THE PLAGUES OF EGYPT.

The waters change to blood; next, frogs arise;

Dust turns to lice; and then come swarms of flies;

Lo! murrain strikes the beasts, but Goshen’s free!

Lo! boils beset the men, save, Israel, thee!

Then fires the thundering hail; then locusts bite;

Then comes three days of one unbroken night;

The first-born’s midnight death, from cot to throne,

Winds up ten plagues that make Egyptians moan.