'Earth yet shall rest, And, sanctified, shall see her Saviour reign, 2440 Monarch of worlds, His realms as ocean sands. But it shall be within the latter days, The days of vengeance and of wickedness, When men the Sole-begotten crucify, And He shall go again to judge the world, Proclaimed by truth, forerun by righteousness, Gathering the pure-in-heart unto a place-- A holy place my people shall prepare, There to await my coming, mine and thine. Then shown the resurrection's shadowing: 2450 Zion above, from all creations past, Shall meet and blend with Zion from below; Spirits and bodies of the just shall join, And in the midst my tabernacle be. Yea, as I live, so will I forth again, My oath to thee, my covenant, to fulfill; And earth shall garb in glory of her God, And Noah's righteous seed in Me rejoice.'" These things spake God to Moses, from the mount Whose name is veiled to ken of humankind; 2460 And thus that prophet, but through unbelief And cunning craftiness, at war with Light, The fulness of his message sleeps till now, When one like unto him[12] and Him he typed, Brings forth the buried meaning from its grave. On twain of ocean-parted hemispheres, Saw noon of time a twofold type[13] of peace, A pledge, a token, of millennial rest, An earnest of the Commonweal to come; But no fulfillment of the promise old, 2470 No ripe fruition of the ancient oath, To Enoch sworn, through Moses re-affirmed, By Ephraim's prophet made to live again. --- Promise now sought fulfillment[14],--it was time; For weary earth lay groaning 'neath her load. "Unclean, unclean," her cry, as leprous sin With foul intent clasped close her shrinking form, And baned with foetid breathing all her soul. Long she had mourned and wept o'er life's decay; Her waning strength, from age and weariness, 2480 Her mother powers, unholy passion's prey, Bringing, in lieu of giants, pygmies forth, To fall untimely on her withered breast. Dwindling and dwarfed in all save wickedness, And knowledge, oft made pander unto ill, With learning gorged, for wisdom famishing, Man both a glutton and a starveling seemed. For Self, the sordid, sat once more enthroned, Binding in servile chains a universe, Where mightily men strove for place and fame, 2490 Greedy for power, as gluttonous for gold. And who sought neighbor's weal, save kith and kin Or petted friendling prest a favored claim? Disorder reigned, and satire laughed to scorn Grotesque, invidious inconsistency: Talent on title waiting, brain on birth! Genius at oars, and dullards at the helm! The prancing war-steed fastened to the plow, The ass unto the chariot--oft with rein, Curbing the mettled courser's noble rage, 2500 Or goading him with needless cruelty!