Classic Poem

1.

Had God abandon'd from his care
Our cause, when adverse hosts to war
Uprose; had God, may Israel say,
Our cause abandon'd, in the day
When o'er the plain their troops were pour'd,
Our tribes their fury had devour'd;


2.

Down we had sunk; and o'er our head
The swelling floods their waves had spread:
Down we had sunk; but blest be God,
Whose arm the timely help bestow'd,
And, each invader chas'd away,
Snatch'd from their jaws th' expected prey.

3.

See! as the Bird with sudden spring
Exulting mounts upon the wing,
Just rescu'd from the fowler's art,
So triumph We, with thankful heart,
And, sav'd by his preventing care,
Shake from our feet the broken snare.

4.

When woes, when dangers round us rise,
On Him alone our Hope relies,
To Him our Liberty we owe,
And own his strength against the foe,
Whose hand thy center fix'd, O Earth,
And gave th' enduring Heav'ns their birth.