A REAR ELEVATION[He can speak with his eyes, his hands, arms, legs, body—nay,with his very bones, for he turned the broad of his back uponus in "Conrad," the other night, and his shoulder-bladesspoke to us a volume of hesitation, fear, submission,desperation—everything which could haunt a man at the momentof inevitable detection.—A "Dramatic Critic."]Once Moses (in Scripture the story is told)Entreated the favor God's face to behold.Compassion divine the petition deniedLest vision be blasted and body be fried.Yet this much, the Record informs us, took place:Jehovah, concealing His terrible face,Protruded His rear from behind a great rock,And edification ensued without shock.So godlike Salvini, lest worshipers die,Averting the blaze of his withering eye,Tempers his terrors and shows to the packOf feeble adorers the broad of his back.The fires of their altars, which, paled and declinedBefore him, burn all the more brightly behind.O happy adorers, to care not at allWhere fawning may tickle or lip-service fall!
[He can speak with his eyes, his hands, arms, legs, body—nay,with his very bones, for he turned the broad of his back uponus in "Conrad," the other night, and his shoulder-bladesspoke to us a volume of hesitation, fear, submission,desperation—everything which could haunt a man at the momentof inevitable detection.—A "Dramatic Critic."]
Once Moses (in Scripture the story is told)Entreated the favor God's face to behold.Compassion divine the petition deniedLest vision be blasted and body be fried.Yet this much, the Record informs us, took place:Jehovah, concealing His terrible face,Protruded His rear from behind a great rock,And edification ensued without shock.So godlike Salvini, lest worshipers die,Averting the blaze of his withering eye,Tempers his terrors and shows to the packOf feeble adorers the broad of his back.The fires of their altars, which, paled and declinedBefore him, burn all the more brightly behind.O happy adorers, to care not at allWhere fawning may tickle or lip-service fall!