Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE DESTRUCTION OF PHARAOH, by JOHN RUSKIN


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First Line: Mourn, mizraim, mourn! The weltering wave
Last Line: For jacob's weary tribes are free!
Subject(s): Egypt; God; Jacob (bible); Jews; Mourning; Judaism; Bereavement


MOURN, Mizraim, mourn! The weltering wave
Wails loudly o'er Egyptia's brave
Where, lowly laid, they sleep;
The salt sea rusts the helmet's crest;
The warrior takes his ocean-rest,
Full far below the deep.
The deep, the deep, the weary deep!
Wail, wail, Egyptia! mourn and weep!
For many a mighty legion fell
Before the God of Israel.

Wake, Israel, wake the harp. The roar
Of ocean's wave on Mizraim's shore
Rolls now o'er many a crest.
Where, now, the iron chariot's sweep?
Where I'haraoh's host? Beneath the deep
His armies take their rest.
Shout, Israel! Let the joyful cry
Pour forth the notes of victory;
High let it swell across the sea,
For Jacob's weary tribes are free!





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