Upstarting in their own completed image

To scare, or to reward.

Coleridge.

And who is he, the vast, the awful form,

Girt with the whirlwind, sandalled with the storm?

A western cloud around his limbs is spread,

His crown a rainbow, and a sun his head,

To highest Heaven he lifts his kingly hand,

And treads at once the ocean and the land;

And hark! His voice amid the thunder’s roar,