armed Thus answered:-"Leader of those armies Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion bright Which but the Omnipotent none could Hath vexed the Red Sea coast, whose 305 Busiris and his Memphian chivalry, While with perfidious hatred they pursued The sojourners of Goshen, who beheld From the safe shore their floating car casses 310 And broken chariot-wheels. So thick bestrown, Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood, Under amazement of3 their hideous change. He called so loud, that all the hollow deep yours, now lost, 315 If such astonishment as this can seize Eternal Spirits! Or have ye chosen this place After the toil of battle to repose find 320 To slumber here, as in the vales of Heaven? Or in this abject posture have ye sworn To adore the Conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and Seraph rolling in the flood With scattered arms and ensigns, till anon His swift pursuers from Heaven-gates dis cern 326 The advantage, and descending tread us down Thus drooping, or with linked thunderbolts Transfix us to the bottom of this gulf? Awake, arise, or be for ever fall'n!" 330 They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men, wont to watch, On duty sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; 336 Yet to their General's voice they soon obeyed, Innumerable. As when the potent rod 3 overwhelmed by. Was fair Damascus, on the fertile banks Of Abbana and Pharphar, lucid streams. He also against the house of God was bold: A leper once he lost, and gained a king, 471 Ahaz, his sottish conqueror, whom he drew God's altar to disparage and displace For one of Syrian mode, whereon to burn A crew who, under names of old renown, Fanatic Egypt and her priests, to seek 480 forms Rather than human. Nor did Israel scape By that uxorious king whose heart, though The infection, when their borrowed gold |