Of glory obscured: as when the sun new-risen

Looks through the horizontal misty air,

Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon,

In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds

On half the nations, and with fear of change

Perplexes monarchs: darkened so, yet shone

Above them all the Archangel.”

“As when far off at sea a fleet descried

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