But how it undermines a mountain’s hard to say.
All single-handed, Moses,—Red Sea at command,—
Can drown pursuing Pharaoh’s vast ungodly band.
A gnat, by God’s behest, a Nimrod may annul;
Its feeble wings may burst the sutures of his skull.[164]305
The doom of him who acts on what a foe adjusts,
Is like the end of one his envier who trusts.
The punishment of Pharaoh’s listening to Haman,[165]
Resembles Nimrod’s, who faith pinned upon Satan.[166]
A foe who talks in friendly guise, a false game plays;