Freedom's Offering, :: :: University of Virginia Library

First Neptune, with aquatic team,
Rides madly on the rushing stream,
And with gigantic hop and bound,
Amazes sorely all around.
Next Jupiter with thunder bolt,
Makes earth to tremble, shake and jolt,
the maddened water's fringed fall,
Draped like a huge funeral pall.
Earth next her rocks in masses threw,
To hide her rivals from the view,
And faced them with masonic art,
Quite sure that she had done her part.
Then heap, on heap her rough hills piled,
And spread them o'er with forests wild.
Next air the challenge boldly met,
And showed of mist a spiral jet;
Then to excel with magic stroke,
Enveloped water, earth in smoke.
Last Sol, to beautify all, strove,
And through the mist bright rainbows wove,
The scene was now majestic, grand—
The work of an Almighty hand.