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ON THE MIRACLE AT MOUNT HOREB.
"Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink."—Exodus xvii. 6.
Great is the Lord, and great his power!
His mercy great,—mighty to save!
On Horeb did his glory shine,
Gushed from the rock the rolling wave.
At his divine, omnipotent command,
His rod the prophet took,—
O, wondrous act of the Almighty's hand!—
Forth issued from the flint a bubbling brook;
Nature the God of nature's fiat hears;
What once seemed adamant, a stream appears.
His mercy great,—mighty to save!
On Horeb did his glory shine,
Gushed from the rock the rolling wave.
At his divine, omnipotent command,
His rod the prophet took,—
O, wondrous act of the Almighty's hand!—
Forth issued from the flint a bubbling brook;
Nature the God of nature's fiat hears;
What once seemed adamant, a stream appears.
