Descending here, no fabled god, be seen;

Behold the God of gods indeed descend,

And worlds unnumber'd his approach attend!

Lo! the wide theatre, whose ample space

Must entertain the whole of human race,

At heaven's all-powerful edict is prepar'd,

And fenc'd around with an immortal guard.

Tribes, provinces, dominions, worlds, o'erflow

The mighty plain, and deluge all below:

And every age, and nation, pours along,