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