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From hence blest musick's heavenly charms arise,
From sympathy, which them and man allies.
Thus they our souls, thus they our bodies, win, 475
Not by their force, but party that's within:
Thus the strange cure, on our spilt blood apply'd,
Sympathy to the distant wound does guide:
Thus, when two brethren-strings are set alike,
To move them both, but one of them we strike: 480
Thus David's lyre did Saul's wild rage control,
And tun'd the harsh disorders of his soul.

When Israel was from bondage led,
Led by th' Almighty's hand
From out a foreign land, 485
The great sea beheld, and fled.
As men pursued, when that fear past they find,
Stop on some higher ground to look behind;
So, whilst through wondrous ways
The sacred army went, 490
The waves afar stood up to gaze,
And their own rocks did represent,
Solid as waters are above the firmament.

Old Jordan's waters to their spring
Start back with sudden fright; 495
The spring, amaz'd at sight,
Asks what news from sea they bring.
The mountains shook; and to the mountains' side
The little hills leap'd round, themselves to hide;