<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519664" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rebecca's Hymn</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Israel, of the Lord beloved,<br>Out from the land of bondage came,<br>Her father's God before her moved,<br>An awful Guide, in smoke and flame.<br>By day, along the astonished lands<br>The cloudy pillar glided slow;<br>By night, Arabia's crimsoned sands<br>Returned the fiery column's glow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There rose the choral hymn of praise,<br>And trump and timbrel answer'd keen,<br>And Zion's daughters pour'd their lays,<br>With priest's and warrior's voice between.<br>No portents now our foes amaze,<br>Forsaken Israel wanders lone:<br>Our fathers would not know Thy ways,<br>And Thou hast left them to their own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But present still, though now unseen,<br>When brightly shines the prosperous day,<br>Be thoughts of Thee a cloudy screen,<br>To temper the deceitful ray.<br>And O, when gathers on our path,<br>In shade and storm, the frequent night,<br>Be Thou, long suffering, slow to wrath,<br>A burning and a shining light!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our harps we left by Babel's streams,<br>The tyrant's jest, the Gentile's scorn;<br>No censer round our altar beams,<br>And mute are timbrel, harp, and horn.<br>But Thou hast said, The blood of goat,<br>The flesh of rams I will not prize;<br>A contrite heart, a humble thought,<br>Are mine accepted sacrifice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sir+Walter+Scott">Sir Walter Scott</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519664" data-title="Rebecca's Hymn de Sir Walter Scott" data-description="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. By day, along the astonished lands The cloudy pillar glided slow; By night, Arabia's crimsoned sands Return..."></div> </div> </div>

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