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MEDIÆVAL HYMNS.
Forgiveness ask from grace: from grace request
That Satan with no phantasm break our rest.
O'er earth, at midnight hoar, the deluge burst,
The fearful Baptism of its sin accursed:
Moses exulting, passed the Red Sea wave,
Where Pharaoh and his thousands found their grave:
David arose to Psalms; at this same tide
Shall the last fire the good and bad divide.
These things of mercy and of judgment teach:
The hymns and prayers of David mercy preach:
That Moses passed in safety, when his foes
Were whelmed like lead, judicial sentence shows.
That Satan with no phantasm break our rest.
O'er earth, at midnight hoar, the deluge burst,
The fearful Baptism of its sin accursed:
Moses exulting, passed the Red Sea wave,
Where Pharaoh and his thousands found their grave:
David arose to Psalms; at this same tide
Shall the last fire the good and bad divide.
These things of mercy and of judgment teach:
The hymns and prayers of David mercy preach:
That Moses passed in safety, when his foes
Were whelmed like lead, judicial sentence shows.
