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When Israel of the Lord beloved, Out from the land of bondage came, Her father’s God before her moved, An awful guide in smoke and flame, By day along the astonish’d lands The cloudy pillar glided slow; By night Arabia’s crimson’d sands Return’d the fiery column’s glow. And present still, though now unseen! When brightly shines the prosperous day. Be thoughts of Thee a cloudy screen, To temper the deceitful ray; And oh, when stoops in Judah’s path, In shade and storm, the frequent night, Be Thou long-suffering, slow to wrath, A burning and a shining light.
When Israel of the Lord beloved, Out from the land of bondage came, Her father’s God before her moved, An awful guide in smoke and flame, By day along the astonish’d lands The cloudy pillar glided slow; By night Arabia’s crimson’d sands Return’d the fiery column’s glow. And present still, though now unseen! When brightly shines the prosperous day. Be thoughts of Thee a cloudy screen, To temper the deceitful ray; And oh, when stoops in Judah’s path, In shade and storm, the frequent night, Be Thou long-suffering, slow to wrath, A burning and a shining light.
Approximate author period: c. 1801 AD · industrial
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- Sir Walter Scott
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- Approximate author period: c. 1801 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 360 · printed citation: Sir Walter Scott · subject: LIGHT
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