ent for a short time; but
suddenly Nun's loud voice exclaimed:

"He has seen aright, children! What are we mortals! Lord, Lord! Stern
and terrible art Thou in judgment upon Thy foes!"

Here loud cries interrupted him; for at the springs where Moses leaned
exhausted against a palm-tree, and Aaron was resting with many others,
the people had also perceived what Ephraim had noticed--and from lip
to lip ran the glad, terrible, incredible, yet true tidings, which each
passing moment more surely confirmed.

Many an eye was raised toward the sky, across which the black clouds
were rushing farther and farther northward.

The rain was ceasing; instead of the lightning and thunder only a few
pale flashes were seen over the isthmus and the distant sea at the
north, while in the south the sky was brightening.

At last the setting moon emerged from the grey clouds, and her peaceful
light silvered the heights of Baal-zephon and the shore of the bay,
whose bottom was once more covered with tossing waves.

The raging, howling storm had passed into the low sighing of the morning
breeze, and the sea, which had dashed against the rocks like a roaring
wild-beast, now lay quivering with broken strength at the stone base of
the mountain.

For a short time the sea still spread a dark pall over the many Egyptian
corpses, but the paling moon, ere her setting, splendidly embellished
the briny resting-place of a king and his nobles; for her rays illumined
and bordered their coverlet, the sea, with a rich array of sparkling
diamonds in a silver setting.

While the east was brightening and the sky had clothed itself in
the glowing hues of dawn, the camp had been pitched; but little time
remained for a hasty meal for, shortly after sunrise, the gong had
summoned the people and, as soon as they gathered near the springs,
Miriam swung her timbrel, shaking the bells and striking the calf-skin
till it resounded again. As she moved lightly forward, the women and
maidens followed her in the rhythmic step of the dance; but she sang:

"I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse
and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

"The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he
is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I
will exalt him.

"The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. Pharaoh's chariots and
his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowne