Observations placeholder
Cowper, William - The Task - Tell me ye shining hosts
Identifier
001805
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
William Cowper – The Task
Tell me ye shining hosts
That navigate a sea that knows no storms
Beneath a vault unsullied with a cloud
If from your elevation, whence ye view
Distinctly scenes invisible to man
And systems, of whose birth no tidings yet
Have reached this nether world, ye spy a race
Favour’d as ours; transgressors from the womb;
And hasting to a grave yet doom’d to rise