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Passage of the Red Sea.

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    "Tyrant and slave,
    Under the wave
Rest on the same cold pillow;
    The Lord looked down,
    His smile and frown
Parted and closed the billow;
He pushed the wave from His people's path,
And dashed it back on their foe in wrath.
    Hail! mighty One, and just!
    Hail, Israel's trust!
     Our God!

    "The skeptic proud
    Hath found a shroud,
Wove of the foaming surges;
    His people sleep
    In the wild deep,
Lulled by its tempest-dirges;
And Israel's sandal hath brought no stain
From the trodden depth of the parted main.
    Hail! mighty One, and just!
    Hail, Israel's trust!
     Our God!"

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