the Lord has blessed Ishmael.