The sage patriarch to a sacred people,

To the Children of Israel, the chosen of God.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The folk were affrighted with fear of the ocean;

Sad were their souls. The sea threatened death;

The sides of the hill were soaked with blood;

450 Gory was the flood, confusion on the waves,

The water full of weapons; the wave-mist arose.

The Egyptians turned and journeyed backward;

They fled in fright; fear overtook them;