LXXXII.

Thy form, thou Son of God!—a wrathful deep,

With foam, and cloud, and tempest round Thee spread,

And such a weight of night!—a night, when sleep

From the fierce rocking of the billows fled.

A bark show’d dim beyond Thee, with its mast

Bow’d, and its rent sail shivering to the blast;

But, like a spirit in thy gliding tread,

Thou, as o’er glass, didst walk that stormy sea

Through rushing winds, which left a silent path for Thee.