28 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 
by means which blind man would have despised as inade- 
quate—by means which he has just discovered—here too 
shows the versatility, the contrast of its resources. In one 
hour it lets loose the raging engines, not of its wrath, but 
of its benevolence, and the volcano and the earthquake lift 
up to the clouds the prop and the foundation of new worlds, 
that from those clouds they may draw down the sources 
of the rivers, the waters of fertility and plenty.” 
“Millions of millions thus from age to age, 
With simplest skill and toil unweariable, 
No moment and no movement unemployed, 
Laid line on line, on terrace terrace spread, 
To swell the heightening, brightening, gradual mound, 
By marvellous structure climbing towards the day. 
Each wrought alone, yet altogether wrought 
Unconscious, not unworthy instruments 
By which a hand invisible was rearing 
A new creation in the secret deep. 
Omnipotence wrought in them, with them, by them ; 
Hence what Omnipotence alone could do 
Worms did. I saw the living pile ascend, 
The mausoleum of its architects, 
Still dying upwards as their labours closed. 
Slime the material, but the slime was turned 
To adamant by their petrific touch : 
Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, 
Their masonry imperishable.” —J. Montgomery. 
