SOUND the loud timbrel o’er Egypt’s dark sea!
JEHOVAH has triumph’d! His people are free
Sing, for the pride of the tyrant is broken,–
His chariots and horsemen, all splendid and brave.
How vain, was their boasting! the LORD hath but spoken,
And chariots and horsemen are sunk in the wave!
Soud the loud, &c.
View the deep tomb of the daring transgressor–
His lords and chief captains are slumbering below!
Our GOD thus avenges His people’s aggressor;
How calm roll the surges o’er Israel’s dread foe!
Sound the loud, &c.
High tower’d the walls of its crystalliz’d waters,
While Heav’n’s rescu’d thousands pass’d safe through the deep.
They fell! and the glory of Egypt’s proud daughters
Floats slow o’er its surface in death’s lasting sleep!
Praise to the Conqu’ror! oh, praise to the LORD !
His word was our arrow, His breath was our sword!
Who shall return to tell Egypt the story
Of those she sent forth in the hour of her pride?
For the LORD hath look’d out from his pillar of glory,
And all her brave warriors are dash’d in the tide
Sound the loud, &c.
(Charlotte Eliza Dixon)
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