Of Heaven, in glory and in power displayed,
Had curbed the freedom of the human will,
Nor left the scope of choice!
Samuel Hayes.
If, with streamy radiance, God
Had dazzling beamed upon His creatures’ eyelids,
And shown Himself to their unbandaged view,
And with a voice divine to us had spoken,
Destroying in our hearts the wondrous balance,
(Man ceasing to be man had lost his freedom,)