His Name, O Ifrael, Heaven's Eternal Lord, The chiefs, and steeds, and warriors whirl'd around, Who fhall thy power, thou mighty God, withstand, And check the force of thy victorious hand? Thy hand, which red with wrath in terror rose, This fervile nation, and divide the spoil: And spread fo wide the flaughter, till their blood As thus the yawning gulf the boafters pafs'd, At thy command rufh'd forth the rapid blast. Then, at the fignal given, with dreadful fway, In one huge heap roll'd down the roaring fea And now the difintangled waves divide, Unlock their folds, and thaw the frozen tide. The deeps alarm'd call terribly from far The loud, embattled furges to the war; Till her proud fons aftonith'd Egypt found, Cover'd with billows, and in tempefts drown'd. What God can emulate thy power divine, Or who oppofe his miracles to thine? When joyful we adore thy glorious name, Thy trembling foes confefs their fear and fhame. The world attends thy abfolute command, And nature waits the wonders of thine hand. That hand, extended o'er the fwelling fea, The confcious billows reverence and obey. O'er the devoted race the furges fweep, And whelm the guilty nation in the deep. That hand redeem'd us from our fervile toil, And each infulting tyrant of the Nile: Our nation came beneath that mighty hand, From Egypt's realms, to Canaan's facred land. Thou wert their Guide, their Saviour, and their God, To smooth the way, and clear the dreadful road. The The diftant kingdoms fhall thy wonders hear, Through ages, Lord, shall firetch thy boundless power, Thy throne shall stand when Time fhall be no more: For Pharaoh's steeds, and cars, and warlike train, Leap'd in, and boldly rang'd the fandy plain. While in the dreadful road, and defart way, The fhining crowds of gafping fifhes lay: Till, all around with liquid toils befet, The Lord fwept o'er their heads the watery net. He freed the ocean from his fecret chain, And on each hand discharg'd the thundering main. The loofen'd billows burst from every fide, And whelm the war and warriors in the tide ; But on each hand the folid billows stood, Like lofty mounds to check the raging flood; Till the bleft race to promis'd Canaan paft O'er the dry path, and trod the watery wafte. The THIRD ODE of the SECOND Book of LET the brave youth be train'd, the stings Of poverty to bear, And in the school of want be taught The exercise of war. Let him be practis'd in his bloom, To listen to alarms, And learn proud Parthia to fubdue With unrefifted arms. The hoftile tyrant's beauteous bride, And terrors for her Lord: Look down, ye gracious powers, from heaven, Nor let my confort go, Rude in the arts of war, to fight This formidable foe, Oh! not with half that dreadful The royal favage flies, rage When, at the flightest touch, he springs, And darts upon his prize. How How fair, how comely are our wounds, In our dear country's cause! What fame attends the glorious fate, For death's cold hand arrests the fears Bravely regardless of difgrace, With pure unfully'd glory shines, From the dark grave, and filent duft, The portals of the skies. Now, with triumphant wings, fhe foars, Above the realms of day, Spurns the dull earth, and groveling crowd, And towers th' ethereal way. With her has filence a reward, The fecrets of the Gods. But with a wretch I would not live, By facrilege prophan'd, Nor lodge beneath cne roof, nor launch One veffel from the land; For |