can seize

eternal spirits: |

or have ye chosen this place, after the toil of battle,

to repose your weary virtue, for the ease you find to slumber here,

as in the vales of heaven?

Or in this abject posture |

have you sworn to adore

the Conqueror? |

who now beholds cherub and seraph |

discern the advantage, and descending, |

or, with linked thunderbolts,

tread us down, thus drooping,

transfix us to the bottom of this gulf. !