They shout in agony, or shriek, or weep,

In vain! the waters gain upon them. Lo!

The ark careering past, their hands they stretch

For help; and now you see some drowning wretch

Pursue the sacred vessel; but in woe

No pity must they have; so on they go.—

Now all is one wide sea without a beach.

Morehead.

Behold the awful Deity enthroned

In darkness awful—inaccessible,