A pillar of cloud by day, etc.
Exodus 13:21.

When Israel, of the Lord beloved,

Out from the land of bondage came,

Her father’s God before her moved,

An awful Guide, in smoke and flame.

2 By day, along th’ astonished lands

The cloudy pillar glided slow;

By night Arabia’s crimsoned sands

Returned the fiery column’s glow.

3 Thus present still, though now unseen,