No sun in radiant glory shines on high;

No light, but from the terrors of the sky:

Fall'n are her mountains, her fam'd rivers lost,

And all into a second chaos tost:

One universal ruin spreads abroad;

Nothing is safe beneath the throne of God.

Such, earth, thy fate: what then canst thou afford

To comfort and support thy guilty lord?

Man, haughty lord of all beneath the moon,

How must he bend his soul's ambition down