Original - Duke Divinity School

When stormy Winter from the frozen North
Borne on his Icy Chariot issues forth; … 160
Sharp blows the Rigour of the piercing Winds,
And the broad Floods as with a Breast-plate binds;
Ev’n the proud Seas forget in Tides to roll
Beneath the influence of the neighborly Pole; 161
There Waves on Waves in solid Mountains rise,
And Alpes of Ice invade the wondring Skies;
While Gulphs below, and slippery Vallies lie,
And with a dreadful Brightness pain the Eye;
But if warm Winds, a warmer Air restore,
And softer Breezes bring a genial Show’r,
The genial Show’r revolves the secret Chain, 162
And the huge Hills flow down into the Main.
When the Seas rage, and loud the Ocean roars,
When foaming Billows lash the sounding Shores;
If he in Thunder bid the Waves subside,
The Waves obedient sink upon the Tide,
A sudden Peace controls the unfolded Deep,
And the still Waters in soft Silence sleep.
Then Heav’n lets down a Golden-streaming Ray,
And all the broad Expansion flames with Day:
In the clear Glass the Mariners descry
A Sun inverted, and a downward Sky.
They who advent’rous plow the watry Way,
The dreadful Wonders of the Deep survey;
Familiar with the Storms their Sails unbind,
Tempt the rough Blast, and bound before the Wind:
Now high they mount, now shoot into a Vale,
Now smooth their Course, and scud before the Gale; […] 163
There huge Leviathan unwieldy moves,
160Wesley omits here, in MSP, and in AM: “The blasted Groves their verdant Pride resign, / And Billows
harden’d into Crystal shine.”
161Wesley restores in MSP and AM Broome’s original: “Beneath the freezings of the Northern Pole.”
162Broome’s original: “The genial Show’r revives the chearful Plain”; Wesley in MSP and AM: “The genial
Show’r unbinds the secret Chain.”
163Wesley omits here, in MSP, and in AM: “There rouling Monsters, arm’d in scaly Pride, / Flounce in the
Billows, and dash round the Tide.”
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