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Virna Sheard

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It was the Angel Azrael the Lord God sent below	A
At midnight into every house in Egypt long ago	A
long and long ago	A
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All day the wife of Pharaoh had paced the palace hall	B
Or the long white pillared court that was open to the sky	C
A passion of wild restlessness ensnared her in its thrall	B
While she fought a fear within her a thing that would not die	C
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She had sent away her maidens their weeping vexed her ears	D
Their pallid faces filled her with impatient pitying scorn	E
But she kept one time worn woman who long had outgrown fears	D
The old brown nurse who held her son the day that he was born	E
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The mighty gods had failed her the river gods and the sun	F
And the little gods of brass and stone who stared but made no sign	G
So she pled with them no longer her prayers were said and done	F
And now she neither bowed her head or knelt at any shrine	G
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Her hair was blown upon the wind like wreathes of golden flame	H
And the sea blue of her eyes cast blue shadows on her face	I
For she was not of Egypt but unto the king she came	H
A captive yet a princess from a northern sea bound place	I
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She watched the fiery wheel roll down behind the level land	J
One small hand curled above her eyes and one above her heart	K
But when the ruby afterglow crept up and stained the sand	J
She turned and gazed toward Goshen where Israel dwelt apart	K
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Nine plagues had wasted Egypt with their tortures grim and slow	A
The earth was desolated and scarred by hail and fire	L
Still even yet her Lord refused to let his bondsmen go	A
To worship in the wilderness the God of their desire	L
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The yellow Nile had turned to blood before her watching eyes	M
It was branded into memory a haunting death strewn sight	N
The very dust upon the street the rod had made to rise	M
In a living moving horror of atoms leprous white	N
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The frogs had come as things bewitched an army without fear	O
They had broken through the rushes their upward way to take	P
And each one followed steadily a voice no man could hear	Q
While poisoned wind and pestilence came swiftly in their wake	P
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Then oh the little flies that swarmed from out the earth and air	R
And the murrain of the camels and cattle in the field	S
She prayed the king for love of her to hear the people's prayer	R
And send the slaves far hither but for love he would not yield	S
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His face was like the carven face upon the basalt door	T
Her beauty could not charm him her voice had lost its power	L
So she wrapped a veil about her and entreated him no more	T
But sat alone and watched from out her window in the tower	L
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She saw the Hebrew leader with uncovered silvery hair	R
Come with the priest at daybreak to the outer palace gate	U
And the rod of woe and wonder they carried with them there	R
Yet Pharaoh bid them enter for he dared not bid them wait	U
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But naught prevailed for sore disease had scourged the low and high	C
And the hail of God had fallen and crushed the growing grain	V
And a fire no hand had kindled in searing wrath swept by	C
Such fire as none had seen before as none would see again	W
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Then came the pirate locusts with a sea song free and bold	X
The spent and broken people lacked the strength to force them back	Y
But watched them take the last green blades that never would be gold	X
And shut their doors against the foe that turned the meadows black	Y
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Then Pharaoh wavered more he called the Hebrews in his haste	Z
Imploring respite pleading his repentance bitterly	A2
For there was death on every side and all the land was waste	Z
So the western wind of God blew the locusts out to sea	A2
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Yet not enough Once more the king denied his given word	B2
He dared the wrath of Heaven and he made his heart as steel	C2
Then all the lights of God went out and no man even stirred	B2
But stayed companioned by his fear in darkness he could feel	C2
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So had each dreadful day gone by each slow departing night	N
And the queen stood now at sunset alone with grief and shame	H
When one came running towards her through the failing crimson light	N
A little lad with Egypt's eyes but hair like golden flame	H
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Thou has been long Beloved she cried and frowned all tenderly	A2
Indeed I have not seen thee since the burning noon took wing	D2
Mother of mine he answered I have been where I should be	A2
These burdened times of Egypt beside my Lord the King	D2
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'Twill take the country many days to gain its old time peace	E2
But thou shalt suffer nothing I myself will care for thee	A2
And see that naught doth harm thee until all these troubles cease	E2
These sad and magic doings that no man can solve said he	A2
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Ay That thou wilt she said But tell me how doth fare the king	D2
Doth he relent Or is his face forbidding dark and cold	X
Or hath he sent thee hither but some word of me to bring	D2
As he cannot leave the council and now the day grows old	X
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He shook his head I came because I longed to see thee so	A
And Pharaoh reads the chart of stars while time goes creeping by	C
Or he sits in weary silence or paceth to and fro	A
Since he banished the magicians all fear him all save I	C
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Put on thy golden girdle with the mighty emerald clasp	F2
And thy lotus broidered robe Braid thy hair all cunningly	A2
And wear the winged head dress with the turquois jewelled asp	F2
Then come and coax him from his gloom Thou only canst said he	A2
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Wise counsellor she smiled Nay but too wise for thy short years	D
I will unto the king and such great issues are at stake	P
This time I dare not fail I must go queenly without tears	G2
Or humble supplications but as one no woe can break	P
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Stay thou with thy old nurse Beloved she sitteth in the hall	A2
And she will tell thee wondrous tales to win from thee a smile	A2
Then take thy supper by her side and when deep night doth fall	A2
Go to the tower whence I'll come but in a little while	A2
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Arrayed in her most lovely robes she took her stately way	H2
By courtiers unattended through the palace vast and still	A2
Her beauty was a thing to hold all bitterness at bay	H2
To move the hearts of men and bend their spirits to her will	A2
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She passed beneath the rose red lights that hung from roof and door	T
And by unseeing gods where curled an incense blue and sweet	I2
As one who walks in sleep she crossed the cool mosaic floor	T
That echoed to the music of her little sandalled feet	I2
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She reached the council chamber and there entered silently	A2
But though the bowing wise men had been reeds the wind could sway	H2
Would have noted them as little She only seemed to see	A2
One face inscrutable and dark toward which she took her way	H2
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The king sat still as Fate Most High she said I come for truth	J2
Of this new threat of vengeance There is horror in the air	R
The Ethiopian runner hath brought word to me in sooth	J2
Blood is sprinkled on the door posts of the Hebrews everywhere	R
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There are rumours so he sayeth of an Angel who will slay	H2
The first born sons of Egypt should these bondsmen not depart	K
Thy people weep in anguish I myself must hear thee say	H2
The Hebrew leader threatens no such danger to my heart	K
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He is my heart my inner heart straight he is and strong	K2
To me he meaneth Egypt Egypt meaneth but my son	F
So I would take him swiftly toward the land where I belong	K2
To return to thee in safety when these troubles all are done	F
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The streets are filled with mourners every day more tears are shed	L2
The embalmers have grown weary they will not work for gold	X
And everywhere the eye doth see processions of the dead	L2
Till they seem but mocking phantoms we watch unmoved and cold	X
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Thou wilt not let the Hebrews go I read it in thine eyes	M
There are no gods in Egypt there is nothing but thy Will	A2
That sets itself against some force that yet in Strength will rise	M
But to silence all thine answers and bid thy voice be still	A2
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Then Pharaoh leaned down toward her most beautiful he said	L2
There is not a man who liveth dare say so to my face	I
And truly were there such a one 'twere better he were dead	L2
For dead men suffer nothing Yet I pray thee of thy grace	I
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Have patience now to hear me 'Tis as the Ethiope heard	B2
They threatened all the first born but the tower is brass and stone	M2
There my son shall stay to night guarded well I give thee word	B2
Where armies could not enter can one angel pass alone	M2
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Thinkst thou that I am one to be affrighted by the dark	N2
A weakling to be played upon a coward or a fool	A2
Nay I defy the Israelites Their weapons miss their mark	N2
They have roused my utmost anger it taketh long to cool	A2
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But thou he said but thou Methinks had they but threatened thee	J2
I should perchance have known the very quality of fear	O
Thou thing of perfect loveliness Content mine eyes will be	J2
Though in the land of Egypt is no blossom for a year	O
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But thou art queen and thou art free free now to go or stay	H2
I would not bind thee to my side not by one golden hair	R
Leave thou this land of peril e'er the breaking of the day	H2
Or give thy life to my dark life and bear what it doth bear	R
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Then blanched her face to whiteness of the lilies on her gown	O2
And low she bowed as lilies bow in drift of wind and rain	V
My Lord she said I have no will except to lay it down	O2
At thy desire As I have done so will I do again	W
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Thou art my king my son is thine It is not mine to say	H2
That I will bear him hence Yet gropes my soul unto a light	N
The quarrel is 'twixt Heaven and thee alone so I will stay	H2
With him I love within the tower throughout this fateful night	N
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And if the Angel cometh through the walls of stone and brass	P2
And if he toucheth Egypt's son to seal his gentle breath	J2
Then will we know that God is God He who hath right to pass	P2
Our little doors for He Himself is Lord of Life and Death	J2
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O when the desert blossomed like a mystic silver rose	Q2
And the moon shone on the palace deep guarded to the gate	U
And softly touched the lowly homes fast barred against their foes	Q2
And lit the faces hewn of stone that seemed to watch and wait	U
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There came a cry a rending cry upon the quivering air	R
The sudden wild lamenting of a nation in its pain	V
For the first born sons of Egypt the young the strong the fair	R
Had fallen into dreamless sleep and would not wake again	W
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And within the palace tower the little prince slept well	A2
His head upon his mother's heart that knew no more alarms	R2
For at the midnight hour most sweet and strange to tell	A2
She too slept deeply as the child close folded in her arms	R2
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Hard through the city rode the king unarmed unhelmeted	U
Toward the land he loaned his bondsmen the country kept in peace	E2
He swayed upon his saddle and he looked as looked the dead	U
The people stared and wondered though their weeping did not cease	E2
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On did he ride to Goshen and he called Arise Arise	M
Thou leader of the Israelites 'tis I who bid you go	A
Take thou these people hence before the sun hath lit the skies	M
Get thee beyond the border of this land of death and woe	A
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Across the plains of Egypt through the shadows of the night	U
Came the sound as of an army moving onward steadily	J2
And their leader read his way by the stars' eternal light	U
While all the legions followed on their journey to the sea	J2
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The moon that shineth overhead once saw these mysteries	S2
And then the world was young that hath these many years been old	U
If Egypt drank her bitter cup down even to the lees	S2
Who careth now 'Tis but an ancient tale that hath been told	U
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Yet still we hear the footsteps as he goeth to and fro	A
Of Azrael the Angel that the Lord God sent below	A
To Egypt long ago	A