Obedient then to its instructive mood
His heart, relaxing, propagates the flood.
The Great All-ruler of a cloudless sky
Roll’d on and on the lovely lamp of joy,
And shed its holiness o’er nature’s face;
And thus, Omniscient, with compelling grace,
Ordain’d the products of the bounteous earth,
All in due season, to come smiling forth.
(Such was the hour and such the transient day
When Arnold’s carriage roll’d along the way.)