And with amazement smote;—thereby to assert

His scorned, or unacknowledged, sovereignty.

And when the One, ineffable of name,

Of[359] nature indivisible, withdrew

From mortal adoration or regard,

Not then was Deity engulfed; nor Man,

The rational creature, left, to feel the weight

Of his own reason, without sense or thought

Of higher reason and a purer will,

To benefit and bless, through mightier power:—