Edwin Atherstone Poems

On the next morning early, Voice Divine
Again to Moses came. ``To Aaron say;
`Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust; that lice
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Thought--swift the flight of Spirits: ere midway
'Twixt noon and evening had the sun declined;
And while, all gentleness and purest love,
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Throughout the realm of Egypt, a loud voice
Of lamentation rose; for everywhere,
In the same point of time, to blood was changed
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Darkness again on Israel! for the words
Of Pharaoh,--with harsh proclamation sent
Throughout the city, and throughout the land,--
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In the dead hush and darkness of the night,
While in the garden all alone he walked;
For Israel mourning, pleading with his God,--
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In that same moment when at Kohath's gate
Paused the bright phantom--chariot,--to the eye
Of Sethos, riding moodily alone,
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On the next morrow, early, rose the king;
And sat upon his throne: at his right hand,
The heroic queen: and, all for battle dight,
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Three times the glorious god of light, and life,
Along the sapphire pavement of the sky
Careering,--through the immense of space, his beams
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Meantime Sardanapalus, with the pride
Of victory made drunken, as with wine,--
Self--glorying, said: ``Lord of the earth am I!
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Throughout the city, and the lands around,
Soon ran the rumour that, from Israel's God,
Moses a word had brought unto the king,
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