And speedily in their behalf appears :
Celestial manna round the camp he rains,
And with angelic food bestrews the plains ;
And balmy eve, upon her dusky wings,
A feathered cloud, a heaven-sent banquet brings ;
Their mighty leader lifts his potent wand.
And smites the solid rock at God's conmiand,
A\'lien, lo ! the waters gush from Horeb's side,
And o'er the sands the crystal currents glide,
And wheresoe'er at God's behest they go,
Those cooling streams still inexhausted flow !
Bright emblem of that living purjile tide
That gushed in pardons from the Saviour's side ;
Bright emblem of that smitten rook, whence flow
Salvation's streams to guilty man below.
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More glowing scenes, still mightier works we trace,
Wrought in the sight of this elected race ;
See ! Sinai's peak o'er-oanopied with clouds,
While gazing stand innumerable crowds,
Angelic chariots — twice ten thousand — roll,
Convulsive thunders shake the stoutest soul ;
The trumpet sounds in tones exceeding shrill,
Its peals re-echo loud from hill to hill ;
From His high seat Jehovah now descends,
Beneath his feet the starry convex bends,
His radiant form majestic darkness hides,
While on the whirlwind's rapid wing he rides ;
Glows like a furnace, Sinai's groaning womb,
And shoots red volumes through th' investing gloom.
Appalling hour ! in which the law was given,
Writ by the finger of the God of heaven ;
Foreshadowing the terrors of that day
When earth, and seas, and skies, shall pass away.
Probation end, and all mankind appear
Before His bar their destinies to hear !

And didst thou, Israel, while thick clouds o'erspread,
And lightnings played round Sinai's mystic head.
