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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.