Quote #6
Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah has triumphed-his people are free.
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- Go where glory waits thee, But while fame elates thee, Oh! still remember me!
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- And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.