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With splendour of slaughter and thunder of song as the
sound of the sea
Were the foes of him stricken in sunder and silenced as
storms that flee.
Terror and trust and the pride of the chosen, approved
of his choice,
Saw God in the whirlwind ride, and rejoiced as the winds
rejoice.
Subdued and exalted and kindled and quenched by the
sense of his might,
Faith flamed and exulted and dwindled, and saw not,
and clung to the sight.
The wastes of the wilderness brightened and trembled
with rapture and dread
When the word of him thundered and lightened and
spake through the quick and the dead.
The chant of the prophetess, louder and loftier than
tempest and wave,
Rang triumph more ruthless and prouder than death,
and profound as the grave.