The history of The Old Testament In verse With One Hundred and Eighty sculptures: In Two Volumes. Vol. I. From the Creation to the Revolt of the Ten Tribes from the House of David. Vol. II. From that Revolt to the End of the Prophets. Written by Samuel Wesley ... The Cuts done by J. Sturt |
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 | The history of The Old Testament In verse |  |
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LVII. Exodus, Chap. XII. 29. to 33.
The Death of the Firstborn.
And now the Night her sable Wings displaid,
And half the World lay drown'd in dusky shade:
The Fires on Pharaoh's Tower remissly burn,
And snatch short Life from their exhausted Urn:
Lean Avarice slumbers o'r its useless store,
Ev'n Malice Sleeps, in some to wake no more.
Fix'd in their Orbs the sickning Planets stand,
And Ammon trembles for his darling Land.
And half the World lay drown'd in dusky shade:
The Fires on Pharaoh's Tower remissly burn,
And snatch short Life from their exhausted Urn:
Lean Avarice slumbers o'r its useless store,
Ev'n Malice Sleeps, in some to wake no more.
Fix'd in their Orbs the sickning Planets stand,
And Ammon trembles for his darling Land.
'Tis pass'd—th'Almighty Word from Heav'n leap'd down,
And on his radiant Face he wore a Frown
To Angels terrible; his Sword unsheaths,
Walks thro' the Land, and deals Ten Thousand Deaths;
But stops at each protected Hebrews Door,
And drops the Point, or waves it gently o'r:
Then, as the Nile, where Hills or Damms oppose,
When these surpass'd, with greater Fury flows,
He shoots away and draws a purple Flood,
Agen the Land is drunk with Seas of Blood.
What steely Heart can bear, what Tongue recite
The mortal Terrors of that dreadful Night?
Expiring Groans the gentlest Sounds they hear,
And something worse than Death the Living fear:
An Universal Shriek invades the Skies;
As when th'Unjust compell'd to Judgement rise:
And on his radiant Face he wore a Frown
To Angels terrible; his Sword unsheaths,
Walks thro' the Land, and deals Ten Thousand Deaths;
But stops at each protected Hebrews Door,
And drops the Point, or waves it gently o'r:
Then, as the Nile, where Hills or Damms oppose,
When these surpass'd, with greater Fury flows,
He shoots away and draws a purple Flood,
Agen the Land is drunk with Seas of Blood.
What steely Heart can bear, what Tongue recite
The mortal Terrors of that dreadful Night?
Expiring Groans the gentlest Sounds they hear,
And something worse than Death the Living fear:
An Universal Shriek invades the Skies;
As when th'Unjust compell'd to Judgement rise:
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So Pharaoh rose amidst his ghastly Friends,
And now for Moses not dissembling sends;
He beggs, he sues, he hastens him away,
No Children now, or Goods behind must stay:
Nor empty thence, nor unadorn'd they went,
Loaden with Jewels by th'Egyptians lent:
The Hosts of God, led by his own strong Hand
In peaceful Triumph march from Egypts hated Land.
And now for Moses not dissembling sends;
He beggs, he sues, he hastens him away,
No Children now, or Goods behind must stay:
Nor empty thence, nor unadorn'd they went,
Loaden with Jewels by th'Egyptians lent:
The Hosts of God, led by his own strong Hand
In peaceful Triumph march from Egypts hated Land.
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