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And when the soul was tossed in troubled To stormless wanderers, beautiful and gay.

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When God came down from heaven, the It is a living form,

living God,

The loved, the lost, the won,

What signs and wonders marked his stately Won from the grave, corruption, and the way?

Brake out the winds in music where he trodo?

Shone o'er the heavens, a brighter, softer day? The dumb began to speak, the blind to see, And the lame leaped, and pain and darkness fled;

The mourner's sunken eye grew bright with glee,

And from the tomb awoke the wondering dead.

When raging winds

MILMAN.

Rushed from their caverns, and resistless swept
The foaming waves, when hideous roared the
storm,

As if the wild contending elements
Had strove for mastery, at His command
The tempest ceased, the towering billows sunk
In undulations calm, and zephyrs played
Upon the bosom of the peaceful deep.

BOLLAND.

worm:

"And is not this the Son

Of God?" they whispered, while the sisters

poured

Their gratitude in tears, for they had known

the Lord.

DALE.

Their faith hath triumphed; with the sound
Of rushing thunder, backward fly
The affrighted billows, and the ground
They moistened now is dry;

Cleft in the midst the waters stand,
Obedient to their God's command,
Towering aloft on either hand

A glassy and resplendent heap,
Where scenes that bless the promised land
In mirrored beauty sleep.

J. H. CLINCH.

The conscious water saw its God and blushed!
CRASHAW.

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