Her sons to pour it on the farthest north:

Fired with a zeal peculiar, they defy

The rage and rigour of a polar sky,

And plant successfully sweet Sharon’s rose

On icy plains, and in eternal snows.

Cowper.

No studied eloquence was there displayed,

Nor poetry of language lent its aid;

But plain the words that from the preacher came;

A preacher young, and all unknown to fame;