The Christian Scholar :: :: University of Virginia Library

“The will of Jove no one can trace,
All things to him are bright
E'en in dark night,
What seems black chance to mortal race.
Safe it falls out and sure will stand
Whate'er his will shall once command.
His counsels are a secret maze,
Like intricate dark woodland ways,
And difficult to know.
From lofty towers on high he looks, and thence
He hurls men in destruction low,
Yet arms him with no violence;—
All without effort is with Gods.
Seated on high, I know not how, His thought
Hath instantaneously fulfilment wrought
E'en from His pure abodes .”

“Yea, what things Thou didst determine were ready at hand, and said, Lo, we are here.”Judith. ix. 6.