Ruskin probably echoes Sir Robert Grant's famous hymn, 'O worship the King All-glorious above... Whose robe is the light, Whose canopy space'. Some of Grant's key words - 'power', 'splendour', 'girded', 'robe', as well as 'canopy' - are also Ruskin's ( Works, 3.93, 287, 469, 416), and his last verse, ending, 'And sweetly distils in the dew and the rain', would have made a fitting epigraph for the chapter on the rain-cloud in Modern Painters I. (See Wheeler, Ruskin's God, p.35 and Ruskin and religion.)