Webster

Fixed, like the polo, He stood, v.'hatever moved, Aa if, though sole, Tho shock to take and break, it him behooved, The phock he broke ; The multitudinous inain lts waves awoke - Woke all its wave, and ntornied the rook in vain. To join the wir,s, The limitering w-inde went forth, From all thcir caven, Agamst him, west, and cast, and south, and north. The spinning void Of whirlwind, hiiniming by In ita rycloid Pausod, on tliat settted strengtli ük strengthlo try And the floods canie - Deep called to deep aloud, Through the great fraono Of nature, twlxt the bülow and the cloud. And dolugc rolled, l'roni pole to pole one tide, Waste., aa of old. And, welteriug, ahouldereil hugc ;iyaiuHt hie eide. The tbunderbolt. As when that Titan world Rose in revolt, Hot through the kindling air amain was hurlrd ; And, whence it Blept, Like a swift sword nneheathed The lightning leapt, And round him its flerue arniB ot flame ruwrt-athed. Tho ronding throea Of caitlujUake, to and fro, Krom their repose, Roeked the perpetual hille, or laid them low. And Btill he stood- For the vexed planot still, Created good, Was whole, and held her couree, and had hor will, Around him cloud. ■Pale spocter of spent stoma, Clung, like a shroud, And vciled awhile the inviolable form. But umpire Time, Serenely wiae and just, M7ith slow, sublime, Unalterable decisión, and auguat, Cleansed this away, And, lo ! the glorious front, In candid day, Resiuned, with solemn joy, its ancient wout. - ücribiiei' for April.