Showing my age - Leon Russell had a recording by the same name - First read it soon after its release then again in the early 70s. A significant amount of acid, shrooms, mescaline, and (of course) weed separated the two readings.

Very cool - it's in Exodus 2: 21-22. Good catch, thanks. I never thought thought there would be a biblical reference.

Reference to Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land
Did anyone pick up on Lane's (I think) reference Heinlein's SF story? It was a best seller in the early '60s so would have been an apt description of a Brit being plopped down just as a cultural revolution was getting ready to shift into high gear. Possibly he…