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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."