Earth's hour is nigh--her blest millennial hour, And dawn there shall a higher, holier day, Prepared for by these principles of power, 1950 Divinest laws that loftiest worlds obey, Where gods and angels honor them alway. There greatest by humility are known, There order reigns, and right doth all realms sway; Like claiming like, and cleaving to its own, Sovereign and subject sharing the glory of the Throne. But earth's proud will must bend to will of heaven, Or twain can ne'er be one, that one for all;-- By angel love the demon lust be driven, And man set free from self's ignoble thrall. 1960 Let not the mighty task thy mind appall. What God hath done shall He not do again? A day of power shall batter down the wall; The willing heart shall rend the hampering chain; And o'er this ransomed world, first Son, then Sire, shall reign. Proclaim the Dispensation of the End, Era pre-destined, pre-ordained of yore, When all of Christ's, on earth, in heaven, shall blend, And build the Empire of the Evermore. Ascendeth One who all things shall restore-- 1970 The dead to life, the dew-drop to its source. Spirit must reign, the carnal rule no more; And this lest earth, winging the sunward course, Unmeet for such a change, melt 'neath consuming curse. Smite thou that sin of self, which binds the world In fetters fell, than all save truth more strong; That sin most serpentine, round all men curled, Within whose fatal fold earth writhes full long. To loose the coil doth unto thee belong. To free the soul from sordid tyranny, 1980 Be sacrifice the burden of thy song. Ay, sacrifice shall set the prisoner free, And men this truth shall learn, that light is liberty. CANTO SEVEN The Arcana Of The Infinite[1] Flake upon flake, then slide succeeding slide, The marvel and the wonder multiplied. Garnered in one vast mind[2] the glacial store, The glittering avalanche of heavenly lore, Whose living streams shall slake the burning thirst Of time unborn, of nations yet unnurst; Torrent of truth, river of prophecy, 1990 Rolling through worlds to find fulfillment's sea. He stands, as Moses on the mystic mount, Where knowledge pours from wisdom's purest fount; Stands 'neath the droppings of the crystal eaves, Stands on the loftiest summit man achieves, Where light eternal--was, is, and to be-- 'Lumines the vistas of immensity, The ultimates of human destiny. He walks and talks with God, as friend with friend; He reads the Book of Time from end to end, 2000 And in the Volume of Eternity Peruses past and far futurity; Ranges to realms of wider mystery-- Ne'er-ending hope, ne'er-ending history; While from all depths that sink, all heights that soar, Come voices, visions, of the Evermore. Like unto like, above, beneath, the skies, Deep calls to deep, and faith to faith replies.