Praise to the Conqueror, 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 looked out from His pillar of glory,
And all her brave thousands are dashed in the tide.
Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!
Jehovah has triumphed-His people are free.

THOMAS Moore.

Song at the Red Sea

Exodus xv. I

SING to Jehovah, who gloriously triumphs,

The God of our fathers, the God of the free! For Jah is our strength, our song and salvation! The horse and his rider are drowned in the sea!

The Lord is a warrior, His name is Jehovah!

Thy right hand, O Lord! is exalted in might! Thou dashest in pieces the foes of Thy people!

Thy wrath has consumed them and swept them to night!

The chariots of Pharaoh, his captains and princes, The hosts of oppression, the legions of wrong, The blast of Thy nostrils with floods overwhelms them, And Israel shouts in her thunders of song!

What God of the nations is like to Jehovah?
Glorious in holiness, fearful in praise!
All people shall fear Him, all ages adore Him!
He reigns in His glory, through infinite days!
GEORGE LANSING TAYLOR.

The First Song of Moses
Exodus xv

I

NOW shall the praises of the Lord be sung;

For he a most renowned Triumph won:

Both horse and men into the sea he flung.
And them together there hath overthrown.
The Lord is he whose strength doth make me strong
And he is my salvation and my song:

My God, for whom I will a house prepare
My father's God whose praise I will declare.

II

Well knows the Lord to war what doth pertain,
The Lord Almighty is his glorious name;
He Pharaoh's chariots, and his arméd train
Amid the sea o'erwhelming, overcame;
Those of his army that are most renowned
He hath together in the Red Sea drown'd,
The deeps a covering over them were thrown,
And to the bottom sunk they like a stone.

III

Lord, by thy power thy right hand famous grows; Thy right hand, Lord, thy foe destroyéd hath;

Thy glory thy opposers overthrows,

And stubble-like consumes them in thy wrath.

A blast but from thy nostrils forth did go
And up together did the waters flow;
Yea, rolled up on heaps the liquid flood
Amid the sea, as if congealèd, stood.

IV

I will pursue them (their pursuer cried),
I will o'ertake them, and the spoil enjoy;

My lust upon them shall be satisfied;

With sword unsheathed my hand shall them destroy.

Then from thy breath a gale of wind was sent;
The billows of the sea quite o'er them went.
And they the mighty waters sunk into
E'en as a weighty piece of lead will do.

V

Lord, who like thee among the Gods is there!
In holiness so glorious who may be!
Whose praises so exceeding dreadful are!
In doing wonders, who can equal thee!
Thy glorious right hand thou on high didst rear,
And in the earth they quickly swallowed were,
But thou in mercy onward hast conveyed
Thy people, whose redemption thou hast paid.

VI

Them by thy strength thou hast been pleased to bear Unto a holy dwelling place of thine;

The nations at report thereof shall fear,

And grieve shall they that dwell in Palestine. On Edom's princes shall amazement fall;

The mighty men of Moab tremble shall

And such as in the land of Canaan dwell,
Shall pine away, of this when they hear tell.

VII

They shall be seizéd with a horrid fear.

Stone-quiet thy right hand shall make them be, Till passéd over, Lord, thy people are;

Till those pass over, that were brought by thee. For thou shalt make them to thy hill repair,

And plant them there (O Lord) where thou art heir, E'en there where thou thy dwelling hast prepared, That holy place which thine own hands have reared.

VIII

The Lord shall ever and forever reign,

His sovereignty shall never have an end:

For when as Pharaoh did into the main

With chariots and with horsemen, down descend, The Lord did back again the sea recall, And with those waters overwhelm'd them all. But through the very inmost of the same.. The seed of Israel safe and dry-shod came.

Miriam

GEORGE WITHER.

OH, for that day, that day of bliss entrancing

When Israel stood, her night of bondage o'er. And leaped in heart to see no more advancing Egypt's dark host along the desert shore; For scarce a ripple now proclaimed where lay The boasting Pharaoh and his fierce array.

Miriam! she silent stood, that sight beholding,

And bowed with sacred awe her wondering head. Till lo! No more their hideous spoils withholding The depths indignant, spurned their buried dead; And all along that sad and vengeful coast Pale corpses lay,—a monumental host.

Miriam! She saw; then all to life awaking,"Sing to the Lord," with a great voice she cried; "Sing to the Lord," their many timbrels shaking, Ten thousand ransomed hearts and tongues replied; While, leading on the dance in triumph long Thus the great Prophetess broke forth in song:

"Oh, sing to the Lord,

Sing his triumph right glorious;
"O'er horse and rider

Sing his right arm victorious;
Pharaoh's horsemen and chariots
And captains so brave,

The Lord hath thrown down
In the bottomless wave.

"Man of war is the Lord

And Jehovah is His name; We trusted his pillar

Of cloud and of flame.
Proud boasters, ye followed
But where have ye gone?
Down, down in the waters
Ye sank like a stone.

"O Lord thou didst blow
With thy nostrils a blast
And upheaved, the huge billows
Like mountains stood fast!
Egypt shuddered with wonder
That pathway to see,
Those depths all congealed
In the heart of the sea.

""I, too, will march onward'
(The enemy cried)

I shall soon overtake

I, the spoil will divide I will kill'-O my God!

The depths fell at thy breath And like lead they went down In those waters of death.

"But o'er us the soft wings
Of thy mercy outspread,
To thine own chosen dwelling
Our feet have been led.
Palistrina, affrighted,

The tidings shall hear,
And your hearts, O ye nations,
Shall wither with fear.

"Thus brought in with triumph

Safe planted and blessed

On thy own holy mountain
Thy people shall rest.