Built (like a Pharos towering in the waves)

Amidst immense effusions of his love!

An ocean of communicated bliss! 930

An all-prolific, all-preserving God!

This were a God indeed.—And such is man,

As here presumed: he rises from his fall.

Think’st thou Omnipotence a naked root,

Each blossom fair of Deity destroy’d?

Nothing is dead; nay, nothing sleeps; each soul,

That ever animated human clay,