Disdainful, and his crest shook in the wind,
Then, lifting high his ensign of command,
He bade the trumpet sound the second watch.
John knelt, and pray'd, "THY KINGDOM COME,
"OH! LORD."

Then he who stood beside him, spoke unmov'd"ROME-ROME shall be no more! At dead of

"Hark! the Barbarian trump: JERUSALEM "Shall be aveng'd, and those of distant days, "Pond'ring the fate of empires, there shall come "To muse upon the fragments of her might, "Her ancient glory pass'd as morning clouds, “And tremble for the judgments of the Lord "In all the world!

"Now to the cave retire,

"For other visions of the things to come,

"And other fearful shadows, must thou see."

John sat, and held his hands upon his brow: The earth seems to retire, and all the sounds Of tumult and of woe at once to cease. Then John was in the Spirit, and he saw Sev'n Angels, and, beneath, a sea of glass Mingled with fire; and on the sea of glass, Those who had gain'd, on earth, the victory, Over the Beast, all standing on the sea

Of glass, and in their hands the harps of God, And thus they sung, "Oh! great and marvellous "Art Thou, Almighty God, and just and true "Are all thy ways, thou King of Saints. Amen."

Now from the temple a loud voice was heard, Which said to the sev'n Angels, "Go your ways,* "Pour out the vials of the wrath of God

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Upon the earth." Then on the men which bore

*Revelations 16.

The mark upon their foreheads of the Beast,
Or fell down to his image, noisome sores

And plague-spots fell.

The second Angel pour'd

His vial on the sea, and it became

The blood of a dead man; and ev'ry thing
Which had the breath of life, died in the sea.

And the third Angel pour'd his vial out

Upon the rivers, and fresh fountains clear,
And they became red blood. And then John heard,
In trance, the Angels of the waters say,

"RIGHTEOUS ART THOU, OH! LORD, and righte

"Oh! Thou, which art, and was, and which

"shall be,

"Thus hast Thou judg'd, for they have shed the

"blood

"Of prophets and of saints!" A voice replied,

From out the altar, "Even so, Oh! Lord"ALMIGHTY GOD, thy judgments are most true."

And the fourth Angel pour'd his vial out Upon the sun, and pow'r was given to him To scorch men with the fire, and they blasphem'd The name of God, and still repented not, Looking with gnashing teeth upon the sun.

And the fifth Angel pour'd his vial out Upon the kingdom of the beast, and lo! The kingdom of the beast at once was dark: But men repented not-ev'n while they gnaw'd Their tongues for pain, blaspheming God in heav'n.

And the sixth Angel pour'd his vial out

Where the great river of Euphrates rolls,

And it was dried up, and so became

A highway for the armies of the east,

And for the kings of earth, and the whole world, Gath'ring to battle, on the dreadful day

Of the incensed Lord, into a place

Call'd "ARMAGEDDEN," in the Hebrew tongue.

And the seventh Angel pour'd his vial out
Into the air, and a loud voice was heard

Out of the temple's inmost shrine, which cried,
"All is fulfill'd." At once, an earthquake shook
The ground-and lightnings, red and terrible,
Flash'd-and the thunders roll'd along the sky,
And strange and fearful voices in the air

Were heard, so dreadful was that storm. Aghast,

The nations fell: and the GREAT BABYLON

Came in remembrance before God, to pour,

On her, the fierceness of his waken'd wrath.