Wise, modest, brave, in danger foremost found.

So still, young warrior, may thy toil-earn'd praise,

With England's love and England's honour crown'd,

Gild with delight thy Father's latter days!

THE

PASSAGE

OF

THE RED SEA.

THE

PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA.

WITH heat o'erlabour'd and the length of way,
On Ethan's beach the bands of Israel lay.
'Twas silence all, the sparkling sands along;
Save where the locust trill'd her feeble song,
Or blended soft in drowsy cadence fell
The wave's low whisper or the camel's bell.—
'Twas silence all!-the flocks for shelter fly
Where, waving light, the acacia shadows lie;

Or where, from far, the flatt'ring vapours make

The noon-tide semblance of a misty lake: