1 WHEN Israel by Jehovah call'd From Ægypt's hostile plain, Pour'd forth in numbers as the Sand And sought the adjacent main: 2 Then God descended from on high To lead the favour'd Race To rule o'er Jacob, & his Name In Judah's Tribe to place. 3 The Sea at their approach allarm'd In wild amazement fled And Jordans flood was driven back Within it's fountain head. 4 The Mountains from their basis shook Confess'd the Parent God! With sudden throws like Rams they skipp'd And broken, fell abroad. 5 The little Hills by the same power Were from their Center torn Like Lambs resistless they gave way In Tumult wild, upborn. 6 Ye Waves what strange amazement, say, Seiz'd on you that you fled? Thou Jordan too! on Israels march, Why driven to thy Head? 7 Ye Mountains whence this sudden fright That shook you from your base? And whence, ye little Hills, your flight From Israels chosen Race? 8 Tremble thou Earth! It's God who comes, Whose Presence fills thy Coast. Tremble thou Earth! Jehovah leads, And guards the mighty Host! That God who by his awfull Word, Commands the Stream to flow From flinty Rocks; & pouring thence, To form the Lake below. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DRUMS AND BRASS by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON TRANSPOSITIONS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ON THE PROPOSAL TO ERECT A MONUMENT IN ENGLAND TO LORD BYRON by EMMA LAZARUS THE POET; SONNET by AMY LOWELL THE RUSSIAN ARMY GOES INTO BAKU by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER MIDDLE-AGED; A STUDY IN EMOTION by EZRA POUND |