Harrowed by penal terrors, in the gulf

Of black despair are whelmed. No ray of hope

Dispels the involving gloom; a Deity,

With all the thunder of dread vengeance round Him,

Is ever present to their tortured thoughts.

Samuel Hayes.

To vengeance horrible aroused,

And clad in tenfold fierceness, shalt thou stand

Beside the atheist’s bed; by his who oft,

With wit profane, and poignant blasphemy,