Here's one more version, even earlier, from Third Reading-Book in the Primary School, by Josiah Freeman Bumstead (Boston: William Ticknor & Co., 1843), pp. 125 and 126.

THE INFANT MOSES. His Exile from Home, and his Restoration.

1. By the side of the river so clear,
They carried the beautiful child ;
'Mid the flags and the bushes,
In an ark of bulrushes,
They left him, so lonely and wild:
For the wicked ..would come,
If he tarried at home,
And murder that infant so dear!

2. By the side of tfie river so clear,
The ladies were winding their way,
When Pharaoh's kind daughter
Stepped down to the water
To bathe, at the close of the day:
Before it was dark,
She opened the ark,
And, lo! a sweet infant was there!

3. By the side of the river so clear,
That infant was lonely and sad;
She took him in pity,
And thought him so pretty,
And made little Moses so glad!
She called him her own —
Her beautiful son —
And sent for a nurse who was near.

4. Away from the river so clear,
They carried the beautiful child,
To his own tender mother,
His sister and brother;
And then he looked happy, and smiled.
His mother, so good,
Did all that she could,
To nurse him and teach him with care.