Witness, thou Sinai! whose cloud-cover’d height,
And shaken basis, own’d the present God:
Witness, ye billows! whose returning tide, 1110
Breaking the chain that fasten’d it in air,
Swept Egypt, and her menaces, to hell: 1112
Witness, ye flames! th’ Assyrian tyrant blew
To sevenfold rage, as impotent, as strong:
And thou, earth! witness, whose expanding jaws
Closed o’er Presumption’s sacrilegious sons:[38]
Has not each element, in turn, subscribed