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Moses sought again the presence of the king	A
And Pharaoh's brow grew dark with wrath	B
And rising up in angry haste he said	C
Defiantly 'If thy God be great show	D
Us some sign or token of his power '	E
Then Moses threw his rod upon the floor	F
And it trembled with a sign of life	G
The dark wood glowed then changed into a thing	A
Of glistening scales and golden rings and green	H
And brown and purple stripes a hissing hateful	I
Thing that glared its fiery eye and darting forth	J
From Moses' side lay coiled and panting	A
At the monarch's feet With wonder open eyed	K
The king gazed on the changed rod then called	L
For his magicians wily men well versed	M
In sinful lore and bade them do the same	N
And they leagued with the powers of night did	O
Also change their rods to serpents then Moses'	P
Serpent darted forth and with a startling hiss	P
And angry gulp he swallowed the living things	P
That coiled along his path And thus did Moses	P
Show that Israel's God had greater power	Q
Than those dark sons of night	R
But not by this alone	S
Did God his mighty power reveal He changed	T
Their waters every fountain well and pool	U
Was red with blood and lips all parched with thirst	M
Shrank back in horror from the crimson draughts	P
And then the worshiped Nile grew full of life	G
Millions of frogs swarmed from the stream they clogged	V
The pathway of the priests and filled the sacred	W
Fanes and crowded into Pharaoh's bed and hopped	X
Into his trays of bread and slumbered in his	P
Ovens and his pans	P
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There came another plague of loathsome vermin	Y
They were gray and creeping things that made	Z
Their very clothes alive with dark and sombre	Q
Spots things of loathsome in the land they did	O
Suspend the service of the temple for no priest	A2
Dared to lift his hand to any god with one	B2
Of those upon him And then the sky grew	Q
Dark as if a cloud were passing o'er its	P
Changeless blue a buzzing sound broke o'er	Q
The city and the land was swarmed with flies	P
The Murrain laid their cattle low the hail	C2
Cut off the first fruits of the Nile the locusts	P
With their hungry jaws destroyed the later crops	P
And left the ground as brown and bare as if a fire	Q
Had scorched it through	Q
Then angry blains	P
And fiery boils did blur the flesh of man	D2
And beast and then for three long days nor saffron	B2
Tint nor crimson flush nor soft and silvery light	R
Divided day from morn nor told the passage	E2
Of the hours men rose not from their seats but sat	F2
In silent awe That lengthened night lay like a burden	B2
On the air a darkness one might almost gather	Q
In his hand it was so gross and thick Then came	N
The last dread plague the death of the first born	G2

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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