POEMS.
63
THE TENTH PLAGUE OF EGYPT.
There were strange voices in the sea
Whispering mysteriously;
And myriads of creatures came
Issuing thence, that bore no name.
A shadow was before the sun
Ere half his daily course was run;
And faint and heavy seemed the air,
Wont to waft spicy odours there:
While Egypt lay beneath a ban,
Bringing their doom to beast and man.
Whispering mysteriously;
And myriads of creatures came
Issuing thence, that bore no name.
A shadow was before the sun
Ere half his daily course was run;
And faint and heavy seemed the air,
Wont to waft spicy odours there:
While Egypt lay beneath a ban,
Bringing their doom to beast and man.
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The holy man had cried for aid,
And on his foes there had been laid
The mighty finger of God's power,
Throwing them prostrate in that hour.
The prophet had stretched forth his hand
To bring despair on that fair land:
The Tenth Plague had been cast around,
Felling the pagans to the ground.
And on his foes there had been laid
The mighty finger of God's power,
Throwing them prostrate in that hour.
The prophet had stretched forth his hand
To bring despair on that fair land:
The Tenth Plague had been cast around,
Felling the pagans to the ground.
