To doubt the end were want of trust in God, Who, if he has decreed That we must pass a redder sea Than that which rang to Miriams holy glee, Will surely raise at need A Moses with his rod!
ATTRIBUTION:
Henry Timrod (18281867), U.S. poet. Ethnogenesis (l. 8186). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.