Classic Poem

So cleare a season, and so snatch'd from stormes,
Shewes heaven delights to see what man performes.
Well knew the sun, if such a day were dimme,
It would have been an injury to him:
For then a cloud had from his eye conceal'd
The noblest sight that ever he beheld
He therefore check'd the invading raines we fear'd
And in a bright Parenthesis appear'd:
Soe that we knew not which look'd most content,
The King, the people, or the firmament.
But the solemnity once fully past,
The intermitted stormes return'd as fast,
And heaven and earth each other to out do,
Vyed both in Cannon, and in fire workes too
So Israel past through the divided floud,
While in obedient heapes the Ocean stood;
But the same sea, the Hebrewes once on shore,
Came back in Torrents where it was before.