Violence cannot destroy her.

"Yet violence perhaps the Soul destroys,

As lightning or the sunbeams dim the sight;

Or as a thunder-clap or cannon's noise,

The power of hearing doth astonish quite?"

But high perfection to the Soul it brings,

T'encounter things most excellent and high;

For when She views the best and greatest things,

They do not hurt, but rather clear the eye.

Besides as Homer's gods 'gainst armies stand;