attributed to King David (c. 1000 BCE)
Hallelujah!
When Israel came out of Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of strange speech,
Judah became God’s sanctuary
and Israel his dominion.
The sea beheld it and fled;
Jordan turned and went back.
The mountains skipped like rams,
and the little hills like young sheep.
What ailed you, O sea, that you fled?
O Jordan, that you turned back?
You mountains, that you skipped like rams?
you little hills like young sheep?
Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
Who turned the hard rock into a pool of water
and flint‑stone into a flowing spring.
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Question to think about: When you write a poem, can you make things in the natural world do things they wouldn't usually do (as here, with the mountains and the hills skipping like rams and sheep)?
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