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Whilst Pharoah’s pride withstood, His pools turned poison, and his Nile ran blood, From whose corrupting channel, moist and warm, Leaped forth the frogs, a foul, offensive swarm; No place was sheltered from their loathsome tread, The festive banquet, nor the bridal bed. Anon, destructive sweeps the burning hail, His trees stand branchless, and his furrows fail; Whilst from the East, devouring locusts rise, To spoil the pittance spared him by the skies. But why on each particular token dwell Of God’s deep wrath, or all His judgments tell? Enough to add, that Israel’s thraldom ceased, From Pharaoh’s stubborn hand, by him released.
Whilst Pharoah’s pride withstood, His pools turned poison, and his Nile ran blood, From whose corrupting channel, moist and warm, Leaped forth the frogs, a foul, offensive swarm; No place was sheltered from their loathsome tread, The festive banquet, nor the bridal bed. Anon, destructive sweeps the burning hail, His trees stand branchless, and his furrows fail; Whilst from the East, devouring locusts rise, To spoil the pittance spared him by the skies. But why on each particular token dwell Of God’s deep wrath, or all His judgments tell? Enough to add, that Israel’s thraldom ceased, From Pharaoh’s stubborn hand, by him released.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 324 · printed citation: William Gibson · subject: ISRAEL
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