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Israel in Egypt

A Poem. By Edwin Atherstone
  
  

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From glory of heaven, from eye of God, so far
Remote was this, that even His own work,
Omniscience had forgotten? that no more
Was Omnipresence there? that Power Supreme
No longer, like a beacon-flame to mark
Confines of Night, its once vast fires upheld?