“Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!
Jehovah has triumphed—his people are free.”

— Thomas Moore

Sacred Songs, Sound the Loud Timbrel, st. 1.

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Irish poet, singer and songwriter 1779–1852

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