When Science from Creation’s face Enchantment’s veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place, To cold material laws! And yet, fair _bow_, no fabling beams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. When o’er the green undeluged earth, Heaven’s _covenant_ thou didst shine, How came the world’s grey fathers forth, To watch thy sacred sign! And when the yellow lustre smiled O’er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child, To bless the _bow_ of God. Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, The first-made anthem rang On earth delivered from the deep, And the first poet sang. Nor ever shall the Muse’s eye, Unraptured greet thy beam: Theme of primeval prophecy, Be still the poet’s theme! _Campbell._ _Bow_ in the cloud, what token dost thou bear? --That justice still cries “strike,” and mercy “spare.” _J. Montgomery._ Such thou hast shone, bright _rainbow_! when the sky Has clothed in clouds its blue serenity; And such shall shine, while, grateful for the vow. All nations of the earth to heaven shall bow. Curbing the tempest on its thunder path, Chaining the boisterous billows in their wrath; Majestic symbol of their Maker’s might! Girdle of beauty! coronal of light! God’s own blest handmark, mystic, sure, sublime, Graven in glory to the end of time! _Anon._ CREATION. In the beginning, God _created_ the heavens and the earth.--Genesis, i. 1. Let them praise the name of the Lord: for He commanded, and they were _created_.--Psalm cxlviii. 5. Remember now thy _Creator_ in the days of thy youth.--Ecclesiastes, xii. 1. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath _created_ these things. Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the _Creator_ of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?--Isaiah, xl. 26, 28. Have we not all one father? hath not one God _created_ us?--Malachi, ii. 10. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for Thou hast _created_ all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were _created_.--Revelation, iv. 11.