220 Therein do swim: gone is its native power
For sinking bodies: if, in fine, you launch
A torch’s lightsome hull (where spirit serves
For fire) therein, the apex of the flame
Will act as sail; put out the flame, and ’neath
225 The waters will the light’s wrecks ruin go!
Such Sodom’s and Gomorrah’s penalties,
For ages sealed as signs before the eyes
Of unjust nations, whose obdurate hearts
God’s fear have quite forsaken, will them teach
230 To reverence heaven-sanctioned rights, and lift
Their gaze unto one only Lord of all.