Israel in Egypt A Poem. By Edwin Atherstone |
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 | Israel in Egypt |  |
No hailstone smote them; tempest stirred them not:
With a great pity at their hearts, they sped:
And when without the city Moses came,
He spread abroad his hands unto the Lord.
Hail, rain, fire, hurricane, and thunder, ceased.
Through all the land of Egypt, instantly
The mighty uproar ceased; and silence fell,
Even as a blow; so, unto common noise,
Was every ear made deaf.
With a great pity at their hearts, they sped:
And when without the city Moses came,
He spread abroad his hands unto the Lord.
Hail, rain, fire, hurricane, and thunder, ceased.
Through all the land of Egypt, instantly
The mighty uproar ceased; and silence fell,
Even as a blow; so, unto common noise,
Was every ear made deaf.
But, in a while,
When from the houses pallid men looked forth,
A gathering sound they heard; like gentle flow
Of streamlet first; but, as the sense returned,
Swelling and deepening to the torrent's rush:
For, channelling the ground, through all the land,
Toward Nile the rain-flood, and the melting hail,
Ran roaring: and the fervent sun poured down
On the huge hailstones, and the leaping streams,
That all the earth with a great glory blazed.
When from the houses pallid men looked forth,
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Of streamlet first; but, as the sense returned,
Swelling and deepening to the torrent's rush:
For, channelling the ground, through all the land,
Toward Nile the rain-flood, and the melting hail,
Ran roaring: and the fervent sun poured down
On the huge hailstones, and the leaping streams,
That all the earth with a great glory blazed.
| Israel in Egypt | |