And toss their giant arms amid the skies,

While each assailing blast increase of strength supplies.

Beattie.

The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial;

But there doth live a power, that to the battle

Girdeth the weak.

Joanna Baillie.

When adverse winds and waves arise,

And in my heart despondence sighs,—

While life her throng of care reveals,