High front, and forth from his soul-piercing eye,

Did legislation look.

Hillhouse.

On the Mount

Of Sinai, whose foundations shook, whose top

Was lost in smoke and fire, while seraphim

At distance gazed, full forty days and nights,

Guest of terrestrial mould, did he sojourn

Within the dread pavilion, and the veil

Of cloud and tempest; there as face to face,