| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | The Destruction of Pharaoh | | By John Ruskin |
| | | MOURN, Mizraim, mourn! The weltering wave | |
| Wails loudly o’er Egyptia’s brave | |
| Where, lowly laid, they sleep; | |
| The salt sea rusts the helmet’s crest; | |
| The warrior takes his ocean-rest, | 5 |
| Full far below the deep. | |
| The deep, the deep, the weary deep! | |
| Wail, wail, Egyptia! mourn and weep! | |
| For many a mighty legion fell | |
| Before the God of Israel. | 10 |
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| Wake, Israel, wake the harp. The roar | |
| Of ocean’s wave on Mizraim’s shore | |
| Rolls now o’er many a crest. | |
| Where, now, the iron chariot’s sweep? | |
| Where Pharaoh’s host? Beneath the deep | 15 |
| His armies take their rest. | |
| Shout, Israel! Let the joyful cry | |
| Pour forth the notes of victory; | |
| High let it swell across the sea, | |
| For Jacob’s weary tribes are free! | 20 | | | |
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