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28 lines
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1645
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A PARAPHRASE ON PSALM 114
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by John Milton
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This and the following Psalm were don by the Author at fifteen yeers
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old.
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When the blest seed of Terah's faithfull Son,
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After long toil their liberty had won,
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And past from Pharian fields to Canaan Land,
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Led by the strength of the Almighties hand,
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Jehovah's wonders were in Israel shown,
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His praise and glory was in Israel known.
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That saw the troubl'd Sea, and shivering fled,
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And sought to hide his froth-becurled head
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Low in the earth, Jordans clear streams recoil,
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As a faint host that hath receiv'd the foil.
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The high, huge-bellied Mountains skip like Rams
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Amongst their Ews, the little Hills like Lambs.
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Why fled the Ocean? And why skipt the Mountains?
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Why turned Jordan toward his Crystall Fountains?
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Shake earth, and at the presence be agast
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Of him that ever was, and ay shall last,
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That glassy flouds from rugged rocks can crush,
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And make soft rills from fiery flint-stones gush.
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-THE END-
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