Moses: a Story of the Nile by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

But Pharaoh was strangely blind, and turning From his first-born and his dead, with Egypt's wail Scarce still upon his ear, he asked which way had Israel gone? They told him that they journeyed Towards the mighty sea, and were encamped Near Baalzephon.

Then Pharaoh said, "the wilderness will hem them in, The mighty sea will roll its barriers in front, And with my chariots and my warlike men I'll bring them back, or mete them out their graves."