Like the loud trumpet, levied first their powers

In Night’s inglorious empire, where they slept

In beds of darkness: arm’d them with fierce flames,

Arranged, and disciplined, and clothed in gold;

And call’d them out of chaos to the field,

Where now they war with vice and unbelief.

O let us join this army! joining these,

Will give us hearts intrepid, at that hour,

When brighter flames shall cut a darker night;

When these strong demonstrations of a God 1300