Shout, all ye gods! nor shout ye gods alone;
Of all that lives, or, if devoid of life,
That rests, or rolls, ye heights, and depths, resound!
Resound! resound! ye depths, and heights, resound!”
Hard are those questions!—answer harder still.
Is this the sole exploit, the single birth,
The solitary son of power divine?
Or has th’ Almighty Father, with a breath,
Impregnated the womb of distant space? 1539
Has He not bid, in various provinces,