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Poetry . —Wh * Song of Moses . 1 W
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But grief is the fire of trial , The gold o £ the soul to prove ; And over this frail life ' s dial Many shadows of pain mast move , Ere the heart be a crystal vial For the waters of life above .
Afas , for the chains that bind us , For the souls that are earthly still ! Alas , that the days behind us Should the thoughts of immortals fill—That the tears of this world should blind us To the light of the paradise-rill !
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THE SONG OF MOSES . Exod . xv . 1—21 .
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The horse and the rider are thrown in the sea , And Israel , escaped from her bondage , is free—Jehovah has conquered—to Him I will raise The song that bursts forth from my heart in His praise The arm of our God was oar safety alone ,
That arm has the hosts that pursued us o v erthrown ; The God of our fathers has fought on our side , And Pharaoh struck down in the pomp of his pride , His chariots and horsemen , o ' erwhelmed by the waves , Have sunk in the deep ocean ' s fathomless graves !
Thy hand , O Jehovah , is glorious in fight * And none can resist its omnipotent might ; The foe that rose up in his pride against Thee Thou hast scatter ed , and drown'd in the depths of the sea . As stubble dispers ed by the wind , so the breath Of Thy wrath in a moment has swept them to death ; The monarch himself , his chief captains and hosts , Lie entombM in the Red Sea that washes their coasts . The blast of Thy power divided the flood s And the billows , ascending on either side , stood
Like mountains of water , unseal ably steep , High walls of defence in the midst of the deep . Exulting in triumph the enemy cried , " I will follow—o v ertake—all the spoil will divide ; My lust in their ruin shall riot its fill , The sword I unsheathe—the slaves I will kill V
The breath of Thy spirit blevtf strong on the waves , They cover ed that host in their fathomless graves -y Like lead they sank down in the depth of the sea , And Israel ^ redeem ed from her bondage , is free . O Jehovah , our God , \ vho with Thee can compare , 9
Middt the gods of the earth , or the gods of the air ? Whose glory or greatness is equal to Thine ? Whose deeds are so glorious , whose power so divine ? Thou stretch'd out Th y hand from the gloom of the cloud—The earth deep engulpVd them-r-the sea was their shroud . The nations shall hear , and with trembling shall own , Almighty the Power , which our foes has o v erthrown : The arm of the valiant unnerY'd-shall decline , And hosts stand in motionless dread , Lord , of Thiirc .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 119, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/55/
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