The living were translated; dead were raised;

Angels, and more than angels, came from heaven;

And, oh! for this, descended lower still; 1040

Guilt was hell’s gloom; astonish’d at his guest,

For one short moment Lucifer adored:

Lorenzo! and wilt thou do less?—For this,

That hallow’d page, fools scoff at, was inspired, 1044

Of all these truths thrice venerable code!

Deists! perform your quarantine; and then

Fall prostrate, ere you touch it, lest you die.