"How dost thou help

Him that is powerless? how sustain the arm

That fails in strength? how counsel him who needs

Wisdom? and how declare the righteous truth

Just as it is?

To Him who reads the soul,

Hades is naked, and the realms of Death

Have naught to cover them. This pendent Earth

Hangs on his word,—in gathering clouds he binds

The ponderous waters, till at his command