,carter1 ,ben ,crowder1 ,eric ,heaps1 ,tod ,robbins4 ,,elias ,an ,epic of the ,ages ,,by ,,orson ,,ferguson ,,whitney ,progress eterne6 thou goest hand in hand ,with ,life eterne1 and naught but death e'er dies4 ,,revised ,,and ,,annotated ,,edition ,copyright1 #aiad ,o4 ,f4 ,whitney ,salt ,lake ,city1 ,utah ,,foreword ,elias was begun in the spring of #aijj1 and was first published in the autumn of #aijd1 when an edition de luxe1 limited to one hundred and fifty copies1 and two less pretentious editions1 were subscribed for by friends of the author4 ,he was hardly a party to the project1 the initial step being taken without his knowledge4 ,prior to that time he had read the poem to select gatherings in private homes and in two of the leading church schools1 but had no thought of printing it so early1 until solicited by a committee of prominent citizens to allow them to undertake1 in his behalf1 its publication4 ,that committee consisted of ,governor ,heber ,m4 ,wells1 ,senator ,george ,sutherland1 ,president ,anthon ,h4 ,lund1 ,major ,richard ,w4 ,young1 and ,mr4 ,h4 ,l4 ,a4 ,culmer4 ,these gentlemen1 out of pure public spirit and a friendly feeling for the author1 had associated themselves together for this purpose4 ,though aware of many defects in his work1 and anxious to mend them before facing the public and the critics1 he nevertheless accepted gratefully the very generous offer4 ,all the members of the committee gave to the enterprise their hearty support1 and two of them1 ,major ,young and ,mr4 ,culmer1 conducted most of the business necessary to putting the book through the press4 ,since the original issuance the author has endeavored to bring the work into a more finished state1 and the results are now before the reader4 ,the poem is in twelve parts--a prelude1 ten cantos1 and an epilogue4 ,following these are explanatory notes1 for the benefit of students2 the introduction of the epic as a text book into the schools being one of the purposes for which it was written4 ,the character and scope of the work are partly indicated by the title1 ,elias--,an ,epic ,of ,the ,ages4 ,it is an attempt to present1 in verse form1 historically1 doctrinally1 and prophetically1 the vast theme comprehended in what the world terms ,mormonism4 ,,the ,,author4 ,,dedication 7,,see ,,note47 ,this song to thee1 friend1 chieftain1 sixth to rise ,from him1 the foremost of a seeric line1 ,mock of the worldly1 marvel of the wise1-- ,his martyred brother's son6 ,may light divine1 ,which 'lumined them1 forever on thee shine1 ,flooding with splendors new thy lineal fame2 ,and ancient rays with modern beams combine ,to glorify a brow whose stalwart aim1 ,to merit heaven's high praise1 nor fear a world's false blame6 ,,theme 7,,see ,,note47 ,and if you will receive it1 this is ,elias1 which was to come to gather together the tribes of ,israel and restore all things4 ,,argument ,the aim of this poem is to point out those manifestations of the ,divine ,mind and those impulsions from human enterprise which have contributed in all ages to the progress of the race toward perfection4 ,thus it deals not only with man's origin and destiny1 with earth's creation1 redemption1 and ultimate glorification1 but with events and epochs leading up to and having those greater ends as their decreed consummation4 ,the ,christ theme1 in its heavenly and earthly phases1 is supplemented by the sacred and secular history of man upon both hemispheres4 ,god's direct dealings through prophets1 apostles1 and other inspired agents1 and ,his indirect dealings through poets1 painters1 philosophers1 inventors1 discoverers1 statesmen1 kings1 conquerors and the like1 are indicated1 and the experiences of the ,church of ,christ in various dispensations portrayed4 ,the title ,elias1 signifying restoration and preparation1--the lesser going before the greater with those objects in view1--is used to denote and personify the ,genius of ,progress1 whose beneficent workings1 under the guidance of the ,infinite ,spirit1 through the aeons and the ages1 behind the scenes and upon the stage of human action1 are the warp and woof of the entire poem4 ,the medial point is the ,dispensation of the ,fulness of ,times1 the era of restitution1 when the ,house of ,god is to be set in order1 and all things in ,christ are to be gathered into one4 ,,contents ,prelude--,the ,author's ,purpose ,canto ,one--,as ,from a ,dream ,canto ,two--,the ,soul of ,song ,canto ,three--,elect of ,elohim ,canto ,four--,night and the ,wilderness ,canto ,five--,the ,messenger of ,morn ,canto ,six--,from ,out the ,dust ,canto ,seven--,the ,arcana of the ,infinite ,canto ,eight--,the ,lifted ,ensign ,canto ,nine--,upon the ,shoulders of the ,philistine ,canto ,ten--,the ,parted ,veil ,epilogue--,the ,angel ,ascendant ,notes ,,prelude 7,,see ,,note47 ,the work for ,him ,i asked and aimed to do1 ,ere death should claim my dust1 my spirit free1-- ,that1 looking down from where the wise and true ,inherit glory1 gracious eyes might see ,a spark ,i kindled beaming endlessly1 ,and lighting other wanderers to the goal ,where blends the life that is with life to be2-- ,now done1 or well or ill1 the lettered scroll ,of what is writ on heart and mind ,i here unroll4 ,,canto ,,one ,as ,from a ,dream#a ,youth's morn was breaking1 when ,i dreamed a dream1 ,splendid as springtime's weft of wonders rare2 ,idyllic vision1 beauteous1 bright romance1 ,glory of love and glamor of renown4 ,i dreamed that fame held all of happiness1 ,save the sweet charm that lurked in woman's smile4 ,wealth wooed ,i not1 nor power--to wear the sign ,and wave the symbol of authority2 ,to speak1 and have hosts tremble2 or to frown1 ,and find all pale and prostrate at my feet4 #aj ,but oh6 to sway1 like swinging forest boughs ,in summer breeze1 men's yearning hearts and minds1-- ,sway them in duty's name1 in virtue's cause1 ,by tongue of thunder or by pen of flame1 ,leaving some wise1 sublime1 benefic deed1 ,some word or work of merit and of might1 ,to fix the fleeting gaze of centuries6 ,glory and love--these were my guides divine1 ,the planet passions of my destiny1 ,the ,baal and ,astoreth#b to whom ,i bowed1 #bj ,at human shrines a worldly worshiper1 ,adoring beauteous dust1 my fellow clay1 ,and coveting an earthly immortality4 ,and at the feet of these dear deities1 ,careless of great ,jehovah's smile or frown1 ,in the fresh morning of my youth's fair might1 ,slumbering ,i dreamed1 till golden grew the dawn4 ,a strange and stern awakening--a sky1 ,pearl1 gold1 and sapphire1 clear and calm till then1 ,cloud-curtained1 grim1 with anger audible1 #cj ,tortured and torn with swift-flung darts of fire2 ,booming and crashing1 bolt on bolt descends2 ,earth1 air1 and heaven are wrapt in roaring flame4 ,and when the rifted storm has rolled away1 ,and stillness reascends her solemn throne1 ,ruin looks forth from retrospection's tower1 ,and memory weeps where desolation reigns4 ,it was the end4 ,dispelled illusion's dream4 ,youth's fond ideals1 thunder-stricken1 strewn1 ,lay level with the dust4 ,but light had come6 #dj ,my soul had cast its fetters and was free4 ,i slept and dreamed no more2 ,i was awake6 ,and saw and heard with other eyes and ears1 ,which taught me things unseen1 unheard1 before2 ,things new yet old--old as eternity1 ,old e'en to time1 though new and strange to me4 ,i talked with ,truth on solemn mountain tops2 ,i soared with winged thought the sunlit dome2 ,studied the midnight stars2 and when anon ,the hurrying1 far-flung legions of the storm #ej ,in supermortal might went forth to war1 ,would fain have charioted the charging plain1 ,or spurred the tempest as a battle steed1 ,grasping the volted lightnings as they flew1 ,and thundering through the mists on things below4 ,rejoicing in my new-found strength1 ,i gave ,glory to ,him1 the ,source and ,sire of all2 ,that ,god whom ,i had neither loved nor feared1 ,that ,god whom now ,i worshipt and adored4 ,who girdled me with ,light1 truth's triple key#c1 #fj ,unlocking what hath been1 what yet shall be1 ,probing death's gloom1 life's three-fold mystery1 ,solving the secret--,whither1 ,whence and ,why4 ,oh1 wondrous transformation6 when with wand ,of wakening might1 that all-uplifting power ,waved o'er the cross where hung fond hopes impaled1 ,waved o'er the tomb where loved ambitions lay1 ,touched the strewn fragments of my shattered dream1 ,bidding the dead arise in bodies new1 ,building1 on ruined hope1 faith's battlement1 #gj ,love's palace1 peace-domed1 pinnacled in light1 ,in glory greater than earth's grandest dream1 ,than glittering fame's most splendid spectacle2 ,ideal transcending ideality1 ,ideal made real past all reality6 ,whose earth-dimmed eye could see what then ,i saw8 ,whose earth-dulled ear such harmonies could hear8 ,when the all-searching ,spirit tore the veil ,of things that seem1 and showed me things that are4 ,beauty1 both good and evil--lamp to heaven #hj ,or lure-light o'er the marshes of despair4 ,beauty1 divine--but not divinity2 ,not parent--child of purity and truth2 ,nor fount1 nor stream1 but bubble lost in air1 ,nor tree1 nor fruit--only a fragrant flower1 ,flung from ambrosial gardens#d1 here to grow ,that life might be the less a wilderness4 ,but lo6 a loveliness that blooms for aye1 ,that1 withering here1 is there revivified1 ,a loveliness made lovelier evermore2 #ij ,the beauty of the restful and the risen1 ,of ,paradise#e and ,glory's higher home4 ,pure as the mountain monarch's ice-crowned crest1 ,pure as the snow-king's mantle1 diamond-strewn1 ,pure as the cascade's limpid crystalline1 ,leaping from cliff to chasm1 the breeze-flung flood ,blown into spirit spray of dazzling sheen2 ,so pure the love that warmed my boyish breast1 ,and lit the yearning of my youthful eye4 ,but pure love1 e'en the purest1 may be blind4 #ajj ,truth spake--then fell the blindness from ,love's eyes#f1 ,revealing life in hues of hopefulness2 ,love's rainbow dream1 that only time's vale spans ,to human vision1 widening now till lost ,beyond the pale peaks of eternity4 ,heaven's gold love is1 though mixt with earth's alloy-- ,dross1 that betimes a needful part doth play ,in nature's wise and true economy4 ,love dies not--'t is love's seeming that dissolves1 ,low to its serpent level1 native dust1 #aaj ,a grave unmemoried in lethean ground#g4 ,the while see heaven-born1 heaven-aspiring love1 ,immortal spirit of the universe1 ,soaring past sun and stars to worlds unknown6 ,heir to herself1 a self-succeeding queen1 ,still regnant on life's throne when life is o'er4 ,o thou1 of beauty#h1 loveliest form and phase6 ,kindler and keeper of the quenchless flame6 ,partner and peer of human majesty6 ,sharing with him life's dual sovereignty1 #abj ,well canst thou wait for thrones and diadems4 ,queen of the future1 ,eve of coming worlds1 ,mother of spirits that shall people stars1 ,and hail thee empress of a universe6 ,no more ,i deemed of crowning consequence1 ,that mortal clay to mortal eye should shine2 ,that human mites should shout and sing in praise ,each of the other's midget mightiness-- ,a molecule1 by atoms glorified6 ,apple of ashes#i to the longing lip6 #acj ,brine to the burning throat and thirsting soul6 ,phantom1 delusion1 misty ghost of fame6 ,voidest and vainest of all vanities6 ,be not beguiled6 ,a vibrant thunder note1 ,pealing from clouds that canopied my life1 ,the warning1 lightning-winged to purify1 ,up-kindling all the summits of the soul4 ,be not beguiled2 not what men think and say1 ,but what ,god sees and knows1 is what avails4 ,who knoweth aught1 unknowing of the all8 #adj ,unknowing all1 who knoweth perfectly ',twixt small and great1 'twixt failure and success1 ',twixt heights of glory and the gulfs of shame8 ,what cares eternity for time's decrees8 ,defeat hath oft deserved the conqueror's crown2 ,dishonor worn the wreath of victory4 ,greatness--is it to loom 'mid glittering show8 ,goes power but hand in hand with prominence8 ,largeness or littleness1 or high or low1 ,has but to breathe1 and straightway he is known4 #aej ,what speech conceals1 the spirit manifests4 ,fame1 place1 and title find a fitting use1 ,and rightfully demand all reverence due4 ,but envy not the empty lot of him ,who1 winning without merit1 wins in vain4 ,greatness1 true greatness1 mightiness of mind1 ,and greater greatness1 grandeur of the soul1 ,tell but one tale--capacity1 not place2 ,capacity1 whose sire1 experience1 ,whose ancestors1 innate intelligence1 #afj ,original1 inborn nobility1 ,as oft in hut as mansion have their home4 ',tis not the crowning that creates the king4 ,man's proper place where ,god hath need of him4 ,naught can be vain that leadeth unto light2 ,struggle and stress1 not plaudit1 maketh strong2 ,victor and vanquished equally may win#aj1 ,climbing far heights1 where fame1 eternal fame1 ,white as the gleaming cloak of ,arctic hills1 ,rests as a mantle1 fadeless1 faultless1 pure1 #agj ,on loftiest lives1 whose snowy peaks1 sun-crowned1 ,receive but to dispense their blessedness4 ,eternal life demands a selfless love4 ,hampered by pride1 greed1 hate1 what soul can grow#aa8 ,conceive a selfish ,god6 ,thou canst not1 man6 ,then let it shame thee unto higher things4 ,who strives for self hates other men's success2 ,who seeks ,god's glory welcomes rivalry4 ,seeking1 not gift1 but ,giver1 thou shalt find ,no sacrifice but changes part for whole4 #ahj ,fare on1 full sure that greatest glory comes1 ,and swiftest growth1 from serving humankind4 ,toil on1 for toil is treasure1 thine for aye2 ,a pauper he who boasts an empty name4 ,so spake the ,spirit of the ,infinite#ab4 ,the ,messenger and ,mind of ,holy ,twain4 ,some men ,i found embodiments of all ,the goodness1 all the greatness1 ,i had dreamed2 ,men seeming gods1 bestowing benefits ,as suns their beams1 as seas and skies their showers4 #aij ,others as dwarfs1 as despots1 by compare1 ,devoured with greed1 consumed with jealousy4 ,but truth taught charity1 gave me to see1 ,as face to face one sees familiar friend1 ,why men are not alike in magnitude4 ,some souls1 than others1 have more summits climbed1 ,more light absorbed1 more moral might evolved4 ,dowered are they with wealth from earlier spheres2 ,hence wiser1 worthier1 than those they lead ,through precept's vale1 up steep example's height1 #bjj ,to where love1 beauty1 wealth1 power1 glory1 reign4 ,while some1 innately noble1 are borne down ,by weight of weaknesses inherited1 ,by passions fierce1 propensities depraved1 ,malific legacy of centuries1 ,that much of their true worthiness obscures1 ,while spirit strives with flesh for mastery1 ,for higher culture and for added might4 ,and yet anon such souls effulgent shine-- ,as bursts the ,april beam through banks of cloud-- #baj ,in glory from which envy shades its eyes1 ,while stands detraction staring1 stricken dumb2 ,the glory of a great intelligence1 ,which mortal mists can dim but for a time4 ,spirits1 like stars1 still differ in degree1 ,and cannot show an even excellence1 ,unequal in their first nobility4 ,great tells of greater--littleness of less2 ,time's hills and vales#ac but type eternity4 ,truth taught me more1 but bade me silent be2 #bbj ,and ,i had teachers else--toil1 prayer1 and pain1 ,with days and nights of misery's martyrdom1 ,alone and lorn in grief's ,gethsemane3 ,till storm above1 and earthquake underneath1 ,shook down thought's prison house1 broke bolt and bar1 ,and agony set inspiration free4 ',tis thus the ,great ,musician tunes the harp ,that ,he would strike--strikes thus the harp in tune2 ,sweeping with sorrow's hand the quivering strings1 ,that they may cry aloud1 and haply sound #bcj ,a loftier and more enduring lay4 ,,canto ,,two ,the ,soul of ,song#a ,alone my soul upon a mighty hill1 ,ancient with lingering snows of vanished years1 ,where towering forms the templed azure fill1 ,wooed by the breath of woodland atmospheres2 ,where ,nature1 throned in solitude1 reveres ,the ,god whose glory she doth symbolize1 ,and on these altars1 watered by her tears1 ,spreads far around the fragrant sacrifice ,whose incense wafts her sweet memorial to the skies4 #bdj ,here will ,i rest1 where ,i have loved to roam1 ,from childhood's rose-hued1 scarce-remembered day1 ,and found my pensive soul's congenial home ,far from the depths where human passions play4 ,born at their feet1 my own have learned to stray ,familiar o'er these pathless heights1 and feel1 ,as now1 the mind assume a loftier sway1 ,soaring for themes that o'er its summits steal1 ,beyond all thought to reach1 all utterance to reveal4 ,here let me linger4 ,o my native hills6 #bej ,solemn and watchful o'er the silent waste6 ,how great the joy his bounding bosom thrills1 ,whose steps1 aspiring1 mar your summits chaste6 ,language6 thy richest robe1 thy rarest taste1 ,how clothe description in befitting dress1 ,when halts imagination's wingd haste1 ,awe-spelled in wonder's conscious littleness1 ,where loom the cloud-crowned monarchs of the wilderness8 ,grim1 storm-plumed guardians6 ,warriors tempest-mailed1 ,federal with freedom1 fortressing her land6 #bfj ,had primal man the sacred garden#b tilled1 ',ere earthly scenes your early vision scanned8 ,in spirit form took ye your titan stand#c1 ,ere rolled a world-creating fiat forth8 ,or came ye at convulsion's fierce command1 ',mid loud-tongued thunders bursting from the earth1 ,the martial music that proclaimed your war-like birth8 ,vast1 voiceless oracles1 whose intelligence ,sleeps in the caverns of each stony heart1 ,yet breathes o'er all a boundless eloquence1 #bgj ,what wealth historic might your words impart6 ,lone1 looming1 hermit of the hills1 apart ,from where thy banded mates in union dwell6 ,a master lyrist seemingly thou art1 ,chief harper of a host that round thee swell2 ,and thine the ,orphean boon#d1 what could withstand thy spell8 ,e'en now it whispers from the graven rock1 ,scribed with the lightning's pen1 in sculpture bold1 ,defying time and tide and tempest shock1 ,frowning where seas and centuries have rolled4 #bhj ,oh were my words#e thus writ6 ,that sage of old1 ,knew he not well1 ye mighty tomes of clay1 ,how firm the trust your flinty page might hold8 ,have ye not scorned the fiats of decay8 ,are ye not standing now where nations passed away8 ,thrice wondrous things1 once thine to wisely scan1 ,fast as thy frozen snow-crown1 still in store1 ,hadst thou the melting gift#f--of sovereign man ,the sunlike glory--mightest thou restore1 ,till learning's tide o'erwhelmed the shining shore1 #bij ,with rich revealings of lost realms that rose ,and fell like frost-hewn flowers thy face before2 ,blightings which brought them an untimely close-- ,perchance1 of spirit lore1 some mystic mine disclose4 ,but like the laboring brain that burns to speak ,mind's inmost thought1 in deepest dungeon pent2 ,or liker still to inward boiling peak ,of fires volcanic1 vainly seeking vent ,where adamantine bolts and bars prevent2-- ,thou'rt doomed to utter stillness1 and shalt keep #cjj ,the burden of thy bearing till is rent ,yon heavenly veil1 and earth and air and deep ,tell secrets that shall rouse the dead from solemn sleep4 ,and must ,i be as mute1 ,o silent mount6 ,muse of all ,melody1 shall ,i not sing8-- ,burst these dumb bars1 when e'en yon babbling fount ,may find in every breeze a wafting wing1 ,afar its lightest murmured word to fling8 ,where art thou1 ancient ,soul of ,solemn ,song8 ,asleep8 ,then wake6 ,wherefore art slumbering8 #caj ,the world hath need of thee1 and waiteth long4 ,strike1 strike again thy harp1 and thrill the listening throng6 ,thus musing1 lone upon a beetling brow1 ,quaffing from unseen fount1 those wilds among1 ,the spirit of the sun-kissed torrent flow1 ,methought some lofty1 caverned cliff had rung ,with echoings of a more than mortal tongue2 ,though softly clear the mournful cadence broke1 ,as notes from off the weird-toned viol flung4 ,or was it yon lone cloud that muttering spoke1 #cbj ,heralding the storm king's wrathful shout and shivering stroke8 ,amazed ,i listened4 ,did ,i more than dream8 ,had random word aroused unhoped reply8 ,or was it sound whose import did but seem8 ,hark6--for again it rolls along the sky3 ,then question hast thou none8 ,or none wouldst ply1 ,save to thy soul in meditative strain1 ,or heedless winds that wander idly by8 ,so be it2 still to me thy purpose plain1 ,thy hidden wish revealed1 nor thus revealed in vain4 #ccj ,while freshening waves of woodland-scented air ,widened the spell of that immortal tone2 ,while1 as on threshold of a lion's lair1 ,speechless ,i stood1 as stricken into stone2 ,methought the sun with lessening splendor shone1 ,as if that wandering cloud obscured his gaze4 ,then burst the glory from his midday throne6 ,turning1 mine eye beheld1 in rapt amaze1 ,what memory ne'er would lose were life of endless days4 ,a stately form1 of giant stature tall2 #cdj ,of hoary aspect1 venerable and grave2 ,whose curling locks and beard of copious fall ,vied the white foam of ocean's storm-whipt wave4 ,the firm-fixt eye flashed lightnings from its cave2 ,far-darting penetration's gaze combined ,with wisdom's milder light4 ,of study gave ,deep evidence that brow by learning lined1 ,thought's towering throne1 where ruled his realm a monarch mind4 ,the spirit's garb--for spirit so he seemed-- #cej ,fell radiant in many a flowing fold2 ,a robe antique1 by modern limners deemed ,befitting monk or eremite of old4 ,head1 hands1 and feet were bare2 the presence bold ,with majesty1 e'en as a god might wear1 ,while condescending to a mortal mould4 ,he spake--the voice no longer thrilled with fear2 ,like some vast organ swell1 it charmed1 enchained1 the ear4 ,long have ,i watched and waited1 but no sound ,broke the wild stillness of this stern abode1 #cfj ,save thunder's fiery foot-print smote the ground1 ,or far beneath some torrent's fury flowed2 ,anon the screaming eagle past me rode2 ,the seeker after gold1 with toilsome stride1 ,and eager eye to fix the shining lode1 ,hath paused and panted on the hill's steep side2 ,but none1 for greater things1 till now have hither hied4 ,and thou1 ,o pensive crier in the waste1 ,invoker of the ,voice now visible6 ,prepared art thou a mystery to taste1 #cgj ,whose fruit is joy or woe ineffable8 ,pluck not of wisdom's branches bending full1 ,drink not of that divine philosophy1 ,save thou canst bravely suffer wrong's misrule1 ,thy best intent thought ill2 save thou canst be ,what men deem fool1 real fools despising1 pitying thee4 ,not all my ministry to lift the gloom ,yet hovering o'er this mystic hemisphere4 ,list while ,i tell1 for ,i am one by whom ,future and past as present shall appear4 #chj ,in me behold ,messiah's ,minister1 ,ancient of time and of eternity1 ,spirit of song that moved the ,hebrew seer1 ,voice of the stars#g ere earth's nativity2 ,exile1 for ages gone1 of mortal minstrelsy4 ,see now my sacred heritage1 the prey ,of ribald rhymesters1 sensuous1 half obscene2 ,of gloating censors1 glad o'er my decay1 ,and deeming all but best ,i ne'er had been6 ,the body's bard#h throned1 sceptering the scene1 #cij ,a groveling worshiper of earth and time4 ,arise6 and with thy soul's celestial sheen1 ,shame these false meteors1 change the ruling chime2 ,my minstrel1 ,i thy muse1 sing thou the song sublime6 ,sing1 poet1 sing6 but not of new--of old1 ,of old and new--eternal truth thy theme1 ,that holdeth past and future in her fold1 ,that maketh present but a passing dream1 ,while time and earth and man as trifles seem2 ,that knoweth not of new1 or old1 or strange2 #djj ,whose everduring1 all-redemptive scheme1 ,fixt and immutable 'mid worlds of change1 ,on1 on1 from universe to universe doth range4 ,faint not1 nor fear1 for all shall fare thy way-- ,my way1 ,his way1 the ,master's1 evermore4 ,east shall seem ,west1 rethrown the rising ray1 ,shining afar from this most ancient shore#i1 ,and man shall rise#aj e'en where man fell before4 ,fools may deride1 may jeer at destiny2 ,they mock to mourn1 oblivion earths them o'er2 #daj ,while they that champion truth1 by truth shall be ,exalted1 e'en in time1 to live eternally4 ,the ancient paused1 and1 unperceived till then1 ,a wondrous harp his bosom swung before1 ,such harp as played the shepherd psalmist#aa when ,a maddening rage his monarch seized and tore1 ,and music's magic quelled satanic power4 ,seated1 his form against the crag reclined1 ,he waved me to his feet1 and forth did pour1 ,as pours ,niagara on the plaintive wind1 #dbj ,floods of majestic song1 falling from mind to mind4 ,full tale of wonders told1 ,i may not tell1 ,though mind be heir to all of mystery2 ,with milk of truth the breasts of wisdom swell1 ,sufficing past and present infancy4 ,but matching all the modern eye may see ,with marvels promised to the future sight1 ',twas as the shrub unto the sheltering tree1 ,the floating swan unto the eagle's flight1 ,the hillock to the snow-crowned summit1 lost in light4 #dcj ,silent he towered above me1 harp in hand1-- ,was it a dream8 ,could dream so vivid be8-- ,and with his mantle's fold my forehead fanned4 ,then leapt to life the flame of poesy6 ,was it a vision of my destiny8 ,upon the mount1 as erst1 ,i stood alone1 ,and naught was there of muse or minstrelsy2 ,save that afar still trembled that strange tone1 ,and something said within3 ,that harp is now thine own4 ,,canto ,,three ,elect of ,elohim#a ,sing ,i a song of aeons gone1 #ddj ,of life from mystery sprung1 ,ere sun1 or moon1 or rolling stars ,their radiance earthward flung2 ,ere spirit-winged intelligence ,forsook those shining spheres4 ,exceeding glory there to gain ,through mortal toil and tears4 ,a song they learn whose lives eterne ,transcend yon twinkling night1 ,pale ,olea's silver beam#b outsoar1 #dej ,shinea's golden flight2 ,passing the angel sentries by1 ,mounting o'er stars and suns1 ,to where the orbs that govern burn1 ,royal and regnant ones4 ,declare1 ,o ,muse of mightier wing1 ,of loftier lore1 than mine6 ,why ,god is ,god1 and man may be ,both human and divine2 ,why ,sons of ,god1 'mid sons of men1 #dfj ,unrecognized may dwell1 ,so masked in dense mortality ,that none their truth can tell4 ,from worlds afar1 from heavenmost star1 ,heard ,i1 or seemed to hear1 ,a sweet refrain1 as summer rain1 ,a cadence soft and clear4 ,a voice1 a harp1--,was it the same8-- ,harping those harps among1 ,leading the lyric universe1 #dgj ,on those high hills of song8 ,in solemn council sat the ,gods2 ,from ,kolob's height supreme1 ,celestial light blazed forth afar ,o'er countless kokaubeam2 ,and faintest tinge1 the fiery fringe ,of that resplendent day1 ',lumined the dark abysmal realm ,where earth in chaos lay4 ,silence4 ,that awful hour was one #dhj ,when thought doth most avail2 ,of worlds unborn the destiny ,hung trembling in the scale4 ,silence self-spelled1 and there arose1 ,those kings and priests among1 ,a power sublime1 than whom appeared ,none nobler 'mid the throng4 ,a stature mingling strength with grace1 ,of meek though godlike mien2 ,the glory of whose countenance #dij ,outshone the noonday sheen4 ,whiter his hair than ocean spray1 ,or frost of alpine hill4 ,he spake2--attention grew more grave1 ,the stillness e'en more still4 ,father6 the voice like music fell1 ,clear as the murmuring flow ,of mountain streamlet trickling down ,from heights of virgin snow4 ,father1 it said1 since one must die1 #ejj ,thy children to redeem ,from spheres all formless now and void1 ,where pulsing life shall teem2 ,and mighty ,michael#c foremost fall1 ,that mortal man may be2 ,and chosen saviour ,thou must send1 ,lo1 here am ,i--send me6 ,i ask1 ,i seek no recompense1 ,save that which then were mine2 ,mine be the willing sacrifice1 #eaj ,the endless glory ,thine6 ,give me to lead to this lorn world1 ,when wandered from the fold1 ,twelve legions of the noble ones ,that now ,thy face behold2 ,tried souls#d1 'mid untried spirits found1 ,that captained these may be1 ,and crowned the dispensations all ,with powers of ,deity4 ,who blameless bide the spirit state1 #ebj ,clothe them in mortal clay1 ,the stepping-stone#e to glories all1 ,if man will ,god obey1 ,believing where he cannot see1 ,till he again shall know1 ,and answer give1 reward receive1 ,for all deeds done below4 ,the love that hath redeemed all worlds#f ,all worlds must still redeem2 ,but mercy cannot justice rob-- #ecj ,or where were ,elohim8 ,freedom--man's faith1 man's work1 ,god's grace-- ,must span the great gulf o'er2 ,life1 death1 the guerdon or the doom1 ,rejoice we or deplore4 ,still rang that voice1 when sudden rose ,aloft a towering form1 ,proudly erect as lowering peak ',lumed by the gathering storm2 ,a presence bright and beautiful1 #edj ,with eye of flashing fire1 ,a lip whose haughty curl bespoke ,a sense of inward ire4 ,send me6--coiled 'neath his courtly smile ,a scarce concealed disdain-- ,and none shall hence1 from heaven to earth1 ,that shall not rise again4 ,my saving plan exception scorns#g4 ,man's will8--,nay1 mine alone4 ,as recompense1 ,i claim the right #eej ,to sit on yonder ,throne6 ,ceased ,lucifer4 ,the breathless hush ,resumed and denser grew4 ,all eyes were turned2 the general gaze ,one common magnet drew4 ,a moment there was solemn pause-- ,listened eternity1 ,while rolled from lips omnipotent ,the ,father's firm decree3 ,jehovah1 thou my ,messenger#h6 #efj ,son ,ahman1 thee ,i send2 ,and one shall go thy face before1#i ,while twelve thy steps attend4 ,and many more on that far shore ,the pathway shall prepare1 ,that ,i1 the first1 the last may come1 ,and earth my glory share4 ,after and ere thy going down1 ,an army shall descend-- ,the host of ,god1 and house of him #egj ,whom ,i have named my friend#aj4 ,through him1 upon ,idumea#aa1 ,shall come1 all life to leaven1 ,the guileless ones1 the sovereign sons1 ,throned on the heights of heaven4 ,go forth1 thou ,chosen of the ,gods1 ,whose strength shall in thee dwell6 ,go down betime and rescue earth1 ,dethroning death and hell4 ,on thee alone man's fate depends1 #ehj ,the fate of beings all4 ,thou shalt not fail1 though thou art free-- ,free1 but too great to fall4 ,by arm divine1 both mine and thine1 ,the lost thou shalt restore1 ,and man1 redeemed1 with ,god shall be1 ,as ,god forevermore4 ,return1 and to the parent fold ,this wandering planet bring#ab1 ,and earth shall hail thee ,conqueror1 #eij ,and heaven proclaim thee ,king4 ',twas done4 ,from congregation vast1 ,tumultuous murmurs rose2 ,waves of conflicting sound1 as when ,two meeting seas oppose4 ',twas finished4 ,but the heavens wept2 ,and still their annals tell ,how one was choice of ,elohim1 ,o'er one who fighting fell4 --- ,a stranger star that came from far #fjj ,to fling its silver ray1 ,where1 cradled in a lowly cave1 ,a lowlier infant lay2 ,and led by soft sidereal light1 ,the orient sages bring ,bare gifts of gold and frankincense1 ,to greet the homeless ,king4 ,o wondrous grace6 ,will gods go down ,thus low that men may rise8 ,imprisoned here the ,mighty ,one1 #faj ,who reigned in yonder skies8 ,hark to that chime6--,what tongue sublime ,now tells the hour of noon#ac8 ,o dying world6 art welcoming ,life's life--,light's sun and moon#ad8 ,proclaim ,him1 prophet harbinger6 ,make plain the ,mightier's way1 ,thou sharer of ,his martyrdom6 ,elias8 ,yea and ,nay#ae4 ,the crescent moon1 that knew the ,sun1 #fbj ,ere stars had learned to shine#af2 ,the waning moon1 that bathed in blood1 ,ere sank the ,sun divine4 ,glory to ,god6--good will to man6-- ,peace1 peace6--triumphal tone4 ,why peace8 ,is discord then no more8 ,are earth and heaven as one8 ,peace to the soul that serveth ,him1 ,the monarch manger-born2 ,there1 ruler of unnumbered realms2 #fcj ,here1 throneless and forlorn4 ,he wandered through the faithless world1 ,a prince in shepherd guise2 ,he called his scattered flock1 but few ,the ,voice did recognize2 ,for minds upborne by hollow pride1 ,or dimmed by sordid lust1 ,ne'er look for kings in beggar's garb1 ,for diamonds in the dust4 ,wept ,he above a city doomed#ag1 #fdj ,her temple1 walls1 and towers1 ,o'er palaces where recreant priests ,usurped unhallowed powers4 ,i am the way1 the life1 the light6 ,alas6 'twas heeded not4 ,ignored--nay1 mocked--,god scorned by man6-- ,and spurned the truth ,he taught4 ,o bane of damning unbelief6 ,when1 when till now so rife8 ,thou stumbling stone1 thou barrier 'thwart #fej ,the gates of endless life6 ,o love of self1 and mammon lust1 ,twin portals to despair1 ,where bigotry1 the blinded bat1 ,flaps through the midnight air6 ,through these1 gloom-wrapt ,gethsemane#ah6 ,thy glens of guilty shade ,grieved o'er the sinless ,son of ,god1 ,by gold-bought kiss betrayed2 ,beheld ,him unresisting dragged1 #ffj ,forsaken1 friendless1 lone1 ,to halls where dark-browed hatred sat ,on judgment's lofty throne4 ,as sheep before ,his shearers1 dumb1 ,those patient lips were mute2 ,the clamorous charge of taunting tongues ,he deigned not to dispute4 ,they smote with cruel palm a face ,which felt yet bore the sting2 ,then crowned with thorns ,his quivering brow1 #fgj ,and1 mocking1 hailed him ,king6 ,transfixt ,he hung1--,o crime of crimes6-- ,the ,god whom worlds adore4 ,father forgive them6 ,drained the dregs2 ,immanuel#ai--no more4 ,no more where thunders shook the earth1 ,where lightnings tore the gloom1 ,saw that unconquered ,spirit spurn ,the shackles of the tomb4 ,far-flaming might1 a sword of light1 #fhj ,a falchion from its sheath1 ,it cleft the realms of darkness1 and ,dissolved the bands of death4 ,hell's dungeons burst1 wide open swung ,the everlasting bars1 ,whereby the ransomed soul shall win ,those heights beyond the stars4 ,,canto ,,four ,night ,and ,the ,wilderness#a ,a ,world o'ershadowed by an ,eagle's wings#b1 ,from ,scythian snows to hot ,hamitic sands1 ,from ,ganges on to ,tiber and the ,thames4 #fij ,where goeth forth1 unwittingly the tool ,of ,truth ,eterne1 a pathway to prepare1 ,the law and legion of imperial ,rome1 ,mighty to crush and to consolidate1 ,humbling the hard1 the haughty1 making way ,for peace to flow#c wider than war can wound ,servant unknowingly of ,him she slew1 ,in pandering to ,judah's jealousy4 ,victim now ,victor1 conqueror captive led1 ,debtor to justice1 darkness serving day1 #gjj ,upon her knotted neck ,jehovah's heel1 ,her iron hand the ,nazarene's defense1 ,holding in quell the hierarchal hate1 ,curbing the cruel wrath of ,greek and ,jew2 ,israel from ,israel's madness made secure-- ,lamb from the ,lion1 by the ,she-,wolf's might#d4 ,ere rose the ,iron-,limbed#e1 all conquering1 ,throned on the wreck of empires earlier born1 ,wrought well for ,him the brazen loin of power1 ,the pard-like phalanx1 swift1 invincible1 #gaj ,spreading the glories of a sapient tongue1 ,the wing whereon a higher wisdom flew1 ,till teemed1 of ,aryan clans1 the ,asian kin#f1 ,seedlings of ,japheth1 sire of the ,gentile world4 ,soul-widening word1 broad-sown by ,grecia's hand1 ,to blossom on a furrowed heathen ground4 ,servant1 erstwhile1 the silver-breasted realm1 ,kingdom of ,kurush#g1 shepherd of the ,king1 ,whose sword1 that gave the ,jew deliverance1 ,to golden ,babylon the guillotine4 #gbj ,whoe'er hath swayed1 or yet shall sway1 the world1 ,by tongue or pen1 by sword or sceptered rule1 ,hath served1 or yet shall serve1 the sovereign aim ,of ,him who wills the welfare of mankind2 ,for or against1 promoting still ,his plan1 ,helping1 not hindering1 a conquering ,cause4 ,gone the great ,sun--set but to rise again1 ,more glorious from a night of martyrdom2 ,set here to rise on realms and times untold2 ,all worlds1 ,god's lofty vineyards#h1 visiting4 #gcj ,linger the spirit ,moon and speaking ,stars#i1 ,crowning with light the ,woman ,wonderful#aj4 ,fair as the morn1 though tearful as the eve2 ,risen as from the rocky sepulchre1 ,where slept betimes the body of her ,lord2 ,clothed1 crowned1 and shod1 with glory's symboling#aa2 ,ere winging to the vast invisible1 ,returning to the restful wilderness1 ,she bides to hope1 to labor1 and endure1 ,all depths1 all heights1 with ,him inheriting4 #gdj ,henceforth with her another ,comforter1 ,vicegerent#ab of the vanished ,majesty1 ,of heavenly ,three1 the unembodied ,one#ac1 ,proceeding from the presence of the ,sire1 ,to manifest the meaning of the ,son2 ,giver of gifts from ,him1 the glory-crowned1 ,fountain of memory and of prophecy4 ,after and ere1#ad ,messiah's ,minister1 ,creative hand1 omnific arm of ,god2 ,holder with ,christ of resurrection's key1 #gej ,the quickener of the living and the dead4 ,lamp of the worlds1 life of the universe1 ,eternal spring of energy divine-- ,life1 ,light1 and ,love1 magnetic mystery1 ,whereby all things upheld and heavenward drawn4 ,prophet still pleading#ae in the wilderness1 ,the promise of a perfect yet to come2 ,proclaimer of the heavenly commonweal1 ,kingdom upon and yet not of the earth1 ,whose portal none can enter1 none can see1 #gfj ,save born anew--born of a dual birth1 ,by mystic fatherhood and motherhood ,begotten sons and daughters unto ,god1 ,whose ,spirit1 omnipresent1 immanent1 ,unwearied1 strives by countless ministries1 ,by might of word1 by miracle of deed1 ,mankind to win1 wooing while hope remains4 ,henceforth with her that holy gift and guide1 ,truth's high revealer and interpreter2 ,henceforth with her the ,father and the ,son1 #ggj ,absent1 yet present by the ,comforter2 ,of great lights twain1 the lesser1 ruling night1 ,moon to that ,sun1 whose realm the rounded ,day4 ,resplendent night1 while flame those fluent stars#af1 ,that still a spotless brow bediadem2 ,circling forever round their central ,light1 ,and1 ,him withdrawn1 repeating from afar1 ,and gladdening with ,his rays a gloom-hung world4 ,as set that ,sun1 sinking in seas of blood1 ,sinking to soar above a mightier morrow1 #ghj ,follow the lingering stars1 save haply one#ag1 ,through mystic night of ages sparkling lone1 ,and speaking in high splendor things to come4 ,most lustrous of the living lamps of ,god1 ',mid human lights1 divinely luminant4 ,rarest of twelve1 remaining oracle1 ,reserved unto a wondrous destiny2 ,pilot of peoples1 nations1 tribes and tongues1 ,leading the lost#ah ones from captivity4 ,beloved of ,love--life's ,king1 death's ,conqueror1 #gij ,tarrying by will of ,him through troubled time1 ,lighting the way unto eternity4 ,and thou1 e'en thou1 ,o ,woman ,wonderful6 ,safe for a season from the ,she-,wolf's maw1 ,far borne1 east1 west1 on power's imperial wings1 ,nourished 'neath ,caesar's shield1 till ,caesar's sword ,hath turned upon and made thee desolate4 ,thou too must pass--not perish--in thy time4 ,betrayed to foes without1 by false within1 ,e'en as thy ,lord thou sufferest martyrdom4 #hjj ,but what avails to baffle ,him or bind8 ,vain1 dragon1 vain thy deluge of deceit1 ,thy flood of lies1 thou false one from of old6 ,vain1 wrath of devils and of men combined1 ,bent to defile the sacred ,bride of ,christ4 ,triumphs the ,man-,child#ai1 heaven now summons home2 ,triumphs the ,woman in the wilderness1 ',scaping the jaws1 the hungering gates of hell1 ,that 'gainst the mortal part alone prevail2 ,body1 not spirit1 crushed and all o'ercome4 #haj ,throned upon higher worlds1 she reigneth still2 ,and here shall rise unto the regnant place1 ,when rolls the stone upon the image doomed1 ,when ,god hath fanned with fire ,his threshing floor4 ,till then proud ,japheth sways#bj1 while ,jacob mourns1 ,fainting 'neath yokes and fardels1 prostrate1 prone1 ,with ,judah undermost1 the last of all ,the trampled tribes to taste of liberty4 ,haply ordained a lesser power to wield1 ,antaeus-like#ba1 from touching of the ground2 #hbj ,bent1 curst1 yet clutching1 and by might of gold ,conquering his dust-adoring conqueror#bb4 ,for ,god1 through all1 remembers ,abraham1 ,ordained of old ,his lineal house to be4 ,came not the ,christ their covenant to fulfill8 ,who but an ,israel might offer ,him8 ,whose hand than ,judah's might ,jehovah slay8 ,his blood be on our head--,ay1 rests it there6 ,weightier than worlds by that high death redeemed4 ,world-wandering ,saul6 ,was this thy symboling3 #hcj ,the ,jew struck blind that ,gentile hosts might see#bc8 ,predestined ,israel1 martyred1 immolate#bd1 ,that nations1 blood-besprent1 might look and live2 ,a burden-bearer for the universe1 ,outcast and homeless for humanity1 ,descending like his ,lord all else below1 ,and yet with ,him to rise all else above1 ,extremes of woe and weal encompassing1 ,wisdom by sweet and bitter made more wise4 ,from blight springs blessing1 and from darkness day2 #hdj ,e'en ,canaan's neck from 'neath the yoke#be shall come4 ,japheth shall feel the ,spirit minister1 ,and ,jacob see and hear his risen ,lord#bf4 ,departed now the ,woman ,wonderful1 ,gone with the spirit gift and guiding power2 ,o'ercome1 world-conquered1 sinks degenerate ,the washed one to his wallowing in the mire#bg2 ,a drowsy dreamer of the self-same dreams ,dispelled erewhile by lightnings of her eye2 ,the heaven-lit torch#bh that made the pathway plain #hej ,o'er rugged mount1 through mazy catacomb1 ,now dimmed with incense from ,diana's shrine#bi1 ,and dashed in pieces 'gainst a pagan throne1 ,where prematurely changed was cross for crown1 ,and ,christ's flock fleeced by shearing compromise#cj4 ,god still with man1 though not with man's misrule2 ,still with the just1 though ,christian-pagan turn ,his prurient ear to fables1 from the truth1 ,and1 virtueless as ,judah's pharisee1 ,and graceless as ,iscariot1 self-hung1 #hfj ,parts in the midst1 as wide as ,east from ,west#ca1 ,false church and faithless empire1 faction-torn1 ,twain as the imaged legs of ,babel's dream1 ,a split colossus1 fallen 'twixt ,greece and ,rome4 ,god still with man1 though not with man's misrule1 ,never with thee1 daughter of force and fraud1 ,mother of guile--thy refuge and thy shame6 ,never with thee1 thou wanton by the way1 ,roaming tradition's tangled wilderness1 ,lost in a night that seemeth to thee day2 #hgj ,in crooked paths that fain would straight appear2 ,warming thy withered fingers o'er the coals ,alive 'mid ashes of the ancient fires1 ,where ,she was wont#cb to kindle faith1 hope1 love1 ,and flash the beacon o'er a wandering world4 ,there holding to thy heart an empty urn1 ,there cherishing a name1 a memory1 ,mumbling vain prayers1 ,lord1 ,lord1 protesting still1 ,and still forgetful of thy ,lord's command6 ,nay1 not with thee1 thou crimson courtesan#cc1 #hhj ,robed in the horrid hue of countless crimes6 ,fierce dragon's maw1 thrice-cruel murderess1 ,thy hands a-reek with blood of innocence1 ,with blood of prophets1 blood of priests and kings1 ,whose martyred souls sue vengeance1 judgment-sworn6 ,vengeance on thee1 thou slaughterer of saints1 ,vengeance on him1 thy sceptered paramour1 ,whose princes ten 7while ,mammon's host shall wail71 ,loathing where once they loved all lustfully1 ,and lived1 as thou hast lived1 deliciously1 #hij ,when found no more ,god's wheat 'mid ,satan's tares1 ,when thou art saltless1 saintless1 savorless1 ,when thou art ripened unto rottenness1 ,shall give thy crumbling body to be burned4 ,nay1 ,anti-,christ1 presuming tyranny1 ,never with thee1 usurping power of sin6 ,plotting to sway ,jehovah's sovereignty1 ,to rear thy throne where ,his alone shall stand2 ,perdition1 warring 'gainst the ,saints of ,god1 ,and overcoming till the ,judgment sits#cd1 #ijj ,when swift-winged morn shall overtake the night1 ,and glory lift the gloom#ce of centuries4 ,meanwhile the mission of the ,moonlike ,one#cf1 ,brooding above the waters of the world1 ,stronger than storms1 mightier than wind or wave1 ,moving on mortal seas1 on human souls2 ,dynamic impulse of ,divinity1 ,impelling to all action#cg wise1 sublime4 ,that high ,ambassador of ,elohim1 ,the ,spirit ,messenger ,omnipotent1 #iaj ,declare ,his goings-forth1 ,his sendings tell4 ,ye patriarchs and prophets of old time6 ,ye seers and bards of sacred ,israel6 ,elect of ,god1 earth-wandering witnesses1 ,sowers on goodly and on stony ground6 ,souls mercy-sent1 man's erring steps to win ,from folly's paths of wickedness and strife1 ,to wisdom's way of purity and peace6 ,shepherds to fold and feed a wolf-torn flock1 ,holding the hallowed keys that loose and bind6 #ibj ,tell me--are ye alone truth's harbingers8 ,are ye alone forerunners of the ,light8 ,nay1 for as kings and conquerors they come2 ,anon1 as champions of democracy2 ,founders of faiths and stern iconoclasts2 ,sword1 tongue and pen of progress and reform4 ,the fountain lights of literature1 whose rays ,spill their white splendor on the hills of fame2 ,masters of melody1 whose strains awake ,the slumbering memories of eternity2 #icj ,pilgrims to continents and climes unknown1 ,uncurtained for the play of liberty1 ,now nearing the finale of her dreams1 ,dreams that shall waken to reality2 ,waste-winners2 probers of the polar way2 ,invention's wizards1 wielding magic might-- ,launching fleet words on atmospheric wave1 ,cleaving with bird-like wing the shoreless blue1 ,outspeeding speed1 outblazing brilliancy1 ,thrilling the world with lightning's vivid wand1 #idj ,ruling all realms with scintillating sway2 ,sages in art1 in science past profound1 ,subduing matter and exploring mind1 ,sounding the depths of psychic mystery1 ,scaling thought's pinnacles1 that pierce the night1 ,to greet the early glintings of the morn4 ,these also are the mighty1 kin to those1 ,divinest of ,jehovah's messengers4 ,each hath his freedom1 and succeeds or fails1 ,but all subserve the ,will ,omnipotent4 #iej ,what though some wayward son of ,deity#ch1 ,builder1 o'erthrower1 of imperial thrones1 ,in wrongful act of rightful agency1 ,here drench with blood1 here pave with shattered bones1 ,to heights of crumbling power and futile fame6 ,is ,god then mocked8 ,made void ,his vast design8 ,creator foiled by creature8 ,vain the fear6 ,speeds ne'er to earth a spoiler of ,his plan1 ,nor spares ,his rod a recreant messenger4 ,whate'er betide1 the soul that sins atones3 #ifj ,the grievous sceptre and the slaughtering sword1 ,the bloodstained ax1 the gory guillotine1 ,the tyrant wrong1 the tyrant-trampling right1 ,join to make justice of the direst doom4 ,all oracles of light1 all arms of power1 ,preparers of the way one face before2 ,their strength but part of ,his omnipotence1 ,their fault ,god-given lest man be deified1 ,and pride in him dethrone humility4 ,declare ,his truth1 ,his generations tell1 #igj ,o'er whom the many marveled1 some to say ,elias1 slain of ,herod1 lives again2 ,while some said ,jeremias#ci4 ,who say ye1 ,man-hated1 though ,god-missioned ministers1 ,unctioned with fire1 anointed from on ,high6 ,guardians yet watchful o'er the widening fold6 ,who say ye was your ,master1 ,teacher1 ,friend8 ,word that was ,god1 is ,god1 and shall be aye2 ,sire by the spirit1 and by flesh the ,son2 ,in glory with the ,father ere the world1 #ihj ,and now with that same glory glorified4 ,image and likeness of creation's cause1 ,mirror and model of humanity#dj1 ,of man the parent and the prototype4 ,lover of light1 hating and righting wrong2 ,anointed ,lord of ,lords and ,sire 'mid ,sons2 ,the ,sole-begotten1 ,he that doeth here ,all ,he hath seen erstwhile the ,father do4 ,elias8 ,nay1 ,messiah1 ,saviour1 ,king1 ,that ,greater whom ,elias said would come4 #iij ,sufficeth it4 ,what now1 ye learned ones1 ,school-taught1 self-sent1 man-missioned ministers1 ,creators of a vain divinity6 ,daring the thunders of the decalogue1 ,disputing ,moses1 ,christ1 and prophets all1 ,gird up your loins and answer--,what of ,god8 ,god8--,mystery incomprehensible#da2 ,all things made ,he from nothing--,hold1 enough6 ,night and gross darkness--darken it no more4 ,yet give to man his meed4 ,hath he not kept1 #ajjj ,albeit in empty urn1 the ,name of ,names1 ,and toiled and suffered sore transmitting it ,from sire to son through shaded centuries8 ,messiah's coming did he not proclaim8 ,and1 trodden yet beneath oppression's heel1 ,hoards he not still the precious prophecy8 ,the ,jew1 the ,christian1 each hath played his part1 ,each as a star#db hath heralded a morn4 ,and what of him1 the fierce iconoclast1 ,agnostic1 doubting or denying all1 #ajaj ,ofttimes in hate and horrid ribaldry8 ,maintains he not life's equilibrium1 ,a tempering shadow to the torrid beam1 ,a brake upon the wheel of bigotry1 ,a jet to cool fanaticism's flame1 ,unquelled1 devouring1 devastating all8 ,an angel1 past control1 a demon were4 ,bold unbelief1 reform's rough pioneer1 ,unwittingly a warrior for the ,cross1 ,a weapon for the right#dc he ridicules4 #ajbj ,god's perfect plan an ocean is1 where range ,as minnows1 monsters1 of the wide wave-realm1 ,men's causes1 creeds1 and systems manifold2 ,free as the will of ,him who freedom willed1 ,within the bounds ordained by law divine4 ,e'en ,lucifer1 arch-foe to liberty1 ,is free1 though fettered to his fallen sphere2 ,enticing1 tempting all1 compelling none1 ,and aiding aye the ,power he fain would foil4 ,all human schemes1 all hell's conspiracies1 #ajcj ,all chance1 all accident1 all agency1 ,all loves1 hates1 hopes1 despairs1 and blasphemies1 ,all rights1 all wrongs1 to one high purpose bend4 ,no backward glance gives progress4 ,upward6 on6 ,life triumphs ever in death's victory4 ,dross hath its ministry no less than gold2 ,and honest1 erring zeal1 wherever found1 ,hath wrought more good than ill to humankind4 ,but morn must rise1 and night dismiss her stars2 ,and ocean summon home his seas and streams2 #ajdj ,and truth the perfect1 truth the part fulfill1 ,as knowledge faith1 as history prophecy4 ,day from his quiver drew a shining shaft1 ,and 'thwart the night the flaming arrow flew4 ,hark1 to a cry that cleaves the wilderness1 ,pealing the clarion prelude to the dawn6 ,,canto ,,five ,the ,messenger of ,morn#a ,wake1 slumbering world6 ,vain dreamer1 dream no more6 ,the shadows lift1 and o'er night's dusky beach ,ripple the white waves of morn4 ,awake6 ,arise6 ,ocean of dispensations--rivers1 rills1 #ajej ,roll to your source6 ,end1 to thine origin6 ,and ,israel1 to the rock whence ye were hewn#b6 ,for ,he that scattered1 gathereth ,his flock1 ,his ancient flock1 and plants their pilgrim feet ,on ,joseph's mountain top and ,judah's plains2 ,recalls the children of the covenant ,from long dispersion o'er the ,gentile world1 ,mingling their spirits with the mystic sea1 ,which sent them forth as freshening showers to save ,the parched and withered wastes of unbelief#c4 #ajfj ,japheth6 thy planet pales#d1 it sinks1 it sets2 ,henceforth 't is ,jacob's star must rise and reign4 ,daughter of ,zion6 be thou comforted1 ,and wash from thy wan cheek all trace of tears4 ,gone are the days of dole and widowhood1 ,the days of barrenness that brought thee scorn2 ,thy wilderness now weds1 thy desert blooms4 ,rejoice1 ,jerusalem6 thou art redeemed2 ,again thy temple and thy towers arise2 ,heard is the harp of ,david in thy halls2 #ajgj ,greater than ,solomon's thy wisdom shines4 ,from spirit heights1 where thou art beautiful1 ,lamp of the nations1 send thy light afar6 ,take on thy new name--,one and ,pure in ,heart6 ,for thou shalt see thy ,god1 ,his presence thine4 ,time1 mighty daughter of ,eternity6 ,mother of centuries#e--seventy1 seven-crowned6 ,assemble now thy children at thy side1 ,and 'ere thou diest teach them to be one#f4 ,link to its link rebind the broken chain #ajhj ,of dispensations1 glories1 keys1 and powers1 ,from ,adam's fall unto ,messiah's reign2 ,a thousand years of rest1 a day with ,god1 ,while ,shiloh reigns#g and ,kolob once revolves4 ,six days thou1 ,earth1 hast labored#h1 and the seventh1 ,thy sabbath1 comes apace6 ,night's sceptre wanes1 ,and in the ,east the silvery ,messenger ,gives silent token of the golden ,dawn4 ,once more the ancient tidings#i among men6 ,once more the sign and seal of heavenly power6 #ajij ,renewal of an endless covenant1 ,elias1 restitution1 unity6 ,his burden6 ,hear it1 nations6 ,hear it1 isles6 ,ere falls an hour1 night's darkest hour of doom4 ,the trial ends1 the judgment now begins4 ,out1 out of her1 my people1 saith your ,god6 --- ,who towers aloft1 as mountain girt with hills1 ,amid the strength of ,ephraim's stalwart sons1 ,to trumpet thus the closing acts of time8 ,speak1 oracle1 what sayest thou of thyself8 #aajj ,who art thou1 man of might and majesty8 ,would ,god ,i might but tell thee who ,i am6 ,would ,god ,i might but tell thee what ,i know#aj6 ,then was he of the ,mighty--one with those ,descended from the ,empire of the ,sun1 ,adown the glowing stairway of the stars8 ,regnant and ruling ere they left the realms ,of life supernal1 left their sovereign thrones1 ,to wander oft as outcasts of mankind1 ,unknown1 unhonored1 e'en like ,one who came #aaaj ,unto ,his own1 by them spat on and spurned8 ,avails it aught1 their name or nation here8 ,their state and standing there1 the vital tale4 ,peers of that ,empire1 nobles of the skies1 ,the sceptered satraps of the ,king of ,kings1 ,the royal retinue of ,him who reigns ,first-born of many brethren--,gibborim#aa1 ,great ones worthy the ,word#ab that was to come2 ,foreknown1 elect1 predestined1 preordained1 ,sons of the ,gods1 and saviours of mankind1 #aabj ,building the highway for ,messiah's feet1 ,and wheresoe'er ,he fareth following4 ,i saw in vision such a one descend1 ,and garb him in a guise of common clay2 ,his glory veiling from the gaze of all1 ,who wist not that a great one walked with men2 ,nor knew it then the soul incarnate there1 ,betwixt the temporal and spirit spheres ,so dense forgetfulness doth intervene2 ,yet learned his truth betime by angel tongues1 #aacj ,by voice of ,god1 by heavenly whisperings4 ,but who remains his mystery to solve1 ,his letter to unlock with spirit key8 ,the veil to lift by death and silence thrown ,o'er all the splendors of that life sublime8 ,sound1 ,angel1 sound6 thou fifth of seven#ac1 ordained ,to usher in the world-millennials1 ,to storm the dungeon doors of history1 ,and liberate the thoughts and deeds of men6 ,sound1 trump of ,god6 ,voice of a thousand years1 #aadj ,call of the ,christ--,his clear familiar tone1 ,heard in the ages and the aeons past1 ,told to the times and worlds that went before2 ,call of the ,spirit1 answered by the blood1 ,voice of the ,shepherd1 by the sheep well known4 ,a living prophet unto dying time1 ,heralding the ,dispensation of the ,end1 ,when ,christ once more ,his vineyard comes to prune1 ,when potent weak confound the puny strong1 ,threshing the nations by the ,spirit's power1 #aaej ,rending the kingdoms with a word of flame2 ,that here the ,father's work may crown the ,son's1 ,and earth be joined a holy bride to heaven1 ,a queen 'mid queens1 crowned1 throned1 and glorified4 ,wherefore came down this angel of the dawn1 ,in strength divine1 a stirring role to play ,in time's tense tragedy1 whose acts are seven4 ,his part to fell the false1 replant the true1 ,to clear away the wreckage of the past1 ,the ashes of its dead and dying creeds1 #aafj ,and kindle newly on earth's ancient shrine ,the ,light that points to ,life unerringly2 ,crowning what has been with what now must be2 ,a mighty still bespeaking mightier4 --- ,earth rose from wintry sleep#ad1 baptized and cleansed1 ,and on her tranquil brow1 that seemed to feel ,the holy and confirming hand of ,heaven1 ,the warm light in a wealth of comfort streamed2 ,nature's great floor green-carpeting anew ,for some glad change1 some joyful happening1 #aagj ,told in the countless caroling of birds1 ,gilding the foliage1 glorying the flowers1 ,mirroring mingled hues of earth and sky4 ,glad happening1 in sooth1 for ne'er before1 ,since burst the heavens when ,judah's star-lit hills ,heard angel choristers peal joy's refrain ,above the mangered ,babe of ,bethlehem1 ,had earth such scene beheld1 as now within ,the bosom of a sylvan solitude1 ,hard by the borders of a humble home1 #aahj ,upon that fair and fateful morn was played4 ,players1 immortal twain and mortal one1 ,standing but fourteen steps upon life's stair1 ,an unlearned boy1 thinker of thoughts profound1 ,boy and yet man1 dreamer of lofty dreams4 ,not solemn1 save betimes1 when hovered near ,some wingd inspiration from far worlds1 ,some great idea's all-subduing spell-- ,his heart grew humbler then1 his look more grave2 ,not melancholy--mirthful1 loving life1 #aaij ,and brimming o'er with health and wholesome glee4 ,a stalwart spirit in a sturdy frame1 ,maturing unto future mightiness4 ,bowing to ,god1 yet bending to no creed1 ,adoring not a loveless deity1 ,that saved or damned regardless of desert1 ,ne'er reckoning the good or evil done2 ,loving and worshipping the ,god of love1 ,the gracious ,god of reason and of right1 ,long-suffering and just and merciful1 #abjj ,meting to every work fit recompense1 ,yet giving more1 far more1 than merit's claim2 ,bowing to ,him1 but not to man-made gods1 ,and shunning shameful strife where peace should dwell1 ,he holds aloof from those degenerate sects1 ,bewildering ,babel of conflicting creeds1 ,and pondering the apostolic line1 ,let any lacking wisdom1 wisdom ask1 ,and ,god will freely give1 upbraiding none1 ,he puts the promise to the utter test4 #abaj ,what pen can paint the marvel that befell8 ,what tongue the wondrous miracle portray8 ,than theirs1 the ,vision's own1 what voice proclaim ,whose dual presence#ae dimmed the noonday beam1 ,communing with him there1 as friend with friend1 ,and giving to that prayer reply of peace8 ,tell how1 as ,moses on the unknown mount#af1 ,from whom in rage fled baffled ,lucifer1 ,who fain had guised him as the ,son of ,god1 ,to win the worship of that prophet pure-- #abbj ,tell how with gloom he strove ere glory dawned1 ,and black despair met bright deliverance4 ,tell how in heart of that sweet solitude1 ,within the silent grove1 sequestered shade1 ,while spirit hosts unseen spectators stood1 ,watching the simple scene's sublimity1 ,eternity high converse held with time2 ,time1 parent of the hovering centuries1 ,mother of dispensations1 travailing1 ,and bringing forth her last and mightiest child2 #abcj ,heaven's awful ,sire1 through ,him both ,sire and ,son1 ,there blazoning the beginning of the end4 ,wane the swift years2 the boy a youth now grown2 ,and on his brow1 woe-carved1 a world of care4 ,bending1 an ,atlas1#ag 'neath the titan's load1 ,daily he climbs the hill of sacrifice1 ,viewing from far the mount of martyrdom4 ,nor marvel at his lot2 hath he not told-- ,a crime man ne'er forgave in fellowman-- ,told the wise world that ,god hath spoke again8 #abdj ',twas from below6 ,thus bigotry in rage4 ,nay1 from above1 the meek though firm reply4 ,no vision is there now--the time is past4 ,but ,i have seen1 affirms truth's constancy4 ,god is a mystery1 unknowable4 ,god is a man--,i saw ,him1 talked with ,him4 ,man8 ,ay1 of holiness--,exalted ,man#ah4 ,a strife of words1 of warring tongues1 now waged1 ,and weapons vied with words the truth to slay2 ,nor truth alone1 but her brave oracle1 #abej ,a boy1 by men1 by neighborhoods1 oppressed4 ,still through his soul the solemn warning rang1 ,still from his mouth the startling message flamed3 ,no church the ,christ's4 ,none1 therefore1 can ,i join4 ,all sects and creeds have wandered from the way4 ,priestcraft in lieu of ,priesthood sits enthroned4 ,dead forms deny the power of godliness4 ,men worship with their lips1 their hearts afar4 ,none serve acceptably in sight of heaven4 ,wherefore a work of wonder shall be wrought1 #abfj ,and perish all the wisdom of the wise#ai4 ,the wrangling sects forgave--well nigh forgot ,their former feuds and fears and jealousies2 ,and1 joining hands1 as ,pilate ,herod joined1 ,one guilty day when ,god stood man-condemned1 ,in friendly reconcilement's cordial clasp1 ,they doomed to death and hell this heresy4 ,none sought1 from ,satan's wile1 a soul's reclaim1 ,but all were bent his humble name to blast2 ,and pious1 would-be murder led the van #abgj ,of common hatred and hostility4 ,but ,truth1 thou mother of the living thought1 ,the deathless word1 the everduring deed6 ,what puny hand thy giant arm can stay8 ,when crushed or backward held1 thine hour beyond8 ,can bigot frown or tyrant fetter quell ,thy high revolt1 ,o ,light ,omnipotent6 ,when ,god would speak with man1 who tells ,him nay8 ,can hell prevent when heaven on earth would smile8 ,pillowed in prayerful thought the wakeful seer4 #abhj ,without1 broods darkness o'er a dreaming world2 ,within1 an angel's face turns night to day3 ,a messenger from ,god#bj to thee ,i come2 ,thy sins are pardoned through thy penitence2 ,henceforward heard in every creed and clime ,the good and evil tongues that trump thy fame4 ,behold6 ,amazement now fresh wonder views2 ,and while enwrapt1 as wave-like visions roll ,their spirit splendors on that gifted gaze1 #abij ,in words akin to these the tale tells on3 ,a slumbering secret hides in yonder hill1 ,graven on gold1 in characters unknown-- ,unknown to thee1 but known to me and mine1 ,the language of my people1 ages gone4 ,beside the sacred volume1 buried there ,at ,his behest who gave my sire command1 ,the seer-stones1 ,urim1 ,thummim1 named of old1 ,whereby thou shalt dispel the mystery ,that hangs above this heaven-favored land1 #acjj ,and ,joseph1 speaking from the dust1 shall join ,with ,judah1 page to page#ba1 ,god's grace to tell4 ,but be aware1 lest ,mammon's charm allure1 ,and tempt from truer wealth that shines within4 ,more than the lamp the light--be this thy quest3 ,seek thou the gold that gilds eternity4 ,the winter of the ,gentile reign is o'er1 ,and ,israel's springtime putteth forth its leaves4 ,fruit planted in the gardens of the past ,hath ripened and is ready for the fall#bb4 #acaj ,elias comes#bc1 ,messiah's ,messenger1 ,god's host to summon1 and ,his house to save-- ,first by persuasion's pleading2 that contemned1 ,by voice of wrath and stroke of violence4 ,he speaks--the mountains kneel1 the valleys rise2 ,rolls to the north the land-dividing wave2 ,equality--nay1 justice1 holds the helm1 ,each hath his own1 the lost lamb finds the fold4 ,elias comes--'tis restitution's reign1 ,and order hurls disorder from the throne4 #acbj ,war sheathes his fangs1 aloft on fearless wing ,peace broods above a restful universe2 ,a common faith and interest unite1 ,but conscience still her fullest freedom#bd sees4 ,wider than ,church extends the ,kingdom's bound3 ,the law from ,zion1 and the royal word1 ,the ,monarch's edict1 from ,jerusalem2 ,a centralized diffusion's balanced sway1 ,god's might1 man's right1 in equilibrium4 ,babel no more--stilled all her strifeful tongues2 #accj ,the primal language#be o'er the world prevails2 ,and all is found again as at the first1 ,while ransomed hosts1 rejoicing1 shout and sing3 ,the ,lord ,his ancient people hath redeemed2 ,the ,lord hath gathered all things into one2 ,and earth becomes a heaven1 for she is clothed ,in garments as the glory of ,his light ,who reigneth in the midst1 ,life's ,majesty4 ,but ere it break1 that bright millennial day1 ,there falls a nightlier hour than night hath known1 #acdj ,when sun shall frown1 moon blush1 when dizzy stars1 ,drunken with fumes of man's iniquity1 ,shall hurl them headlong from their sparkling thrones1 ,and grovel darkly in the deep abyss2 ,while heaven shall tremble as if palsy-struck1 ,earth as an aspen shaken in the wind4 ,men's hearts shall fail1 and where be safety found8 ,for tribulations till that hour unknown1 ,save in the feeble typings of the past1 ,terrors of famine1 fire1 and pestilence1 #acej ,terrors of whirling wind and whelming wave1 ,allied to horrors strange as manifold1 ,shall stalk abroad to humble humankind1 ,to lift the lowly and abase the proud1 ,to straight the crooked and make smooth the crude1 ,jehovah's awful pathway to prepare-- ,jehovah1 ,he who cometh to his own1 ,and by ,his own at last is recognized4 ,no more a lowly ,lamb1 to slaughter led2 ,a ,lion in his risen majesty-- #acfj ,lion and ,lamb1 for gentleness and might1 ,mercy and justice1 there go hand in hand4 ,but first1 the sickle in the ripened grain1 ,reaping where faith is found1 while hope endures1 ,drawing the ,gentile unto ,israel's ,god1 ,and gathering the strewn of ,abraham4 ,wells truth from earth1 pours righteousness from heaven1 ,till wisdom's waters inundate the world4 ,bestirred the wave by angel trumpets blown1 ,wafting the chosen seed to safety's strand1 #acgj ,winning the ,west ere yet the ,east be spoiled4 ,elijah comes--,elijah1 he whose rays ,bespeak the ,lord of ,glory1 from whose light ,all splendors1 paling1 hide their tapers dim4 ,he comes the world to reap1 the vineyard prune1 ,the wheat to garner1 and the tares to burn2 ,he comes1 his face a furnace1 melting pride1 ,consuming wickedness and cleansing worth4 ,he comes the hearts of sons and sires to turn1 ,to plant anew the promises of old1 #achj ,binding the present to the parent past1 ,part unto whole1 time to eternity4 ,he comes the priestly fulness to unfold1 ,the capstone of life's temple here to lay4 ,he comes lest man be taken unaware1 ,and laggard earth be smitten with a curse4 ,hark to that prophet--outstretched ,arm of ,god1 ,who comes the ancient order to restore2 ,and list to him who leads1 as ,moses led1 ,the gathered house and host of ,abraham6 #acij ,thrice through the night the radiant messenger ,in burning words breathed forth the marvel told2 ,till memory's page1 as traced with pen of fire1 ,glowed with each utterance ineffable4 ,and on the morrow stood the sacred twain-- ,mortal1 immortal1 present linked with past-- ,above the spot where slumbering truth reposed2 ,not to be wakened yet till autumns four ,had rained their dews upon its resting-place4 ,meanwhile the unschooled prophet1 angel-taught1 #adjj ,in prayer and patience disciplined his soul2 ,and visiting yearly that revealing mount1 ,learned from its lips a story of the past1 ,affirmed in full when risen truth revealed ,the pent-up secret of the centuries4 ,words of the angel1 ,ramah's sentinel1 ,custodian of ,cumorah's#bf archive old3 ,,canto ,,six ,from ,out ,the ,dust#a ,jehovah's land--thy country--once mine own1 ,a sacred soil1 a consecrated shore1 ,where cometh up the universal ,throne1 #adaj ,dominion that endureth evermore4 ,whose ,god1 with gods1 in solemn council swore ,no tyrant should this chosen land defile2 ,and nations here1 that for a season bore ,the palm of power1 must righteous be#b the while1 ,or ruin's avalanche ruin on ruin pile4 ,though not till brimmed with guilt their cup of crime1 ,ripened the harvest of iniquity4 ,to races1 nations1 men1 there is a time ,to come and go1 as wisdom shall decree1-- #adbj ,wisdom supreme1 ,tongue of ,eternity4 ,but strikes the hour as men and nations will4 ,unfettered in their choice of destiny1 ,they1 by their deeds1 the fateful measure fill2 ,electing to be clean1 or unclean lingering still4 ,race upon race has perished in its pride2 ,and nations lustrous as the lights of heaven ,have sinned and sunk in reckless suicide1 ,upon this ground1 since that dread word was given4 ,realms battle-rent1 and regions tempest-riven2 #adcj ,the wrath-swept land for ages desolate2 ,a wretched remnant blasted1 curst1 and driven ,before the furies of revengeful fate2 ,till wonder asks in vain1 ,what of their former state#c8 ,wouldst know the cause1 the upas-tree that bore ,the blight of desolation8 ',tis a theme ,to melt earth's heart1 and move all heaven to pour ,with sorrow's heaving flood2 as when supreme ,o'er fallen ,lucifer1 the generous stream ,of grief half quenched the joy of victory4 #addj ,mark how the annals of the ages teem ,with repetition4 ,time1 eternity1 ,the same have taught2 but few1 alas6 the moral see4 ,there is a sin called self1 which binds the world ,in fetters fell1 than all save truth more strong2 ,a sin most serpentine1 round all men curled1 ,and in its fatal fold earth writhes full long2 ,crime's great first cause1 the primal root of wrong1 ,parent of pride1 and tree of tyranny4 ,to lay the axe doth unto thee belong4 #adej ,strike1 that the world may know of liberty1 ,and ,zion's land indeed a land of ,zion be6 ,a choice land1 blest above all other lands1 ,since earth1 reborn1 rose sinless from the flood2 ,beloved by ,him whose holy feet and hands ,were pierced to pour the all-redeeming blood4 ,here stands the ancient ,altar#d1 and here stood ,the ,ark1 till borne triumphant o'er the wave-- ,the hungry wave that made all flesh its food1 ,all save a few1 whom godly living gave #adfj ,to see life's single way and shun death's dual grave#e4 ,the ,old ,world1 not the ,new1 by man misnamed2 ,cradle and grave of mouldering nations vast2 ,whose stalwart spirit stature1 seen1 had shamed ,the mightiest of known empires1 present1 past4 ,the land where ,adam dwelt#f1 where ,eden cast ,from flaming gate the heaven-appointed pair1 ,who fell that man might be2 a fall still chaste#g1 ,albeit they sinned1 descending death's dread stair1 ,to fling life's ladder down1 ,love's work#h and way prepare4 #adgj ,here rose the ,zion of primeval days#i1 ,type of a greater ,zion yet to rise2 ,here ,enoch's walls and towers reflung the rays1 ,rolled back the flooding splendors of the skies1 ,whose portal wide gave welcome4 ,upward flies ,the sainted city1 self denied1 dethroned3 ,in all things one1 their power e'en death defies3 ,in dust they ne'er shall slumber2 cleansed1 condoned1 ,they wait the final change#aj1 through ,him who hath atoned4 ,here cometh up the ,new ,jerusalem#aa2 #adhj ,here cometh down that risen realm of old1 ,jehovah's seat1 earth's jeweled diadem1 ,joy of the world1 by prophet tongues extolled4 ,japheth1 here joined with ,shem#ab1 finds ,israel's fold1 ,an ark of peace#ac amid a world of war4 ,the ensign#ad on the mountains here behold6 ',tis ,joseph signals ,jacob#ae from afar1 ,and points him to the goal where ,god and glory are4 ,ancient of ,days#af here sits1 as at the first1 ,when time and earth and ,adam's race were young2 #adij ,when1 bowed with age1 a great soul's sunset burst ,in blessings on his seed4 ,prophetic tongue1 ,thy patriarchal tone through time hath rung6 ,michael1 the prince1 the monarch of our race1 ,sire of a world from dust and spirit sprung2 ,here sits he1 throned in fire2 before his face ,ten thousand times ten thousand throng the judgment place4 ,wherefore this land must unpolluted be2 ,or1 if defiled1 by blood again made clean ,from grime of sin1 from grind of tyranny2 #aejj ,free from the ills that other lands have seen1 ,free from the blots that now dim freedom's sheen4 ,no nation by vain boasting shall abide2 ,bid thine beware1 lest here the sanguine scene ,reacted be1 and ruin1 spawn of pride1 ,spring from the soil where nations great as thine have died4 ,hesperia#ag1 be just--the right maintain1 ,and foe without1 nor foe within1 prevails6 ,here nations slay themselves1 if they be slain1-- ,brother 'gainst brother1 sire 'gainst son1 till fails #aeaj ,the fount of widow's tears and orphan's wails4 ,hear thou that servant#ah whom the ,father sends-- ,hear him and heed1 ere ,japheth's planet pales1 ,that peace and freedom may remain thy friends1 ,while hither1 from all lands1 all worlds1 ,god's legion#ai wends4 ,a gathering from all glories thou shalt see1 ,blest land of ,joseph#bj1 honored1 lifted high6 ,thy brother lands come bending unto thee1 ,and ,gog and ,magog#ba menace but to die4 ,while they that serve the ,lord with single eye #aebj ,shall see ,him in the midst2 the goal then won1 ,when time no longer flecks eternity1 ,nor need is there of star1 or moon1 or sun1 ,since ,he1 light's self1 is risen1 and heaven and earth are one4 ,thus far the angel1 ,ramah's sentinel1 ,his vigil keeping on that lonely hill2 ,and thus the spelled yet speechful auditor1 ,around the hearthside of that humble home4 ,there sire and matron1 trusted kith and kin1 ,give faithful credence to the story strange1 #aecj ,pondering the tidings wise and wonderful4 ,thence oft above that mount of mystery1 ,of buried lore the solemn sepulchre1 ,meet modern seer and ancient oracle4 ,and while humility at wisdom's feet ,expectant waits1 where truth from earth shall spring1 ,comes1 as from riven tomb1 this wondrous tale3 ,where ,joseph#bb1 where wast thou1 that time when torn ,was earth asunder2 ocean's cleaving sword ,the wedded lands wide severing#bc8 ,where1 when borne #aedj ,deep through the watery world1 as there devoured ,by wind and wave that harmless o'er them roared1 ,the pilgrim sons of ,shinar#bd--;favored band1 ,from that far clime where ,babel's folly towered ,and language foundered on confusion's strand-- ,won here a precious heritage1 a promised land8 ,preserver of the pure and primal tongue#be1 ,most faithful found 'mid living sons of men1 ,their leader looked on ,god2 then wrestling wrung ,by spirit might1 and paged with fiery pen1 #aeej ,the full of what would be1 of what had been2 ,sealing the secret till an hour should chime ,when faith as mighty unto mortal ken ,would bring the marvel of a book sublime#bf1 ,bridging with lightful lore the shadowy gulf of time4 ,but pilgrim prows now part the unknown wave2 ,above1 around1 baptismal billows#bg roll4 ,divinity1 their guide1 protection gave1 ,else had engulfing seas entombed the whole4 ,though tight each launch1 where lines of lustre stole #aefj ,from molten stones1 late struck from ,shelem's height#bh1 ,and lit by touch divine4 ,unto the goal ,of that grim voyage1 banishing the night1 ,those crystal miracles gave forth their friendly light4 ,till loomed to wistful eyes this waiting land1 ,spreading with wing-like continents#bi afar1 ,as if to welcome worlds4 ,the ,chaldean band ,the ,northland chose1 lured by a favoring star1 ,for ,south1 as ,north1 of human soul was bare4 ,but liberty loves most a northern zone1 #aegj ,where nature's ramparts e'en 'gainst nature's war ,put forth protection4 ,liberty alone ,mahonri's realm#cj might rule--no king1 no crown1 no throne4 ,still1 mighty spirit1 thou art manifest6 ,what creed or clan shall win ,columbia's crown8 ,though freedom weep1 by anarchy opprest1 ,hesperia's face reflect ,europa's frown1 ,sceptered religion ne'er shall tread men down4 ,belief and unbelief here find one plane1 ,that freedom's greater cause#ca be not o'erthrown1 #aehj ,but spring and spread till every tongue maintain ,the kingdom of the ,king whose throne all worlds sustain4 ,here dawns that universal liberty-- ,theme of the prophet tongue1 the poet pen-- ,when1 winged with power and crowned with purity1 ,earth shall be heaven1 and gods shall dwell with men2 ,fraternity divine1 that e'er hath been1 ,and e'er shall be1 the blissful lot of those ,who1 conquering self1 bind ,satan1 fetter sin1 ,and soar beyond the reach of mortal woes1 #aeij ,rising to sainted heights1 as all past ,zions rose#cb4 ,till then no king upon this crownless land1 ,reserved to freedom and to righteousness4 ',gainst her none prosper1 lifting hostile hand4 ,blest haven1 fortressed by ,god's mightiness#cc6 ,kingcraft and priestcraft plant their sure distress4 ,the past hath spoken--heed the warning tone3 ,of pride beware1 and baser sordidness-- ,self's groveling tyranny1 with heart of stone1 ,whereby1 in ages gone1 this land did grieve and groan4 #afjj ,give us a king#cd6 their cry1 when power had come1 ,when wealth was massed1 and men were multiplied2 ,a king6 ,a king6--vibrant the echoing dome ,from northern lake to gulf and ocean tide2 ,for ,satan in their hearts had planted pride4 ,grieved was the nation's wise and watchful sire2 ,grieved was the faithful kinsman at his side2 ,from eyes of both shot gleams of righteous ire1 ,as voiced ambitious will its ominous desire4 ,they sighed3 ,this leadeth to captivity-- #afaj ,perchance destruction1 ending dark and dire4 ,yet must we yield to human liberty ,its own1 e'en though a brand from freedom's fire ,kindle for freedom's self the fatal pyre4 ,so saying1 they anointed one their king ,who craved the crown1 by patriot son and sire ,put by in pure denial1 lest it bring ,first care1 then crime1 and waken woes then slumbering4 ,for though a king see duty's pathway plain1 ,and walk therein1 as he who now arose2 #afbj ,what monarch from misrule can all refrain1 ,when privilege lifts power o'er friends and foes8 ,bare is the reign untarnished to the close1 ,and rarer still the blameless dynasty4 ,ofttimes as princes the unkingliest pose1 ,because1 forsooth1 they come of some tall tree1 ,whose root and trunk were sound1 while branches blasted be4 ,true kingliness--what else proves man a king8 ,a slave1 though throned and sceptered1 bides a slave2 ,nor pride1 nor pelf1 nor all that power may bring1 #afcj ,can make the serf a sovereign1 or yet save ,the dust of either from the common grave4 ,royal the soul must be1 or comes to end ,all royalty4 ,spirit1 then blood1 ,god gave2 ,and each at last its separate way doth wend ,home to the parent source1 to meet no more1 nor blend4 ,scarce gone the goodly ruler when his realm ,saw fierce rebellion rear its horrent head4 ,usurping treason seized the civic helm1 ,wrong trampled right1 and justice1 judgment1 fled4 #afdj ,ages looked on while battling kingdoms bled4 ,lifted the warning voice--its pleading vain3 ,a blood-drowned continent1 a sea of dead1 ,and1 of a mighty people1 fallen1 self-slain1 ,a prophet and a king1 a solitary twain#ce4 ,that prophet saw the coming of the ,lord ,unto the ,old1 the ,new1 ,jerusalem2 ,saw ,israel returning at ,his word ,from wheresoe'er ,his will had scattered them2 ,the realm's wide ruin saw1 and strove to stem4 #afej ,that king1 sole scion of a perished race1 ,casting his blood-stained sword and diadem1 ,lived but to see another nation#cf place ,firm foot upon the soil1 then vanished from its face4 --- ,wondrous1 indeed1 that ancient word and wise2 ,but wiser and more wondrous still the tale-- ,the after tale#cg of silent centuries1 ,tongued by the guardian of the tome of gold3 ,again1 athwart the wilderness of waves ,surging old ,east and older ,west between1 #affj ,where the lone sea a flowery southland laves1 ,and ,zarahemla reigns as ocean queen1 ,braving the swell1 a storm-tossed bark is seen4 ,from doomed ,jerusalem1 to ,jacob dear1 ,albeit a leper#ch1 groping1 blind1 unclean1 ,goes forth ,manasseh's prophet pioneer#ci1 ,predestined to unveil the hidden hemisphere4 ,his lot to reap and plant on this rare shore ,the promise of his fathers3 ,joseph's bough#dj1 ,from ,jacob's well1 the billowy wall runs o'er2 #afgj ,abides in strength the archer-stricken bow1 ,unto the utmost bound prevailing now1 ,of ,hesper's heaven-upholding hills4 ,bend1 sheaves ,of ,israel1 as branches bend with snow1 ,unto his sheaf grown mightiest6 ,here1 as leaves ,for multitude1 the son the great sire's glory weaves4 ,ere chimes for him the earth-departing hour1 ,summoning a weary soul to restful toil ,in risen worlds1 where life puts on all power1 ,lehi his house convenes1--their hearts the while #afhj ,aglow beneath the burning words that pile ,a pyramid of prophecy whose spire ,empierces heaven1--and lest they soil ,the prospect pure1 and tempt ,jehovah's ire1 ,warns them 'gainst ways of pride and paths of dark desire4 ,he speaks of ,joseph's1 ,judah's1 destiny2 ,of blighting and of blessings yet to pour2 ,proclaims deliverance his own shall see1 ,when cometh one the wandering to restore2 ,forenames a chosen seer#da 7revealed of yore1 #afij ,when the boy dreamer's star o'er ,egypt rose71 ,bringing from dust a blest land's buried lore#db4 ,seals then his benison1 and eyelids close ,to wake on worlds divine1 whither1 past all1 he goes4 ,the favored son#dc of that prophetic sire-- ,favored because most faithful and most just-- ,hath soared to sacred mysteries still higher1 ,and tongued to envious ears the heavenly trust4 ,and serpent self1 that demon of the dust1 ,hath coiled and clung around rebellious souls1 #agjj ,ne'er friendly though fraternal1 whose distrust ,and jealousy breed bitterness that rolls ,rivers of wormwood 'twixt two races and their goals4 ,now peoples twain the ,promised ,land divide3 ,northland and ,southland see their tribes increase1 ,from ,arctic floe to far ,antarctic tide2 ,from where the ,eastern waves their thunders cease1 ,to where the ,western waters are at peace4 ,white and delightsome1 they that worship ,god2 ,they that deny ,him1 dark1 degenerate1 these1 #agaj ,doomed the stern wild to penetrate and plod-- ,transgression's scourge and school1 the ,chastener's heavy rod#dd4 ,the throneless ruler of the regnant race-- ,king1 but no tyrant--prophet1 priest1 and seer1 ,meets upon sacred summits1 face to face 7,as when to ,moses drew ,jehovah near71 ,the ,infinite and ,spirit ,minister#de1 ,meets ,him as man meets man1 and by ,his grace ,the power is given1 with seeric eye to peer1 ,time's vista viewing through prophetic glass3 #agbj ,plain to his gaze revealed1 the unborn ages pass4 ,war1 slaughter1 conquest2 heroes1 sages1 famed2 ,kingdoms1 republics1 empires1 rise and fall2 ,till pride unknown1 and tyranny unnamed1 ,where righteous rule brings blessedness to all4 ,then self again1 the universal thrall4 ,the faithful1 dead or dwindled to a few1 ,crime begets crimes the heavens to appall4 ,now arrows of ,god's anger pierce them through1 ,and horrors piled on horrors make misery's retinue4 #agcj ,all this and more the prophet-prince foresaw#df2 ,messiah's self--,jehovah--,him beheld1-- ,the ,perfect ,one1 in whom was found no flaw1 ,though slander as an ocean round ,him swelled4 ,life's deathless tree--deathless1 though demon-felled2 ,the crash resounding to this far-off shore1 ,whose winnowed remnant welcomed ,him1 revealed ,in risen glory1 when had ceased the roar ,of wrecking tempests1 flung ,his radiant face before4 ,at ,whose rebuke the haughty mountains bowed4 #agdj ,shorn by the whirlwind1 sunk1 or swept away1 ,no more their frown the lowly valleys cowed1 ,rising like billows 'mid the wrathful fray1 ,and dashing 'gainst the skies their dusty spray4 ,rocks1 boulders1 hills1 no titan strength could lift1 ,hurtle as pebbles in the storm-fiend's play4 ,earth opes her jaws1 and through the yawning rift ,cities1 peoples1 vanish2 of hope1 of life bereft4 ,three hours of tempest1 and three days of night2 ,thick darkness1 thunder-burst1 and lightning flash2 #agej ,millions engulfed1 millions in prostrate plight1 ,groveling as slaves that feel or fear the lash1 ,mingling their groans and cries with grind and crash ,of crags the cyclone's catapult impels1 ,whose shrieking flails the fields and forests thrash6 ,wild o'er the land roused ocean's anger swells1 ,and flame's relentless tongue the final doom#dg foretells4 ,three hours of stormful strife--then all is still1 ,save for a voice the universe might hear1 ,proclaiming what hath hapt as heaven's high will1 #agfj ,dispensing pardon and dispelling fear4 ,anon a mightier marvel doth appear2 ,uprolls the misty curtain of the sky-- ,the midday sun no more their minister1 ,greater hath risen6 and glories multiply1 ,as angels in their gaze earthward and heavenward fly4 ,he greets them as a shepherd greets his flock2 ,shows them ,his wounded side1 ,his hands1 ,his feet2 ,then builds ,his church upon the stricken ,rock1 ,where flow life's healing waters1 limpid1 sweet1 #aggj ,as infant innocence#dh1 that joys to meet ,its great ,original4 ,with holy hand ,he ministers1 bids death and hell retreat1 ,and singles twelve from out the sainted band1 ,to sow with words of life the trembling1 tear-worn land4 ,he bids them prize the truth from heaven outpoured-- ,what late ,his tongue hath told1 and all that seers ,of earlier days1 who owned ,him as their ,lord1 ,have sounded in a world's unwilling ears2 ,that truth with truth may blend in after years1 #aghj ,as rivers many to one ocean flow2 ,that when ,messiah in his might appears1 ,men all may see ,him as he is1 and know ,the ,majesty of ,heaven1 'mid nations bending low4 ,he greets them as ,his other sheep#di--;a fold ,unknown to ,judah1 but to ,jesus known2 ,and tells of others still1 whose fate untold ,hath been the skeptic's scoff and stumbling stone4 ,all ,israel must hear1 and one alone ,the shepherd be1 to guide and govern all4 #agij ,where'er1 from torrid belt to icy zone1 ,they wander1 they must heed the warning call1 ,and flee to ,zion's shore ere crumbling ,babel fall4 ,he numbers them with ,joseph1 known of old1 ,whose flock the wolves shall tear in time to come2 ,because a wasteful heir his portion sold1 ,a prodigal forsook the parent dome1 ,to riot in the wilderness and roam1 ,feeding on husks3 yet1 turning at the last1 ,redeemed from darkness1 to the ,father's home2 #ahjj ,and there1 the hour of retribution past1 ,forgiven1 at ,his dear feet their weary souls they cast4 ,anon ,he pictures ,japheth's destiny#ej3 ,the ,gentile prospering in the ,promised ,land1 ,the guardian of the ark of liberty1 ,so long as he for human right shall stand1 ,nor trample on ,jehovah's high command4 ,but woe to them of flinty heart and face ,who from ,him turn1 to smite with ruthless hand ,the withered remnant of a star-ruled race6 #ahaj ,for ,laman yet shall spring1 a lion to the chase#ea4 ,vexing the vexer with a vengeance sore1 ,who1 false to highest hope of human need1 ,shall tyrant turn1 and play the part no more ,of nursing parent unto ,joseph's seed1 ,for whom a nation founded was and freed1 ,that from its hand to his fierce house might flow ,the promise of his fathers4 ,god shall plead ,with ,japheth1 till his pride shall melt like snow1 ,swept from the mountain side1 chased by the sun's red glow#eb4 #ahbj ,his word now builds the ,new ,jerusalem-- 7,earth-born1 though basking in eternal rays7#ec1 ,which ,japheth1 blent with ,jacob1 joined with ,shem1 ,shall rear on ,joseph's land in modern days4 ,the ,father's work of wonder ,he portrays3-- ,a servant1 marred#ed1 though hurt not1 and yet healed1 ,whom wisdom hearkens to1 whom faith obeys2 ,arm of the ,lord1 long lying unrevealed1 ,uplifted and made bare1 ,his flock to fold and shield4 ,sounds then a parting note1 a plaint of woe1 #ahcj ',gainst coming ages of iniquity1 ,ere purifying floods o'er earth shall flow1 ,and man from sin and self delivered be4 ,then1 of the twelve1 he sanctifieth three#ee1 ,with power o'er death1 and gives them to remain ,till comes ,he in ,his glory1 ,lo6 they see ,the opening heavens receive ,him once again2 ,and marvels else behold1 that mortal tongues must chain4 ,three generations pass in righteousness2 ,a fourth begins1 and still from strand to strand #ahdj ,peace rules1 love reigns1 and wealth and wisdom bless ,the banded nations1 walking hand in hand2 ,christ's word supreme above a willing land1 ,where rich and poor1 common their goods1 their gold1 ,seeking ,god's glory1 free and equal stand1 ,loving each one his neighbor1 as of old2 ,forebeam of day divine#ef1 when night's dull mists have rolled4 ,that restful day shall dawn2 but e'en as storm1 ,darkness and devastation1 judgments dire1 ,changed with convulsive throe the land's first form1 #ahej ,made mountains plains1 plains mountains1 purged with fire ,and flood this soil--as saw my nation's sire1 ,ere light and peace looked down from realms above2-- ,so shall it be#eg1 and more1 when heaven's hot ire1 ,besoming a world's iniquity1 shall move1 ,in burning1 melting might1 the gold1 the dross1 to prove4 ,two centuries of love the land caress2 ,buried the ancient feud1 and banished vice2 ,when pride1 to breed anew the old distress1 ,crawls like a serpent to this paradise3 #ahfj ,again the tempter's wiles the weak entice2 ,again the fall1 the sorrow and the shame2 ,again1 while angels weep1 do fiends rejoice2 ,for now divided hearts1 with hate aflame1 ,belie with wicked deeds their righteous faith and fame4 ,farewell to peace and power forever past6 ,deepest in crime the once delightsome race1 ,which melts as would the avalanche if cast ,into the furnace of the red sun's face#eh4 ,men vie in deeds that devils would debase2 #ahgj ,southland 'gainst ,northland strives with might insane2 ,backward1 still backward1 bends the bloody chase#ei2 ,crimson the land with carnage2 main to main ,surges a sea of slaughter--millions are the slain6 ,the white dissolves2 the swart1 the red1 remains4 ,night clothes the continents1 and 'thwart the gloom ,no ray descends on shadowed peaks or plains1 ,from history's sun4 ,darkness1 a living doom1 ,mantles mind1 soul1 making the land one tomb4 ,then bursts the dawn--breaks forth the ,east in light1 #ahhj ,where ,japheth1 cramped and straitened1 cries for room4 ,rent mystery's veil1 naked1 in savage plight1 ,now occidental realms greet oriental sight#fj6 ,first found by him whose faith was mightiest1 ,and now by one whose patience#fa most excels4 ,ere storm-pushed prow hath pierced the wordless ,west1 ,a kingly soul1 unthroned1 uncrowned1 compels ,the homage of a queen4 ,his mind dispels ,the gathered gloom of ages2 mutineers ,and malcontents his presence calms and quells4 #ahij ,past threatening reefs of bigotry he steers1 ,and builds a bridge of life that binds the hemispheres4 ,the ,gentile comes1 as destiny decrees1 ,to ,zion's land#fb1 for freedom held in store1 ,and ,israel's triumph4 ,friends of freedom1 these1 ,like to the pilgrim bands that long before ,a refuge found upon this sheltering shore4 ,but followers of right oft wrong the right2 ,oppressed become oppressors#fc in an hour2 ,and now1 as day that pushes back the night1 #aijj ,the strong the weak assail1 enslave1 and put to flight4 ,nor yet can fate forsake them3 ,japheth's hand ',gainst ,jacob's wrath-doomed remnant still prevails4 ,tyrants oppress him from the motherland#fd2 ,the ,lord of ,hosts a champion arms and mails1 ,to quell whose might no human power avails2 ,nor grander cause or chieftain e'er came forth4 ,him as its sire the new-born nation hails1 ,and e'en would crown the man of matchless worth#fe1 ,did heaven vouchsafe such king to shame the kings #aiaj of earth4 ,but thou hast heard3 ,no king upon this land ,from ,japheth's loins4 ,yet shall there come a ,king1 ,and ,japheth's host with ,jacob's equal stand1 ,while bending nations to that ,monarch bring ,their gold1 their glory--friendship's offering4 ,what though invasion1 anarchy1 shall strive ,to strangle right1 to poison freedom's spring8 ,naught that conspires 'gainst ,zion's weal can thrive4 ,jehovah--,he shall reign1 and righteous rule survive4 #aibj ,forerunner thou1 and thy forerunners these1 ,prophet of ,ephraim1 ,joseph's namesake seer#ff6 ,more than those ancient bridgers of the seas1 ,unveiler of the long hid hemisphere1 ,whose mystery lies booked and buried here4 ,mass thou the might of ,joseph1 yet to join ,with ,judah's might1 ,messiah's throne to rear2 ,that on this sacred shore may rise and shine ,the ,city ,pure-in-,heart--,kingdom of ,king divine4 ,woe to the tongue that 'gainst thee shall contend6 #aicj ,break weapons all that smite this iron rod#fg1 ,beginning of the burden of the end-- ,the promised fulness of the word of ,god2 ,the voice of ages whispering from the sod4 ,that voice withstood1 remaineth shut and sealed ,the mightier things in mystery's abode1 ,volume on volume slumbering unrevealed1 ,while wake these lesser truths till now from man concealed4 ,speak thou to ,laman's remnant1 and reveal ,the great things done1 the greater yet to do1 #aidj ,that bring deliverance unto ,israel4 ,to white1 to red1 to men of every hue1 ,to all redeemed ,his mighty merit through1 ,teach thou the way--tell how by ,grace sublime ,the spirit gardens#fh of the endless blue ,are visited1 each vineyard in its time1 ,while glad sabbatic bells ring out their grateful chime4 ,earth's hour is nigh--her blest millennial hour1 ,and dawn there shall a higher1 holier day1 ,prepared for by these principles of power1 #aiej ,divinest laws that loftiest worlds obey1 ,where gods and angels honor them alway4 ,there greatest by humility are known1 ,there order reigns1 and right doth all realms sway2 ,like claiming like1 and cleaving to its own1 ,sovereign and subject sharing the glory of the ,throne4 ,but earth's proud will must bend to will of heaven1 ,or twain can ne'er be one1 that one for all2-- ,by angel love the demon lust be driven1 ,and man set free from self's ignoble thrall4 #aifj ,let not the mighty task thy mind appall4 ,what ,god hath done shall ,he not do again8 ,a day of power shall batter down the wall2 ,the willing heart shall rend the hampering chain2 ,and o'er this ransomed world1 first ,son1 then ,sire1 shall reign4 ,proclaim the ,dispensation of the ,end1 ,era pre-destined1 pre-ordained of yore1 ,when all of ,christ's1 on earth1 in heaven1 shall blend1 ,and build the ,empire of the ,evermore4 ,ascendeth ,one who all things shall restore-- #aigj ,the dead to life1 the dew-drop to its source4 ,spirit must reign1 the carnal rule no more2 ,and this lest earth1 winging the sunward course1 ,unmeet for such a change1 melt 'neath consuming curse4 ,smite thou that sin of self1 which binds the world ,in fetters fell1 than all save truth more strong2 ,that sin most serpentine1 round all men curled1 ,within whose fatal fold earth writhes full long4 ,to loose the coil doth unto thee belong4 ,to free the soul from sordid tyranny1 #aihj ,be sacrifice the burden of thy song4 ,ay1 sacrifice shall set the prisoner free1 ,and men this truth shall learn1 that light is liberty4 ,,canto ,,seven ,the ,arcana ,of ,the ,infinite#a ,flake upon flake1 then slide succeeding slide1 ,the marvel and the wonder multiplied4 ,garnered in one vast mind#b the glacial store1 ,the glittering avalanche of heavenly lore1 ,whose living streams shall slake the burning thirst ,of time unborn1 of nations yet unnurst2 ,torrent of truth1 river of prophecy1 #aiij ,rolling through worlds to find fulfillment's sea4 ,he stands1 as ,moses on the mystic mount1 ,where knowledge pours from wisdom's purest fount2 ,stands 'neath the droppings of the crystal eaves1 ,stands on the loftiest summit man achieves1 ,where light eternal--was1 is1 and to be-- ',lumines the vistas of immensity1 ,the ultimates of human destiny4 ,he walks and talks with ,god1 as friend with friend2 ,he reads the ,book of ,time from end to end1 #bjjj ,and in the ,volume of ,eternity ,peruses past and far futurity2 ,ranges to realms of wider mystery-- ,ne'er-ending hope1 ne'er-ending history2 ,while from all depths that sink1 all heights that soar1 ,come voices1 visions1 of the ,evermore4 ,like unto like1 above1 beneath1 the skies1 ,deep calls to deep1 and faith to faith replies4 ,he hears the solemn dispensations#c chime1 ,from morn till eve1 from birth to death1 of time2 #bjaj ,he notes the markings of the horologe1 ,the set times of the great unerring ,judge2 ,then sees those dispensations as they run ,their 'lotted course1 like hours 'twixt sun and sun4 ,wave after wave rolls o'er the shining sand1 ,wave after wave breaks higher up the strand1 ,with all of weal or woe the ages send4 ,as sundered ocean tides that shoreward tend1 ,now past and future o'er the present pend1 ,till on the narrow isthmus sea meets sea1 #bjbj ,and time no longer parts eternity4 ,he hears the soundings of the trumpets seven#d1 ,whose angels1 stooping from the heights of heaven1 ,proclaim1 in tones to rend the echoing spheres1 ,the secrets of the ,seven ,thousand ,years2 ,the secret of a book with seven seals1 ,that all of mortal mystery reveals2 ,man's course1 ,god's chronicle1 life's tale told true1 ,nor tinged with favor's tint1 with hatred's hue2 ,earth's week of history1 whose sabbath chime #bjcj ,summons to rest the weary soul of time4 ,the ,holy ,order#e that for aye hath reigned1 ,for loyal faith and lofty deeds ordained2 ,the all-creating1 all-controlling chain1 ,whereby the ,gods perpetuate their reign1 ,whereby the higher1 bending1 lift the lower2 ,wielding the sceptre of ,almighty ,power1 ,ruling by right the nations1 ill aware ,whence came the thrones that have been1 thrones that are2 #bjdj ,which sets up one and puts another down1 ,their fate proclaimed as fortune's smile or frown2 ,the power that reigns not save in righteousness1 ,persuades in meekness1 chastens but to bless2 ,the might of heaven1 the pure and potent chain ,stainless1 save mortal links their lustre stain1 ,and plunged through fire are purified again1 ,he sees extending through the storms of time1 ,anchor and cable of a ship sublime4 ,pilots of life on death's fierce tempest tossed1 #bjej ,love's legionaries1 saviors of the lost2 ,a sacred army's solemn pride and boast1 ,the janissaries of the heavenly host2 ,the jeweled circlet of the ,central ,gem1 ,jehovah's body-guard--the ,gibborim4 ,the guileless followers of the guiltless ,lamb1 ,of ,israel ere ,earth knew ,abraham#f2 ,sealed in the forehead with the sacred ,name1 ,bearing the ,ark of ,god1 the ,sword of ,flame#g2 ,behold them coming1 coming1 as they came #bjfj ,whene'er was kindled here the beacon blaze ,by each ,elias of the olden days6 ,truth1 error1 shine and shadow#h1 alternate1 ,as oft as mankind proves degenerate4 ,but ever1 as the day-beam sinks and dies1 ,the stars reset their lanterns in the skies2 ,and unto ,moses in the wilderness ,comes greater light1 succeeded by the less#i4 ,till truth the fulness of its ray restores1 ,and heaven o'er earth the holy unction pours1 #bjgj ,by ministers upon each hemisphere1#aj ,sent to proclaim what every soul must hear4 ,the promise past1 fulfillment now is seen1 ,the ,perfect ,church#aa1 resplendent in the sheen ,of risen ,righteousness1 whose arm once more ,puts forth in power to rescue and restore4 ,gray grows to crimson1 crimson melts to gold1 ,and dawns the day by starry night foretold1 ,whose lamps prophetic pale their silvery rays1 ,lost in the golden light of ,latter ,days4 #bjhj ,a twofold ,church1 a dual ,bride he sees2 ,time's the full reflex of ,eternity's4 ,visioned the ,dispensation of the ,end1 ,where ,zions meet1 where dispensations blend1 ,and time's sad rivers cease their mighty moan ,in sobbing requiem o'er his sunken throne1 ,till death departs1 and joy1 from zone to zone1 ,welcomes the rightful ,heir unto his own4 ,visioned the ,council of the ,ancient ,one#ab1 ,where stars make ready for the rising ,sun2 #bjij ,where ,adam yields the mortal world he won1 ,unto the ,sabbath ,lord1 till sabbath done1 ,and ,sire receives the ,kingdom from the ,son4 ,ere when1 award of fulness is there none2 ,though great ones gain the far celestial shore1 ,shining and perfect as they shone before4 ',lumed by the ,lamp that giveth endless view1 ,discerns he spirits false and spirits true2 ,unmasking ,satan with the keys of light#ac1 ,that blind may see and deaf may hear aright1 #bajj ,a message marvelous to eyes and ears1 ,the rhythmic message of the songful spheres4 ,truth is eternal6--,thus the solemn voice-- ',twas not her birth made morning stars rejoice1 ,nay1 but her mission to a new-born sphere1 ,whither1 as oft1 her shining bark would steer ,with spirit crew1 kin to the kingly race ,peopling the burning orbs of bourneless space4 ,truth is eternal1 endless as its ,god1 ,author and framer of the changeless code1 #baaj ,ever-returning1 oft-repeating plan1 ,redeeming from all worlds the race of man4 ,life-saving line1 far flung from heaven to earth1 ,to rescue souls--,god's wealth1 supremest worth-- ,rescue the fallen and the penitent1 ,who else must bide in hopeless banishment4 ,unending were their mortal prisonment1 ,did ne'er truth's sunlight gild the gloomy sod1 ,gospel of mercy1 gift of the gracious ,god1 ,who gave up life to bridge the dark gulf o'er1 #babj ,and close its cruel jaws forevermore2 ,love1 striving with belief and unbelief1 ,gleaning life's harvest to the latest sheaf4 ,a ,god whose glory is intelligence1 ,a ,god whose knowledge gives omnipotence1 ,who makes1 maintains1 redeems1 and glorifies1 ,bending to lift the lowliest to the skies1 ,by triple lever1 by the mystic birth1 ,by ,three in heaven1 the typed of three on earth3 ,water1 that signifies obedience1 #bacj ,sure test of faith1 true sign of penitence2 ,spirit whereby the flesh is justified1 ,and blood1 whereby the soul is sanctified2-- ,lifting by these1 but not by these alone1 ,by every word from ,him upon the ,throne1 ,spirit 'mid spirits1 most intelligent#ad1 ,wherefore their ,sovereign ,sire benevolent1 ,giver of life and light whereby the rest ,press on and on till all things are possessed4 ,intelligence1 eternal#ae1 uncreate1 #badj ,though ,god-begotten in the spirit state1 ,where all creations see maturity1 ,ere launched as souls upon the mortal sea1 ,to prove their worth1 make choice 'twixt wrong and right1 ,and walk by faith as erst they walked by sight2 ,as free to sound the gulf as soar the height4 ,man a divinity in embryo1 ,who1 ere he reign above1 must serve below2 ,his spirit in earth element baptize1 ,for birth and death are baptism#af to the wise4 #baej ,the space that parts the lower from the higher1 ,spanned by development of son to ,sire1 ,of daughter unto ,mother's high estate1 ,where man and woman are inseparate4 ,time a probation2 earth1 through time1 a school1 ,where justice reigns1 though oft the unjust rule4 ,pain1 trouble1 toil1 preceptors of the soul2 ,death1 birth1 but portals to and from life's goal-- ,life's fount1 where all as infant spirits sprang1 ,and sons of ,god in countless chorus sang1 #bafj ,unheeding earthly sorrow#ag--parent pang ,of after joy1 o'er which their triumph rang4 ,the fall1 whereby the worlds are put in pawn1 ,and held in durance till redemption dawn1 ,a plan divine that changeth part to whole1 ,immortal spirit to immortal soul4 ,second estate#ah here interlinked with first1 ,for godliness where spirit life was nurst1 ,and ,satan's rebel host1 heaven's third1 were sent ,to unentabernacled banishment2 #bagj ,tempters1 beguilers1 triers of the true1 ,who now reap greater gain1 or sadly rue ,the loss of all1 surrendering to him ,who warreth endlessly 'gainst ,elohim1 ,and1 shorn of glory1 would all light bedim2 ,where many1 wrecked1 to awful depths go down1 ,while few return to wear the waiting crown1 ,reigning where others serve4 ,each woe1 each bliss1 ,in after worlds1 the yield of life in this2 #bahj ,here garnered are the fruits from fields of yore1 ,and sown the harvest of the evermore4 ,the called are not the chosen past mischance2 ,the sanctified to glorified advance1 ,and stewardship becomes inheritance4 ,redemption free1 for ,god hath paid the price2 ,all else man wins by toil and sacrifice4 ,as sun1 or moon1 or varying star#ai1 appears ,each heir of glory in those endless spheres3 ,sun-like the souls that live celestial laws1 #baij ,and moon-like they who at terrestrial pause-- ,who honor not the ,saviour in the flesh1 ,but after1 in the spirit realm1 refresh ,their fainting1 fettered lives at mercy's fount1 ,and1 far as merit buoys them1 upward mount2 ,saved1 glorified1 by faith and penitence1 ,made valid1 through vicarious ordinance#bj1 ,for all who ,him believe1 who ,him obey1 ,and own in other worlds ,his sovereign sway4 ,nor lost forever souls unsaved today3 #bbjj ,telestial they who taste the pangs of hell1 ,and pay guilt's debt ere they in glory dwell1 ,twinkling as stars whose numbers none can tell4 ,souls that to high celestial realms have won1 ,dwell with the gods1 beholding ,sire and ,son2 ,while bounds are set that bar terrestrial heirs 7,with whom the ,gracious ,one his presence shares71 ,and dwellers in the far telestial spheres1 ,to whom the ,holy ,spirit ministers4 ,god's servants these1 but to ,his glorious home-- #bbaj ,the loftiest heights of heaven--they cannot come4 ,justice and ,mercy each shall have its own1 ,nor one thrust other from the dual throne2 ,each shoal and deep a final fullness see1 ,and like clasp like through all eternity4 ,but who shall sound the bottomless despair ,of one condemned the second death to share8 ,if1 re-ensnared in ,satan's subtle mesh1 ,a soul redeemed its ,saviour pierce afresh1 ,spurning the ,spirit1 scorning proffered ruth1 #bbbj ,a traitor utterly to light and truth1 ,then flames perdition's gulf1 death's last abyss1 ,the lake of fire1 all life's antithesis4 ,all power then powerless to change its plight2 ,for what avails the burnt-out lamp to light8 ,justice can lay no blame on blameless shelves1 ,nor mercy save when souls will damn themselves4 ,twofold is death1 but life has threefold sway2 ,what ne'er created was1 endures alway4 ,the organized disorganized may be1 #bbcj ,but not the life that lives undyingly4 ,nothing bides nothing3 that which is shall be2 ,though form1 not essence1 change unceasingly4 ,space1 spirit1 matter1 all eternal are1 ,and death but on creation wages war4 ,whate'er beginning had may have an end1 ,but life eternal doth itself defend4 ,man's inmost spark1 his being's primal fire1 ,as birthless and as deathless as its ,sire1-- ,no more the maker of that unmade germ #bbdj ,than man the framer of the spirit form1 ,born and begotten in the first estate1 ,god's creature1 whom ,god's power can uncreate4 ,spirit to spirit1 dust to dust returns1 ,but bright intelligence forever burns1 ,though banished from the presence of the light1 ,exiled and wandering in the outer night1 ,remembering past1 and mourning present blight1 ,the end whereof1 a mystery to man1 ,unsolved while bending 'neath the mortal ban1 #bbej ,none but the doomed partaker e'er shall scan4 ,higher than heaven1 deeper than hell1 profound1 ,his course wherein no crookedness is found-- ,an onward1 upward1 never-ending round4 ,comes forth all life at resurrection's call1 ,when soul immortal sheds its mortal thrall2 ,the just first rising1 who with ,christ shall reign1 ,while sinners tarry till ,he sounds again1 ,late issuing1 in shame and self contempt1 ,when ,lucifer1 unbound1 shall newly tempt1 #bbfj ,still striving for a glory not his own1 ,till by the ,arm ,almighty overthrown4 ,spirit and body1 blending1 make the soul1 ,as halves1 uniting1 form the perfect whole4 ,spirit and element1 commingled1 one1 ,inheriting the ,glory of the ,sun1 ,symbol a greater union yet to be1 ,when heaven and earth shall wed eternally1 ,and restitution's edict seal and bind ,eternal matter to eternal mind1 #bbgj ,like unto like1 for night weds not with day1 ,and order's mandate e'en the gods obey4 ,the sealing of the sexes1 mate to mate1 ,earnest of exaltation's lofty state1 ,where evermore they reign as queens and kings1 ,and endless union endless increase brings2 ,while serve as angels the unwedded ones1 ,abandoning their right to royal thrones4 ,one are the human twain1 as sheath and sword-- ,woman and man1 the lady and the lord2 #bbhj ,each pair the ,eve and ,adam of some world1 ,perchance unborn1 or into space unhurled4 ,from endless spirit1 endless element1 ,the worlds that glow in glory's firmament4 ,created all and governed all by law1 ,perfect they shine1 or show sin's fatal flaw2 ,their ,maker's will obey or disobey1 ,and felons found a felon's debt#ba must pay2 ,while wiser orbs1 obedient at school1 ,are robed in radiance1 and have learned to rule-- #bbij ,are lords of light1 resplendent and supreme1 ,e'en as great ,kolob 'mid the kokaubeam4 ,earth a celestial law hath magnified#bb1 ,and by that law shall she be sanctified1 ,and by the same shall she be glorified2 ,by fire refined1 the gold from dross set free1 ,shining forever as a crystal sea1 ,celestial seer-stone#bc1 making manifest ,all things below to souls upon her breast-- ,chosen1 omniscient1 children of the ,sun1 #bcjj ,offspring of ,adam1 ,michael1 ,ancient ,one1 ,who comes anon his fiery throne to rear1 ,his council summoning from far and near4 ,ten thousand times ten thousand bow the knee1 ,and ,father hail him1 ,king1 eternally4 ,for so are governed all those worlds of fire1 ,that chorus in a universal choir ,the glory of the ,lord ,omnipotent1 ,whose power hath framed through infinite extent ,the splendors of the flashing firmament2 #bcaj ,sire of the universe1 and ,king of ,kings1 ,o'er countless realms2 each dusty dot that springs ,to blazing being1 empire of a god1 ,who equals ,him1 yet owns ,his sovereign rod1 ,the ,central ,scepter of ,omnipotence1 ,the ,god of ,gods1 ,supreme ,magnificence1 ,regnant o'er all that is or e'er shall be1 ,throned on the summit of eternity4 ,souls there above who once below all things1 ,all things inherit1 and are priests and kings1 #bcbj ,pillars immovable1 princes unto ,god1 ,no more outgoing from that high abode1 ,where past and future present are alway1 ,and years a thousand even as a day4 ,who here have lived1 or would have lived1 the law#bd1 ,exalted1 numbered with the gods1 he saw1 ,one with the wisdom of ,omniscience1 ,and glorious with ,all ,intelligence4 ,so thorough and so just the perfect plan1 ,weighing the motive with the work of man6 #bccj ,nor this the tithe of what those tongues unfold1 ,nor tithe of tithe of what can ne'er be told4 ,as unto ,judah's one and ,joseph's three#be1 ,who tasted of translation's ecstacy2 ,or him who1 spared from ,babel's doom1 beheld ,messiah's unclothed spirit#bf1 faith-compelled2 ,or him of ,tarsus1 tranced1 the triple seer#bg ,of things unlawful to be uttered here2-- ,as unto souls like these was given to see ,the marvel past1 the mystery to be1 #bcdj ,so upon him1 their peer of modern days1 ,the ,source of all-revealing sends its rays4 ,broken the fountains of the upper deep2 ,opened the sepulchres where ages sleep2 ,the past1 the future1 now the present leaven2 ,with truth from earth blends righteousness from heaven1 ,welding the parted links of being's chain1 ,old making new1 the dead live again4 ,o message marvelous to eyes and ears6 ,voices and visions of the mystic spheres6 #bcej ,voices of noonday1 visions of the night1 ,whisperings of angels1 and their presence bright6 ,voice of the ,architect of ,life's vast ,plan1 ,speaking as ,god to ,god1 as man to man6 ,,canto ,,eight ,the ,lifted ,ensign#a ,armed now with knowledge1 panoplied with power1 ,with two-edged sword of ,god's authority1 ,girded by heavenly hands on shepherds twain#b1 ,the first and second of a gathering flock1 ,transcribers of the buried book of gold1 ,whose mystic page1 unsealed by gift divine1 #bcfj ,save part withheld of mightier mystery1 ,now challenges the wise and wondering world2-- ,armed and equipt1 with staff1 and stone in sling1 ,strong in the ,lord1 the ,god of ,israel1 ,the dauntless ,david of a later day ,fares forth to meet the ,giant of ,untruth#c4 ,thenceforth a warrior and a wanderer1 ,a victor hated for his victories2 ,targe for the javelin of jealousy2 ,hunted and hounded through the wilderness2 #bcgj ,outlawed by all1 all save a loyal few1 ,the patient sharers of his painful lot1 ,companions of his mortal pilgrimage1 ,recalled with him1 their earthly errand o'er1 ,to grace the courts of ,high ,jerusalem4 ,but ere a day for that departure dawns1 ,unveiled once more the face of mystery4 ,speaks from the musty tomb of buried time1 ,the all-remembering ,spirit of the ,past3 ,time yet was young#d1 but old iniquity1 #bchj ,outcast of worlds redeemed1 on earth was rife1 ,and1 self-enchained1 a fallen race lay prone ,at feet of ,lucifer4 ,and demons laughed1 ,and hell rejoiced1 and all that ribald host ,clapt hand1 and danced and jeered derisively2 ,while gods and angels wept1 their pitying tears ,whitening the spectral mountains cold and lone1 ,wakening to virile springs a spirit waste4 ,and there the sainted commonweal#e arose1 ,haven divine1 hill of the sanctified1 #bcij ,oasis-like 'mid burning sands of sin2 ,god's people1 pure in heart1 and one in all1 ,no poor among them1 pride and greed unknown2 ,saved by the tidings first to ,adam taught1 ,and next to ,enoch's generation told4 ,righteous1 they dreamt no evil1 feared no ill1 ,and death1 the universal doom1 defied4 ,earth not their pillow2 they shall one day pass ,from mortal to immortal painlessly4 ,self's chain was sundered#f2 devils glared aghast1 #bdjj ,and gnashed their teeth with disappointed rage1 ,trembling in terror lest perdition's pit ,engulf them ere the time4 ,then gathering power1 ,as if for ,armageddon's conflict#g dire1 ,when triumphs ,michael o'er the foe unchained1 ,hell's molten belch of burning hatred hurled ,upon those hapless sons of earth who scorned ,the refuge of the righteous2 her bright towers1 ,far-beaming with terrestrial radiance#h-- ,the promise fair of full celestial change1-- #bdaj ,bidding the vile beware1 nor venture near ,the awful mountain of ,god's holiness4 ,waxed foul the world in wickedness1 piled high ,a hideous monument of shame and crime1 ,which1 toppling with its own weight1 crashing fell1 ,whelming in ruin the guilty race of man1 ,whose spirits1 as fierce seas their dust devoured1 ,by fiercer fiends to dungeon deeps were driven4 ,nor thence redeemed till ,he who died for all ,soared from the cross to set the captive free#i4 #bdbj ,the while1 on fearless wings of purity1 ,cleaving as bird or ransomed soul the air1 ,the sainted city entered into rest1 ,envied of ,babel1 climbing robber-like#aj2 ,bride of the ,highest1 midway hovering1 ,till folded in the bosom of the ,gods1 ,where ,zions from unnumbered worlds have fled4 ,type temporal of spirit antitype1 ,a future moral height foreshadowing4 ,foreseen the fatal deluge4 ,ere the doom #bdcj ,of all save faithful ,noah and his seven1-- ,tri-branching tree#aa of race regenerate1 ,yielding anew life's fruit and foliage1-- ,earth mourned as ,rachel1 ,rizpah1 o'er the slain1 ,the slain of men unborn1 who yet must die ,degenerate in the days that were to be4 ,then ,enoch wept1 and sued in sympathy1 ,and ,god gave answer thus3 ',earth yet shall rest1 ,and1 sanctified1 shall see her ,saviour reign1 #bddj ,monarch of worlds1 ,his realms as ocean sands4 ,but it shall be within the latter days1 ,the days of vengeance and of wickedness1 ,when men the ,sole-begotten crucify1 ,and ,he shall go again to judge the world1 ,proclaimed by truth1 forerun by righteousness1 ,gathering the pure-in-heart unto a place-- ,a holy place my people shall prepare1 ,there to await my coming1 mine and thine4 ,then shown the resurrection's shadowing3 #bdej ,zion above1 from all creations past1 ,shall meet and blend with ,zion from below2 ,spirits and bodies of the just shall join1 ,and in the midst my tabernacle be4 ,yea1 as ,i live1 so will ,i forth again1 ,my oath to thee1 my covenant1 to fulfill2 ,and earth shall garb in glory of her ,god1 ,and ,noah's righteous seed in ,me rejoice4' ,these things spake ,god to ,moses1 from the mount ,whose name is veiled to ken of humankind2 #bdfj ,and thus that prophet1 but through unbelief ,and cunning craftiness1 at war with ,light1 ,the fulness of his message sleeps till now1 ,when one like unto him#ab and ,him he typed1 ,brings forth the buried meaning from its grave4 ,on twain of ocean-parted hemispheres1 ,saw noon of time a twofold type#ac of peace1 ,a pledge1 a token1 of millennial rest1 ,an earnest of the ,commonweal to come2 ,but no fulfillment of the promise old1 #bdgj ,no ripe fruition of the ancient oath1 ,to ,enoch sworn1 through ,moses re-affirmed1 ,by ,ephraim's prophet made to live again4 --- ,promise now sought fulfillment#ad1--;it was time2 ,for weary earth lay groaning 'neath her load4 ,unclean1 unclean1 her cry1 as leprous sin ,with foul intent clasped close her shrinking form1 ,and baned with foetid breathing all her soul4 ,long she had mourned and wept o'er life's decay2 ,her waning strength1 from age and weariness1 #bdhj ,her mother powers1 unholy passion's prey1 ,bringing1 in lieu of giants1 pygmies forth1 ,to fall untimely on her withered breast4 ,dwindling and dwarfed in all save wickedness1 ,and knowledge1 oft made pander unto ill1 ,with learning gorged1 for wisdom famishing1 ,man both a glutton and a starveling seemed4 ,for ,self1 the sordid1 sat once more enthroned1 ,binding in servile chains a universe1 ,where mightily men strove for place and fame1 #bdij ,greedy for power1 as gluttonous for gold4 ,and who sought neighbor's weal1 save kith and kin ,or petted friendling prest a favored claim8 ,disorder reigned1 and satire laughed to scorn ,grotesque1 invidious inconsistency3 ,talent on title waiting1 brain on birth6 ,genius at oars1 and dullards at the helm6 ,the prancing war-steed fastened to the plow1 ,the ass unto the chariot--oft with rein1 ,curbing the mettled courser's noble rage1 #bejj ,or goading him with needless cruelty6 ,matter was monarch2 ,spirit stood apart1 ,unknown1 unseen1 or spurned and thrust aside ,by thronging myriads1 bending supple knee1 ,and basking in the proud usurper's smile4 ,men bowed not down to sun and moon and stars1 ,to bird1 nor beast1 nor reptile1 as of yore2 ,but worshipt still at other creature shrines1 ,ignoring the ,creator's primal claim4 ,pride sneered at poverty--if poor of purse1 #beaj ,but gave its hand to beggared intellect1 ,to bankrupt soul1 and greeted them as peers4 ,learning1 if lowly pillowing its head1 ,a pauper deemed1 and pitied or condemned4 ,and many1 stung by adder glance of scorn1 ,shunning a life of noble toil and care1 ,to ,mammon1 e'en in marriage1 sold themselves1 ,offering a lawless fire at passion's shrine1 ,or staining hands and heart with sabler sins4 ,shameful the serfdom of the earth-bound soul1 #bebj ,base passion's basest slave and prisoner2 ,charmed by no music but the clink of coin2 ,cankered and crusted o'er with avarice2 ,dupe1 dreaming shadow real1 and substance show4 ,where party more than principle was prized1 ,where private gain was labeled public good1 ,and patriotism masked hypocrisy1 ,science1 when sordid1 or subservient ,to worldly ends1 to aims material1 ,stood pedestaled and robed in honors rare3 #becj ,while art fell fainting at the patron's door1 ,or starved and froze in cheerless attic den4 ,for aye the flesh must first be comforted1 ,and e'en the body's luxuries abound1 ,ere mind of man may clothe its nakedness1 ,or hungering heart and spirit have their own4 ,music1 the drama1 all art1 still divine1 ,though oft to ends ignoble basely bent1 ,in atmospheres miasmic1 fever-fraught1 ,to folly pandering and to lechery2 #bedj ,or using gifts ,god-lent for good of all1 ,gain's maw to glut1 fame's lust to gratify4 ,forgot the ,giver1 and adored the gift1 ,as in the pagan days of olden time4 ,and thou1 where thou1 ,o sage philosophy1 ,heir to a hundred shadows of thy name6 ,where thy spent waves on speculation's strand8 ,still striving1 finite for the infinite1 ,man groping for the mystery of ,god1 ,a river that would fain engulf the sea6 #beej ,religion dead1 and poesy so deemed1 ,because unwedded to a carnal age1 ,unprostituted to its paltry aims1 ,or hid beneath vast verbal rubbish heaps1 ,the dust and debris of the former fires4 ,religion dead1 but bigotry alive1 ,and ne'er more active upon earth than now1 ,when sect 'gainst sect in battle order stood1 ,and schisms and dissensions multiplied4 ,some worshipt nothing1 naming it a god2 #befj ,some deemed the mortal dust a thing divine2 ,religious1 irreligious1 bigotry1 ,each counted victims by the hecatomb4 ,what wonder1 when truth's meanings tortured were1 ,the living ,god dethroned1 and in ,his stead1 ,a monster crouching on the ,mercy ,seat1 ,whose mere caprice1 naught else1 did save or damn8 ,wafting the blood-stained criminal to bliss1 ,if he but gasped1 half hung1 the holy ,name8 ,thrusting the spotless infant into hell1 #begj ,if un-elect1 or unbaptized for sin6 ,to endless woe or weal forefating all4 ,what wonder justice1 reason1 stood aghast1 ,while faith1 revolting1 rushed to doubt's extreme8 ,critics1 high-soaring1 sought to clip the wings ,of arrogance in all creeds save their own4 ,half-fledged conclusion1 findings premature1 ,grounded on tale of rock or ruin old1 ,more credence had1 more reverence1 from men1 ,than sacred lore of heaven-lit centuries4 #behj ,all miracle was myth1 nor aught worth while1 ,save1 leaded down with learned theories1 ,it crawled1 an earth-worm1 wanting will to climb ,above the level of the commonplace4 ,fanatics in the state as in the church1 ,their prejudices palmed for principle1 ,vain vagaries and dreams for doctrine sound2 ,and woe to him who lisped of liberty1 ,or thought aloud one thought unthought before6 ,freedom to think and breathe--,god-granted boons1 #beij ,alike1 to savage1 serf1 and citizen-- ,was all that freedom signified to some1 ,who1 as they doled a gift already given1 ,boasted themselves magnanimous and wise4 ,freedom to speak and act as conscience bade1 ,as ,god commanded1 crushed or captive bound1 ,e'en where men vaunted most of liberty4 ,and peace was yet a dream unrealized1 ,for war still sowed and reaped his harvests red2 ,and ,christian guns were mightiest and slew most4 #bfjj ,nor yet stood toil 'gainst capital arrayed1 ,the starving masses 'gainst the ,midases1 ,as erst arose1 'gainst moss-grown old regimes1 ,the trampled ,terror#ae1 scrawling with fierce hand ,on history's flaming scroll his red revenge1 ,with that blood-reeking pen1 the guillotine2 ,nor yet faced frowning mass contemning class#af1 ,jeering1 oblivious of the lurking doom1 ,the glooming clouds where groaned the gathering storm4 ,but murderous craft and oath-bound anarchy1 #bfaj ,with secret deeds of darkness1 had begun ,to sap the life of human government1 ,and plot against the safety of mankind2 ,while greeds and lusts and passions manifold1 ,preying on frailty and on innocence1 ,ran riot 'mid the fairest1 brightest1 best4 ,where1 promise1 thy fulfillment1 pledged of yore8 ',twas time--full time--the far-seen ensign waved1 ,hailing the morn on heights of holiness1 ,proclaiming peace and freedom to the world4 #bfbj ',twas time disorder fled1 time justice reigned1 ,and rightfully were held dominion's keys2 ,time pure religion's sceptre should return1 ,by poesy extolled1 by art adorned1 ,with science and with reason reconciled2 ,time feeble earth her panacea found1 ,time health gave life its old longevity1 ,time pride should bend1 time lust to love should yield1 ,and self confess the joy of sacrifice4 ',twas time an ,enoch came#ag1 a ,zion rose4 #bfcj ,sound1 trump of ,god6 as when old ,jordan's wave ,shook with the thunder-tread of ,joshua's host1 ,shook with the shouting and the trumpet blasts1 ,heard the loud roar of crumbling ,jericho1 ,and in mad haste ran shuddering to the sea6 ,speak now the doom foreshadowed by that fall-- ,the mightier doom of ,modern ,babylon3 ,bow down thy head1 proud mistress of the world6 ,humble thy haughty crest1 degenerate queen6 ,lift but thine eyes to where ,god's finger glows #bfdj ,in fiery warning on thy festal wall1 ,drowning in dread the voice of revelry1 ,thy saturnalia's ribald shout and song4 ,ended thine empire1 ,weighed-and-,wanting-,found6 ,down to the dust in all thy worldliness1 ,thou thing of brass1 of iron1 and of clay6 ,sound1 trumpet1 sound6 ,the looked-for signal looms6 ,the fateful stone upon the image rolls6 ,on you1 my fellow servants1 ,i confer ,the priestly power of ,aaron1 with the keys #bfej ,of angel ministries1 of penitence1 ,of water-birth that washes free from sin4 ,and greater things than these shall yet be given-- ,the holier powers of high ,melchizedek1 ,which ,mightier by three shall minister4 ,and on each head was laid a holy hand#ah2 ,time making good the promise plighted there1 ,welding another link in wonder's chain1 ,writing new chapters of a story strange1 ,confounding human learning1 fools and wise4 #bffj --- ,so came once more the panoply of power#ai4 ,so rose the ensign o'er a waiting world4 ,armed thus with knowledge and authority1 ,armed and equipt1 with staff1 and stone in sling1 ,fares forth a champion for ,israel1 ,to grapple with ,philistia and prevail4 ,guide unto ,god1 repointer of the path1 ,untrodden through a thousand years nigh twained1 ,the while men roamed1 as once o'er trackless wild1 ,the savage1 by the untaught trapper trained2 #bfgj ,blind leading blind through thick and thorny wold4 ,light 'mid the darkness1 beam from heaven's full blaze1 ,driving the mists1 that comprehended not ,his brightness nor their own obscurity2 ,holding him blind who saw as few have seen4 ,he1 blind1 forsooth1 who more than all beheld6 ,sinking deep shafts to mines of mystery1 ,shallow and empty to the worldly wise2 ,soaring to heights by human lore undreamt1 ,yet deemed an earth-mole1 groping1 groveling4 #bfhj ,aloft1 alone1 an exile among men1 ,a wanderer in a solitary way1 ,pariah of prejudice and unbelief1 ,whose lowering features fiercely on him frowned4 ,thought's prisoner and truth's1 that maketh free ,the spirit1 though the body pine in chains1 ,albeit the tongue1 the pen1 in durance be1 ,consigned to silence1 captive unto light1 ,and crucified betwixt ideal and real4 ,but who art thou that lookest forth sublime1 #bfij ,a soul upsoaring as from sepulture1 ,body and spirit pure and free from stain1 ,as gold and silver tried by seven-timed fire8 ,speak6 ,art not thou the ,woman ,wonderful#bj1 ,summoned from out the silent wilderness1 ,arisen from the grave of centuries1 ,no more to be despoiled or trodden down8 ,a symbol of exalted sanctity1 ,the consecration of the contrite heart2 ,of ancient types the modern complement1 #bgjj ,chief splendor of time's sparkling firmament1 ,whose silver stars bespoke this sun of gold4 ,but when did darkness comprehend the day8 ,when welcomed pleasure thorn-crowned sacrifice1 ,whose higher1 holier joys than sin can know1 ,as dust and ashes to the sensual soul8 ,jewels to swine1 that1 turning1 rent the hand1 ,and fain 'neath foot had torn and trampled all4 ,such was ,truth's fate1 alas6 in modern time1 ',mid ,christian men2--but not her final fate4 #bgaj ,for who can stay the sun-like march of ,truth8 ,who dim with bloody hand her beam divine8 ,first shall he halt the progress of the stars1 ,the bright procession of the infinite2 ,blot out the day-beam1 dull the scythe of time1 ,shear morning's wings1 roll back eternal night1 ,or shake the moveless throne of destiny4 ,lifted an ensign never to be furled1 ,unsheathed a falchion evermore to flame1 ,till earth-born realms1 in one wide empire rolled1 #bgbj ,hail conquering ,christ as life and light of all4 ,,canto ,,nine ,upon ,the ,shoulders of ,the ,philistine#a ,the ,eaglet's nest is empty#b--void the lair ,of the young ,lion4 ,where1 ,o ,ephraim1 where8 ,where billows break along a storied strand#c1 ,heroic wave1 a fair and favored land4 ,realm of a rising glory--this thy name6 ,the cradle of the ,kingdom--this thy fame6 ,there rose the morn--though flecked with fire and blood-- ,the morn benign of human brotherhood1 ,foredestined to a passing cloud's eclipse4 #bgcj ,self-trammeled cause1 harried by hounds and whips ,of persecution1 whose infuriate maw1 ,usurping oft the form and force of law1-- ,to lawless hands a far too ready rod1-- ,had fain engulfed the growing work of ,god4 ,widowed1 bereft1 a land left desolate1 ,a wounded bird that mourns a driven mate1 ,the plumage from its bleeding body torn1 ,and scattered wide o'er realms remote1 forlorn4 ,on1 ,ephraim1 on6 thy pilgrim flight renew4 #bgdj ,land of the ,sun--,shinea's land#d--;adieu6 ,yet stay6 ,ere storm could burst1 was visioned there1 ,within the portal of the ,house of ,prayer1 ,a promise1 a fulfillment1 long foretold3 ,elias and ,messias there behold6 ,with angel keepers of the ancient keys ,of gathering and of sealing mysteries4 ,haloed with fire1 while burns the heavenly glow1 ,upon the ,prophet they their powers bestow#e4 ,speed then swift messengers his face before1 #bgej ,to blaze his sacred name on every shore2 ,chosen and missioned from the sending skies1 ,the slumbering nations to evangelize4 ,resounds 'gainst error's shield truth's ringing lance1 ,unlettered light 'gainst learned ignorance2 ,priestcraft dethroned1 by ,priesthood downward hurled1 ,while ancient thunder shakes the modern world4 ,already1 to redeem red ,laman's bands#f1 ,have virile footprints prest those virgin lands1 ,where westering empire1 in creative might1 #bgfj ,rolls a new world upon the wondering sight2 ,where flower-starred prairies1 in the far extent1 ,kiss with soft lips the bending firmament1 ,and sea-like rivers1 solitary1 lone1 ,pour their proud waters toward the burning zone4 ,land of all lands the rarest#g1 where shall rise1-- ,mirrored magnificence of earth and skies1 ,each gate a pearl1 each pinnacle a gem1-- ,the jasper walls of ,new ,jerusalem2 ,the golden glory of the hemispheres1 #bggj ,jehovah's throne through all the ,thousand ,years4 ,the land where ,adam fell1 where ,enoch rose1 ,where time began and history shall close4 ,thereto and thence1 by brand and fagot driven1 ,his fault to man1 his fealty to heaven1 ,with here and there1 perchance1 an idle word ,vainglorious zeal or vengeful might afford1 ,flies ,ephraim1 scorched and scourged1 from ,japheth's wrath#h1 ,pushed on and on o'er steep and thorny path1 #bghj ,whipt1 plundered1 wounded1 bleeding1 to the goal1 ,where joy in fullness crowns the conquering soul4 ,then hath not war1 that bringeth woe and pain1 ,the right betimes1 like gentle peace1 to reign8 ,what strife1 what tempest1 wreaks its wrath in vain8 ,prosperity and persecution blend1 ,as sun and storm1 faith's branch with fruit to bend4 ,twain are the shoulders#i of the ,philistine1 ,that ,israel onward bear1 as breeze and brine ,the tempest-driven bark that safe o'er sea #bgij ,carried calm ,caesar#aj and his destiny4 ,progression fails with opposition's flight1 ,and darkness is but handmaid unto light4 ,mistrustful of the law of liberty#aa1 ,sounding from far the doom of slavery1 ,maddened by jealous fear1 the ,gentile sees ,peril in purling stream1 in whispering breeze1 ,telling of wondrous thrift1 of mystic power1 ,of spirit gifts--the ,bride's becoming dower2 ,sees menace#ab in that migrant fold's increase1 #bhjj ,a menace to his power1 his pride1 his peace2 ,and1 as of old1 when ,egypt's despot frowned ,on ,jacob's increase1 growth from fruitful ground1 ,or when fell ,herod1 fain to slay life's ,lord1 ,pierced ,rachel's bosom with unpitying sword2 ,with feigned or real suspicion of intent ,that could but lurk in minds by malice bent1 ,and ne'er found lodgment in the dreams of those ,now fearfully beset by whelming foes1 ,force joins with fraud1 impelled by lust of crime1 #bhaj ,and innocence bewails the evil time4 ,a second ,pharaoh now o'er ,israel see6 ,a ,herod#ac in the home of ,liberty6 ,where wingd ,nemesis shall find her own1 ,gathering the whirlwind#ad where the wind was sown4 ,friendless1 unsheltered1 forth the exiles go1 ,lit by their burning homes athwart the snow1 ,till crimson footprints stamp the frozen path1 ,and icy billows bar them from the wrath ,of cruel fiends1 whose fellows1 masked as men1 #bhbj ,where languish sons of light in darksome den1 ,gloat1 while they guard1 and flout with jest obscene ,the helpless victims of that heartless scene2 ,exulting foully1 boastingly1 the while1 ,o'er deeds none else than devils would defile4 ,till patience1 past enduring1 dures no more2 ,heard1 above jackal's yell1 the lion's roar4 ,thunders and flames ,jehovah's threatening rod1 ,and shakes the dungeon#ae with the wrath of ,god-- ,a lightning tongue to scorch ,his cowering foes1 #bhcj ,and scourge them to the kennels whence they rose4 ,when known such power1 such might of word and will1 ,since ,christ bade tempest sleep and waves be still8 ,free1 whereso'er he wends1 is hope renewed1 ,demons unhoused1 disease and death subdued#af4 ,where ,sire of ,waters#ag sweeps o'er silvery sands1 ,prest by the pilgrim feet of many lands1 ,aloft1 alone1 a sacred city stands4 ,city1 mother of many#ah1 none more rare1 ,a blossoming waste shall yield1 now burnt and bare2 #bhdj ,city1 mother of empire1 famed as fair1 ,whose birth the solemn muse must yet declare4 ,where groaned the land with dread malarial ill1 ,healed by a hand divine1 o'er vale and hill ,see roof and dome and glittering fane arise6 ,unworldly link#ai1 rewelding ,earth and ,skies6 ,then comes ,elijah's mightier mission#bj forth1 ,and mortal vows take on immortal worth1 ,kindling anew hope's ever living fires1 ,turning the mutual hearts of sons and sires1 #bhej ,while doors to spirit dungeons open swing1 ,that love to light the living dead may bring6 ,but gaze from sinking unto soaring sun6 ,beyond the wave the conquering word hath won ,past horrent hosts of ,lucifer that rose1 ,with wrath of man1 the message to oppose4 ,vain strife1 where fiends archangels would assail1 ,warring 'gainst mightiness that must prevail-- ,prevail to save a periled ship4 ',tis done2 ,the crisis past#ba with ,albia stormed and won2 #bhfj ,east floweth ,west--,the ,gathering hath begun4 ,and now1 to fruitful lands1 'neath favoring skies1 ,befriended by the just#bb1 the brave1 the wise1 ,till truth1 too mighty for the common ken1 ,hath put a sword betwixt the souls of men1 ,fares garnered ,ephraim1 earliest offering#bc ,of ,israel's hope1 ,idumea's harvesting4 ,nations besprent with ,abrahamic blood ,meet there and mingle in that widening flood4 ,impelled by helping hand or hostile power1 #bhgj ,by friendly looks or frowns that darkly lower1 ,gathers the flock of faith from every land ,where roving ,ephraim mixt with ,japheth's band2 ,philistia's shoulder bearing ,israel's flight1 ,that ,japheth1 too1 may come to ,zion's light1 ,and ,joseph be o'er all his brethren blest1 ,a saviour in his ,egypt of the ,west#bd1 ,where corn and wine1 'mid famine1 comfort life1 ,where peace and plenty shame a world at strife1 ,and1 bending from the ice-barred ,north1 shall come-- #bhhj ,as bent their stars in his1 the dreamer's dome-- ,assyria's long lost captives#be1 wending home4 ,westward1 far westward1 chase the lingering night1 ,impelling ,spirit6 ,angel of the ,light6 ,westward1 still westward1 till the morn shall burn ,in high meridian glory2 till shall turn ,fate's restless tide1 re-rolling o'er the ,east1 ,spoiling the spoiler1 spreading freedom's feast1 ,foiling dark anarchy1 thy fellest foe1 ,land1 chosen land6 stunned1 staggering 'neath its blow2 #bhij ,rallying the loyal#bf in a common cause1 ,rending the eagle from the bear's red claws2 ,hurling invasion backward o'er the ,isles1 ,building anew upon the olden piles1 ,beginnings of the crowning commonhood-- ,a modern ,zion where the ancient stood4 ,backward1 roll backward1 river of the blood6 ,back to thy fountain1 hurrying human flood-- ,to ,adam's land1 the far ,edenic shore2 ,for last is first and old is new once more1 #bijj ,and nations rise where nations fell before6 ,joseph1 uprisen from the grave-like mound1 ,his ancient and inglorious battle ground#bg1 ,retreads with modern step the painful path ,where erst he fled#bh1 a fugitive from wrath2 ,fated to flee till ebbs that westward flow1 ,bearing from ,japheth bitter curse and blow1 ,while patient heaven holds off the woeful fate ,that cometh swift and layeth desolate ,the powers that prey on ,jacob--all that hate #biaj ,the ,god of ,joseph1 and the just decree ,that builds him here a boundless destiny4 ,westward1 burn westward1 morn divinely bright6 ,morn of ,jehovah1 morn of ,jacob's might6 ,but stand thou still on ,zion1 glorious light6 ,for there must dawn the day that knows no night4 ,beginnings that have here in beauty stood1 ,prone1 as from withering fire or wasting flood1 ,a little season wrecked and ruined lie#bi1 ,till they that build put pride and passion by1 #bibj ,and1 taught by pain1 through suffering's fiercest fires1 ,part with all lustful1 covetous desires4 ,when faith shall wear the armor without flaw1 ,and union such as sainted ,enoch saw#cj ,honors the fullness of celestial law1 ,then--sword of ,god and blade of ,gideon1 ,dazzling1 confounding1 driving on and on1 ,till besomed as with fire the fated land1 ,where ,zion1 guileless1 glorious1 shall stand1 ,a terror only to her trembling foes#ca1 #bicj ,ensign of peace and ,eden of repose1 ,where life's tree blossoms and light's fountain flows4 ,meanwhile her valiant ones1 her tried and true ,daughters and sons1 shall they not dare and do8 ,in vain1 alas6 in vain of such to sing1 ,with trembling hand a tuneless harp ,i string4 ,for who can count the cost1 the painful price1 ,measure the sorrow and the sacrifice1 ,rare spirits of a more than ,spartan race ,compelled their souls of halting dread to face8 #bidj ,harp of the ,hebrew seer6 ,be thine to break ,the muse's slumber1 bid the world awake1 ,and glow o'er deeds yet done for conscience' sake4 ,what tongue than ,zion's own can loose the spell8 ,whose voice than modern ,leah's1 ,rachel's1 tell ,the story of a burden borne so well8 ,bending1 not breaking1 'neath thy load of care1 ,sowing to joy1 thou shalt not reap despair6 ,planting the hope of human purity1 ,that righteousness may crown futurity1-- #biej ,patience6 endure6 for pain shall bring thee power#cb4 ,time but a dream--eternity thy dower4 ,where perfect love casts forth the jealous fear1 ,a diamond in thy diadem each tear2 ,and every sigh that rent thy suffering breast1 ,a wave of rapture on the shores of rest4 ,my lot as thine1 purest of pure-in-heart6 ,be mine the bitter as the better part4 ,but sorrows else have shadowed all things there2 ,the voice of mourning drowns the voice of prayer4 #bifj ,dampened e'en now with death's prophetic dew1 ,thy cold1 pale brow1 ,o fated1 fair ,nauvoo6 ,remains for thee no peace1 for thine no rest1 ,till on the parching plain1 the frozen crest2 ,a desert land of unlocked mystery1 ,frowning on hope1 and dumb to history4 ,yet ere the burning wilderness be won1 ,shines down on other deeds the shuddering sun4 ,city of ,joseph#cc6 ,look6 from 'leaguered walls1 ,where ,calvary's crimson light on ,carthage falls6 #bigj ,ere murderous fate the martyr's bolt hath sped1 ,while deepening darkness glooms a sky of lead1 ,and thundrous threatenings tone their notes of dread1 ,looms to the fore an archangelic form1 ,a sunlit summit shining o'er the storm2 ,a towering rock above the rushing tide ,of eager souls that surge on every side1 ,where living waters from the fountain play1 ,and glowing words light up the darkened way4 ,undaunted 'neath the shadow of his doom1 #bihj ,calm as a statue1 solemn as a tomb1 ,heedless of self1 while hoarsely rumbles near ,hate's fiery flood1 that alien to all fear1 ,that more than man1 nor less than godlike soul1 ,erect upon life's summit1 at death's goal1 ,unlocks time's portal1 swings the future's gate1 ,and opes to ,ephraim's gaze his glorious fate4 ,o diver in the days and years to be6 ,searching the caves of that prophetic sea1 ,what bringest from the deeps of destiny8 #biij ,,canto ,,ten ,the ,parted ,veil#a ,choice ,seer1 with spirit eye did he behold ,the sanguine scene that told his tragic fate8 ,surged by the flood of grief and shame that rolled ,above the murdered honor of a ,state#b1 ,where innocence again fell prey to hate8 ,there be who say he visioned all to come-- ,forsaken cities1 weeping1 desolate1 ,the desecrated fane1 the blazing dome#c1 ,the weary wanderings far in quest of peace and home4 ,saw1 then1 a tender hopeful tragedy #cjjj 7,pathetic omen of his tribe's increase7 ,uncurtained 'neath the star-hung canopy3 ,babes1 new-born babes#d1 there slumbering in a fleece ,of moon-lit frost1 as buds that bide release1 ,when winter casts its mantle white and cold1 ,protecting life where life hath seemed to cease2 ,frail lambs1 fresh penned within the ,saviour's fold1 ,and1 like ,him1 manger-nurst1 homeless on earth's threshold4 ,homeless a nursing nation1 born e'en so-- ,born in a day4 ,o ,day6 and eyes of ,night6 #cjaj ,watch now the little one a thousand#e grow1 ,as grows the torrent from the trickling height1 ,the blaze of noonday from the dawning light2-- ,the birth-throes of an empire1 whose blest reign1 ,bounding from lowliness1 soars past the sight ,of all save prophecy1 while cities twain#f ,sceptre the universe1 with foot on land and main6 ,whose but a prophet's eye such end could see8 ,whose but a prophet's tongue the issue tell8-- ,a modern march of ancient destiny1 #cjbj ,another ,exodus and ,israel1 ,bidding his bonds1 his all1 save hope1 farewell2 ,widening1 'mid alien wastes1 true freedom's fame1 ,where bondage1 chained to darkness1 fain would dwell#g2 ,and rearing temples to ,jehovah's name1 ,where looms the ,aztec's altar#h1 quenched of its ancient flame4 ,there bringing forth the promise of thy land1 ,o rare and wondrous ,west6--the prophecy ,of glittering cities strewn along thy strand1 ,o golden empire#i of the sunset sea6 #cjcj ,god-gifted ,seer1 while gazing endlessly1 ,sawest thou an ,eden on the desert brine#aj1 ,begirt with desolation's mystery1 ,ere gusht the riven rock with milk and wine1 ,where all was treeless waste and sun-baked alkaline8 ,sawest thou1 ,o prophet6 till the pioneer ,builded his eagle nest1 and pure and brave ,homed on the white-helmed peak and crystal mere8 ,o matchless land--the home their valor gave1 ,mighty in will to bless1 in work to save1 #cjdj ,redeemed1 redeeming1 all must own thy worth6 ,slander may wound thee1 tyranny enslave1 ,still thou art mine1 loved land of all the earth1 ,land of the honey-bee#aa1 land of my mortal birth6 ,land prest by footprint of my pilgrim sire#ab2 ,land visioned by my more than sire1 whose soul ,swept the far future with a glance of fire1 ,bade hope1 as memory1 her page unroll2 ,beheld uplifting1 as a parted scroll1 ,the curtain from a kingdom yet to be1 #cjej ,binding in one world-realms from pole to pole2 ,saw monarchs bow1 saw nations bend the knee1 ,saw dead and risen time take on eternity4 ,hear me1 my people#ac6 ,i shall not be slain ,while unfulfilled my mission8 ,then1 like ,him ,who holds my hand1 linked in an endless chain1 ,which cannot die1 whose light can ne'er grow dim1 ,must ,i return to ,home and ,elohim4 ,though here ,i fain would linger--human choice6 ,if weal to friend or foe--ay1 e'en to them1 #cjfj ,might purchased be1 with my poor life the price1 ,welcome1 thrice welcome death4 ,i will the sacrifice4 ,nor marvel at my mood4 ,could you but gaze ,upon the wonders of the worlds of ,god1 ,where burn1 amid the universal blaze1 ,the ,father's fullness and the ,son's abode1 ,won by their feet who walk the rightful road1 ,nor weary in well-doing2 'twere alone ,reward for all that here hath been your load4 ,forgive--leave all to heaven1 whose highest ,throne #cjgj ,made endless love to endless life the stepping stone4 ,hearken1 ,o ,house of ,joseph6 ,here must end ,my mortal toil4 ,now1 as from ,nebo's height#ad1 ,i see1 like him of old1 my day descend4 ,but looms afar upon my sinking sight ,another ,canaan4 ,clothe for pilgrim flight4 ,a ,joshua cometh6 ,him let ,israel heed1 ,and loyal be unto that council's right ,on whom the ,kingdom rolls2 for they must lead ,to where privation's hand shall sow dominion's seed4 #cjhj ,a glacier's might1 your gathered strength shall stand1 ,stalwart upon the mountains#ae1 and shall send ,swift messengers to sound o'er sea and land ,last warning to the nations4 ,hither wend ,awakening hosts1 who eager hearing lend ,while yet the voice of grace1 the voice of ,god1 ,summons the house of ,abraham his friend2 ,calls them the wave to cleave1 the wild to plod1 ,on1 on to that safe rest1 ere falls the reckoning rod4 ,for war shall wound#af this nation--rend it wide1 #cjij ,and trample nations all4 ,anon shall slaves ',gainst masters rise1 and anarchy o'erride ,till tyranny be trodden as the paves1 ,till patriot might puts forth its hand and saves ,the crimsoned land from chaos4 ,hearken1 all6 ,when ruin's host the blood-red banner waves1 ,who heeded first the ,gospel's warning call ,shall be the last of realms to crumble and to fall4 ,britannia6 ,thou among the during ones1 ,a nursing mother unto ,israel's might2 #djjj ,foremost to send thy daughters and thy sons ,from shores afar1 from darkness unto light4 ,as thou hast favored truth and 'friended right1 ,their tongues shall plead for thee in time to come1 ,and nerve thine arm when perilous thy plight4 ,borne on thy shoulder o'er the billowing foam1 ,joseph and ,judah find their heritage1 their home4 ,i saw1 while justice showed the vision dire1 ,till mercy's hand let fall the lifted veil1 ,the goal of the ungodly--blood and fire1 #djaj ,earthquake and whirlwind1 pestilential hail ,smiting earth's face with desolating flail4 ,and this1 the mere beginning of their woe1 ,whose final fate a doom the damned bewail2 ,while they that follow ,christ1 anon shall go ,to guide and save lost souls1 groping in shades below4 ,good fears not evil--grapples with it strong1 ,hell turns to heaven1 the unclean purifies2 ,for evil is but good1 the right bent wrong4 ,no weakling unto loftiest worlds can rise2 #djbj ,no coward e'er hath scaled celestial skies2 ',tis strength that wins the goal of blessedness1 ',tis knowledge saves1 'tis wisdom glorifies2 ,intelligence alone can lift and bless ,the fallen1 innocent till snared in sin's duress4 ,what matter1 if my mortal race be run1 ,where earth enfolds me to her mother breast8 ,while ye1 my people--yonder setting sun ,points out your path4 ,for you1 no peace1 no rest1 ,till firm your weary feet upon the ,west1 #djcj ,where1 moveless as yon snowy spine of hills1 ,befriended by the tempest1 unopprest1 ,and bounteous as the sun that sends the rills ,to bless the vales1 ,god's first-born fold#ag ,his purpose fills4 ,affliction here1 but friendship there and peace2 7,more cruel ,christian white than savage red71 ,and in a day when warning tongues shall cease1 ,and plain be seen what prophets all have said2 ,when peace shall have no pillow for her head1 ,save lofty heights where loyal hosts abound2 #djdj ,brave sons of battling sires#ah1 who toiled and bled ,that this might evermore be freedom's ground1 ,shall give to you their strength ,god's ,kingdom here to found4 ,bide mountain-walled1 my people6 stalwart1 strong1 ,till poureth down from hallowed founts on high1 ,the might that doth to righteousness belong1 ,the might of faith1 the power of purity-- ,despair and terror to iniquity4 ,then1 ,ephra-,judah1 who the hand shall bind ,that clears thy path before thee8 ,foes shall fly #djej ,as driven dust1 as ashes in the wind2 ,the crouching ,lion springs1 and ,he the prey shall find4 ,and by that power#ai shall ,zion be redeemed1 ,yea1 with a mighty hand1 an out-stretched arm1 ,with marvels1 miracles1 ne'er done nor dreamed ,since wonder oped her eyes4 ,the world's alarm ,shall surge1 an angry sea2 but fear nor harm ,can hover near the conquering host of ,god4 ',gainst ,lucifer's shall ,michael's legions form1 ,besoming the chosen soil with chastening rod1 #djfj ,till sainted towers arise on ,eden's ancient sod4 ,the place appointed4 ,naught else is designed2 ,naught else can heaven accept4 ,put forth the hand1 ,plant stakes of ,zion1 tight her cords to bind1 ,where'er ye move1 ,o fated pilgrim band6 ,but bring forth ,zion's self on ,zion's land#bj2 ,the consecrated soil1 whereon ye stood ,with me1 of late1 loyal while treason fanned ,the flame still thirsting for a martyr's blood4 ,there build1 in time to be1 a city unto ,god4 #djgj ,nor there alone2 for all is ,zion's land1 ,north unto ,south1 ,east unto ,western wave1 ,far as the hemisphere's wide wings expand1 ,she sits1 a sovereign queen1 ice-crowned1 to lave ,her glowing hands in tropic tides1 while brave ,her snowy feet in faith the southern sea4 ,arm patient1 slow to smite1 yet swift to save1 ,a friend to right1 a foe to tyranny4 ,and there be living now who then shall live and see4 ,while here the glory of the ,common ,good#ba1 #djhj ,shadowed and symboled by a patriot band1 ,whose triumph wrought for human brotherhood1 ,extending that high cause from strand to strand1 ,shall bring deliverance unto every land4 ,but anarchy would foil the lofty aim1 ,the peace1 the union1 by ,jehovah planned2 ,wherefore 'tis doomed to failure and to shame1 ,with all unrighteous rule1 whate'er its place or name4 ,the sceptered harlot1#bb throned on human seas1 ,chief link of ,satan's world-encircling chain2 #djij ,the secret craft and crime--iniquities ,whereby the ,wicked ,one extends his reign2 ,all these must perish from the ,lord's domain1 ,nor aught of guile be found ,his ,kingdom through4 ,truth's sun hath risen--all lesser lights must wane2 ,and wrong and false that masks as right and true1 ,shall feel the scourge of flame that ,sodom's sin o'erthrew4 ,more would ,i tell that in my bosom burns1 ,but bigot fires would flame as ne'er before2 ,for truth1 rejected1 friend to traitor turns1 #ejjj ,and damns where fain 'twould save4 ,six mounting o'er1 ,my spirit to a seventh realm#bc did soar1 ,and saw and heard--,ah1 would that ,i might say6 ,though memory but renewed a former lore1 ,what all may learn when full the dawning day1 ,when twinkling1 twilight faith to knowledge shall give way4 ,hope not till then to have my history1 ,what life hath scribed to scan2 nor tongue nor pen ,can tell the tale1 dispel the mystery1 ,that hides me from the dim1 dull gaze of men4 #ejaj ,sojourning here1 within this shadowed scene1 ,a medial stage1 a mortal compromise1 ,the spirit's might1 the body's weight1 between1 ,deem not that e'en earth's wisest can be wise1 ,till heaven the blindness touch that seals all human eyes4 ,one little fold ,i lift of that vast veil3 ,how came he ,god1 to whom all gods must bow-- ,the very ,sire1 whom all the sons now hail ,as mightiest of the mighty8 ,i avow ,that even ,he was once as we are now2 #ejbj ,that we like ,him can be--yea1 by degrees1 ,mount unto loftiest heights1 till on each brow ,be writ the ,name of ,names4 ,not angels these1 ,but ,gods1 e'en ,sons of ,god1 through all eternities4 ,weighed in the balance here1 nor wanting found2 ,tried in the fire1 triumphant from the test2 ,though wrung their hearts1 their finest feelings ground1 ,betwixt life's upper1 nether1 millstones prest1 ,till proved1 of good and brave1 the bravest1 best4 ,less faith than theirs who follow ,abraham1 #ejcj ,honoring o'er all ,jehovah's high behest1 ,uplifts no gate of that ,jerusalem-- ,the ,bosom of the ,gods--the ,glory of ,i ,,am4#bd ,bide valiant here1 as ye were valiant there4 ,whence came delightsome bodies1 soaring minds1 ,aspiring thrones to win and crowns to wear8 ,spring not all seeds according to their kinds8 ,each act1 each word1 each thought1 delivers1 binds1 ,dwarfs or develops4 ,man's all-crowning state ,his own creation4 ,what the ,judgment finds1 #ejdj ,the soul reveals2 and weal or woe the fate1 ',tis freedom's chainless choice1 for all on will must wait4 ,stand as ye stood1 my legion brave1 what time ,the starry host1 celestial symphony1 ,choraled the anthem seraphic1 sublime1 ,to the spelled ear of all eternity6 ,lifted your hands for light and liberty#be1 ,when fraud with force progression's path would pave4 ,fought we with ,michael1 drove the dragon1 he ,who planned to seize all worlds1 all worlds enslave1 #ejej ,and would have damned1 destroyed1 what ,christ came down to save4 ,as now1 in lesser liberty's abode1 ,incarnate spirit of fell tyranny ,would trample on the type of ,freedom's ,code#bf1 ,befriending human right where'er it be4 ,but hear me1 ,heaven6 ,come life1 come death1 to me1 ,jehovah's captain1 in ,his name and fear1 ,i vow to ,him ,his people shall be free-- ,ay1 free all men1 as in that former sphere1 #ejfj ,when hurled from yon dread height the power of ,lucifer4 ,fear not--,truth's cause shall triumph4 ,sown the seed ,whose harvest knows no failure1 no delay4 ,crooked shall straighten to the future need1 ,and crudeness unto culture shall give way2 ,and part shall change to perfect in that day4 ,firm1 strong--not smooth1 the building's basic stone1 ,hidden from view2 while rests the heavenly ray ,on polished wall1 on gleaming spire and cone3 ,jacob's1 not ,esau's hand#bg shall rear ,messiah's throne4 #ejgj ,great the beginning--glorious the end2 ,elijah comes1 the ,kingdom to complete#bh4 ,farewell6 ,this from your father1 brother1 friend4 ,no more your prophet1 patriarch1 ye meet1 ,till here all prophets1 patriarchs1 ye greet1 ,mingling with ,gods1 while heaven on earth shall dwell1 ,to drink the wine of wisdom at ,his feet1 ,the ,husbandman and ,vine of ,israel4 ,thus saith the ,god of ,jacob--,joseph's ,god4 ,farewell6 --- ,then sank to rest1 his mortal mission done4 #ejhj ,hark to those shouts that hail a homing king6 ,a crimson aureole rounds the sinking sun1 ,omen of golden dawn swift following2 ,death's winter promise of eternal spring-- ,celestial ,edens1 empires1 throne on throne1 ,and worlds once waste1 redeemed1 there blossoming4 ,future now present1 and the past unflown1 ,while all unguised1 unveiled1 life1 death1 earth1 time1 are known4 ,,epilogue ,the ,angel ,ascendant#a ,but what are life1 death1 earth1 and time to thee1 ,eternal ,truth8 ,thou goest on for aye4 #ejij ,lives1 deaths1 earths1 times1 their plurals multifold1 ,these but the bubbles on thy boundless wave1 ,the sands of thy great glass1 the flickering gleams ,of life that knows nor origin nor end4 ,these but the sparks flung from thy flaming forge1 ,the falling star-dust of thy firmament1 ,where stars go down that straightway suns may rise4 ,each ray of light1 each principle of power1 ,each epoch-measuring hap of history1 ,had it a tongue would it not testify3 #fjjj ,there cometh after me a mightier2 ,i but prepare the way his face before2 ,i but baptize with water1 he with fire8 ,till now tells not the past this oft-told tale1 ,which yet the future shall proclaim and prove8 ,thou ,angel1 there ascending from the ,east1 ,who criest unto four1 ,hurt not1 but spare1 ,till we the servants of our ,god have sealed6 ,who art thou and why risest now to view8 ,i am that ,voice which crieth in the waste2 #fjaj ,that wandereth through all worlds1 invisible2 ,that sayeth unto all1 ,prepare1 prepare1 ,behold ,he cometh6 ,go ye out to meet4 ,as ,his1 my goings forth are from of old3 ,a minister to ,earth from ,eden's hour1 ,reopening the guarded heavenward way1 ,whereby the fallen ,michael rose again#b2 ,lifting to rest the city sanctified#c1 ,awaiting there my mandate to descend4 ,wrought ,i through him whom ,gods name ,gabriel1 #fjbj ,the ,noah of a world once water-doomed1 ,by whom was earth besprent with life anew1 ,nor less with light from truth's rekindled flame1 ,still burning1 though with error's incense dimmed1 ,and fouled with alien fire#d in many lands4 ,wrought ,i through him whom men call ,abraham1 ,the root of ,shiloh#e1 righteous branch of ,shem2 ,quarry of ,israel1 rock whence he was hewn2 ,blesser of races with believing blood#f1 ,sprinkler of spirits faithful o'er the world1 #fjcj ,oceans of nations1 fountainward that flow1 ,as the soiled floods unto the filtering sea4 ,led ,i when ,israel cast ,egypt's chain#g1 ,and cleft the wave 'twixt bonds and liberty2 ,as lead ,i shall when one the ,shepherd loved ,bringeth the sheep from long captivity#h4 ,smote ,i by him who carved to ,canaan's land1 ,whose sword#i gave ,israel his inheritance1 ,whose high behest e'en day and night obeyed1 ,on ,gibeon1 in the vale of ,ajalon4 #fjdj ,blazed ,i through him who flamed as fire from heaven ,at ,kishon's brook#aj1 where sunk the pride of ,baal2 ,sealer1 unsealer1 of the sending skies1 ,renewer of the worship primal1 pure4 ,my hand in his1 the anointed1 named ere born#aa1 ,to sunder brazen-gated ,babylon1 ,foreshadowing the great deliverance ,wrought out by ,him who died all worlds to win4 ,then burst the long sealed canopy#ab o'er him ,revealed to whom were holy ,sire and ,son1 #fjej ,and angel guardian of the book of gold2 ,that truth might vanquish error1 and once more ,be known to men the true and living ,god4 ,when spake the angels of authority1 ,mine was the hand that gave the ,kingdom's keys#ac1 ,lifting an ensign for the gathering2 ,beginning of an ending yet to be1 ,when ,i a second time shall set my hand1 ,judah1 with ,joseph1 joining to the fold1 ,and long lost tribes and remnants ransoming4 #fjfj ,the martyred ,seer who gave up life to give ,the warning unto ,ephraim1 ,god's first born1 ,came ,i to him the ,abrahamic keys#ad1 ,the ,abrahamic covenant1 to restore2 ,that ,jacob1 to the end increasing still1 ,might be as sands and stars for multitude4 ,how tell the sum#ae of all my ministries8 ,wrought ,i through him who gave to ,east the ,west1 ,through him whose pen of fire proclaimed it free1 ,through him whose blade the blood-bought soil redeemed4 #fjgj ,came ,i to thee1 lone muser on the mount1 ,my minstrel--,i thy muse4 ,dost know me now8 ,all1 all that make for freedom and for peace1 ,that loose the captive1 and the lost restore1 ,that teach1 in part or whole1 eternal truth1 ,by science1 art1 or might of melody2-- ,all these my ministers1 who aid my aims4 ,elias ,i1 their tasks ,elias-given4 ,spirit of ,progress1 speeding on for aye2 ,gleam of the glory of ,omnipotence2 #fjhj ,hand of the ,arm ,omnific--cause of all2 ,a mighty making way for ,mightier1 ,coming1 as ,jacob upon ,esau's heel#af1 ,eternity upon the trail of time4 ,jehovah's ancient covenant ,messenger1 ,come ,i again1 again1 ,his courier1 ,till plenal powers of great ,melchizedek ,the fullness of the glory here unfold1 ,whelming1 ,o ,earth6 as once with watery wave1 ,thy form with fire1 from founts of heavenly flame2 #fjij ,sealing1 unsealing1 binding o'er and o'er1 ,till all is order1 as of old ordained4 ,then shall the ,watchman on the ,wall proclaim3 ',be glad1 ,o ,zion and ,jerusalem6 ,rejoice1 ,o ,earth6 ,no longer grieve and mourn4 ,ended the empire of iniquity1 ,broken oppression's rod forevermore4 ,gone are the gold1 the silver1 and the bronze1 ,the conquering iron1 and the crumbling clay2 ,world-wide1 heaven-high1 the ,stone of ,israel stands2 #gjjj ,the ,chaldean image as the ,chaldean dream#ag6' ,and who is ,she that looketh forth sublime1 ,clothed with the sun1 shod with the moon's pale beam1 ,her matchless brow bediademed with stars8 ,fairer than eve1 mightier than bursting morn1 ,as noon-day majesty magnificent8 ,perfection1 heaven-retained unto this hour1 ,immanuel's ,spouse1 the glorious ,bride of ,christ1 ,arrayed in all her garments beautiful1 ,adorned and ready#ah1 waiting for her ,lord6 #gjaj ,now1 ,heaven's loud trumpets1 all ,earth's secrets tell6 ,death and hell's dungeons1 liberate your dead6 ,for 'mid the shouts of saints1 the risen1 the changed1 ,day dawns1 hour strikes1 skies burst--the ,king descends6 ,await that time destroyers four#ai1 who give ,the ,gospel1 ,god's last warning unto man2 ,await likewise the thousands1 twelve times twelve#bj1 ,who for the coming ,king the way prepare4 ,hold ,i the signet of the ,living ,god-- ,lift unto light1 or hurl to darkness down4 #gjbj ,the hour is imminent4 ,heed well the sign3 ,mark when the ,bow's bright promise#ba is withdrawn6 --- ,enough1 ,i know thee1 ,strong and mighty ,one1 ,that standest in the presence of the ,lord6 ,that leadest ,israel from bondage old1 ,that liftest up the ,ensign unto all6 ,know thee1 thou ,muse and ,minstrel of the ,mount1 ,thou ,harper on the ,hills of ,melody8 ,i know thee1 and am here to work thy will1 ,to hymn thy praise1 perchance behold thy power1 #gjcj ,when1 iris-crowned and clothed as with a cloud1 ,thy face the sun1 thy feet as pillared fire1 ,thou comest down from ,heaven1 and swearest by ,eternity1 that ,time shall be no more6 ,ancient of ,ages6 ,angel of the ,east6 ,spirit of ,promise6 ,prophet of the ,dawn#bb6 ,,notes ,explanation3 ,the first figure at the beginning of the ,note indicates the word or phrase marked in the text2 the second figure gives the number of the line in which it is found4 ,,note ,,to ,,dedication4 ,the ,dedication is to ,president ,joseph ,f4 ,smith1 sixth in succession to the leadership of the ,latter-day ,saints1 nephew to ,joseph the ,prophet1 and son of ,hyrum the ,patriarch1 who were martyred at ,carthage1 ,illinois1 ,june #bg1 #ahdd4 ,the poem made its appearance during ,president ,smith's administration1 and the author owes much to his kind encouragement and appreciation4 ,,note ,,to ,,theme4 ,the words of the ,theme are a passage from the ,key to ,john's ,revelation 7,doctrine and ,covenants #gg3i74 ,,note ,,to ,,prelude4 ,the ,author1 while ill1 prayed that he might live to produce a work that would continue his ministry as a teacher after his mortal tongue was stilled4 ,the beginning of the answer to his prayer was an immediate inspiration to write this poem4 --- ,,canto ,,one #a--,title3 9999,as ,from a ,dream49999 ,the subject of this ,canto is the author's spiritual awakening4 #b--bj4 9999,baal and ,astoreth9999 7also rendered ,ashtoreth74 ,pagan deities1 frequently mentioned in the ,old ,testament4 ,they were worshiped by the idolatrous ,israelites4 ,the ,prophet ,elijah's controversy with the priests of ,baal is one of the most dramatic episodes in sacred history4 7,i ,kings #ah3ai-dj74 ,baal was the sun god1 chief male divinity of the ,phoenicians2 ,ashtoreth1 representing the moon1 a goddess of the ,philistines--the same as ,astarte of the ,zidonians4 ,the corresponding deities among the ,greeks and ,romans were ,zeus or ,jupiter and ,aphrodite or ,venus4 #c--fj4 9999,truth's ,triple ,key49999 ,the ,spirit of ,truth1 revealing past1 present and future4 #d--hf4 9999,ambrosial ,gardens49999 ,the ,gardens of the ,gods--,heaven4 #e--ib4 9999,paradise49999 ,the ,spirit ,world1 a place of rest for the righteous1 awaiting resurrection and exaltation to glorious spheres beyond4 7,alma1 #dj3aa-ad2 ,joseph ,smith's ,teachings1 pp4 #ahd1 #ahe2 ,key to ,theology1 #ad47 #f--aja4 9999,love's ,eyes49999 ,love is usually represented as a blind boy1 ,cupid1 shooting his arrows aimlessly4 ,love1 when spiritually enlightened1 is no longer blind1 but has a definite purpose in view4 #g--aaa4 9999,lethean ,ground49999 ,lethe1 in classic mythology1 signifies oblivion4 ,it was the name of a river in ,hades1 of which the dead drank and forgot all4 #h--aag4 9999,o ,thou1 ,of ,beauty69999 ,the stanza beginning with these words is an apostrophe to ,woman4 #i--acj4 9999,apple of ,ashes49999 ,on the shores of the ,dead ,sea there grows1 it is said1 a fruit resembling the apple1 beautiful and inviting to the eye1 but turning to ashes at the touch4 #aj--afg4 9999,equally ,may ,win49999 ,the vanquished1 as well as the victorious1 may gain1 through experience1 development4 #aa--agd4 9999,what ,soul ,can ,grow89999 ,pride1 greed1 hate1 and all other perverted passions1 are as weeds and thorns in the garden of the heart4 ,it is fair to presume that the ,saviour1 when he exhorted his disciples to forgive and love their enemies1 had in view the welfare of the disciples themselves4 ,it was more for their sake than for the sake of their enemies1 that ,he gave the exhortation4 #ab--ahe4 9999,the ,spirit of the ,infinite49999 ,the ,holy ,spirit1 assumed throughout the poem to be acting through ,elias1 the ,genius of ,progress1 who also has his agents or instruments4 #ac--bai4 9999,time's ,hills and ,vales49999 ,a metaphor suggested by the ,book of ,abraham 7#c3ah1 #ai74 --- ,,canto ,,two #a--,title3 9999,the ,soul of ,song49999 ,herein the author is represented as soliloquising upon his native mountains1 where he meets the ,soul of ,song and is inspired to sing the epic of time and eternity4 ,as the ,soul of ,song1 ,elias makes his first appearance in the action of the poem4 #b--bfa4 9999,the ,sacred ,garden49999 ,the ,garden of ,eden4 #c--bfc4 9999,titan ,stand49999 ,the ,titans were a group of mythical giants1 descended from the gods4 7,greek and ,roman mythology47 #d--bgf4 9999,orphean ,boon49999 ,orpheus1 son of the ,muse ,calliope1 received from ,apollo or ,minerva a lyre upon which he played so skillfully that rocks and trees were moved1 rivers ceased to flow1 and savage beasts forgot their wildness1 charmed by the wonderful sounds4 7,ibid47 #e--bha4 9999,oh1 ,were ,my ,words69999 ,a paraphrase of ,job #ai3bc1 #bd4 #f--bhh4 9999,melting ,gift49999 ,the power of speech or of song4 #g--chd4 9999,voice of the ,stars49999 ,another reference to ,job 7#ch3g74 #h--cij4 9999,the ,body's ,bard49999 ,this allusion is to poets who exalt the material over the spiritual1 the sensuous over the intellectual1 the body of things over the soul of things4 #i--djg4 9999,this ,most ,ancient ,shore49999 ,modern science1 confirming modern revelation1 is beginning to regard ,america as the ,old ,world1 not the ,new4 #aj--djh4 9999,and ,man ,shall ,rise49999 ,zion1 ,city of the ,pure-in-,heart1 is to stand upon the ancient site of the ,garden of ,eden4 #aa--dae4 9999,shepherd ,psalmist49999 ,david1 who played before ,king ,saul1 exorcising the evil spirit which held the monarch bound4 7,i ,samuel #ah3aj and #ai3i47 --- ,,canto ,,three #a--,title3 9999,elect of ,elohim49999 ,elohim1 or ,eloheim1 the ,hebrew plural for ,god4 ,to the modern ,jew it means the plural of majesty1 not of number2 but to the ,latter-day ,saint it signifies both4 ,as here used it stands for ,the ,council of the ,gods1 or1 as in ,psalms #hb3a1 ,the ,congregation of the ,mighty4 ,in that council or congregation was elected1 before ,earth was formed1 the ,redeemer of the ,world4 7,pearl of ,great ,price--,moses #d3a-d2 ,abraham #c3bb-bh2 ,compendium p4 #bhe47 ,this ,canto glimpses the choosing of ,messiah1 the rebellion of ,lucifer1 the ,saviour's descent to ,earth1 his crucifixion and return to ,glory4 ,it is the beginning of the poem proper4 #b--dej4 9999,olea's ,silver ,beam49999 ,olea1 according to the ,book of ,abraham1 is ,moon2 ,shinehah 7,shinea7 ,sun2 and ,kokaubeam1 ,stars4 ,kolob1 according to the same authority1 is a great governing planet nigh unto the throne of ,god4 7,abraham #c2 ,d4 and ,c4 #gf3be1 #bh47 #c--ejd4 9999,mighty ,michael49999 ,michael the ,archangel1 leader of the hosts of ,heaven against ,lucifer and his rebellious legions1 became ,adam and fell from an immortal to a mortal state that he might become the progenitor of the human family4 #d--eaf4 9999,tried ,souls49999 ,in ,mormon theology soul means body and spirit combined1 but in general literature1 and especially poetry1 soul and spirit are synonyms4 #e--ebb4 9999,the ,stepping-,stone49999 ,god's children1 such as kept the first or spirit estate1 were given bodies upon this planet1 thus becoming souls1 capable of eternal increase and advancement4 7,abraham #c3bf47 ,two-thirds of the spirits then populating the ,spirit ,world were found worthy of opportunities for experience and development in mortality1 while one-third--those who rebelled--were denied that privilege4 7,compendium p4 #bhh47 #f--ebh4 9999,the ,love ,that ,hath ,redeemed ,all ,worlds49999 ,the ,gospel of the ,christ1 the highest expression of ,god's love for man1 has saved many worlds1 and is destined to save many more4 7,moses #a3cc-ci47 ,but the ,gospel is more than a means of escape from impending ills2 it existed before man had need of salvation4 ,a divine plan for human progress1 embracing both the ,fall and the ,redemption1 it was framed in the heavens before this earth was organized1 and is a free gift from ,god to man4 ,man1 however1 to avail himself of its benefits1 must yield obedience to its requirements4 ,redemption 7resurrection7 comes unconditionally1 but salvation and exaltation depend upon human works as well as upon divine favor4 ,a soul may be redeemed--raised from the dead--and yet condemned at the final judgment for evil deeds done in the body4 ,likewise may a soul be redeemed and saved1 and yet come short of the glory that constitutes exaltation4 ,to redeem1 save and glorify is the threefold purpose of the ,gospel of ,christ4 ,the ,english word ,gospel comes from the ,anglo-,saxon ,godspell or ,god-,story--the story of ,god4 ,in its fullest sense it signifies everything connected with the redemptive career of that ,divine ,being who gave ,his life that man might eternally live4 #g--edh4 9999,exception ,scorns49999 ,lucifer1 who fain would have been the ,redeemer1 proposed to save by coercive methods1 involving the destruction of human agency1 and demanded as his reward the honor that belongs to ,god4 7,moses #d3a-d2 ,abraham #c3bb-bh7 #h--efj4 9999,my ,messenger49999 ,it was ,jehovah the ,god of ,israel who became ,jesus of ,nazareth and died to redeem mankind 7,d4 and ,c4 #aaj3a-d74 ,he is ,son ,ahman1 concerning whom ,orson ,pratt1 citing an unpublished revelation1 says3 ,what is the name of ,god in the pure language8 ,the answer says ',ahman4' ,what is the name of the ,son of ,god8 ,answer1 ',son ,ahman1 the greatest of all the parts of ,god1 excepting ,ahman4' ,what is the name of men8 ',son ,ahman1' is the answer4 7,journal of ,discourses1 ,vol4 ,,ii1 p4 #cdb47 #i--efb4 9999,thy ,face ,before49999 ,an allusion to ,elias1 the lesser going before the greater4 #aj--ega4 9999,my ,friend49999 ,abraham1 the friend of ,god1 and father of the faithful4 #aa--egb4 9999,idumea49999 ,the ,world--here used as a synonym for ,earth4 #ab--ehi4 9999,this ,wandering ,planet ,bring49999 ,this earth will be rolled back into the presence of ,god and crowned with celestial glory4--,joseph ,smith 7,compendium1 p4 #bhh74 #ac--fac4 9999,the ,hour of ,noon49999 ,the ,meridian ,dispensation4 #ad--fae4 9999,light's ,sun and ,moon49999 ,christ1 the light of the sun1 moon and stars1 and the power by which they were made4 7,d4 and ,c4 #hh3g1 #h1 #i47 #ae--fai4 9999,elias8 ,yea and ,nay49999 ,john the ,baptist1 forerunner of the ,christ1 was an ,elias1 a restorer2 but1 according to ,joseph ,smith1 not the ,elias who is to restore all things4 ,there are many ,eliases1 ,joseph says3 ,when ,god sends a man into the world to prepare for a greater work1 holding the keys of the power of ,elias1 it was called the doctrine of ,elias even from the early ages of the world4 7,compendium1 p4 #bha47 #af--fba4 9999,learned to ,shine49999 ,before the ,twelve ,apostles were chosen1 ,john the ,baptist proclaimed the ,lamb of ,god1 and said concerning ,him3 ,he must increase1 and ,i must decrease4 ,john was therefore as the waning ,moon in the presence of the rising ,sun4 #ag--fdj4 9999,a ,city ,doomed49999 ,jerusalem1 over which the ,saviour wept1 prophesying its downfall4 7,matthew #bc3cg-ci47 #ah--fef4 9999,gloom-,wrapt ,gethsemane49999 ,the ,saviour's agony in the ,garden of ,gethsemane is an incident familiar to every reader of the ,new ,testament4 #ai--fge4 9999,immanuel49999 ,one of the titles of the ,saviour1 meaning ,god with us4 --- ,,canto ,,four #a--,title3 9999,night and the ,wilderness49999 ,this part of the poem is an allegory of the ,christian or ,meridian ,dispensation1 following the death of ,jesus and his forerunner2 portraying the mission of the ,comforter1 and showing the departure from the primitive ,faith1 after the passing of the apostolic ,twelve1 one of whom--the ,church having gone into the ,wilderness--remains to testify of things to come4 ,the ,night is the spiritual night that followed the setting of the ,sun of ,righteousness--a night lit by ,moon and ,stars1 with lesser lights twinkling through the ,dark ,ages and onward into modern times4 ,the ,wilderness is the world invisible4 7,d4 and ,c4 #hh3ff47 #b--fhh4 9999,an ,eagle's ,wings49999 ,the ,roman ,empire1 emblemized by the ,eagle1 dominated the then known world4 #c--fif4 9999,peace to ,flow49999 7,i7 ,the immense field covered by the conquests of ,alexander gave to the civilized world a unity of language1 without which it would have been1 humanly speaking1 impossible for the earliest preachers to have made known the good tidings in every land which they traversed4 7,,ii7 ,the rise of the ,roman ,empire created a political unity which reflected in every direction the doctrines of the new faith4 7,,iii7 ,the dispersion of the ,jews prepared vast multitudes of ,greeks and ,romans for the unity of a pure morality and a monotheistic faith4 ,the ,gospel emanated from the capital of ,judea2 it was preached in the tongue of ,athens2 it was diffused through the empire of ,rome2 the feet of its earliest missionaries traversed the solid structure of undeviating roads by which the ,roman legionaries--'those massive hammers of the whole earth'--had made straight in the desert a highway for our ,god4 ,semite and ,aryan had been unconscious instruments in the hands of ,god for the spread of a religion which1 in its first beginnings1 both alike detested and despised4 ,the letters of ,hebrew and ,greek and ,latin inscribed above the cross were the prophetic and unconscious testimony of three of the world's noblest languages to the undying claims of ,him who suffered to obliterate the animosities of the nations which spoke them1 and to unite them all together in the one great ,family of ,god4--,dean ,farrar1 in ,the ,life and ,work of ,st4 ,paul1 abridged edition1 ,book ,,ii1 pp4 #fa1 #fb4 #d--gjf4 9999,she-,wolf's ,might49999 ,the ,she-,wolf1 traditionally the nurse of ,romulus and ,remus1 who founded ,rome1 was also an emblem of that world-conquering power1 which1 though eventually it persecuted the ,christians1 at first protected them from their ,jewish oppressors4 ,judah's emblem was the ,lion4 ,as for the remaining figure in the allusion1 it is written that the ,saviour said to his disciples3 ,i send you forth as lambs among wolves4 #e--gjg4 9999,iron-,limbed49999 ,the phrases iron-limbed1 brazen-loin1 silver-breasted1 golden ,babylon1 characterize respectively the ,roman1 ,graeco-,macedonian1 ,medo-,persian1 and ,babylonian empires1 which1 in reverse order1 ruled successively the ancient world4 ,beginning with ,babylon1 the head of gold1 these four universal powers figure in the ,prophet ,daniel's interpretation of ,nebuchadnezzar's dream 7,daniel #b74 #f--gac4 9999,asian ,kin49999 ,alexander the ,great extended his conquests as far eastward as ,india1 whose native inhabitants claim kinship with ,european peoples through a common ,aryan ancestry4 ,if this claim be true1 then the ,hindoos1 like the ,europeans1 are descended from ,japheth1 the eldest son of ,noah1 and consequently are ,gentiles--a word springing from ,gentilis1 meaning of a nation1 that is1 a nation not of ,israel4 #g--gah4 9999,kurush49999 ,cyrus1 founder of the ,medo-,persian empire4 #h--gcj4 9999,lofty ,vineyards49999 ,d4 and ,c4 #hh3ea-fa4 #i--gca4 9999,spirit ,moon and ,speaking ,stars49999 ,the ,holy ,ghost and the ,apostolic ,twelve4 #aj--gcb4 9999,the ,woman ,wonderful49999 ,the ,church of ,christ1 represented by a ,woman 7,revelation #ab71 and referred to in other places as the ,bride1 the ,lamb's ,wife4 #aa--gcf4 9999,glory's ,symboling49999 ,sun1 moon and stars1 symbolizing celestial1 terrestrial1 and telestial glories4 7,d4 and ,c4 #gf3if-ih47 #ab--gdb4 9999,vicegerent49999 ,the ,comforter1 concerning whom ,jesus said1 ,it is needful that ,i go1 or ,he will not come unto you4 ,in other words1 the greater ,light had to depart1 before the lesser could shine in its fulness4 #ac--gdc4 9999,the ,unembodied ,one49999 ,says ,joseph the ,seer3 ,the ,father has a body of flesh and bones1 as tangible as man's2 the ,son also2 but the ,holy ,ghost is a personage of spirit4 7,d4 and ,c4 #acj3bb47 #ad--gdh4 9999,after and ,ere49999 ,god and ,christ1 the ,father and the ,son1 by the power of the ,holy ,ghost created all things1 and by that power will raise all from the dead4 #ae--gef4 9999,prophet ,still ,pleading49999 ,the ,spirit of ,prophecy1 typified by ,john the ,baptist1 preaching in the wilderness4 #af--ggd4 9999,those ,fluent ,stars49999 ,the ,twelve ,apostles1 oracles of ,god and crown of the ,church of ,christ4 7,rev4 #ab3a47 #ag--gha4 9999,save ,haply ,one49999 ,john the ,beloved4 7,john #ba3bj-bc2 ,d4 and ,c4 #g and #gg47 #ah--ghi4 9999,leading the ,lost49999 ,it is believed that ,john the ,revelator will lead the ,lost ,tribes from ,the ,land of the ,north4 7,d4 and ,c4 #gg3ad2 ,rev4 #aj3h-aa47 #ai--hjf4 9999,the ,man-,child49999 ,the ,man-,child of the ,apocalypse 7,rev4 #ab3e7 represents the ,priesthood--divine authority--which was taken from the ,earth1 with the fulness of the ,gospel1 after the passing of the ,apostles4 #bj--hae4 9999,japheth ,sways49999 ,gentile domination over ,israel1 particularly in those nations where the ,jews have been and are still oppressed4 #ba--hbj4 9999,antaeus-,like49999 ,antaeus was a fabled giant1 vanquished by ,hercules4 ,each time that ,hercules threw him the giant gained fresh strength from coming in contact with the ground4 #bb--hbb4 9999,conquering ,his ,dust-,adoring ,conqueror49999 ,the modern ,jew is said to hold the purse-strings of the world4 #bc--hca4 9999,that ,gentile ,hosts ,might ,see49999 ,saul of ,tarsus1 afterwards ,paul the ,apostle1 persecuted the ,church of ,christ before his conversion 7,acts #i3a-ai74 ,thus was typified the spiritual blindness of ,israel1 which caused the ,gospel to be carried to the ,gentiles4 ,paul1 the principal agent for their illumination1 declares3 ,blindness in part is happened to ,israel1 until the fulness of the ,gentiles be come in4 7,rom4 #aa3be47 #bd--hcb4 9999,martyred1 ,immolate49999 ,israel's dispersion1 like ,adam's fall and ,christ's crucifixion1 was part of a mighty plan for the promotion of the human race4 ,adam fell that mortal man might be4 ,christ died to burst the bands of death and make the fall effectual unto the higher ends ordained4 ,the children of ,israel were scattered over the world1 in order that the ,gospel might make its way more readily among all peoples4 ,the history of ,israel is the history of a martyred nation1 suffering for the welfare of other nations1 whatever may be said of the transgressions of the chosen people1 which occasioned and justified the calamities that came upon them4 #be--hda4 9999,from ',neath the ,yoke49999 ,the future redemption of the ,negro race4 #bf--hdc4 9999,see and ,hear ,his ,risen ,lord49999 ,the ,house of ,israel is privileged to receive the personal ministrations of the ,saviour1 while the ,gentiles are ministered to by the ,holy ,ghost4 7,,iii ,nephi #ae3bc47 #bg--hdg4 9999,in the ,mire49999 ,beginning of the ,christian departure from the true ,faith4 #bh--hej4 9999,the ,heaven-,lit ,torch49999 ,the ,light of the ,gospel1 enjoyed by the primitive ,christians1 though compelled to hide from their ,roman persecutors and worship ,god on mountain tops and in the catacombs4 #bi--heb4 9999,incense 99 99 99 ,diana's ,shrine49999 ,diana was a deity worshiped by the ,romans4 ,incense--metaphorically the vain philosophies1 traditions and customs1 adopted by the false ,church that came up in the place of the true ,church and paganized itself in order to be popular with the world4 #cj--hee4 9999,shearing ,compromise49999 ,the result1 spiritually1 of the enthronement of ,christianity as the state religion of the ,roman ,empire1 ,a4 ,d4 #cbd4 #ca--hfa4 9999,east from ,west49999 ,the pseudo ,church1 as well as the ,empire of the ,caesars1 divided itself into ,east and ,west1 with ,constantinople and ,rome as the capital cities4 #cb--hgd4 9999,she ,was ,wont49999 ,she stands for the true ,church of ,christ4 #cc--hhj4 9999,crimson ,courtesan49999 ,the ,scarlet ,woman described by ,john the ,revelator 7,rev4 #ag74 #cd--ijj4 9999,till the ,judgment ,sits49999 ,a reference to ,daniel #g3ba-bg4 #ce--ijb4 9999,glory ,lift the ,gloom49999 ,messiah's second coming4 #cf--ijc4 9999,the ,moonlike ,one49999 ,the ,holy ,spirit1 ruling the ,night of ,ages1 after the ,light of the ,world has departed4 #cg--ijh4 9999,impelling to ,all ,action49999 ,the impelling power of the ,spirit of ,god is interestingly set forth in ,i ,nephi #ac3aj-ai4 ,see also ,lowell's poems ,columbus and ,a ,glance ,behind the ,curtain4 #ch--iea4 9999,wayward ,son of ,deity49999 ,napoleon and other conquerors type the class of characters here described4 #ci--igc4 9999,some ,said ,jeremias49999 ,when the ,saviour inquired1 ,whom do men say that ,i am8 ,peter answered ,some say ,thou art ,elias1 and some say ,jeremias4 ,elias and ,jeremias are ,greek forms of the ,hebrew names ,elijah and ,jeremiah4 ,joseph ,smith1 however1 drew a distinction between the spirit of ,elias and the spirit of ,elijah4 7,compendium1 pp4 #bha-bhc47 #dj--ihc4 9999,mirror and ,model of ,humanity49999 ,god created man in his own image4 7,gen4 #a3bg47 #da--iig4 9999,incomprehensible49999 ,so modern ,christians contend respecting ,deity4 ,it is true only in part4 ,god's unrevealed infinite fulness is of course incomprehensible to the finite mind4 ,but what ,he has revealed concerning ,himself is not incomprehensible4 ,else why did ,he reveal it8 #db--ajjh4 9999,each as a ,star49999 ,the ,jewish or ,mosaic ,dispensation shed light that prepared the world for a greater--the ,christian ,dispensation2 which1 in its turn1 made ready for one greater still--the ,dispensation of the ,fulness of ,times4 ,this is the significance of ,elias4 7,compendium1 p4 #bha47 #dc--ajbj4 9999,a ,weapon for the ,right49999 ,such writers as ,voltaire1 ,paine1 and ,ingersoll1 subserve the cause of ,christ by shattering false traditions1 erroneously supposed by many to be true teachings of the ,saviour and his ,apostles4 --- ,,canto ,,five #a--,title3 9999,the ,messenger of ,morn49999 ,the fore part of this ,canto1 down to and including the line1 ,out1 out of her1 my people1 saith your ,god1 summarizes the message borne by the modern ,prophet4 ,the curtain now rises upon the last act of the redemptive drama--the final restoration of the ,gospel2 ,joseph the ,seer1 as the ,elias of the scene1 heralding the tidings of the approaching millennial reign4 #b--ajeb4 9999,whence ,ye ,were ,hewn49999 ,an allusion to ,isaiah #ea3a-c4 #c--ajfj4 9999,wastes of ,unbelief49999 ,gentile or heathen lands1 refreshed by the sprinkled blood of ,israel--the blood that believes--and by spiritual visitations that accompany or follow such dispersions4 #d--ajfa4 9999,japheth1 ,thy ,planet ,pales49999 ,japheth stands for the ,gentiles1 whose fulness now comes in4 #e--ajgg4 9999,mother of ,centuries49999 ,time1 as distinguished from ,eternity 7though technically eternity includes time71 comprises seven thousand years1 or seventy centuries1 covered by seven ,gospel dispensations4 ,the ,quorum of the ,seventy1 with the presiding ,first ,council1 is a probable typing in this connection4 #f--ajgi4 9999,teach ,them to ,be ,one49999 ,it is necessary1 in the ushering in of the dispensation of the fulness of times1 99 99 99 that a whole and complete and perfect union and welding together of dispensations and keys and powers and glories should take place and be revealed from the days of ,adam even to the present time4--,joseph ,smith1 7,d4 and ,c4 #abh3ah47 #g--ajhd4 9999,shiloh ,reigns49999 ,shiloh is another ,hebrew name for ,messiah1 whose reign of a thousand years will equal in duration one revolution of the planet ,kolob4 7,abraham #c3d47 #h--ajhe4 9999,hast ,labored49999 ,the seven thousand years of ,earth's temporal existence correspond to the seven seals of the ,apocalyptic ,book 7,rev4 #e and #f7 and are as seven great days1 four of which had passed before ,christ came1 while nearly two have gone by since4 ,according to this reckoning we are now in the ,saturday evening of human history4 ,the ,millennium will be the seventh day--the ,world's ,sabbath4 7,d4 and ,c4 #gg3ab2 ,abraham #c1 #d1 and #e74 #i--ajhi4 9999,ancient ,tidings49999 ,the ,everlasting ,gospel1 first revealed to ,adam1 who presides over all the dispensations4 7,history of the ,church1 ,vol4 #d1 pp4 #bjg-bji74 #aj--aajc4 9999,what ,i ,know49999 ,joseph ,smith is said to have expressed the wish that he might reveal his identity and declare all that ,god had made known to him4 #aa--aaag4 9999,gibborim49999 ,mighty ones4 ,king ,david's six hundred guards were called ,the ,gibborim1 for their heroic bravery4 7,geike1 ,hours ,with the ,bible1 ,vol4 ,,iii1 pp4 #bed1 #bgf1 #cbe1 #cci74 #ab--aaah4 9999,worthy ,the ,word49999 ,the explanation of this phrase is in that saying of the ,saviour's3 ,is it not written that they are gods to whom the word of ,god comes8--meaning1 of course1 a superior race of men4 #ac--aacf4 9999,fifth of ,seven49999 ,the ,fifth ,angel is he who committeth the everlasting gospel4 7,d4 and ,c41 #hh3ajc74 #ad--aafe4 9999,from ,wintry ,sleep49999 ,at this point begins the personal history of the ,prophet1 who is also the subject of previous allusions4 7,writings of ,joseph ,smith--,pearl of ,great ,price74 #ae--abad4 9999,dual ,presence49999 ,joseph's vision of the ,father and the ,son4 #af--abag4 9999,unknown ,mount49999 ,a mountain referred to in the ,book of ,moses4 7#a3a74 #ag--abce4 9999,an ,atlas49999 ,atlas was one of the ,titans4 ,he is depicted with the globe on his back4 #ah--abdg4 9999,exalted ,man49999 ,god himself is an exalted man4--,joseph ,smith1 7,times and ,seasons1 ,august #ae1 #ahdd74 ,as man now is1 ,god once was2 ,as ,god now is1 man may be4-- ,lorenzo ,snow1 ,biography1 p4 #df4 #ai--abfa4 9999,wisdom of the ,wise49999 ,the stanza in which this phrase occurs is based upon ,isaiah #bi3ac1 #ad4 #bj--abhc4 9999,a ,messenger ,from ,god49999 ,the ,angel ,moroni4 #ba--acjb4 9999,page to ,page49999 ,the ,book of ,mormon1 or ,stick of ,joseph1 joins with the ,hebrew ,bible1 or ,stick of ,judah1 as foretold by ,ezekiel 7#cg3af-bj74 #bb--acaj4 9999,ready ,for ,the ,fall49999 ,prophecy ripe for fulfillment4 #bc--acaa4 9999,elias ,comes49999 ,moroni1 restoring the ,gospel1 predicts the coming of a greater1 to restore all things4 #bd--acbd4 9999,fullest ,freedom49999 ,the ,kingdom of ,god will protect all men in the enjoyment of their rights4 ,the citizens and lawmakers of that ,kingdom will not be all of one religious faith4 ,so taught ,joseph ,smith and ,brigham ,young4 #be--acca4 9999,primal ,language49999 ,the ,adamic tongue or ,pure ,language1 brought back in the restoration of all things4 #bf--adjg4 9999,ramah 99 99 99 ,cumorah49999 ,book of ,mormon names4 ,that book is an abridged history of two great races1 the ,jaredites and the ,nephites1 who inhabited ,america prior to its discovery by ,europeans4 ,their occupancy of the land was successive1 the ,jaredites coming from the ,tower of ,babel1 ,b4 ,c4 #bbah2 and the founders of the ,nephite nation from ,judea1 ,b4 ,c4 #fjj4 ,the ,jaredites perished about the time that the ,nephites came4 ,the latter were destroyed1 ,a4 ,d4 #chd1 by the ,lamanites1 a degenerate and savage faction of their own people1 whose remnants were found by ,columbus and named ,indians4 ,the golden plates containing the ,nephite-,jaredite record were taken by ,joseph ,smith from the ,jaredite hill ,ramah1 called by the ,nephites1 ,cumorah4 --- ,,canto ,,six #a--,title3 9999,from ,out ,the ,dust49999 ,a paraphrase of ,isaiah #bi3d4 ,the prediction is held to have been fulfilled in the coming forth of the ,book of ,mormon4 ,this entire ,canto is based upon the general content of that volume4 ,it embodies the prehistoric story of ,america1 assumed to have been related by the angel custodian to the translator of the buried ,book of ,gold4 #b--adae4 9999,must ,righteous ,be49999 ,see ,ether #b3h-ab4 #c--adcd4 9999,former ,state49999 ,the ,book of ,mormon is the only adequate explanation of the origin of the ,american ,indians4 #d--adeg4 9999,ancient ,altar49999 ,adam's altar1 in ,adam-ondi-,ahman1 otherwise ,spring ,hill1 ,daviess ,county1 ,missouri1 7,d4 and ,c4 #aaf2 ,history of the ,church1 ,vol4 #c1 p4 #chh74 #e--adfa4 9999,dual ,grave49999 ,burial in earth and hell1 or death temporal and spiritual4 #f--adff4 9999,where ,adam ,dwelt49999 ,according to ,joseph ,smith1 ,jackson ,county1 ,missouri1 is the ancient site of the ,garden of ,eden4 ,our ,first ,parents1 after their expulsion from ,eden1 dwelt in the ,valley of ,adam-ondi-,ahman4 ,see ,note #d4 #g--adfh4 9999,still ,chaste49999 ,the fall of ,adam and ,eve1 while technically a sin because of a broken law1 should be stressed as the means whereby ,god's children obtained their bodies1 rather than as an act of moral turpitude4 ,there are two general classes of crimes--malum per se and malum prohibitum4 ,malum per se is a ,latin phrase signifying an evil in itself1 while malum prohibitum means that which is wrong because forbidden by law4 ,the transgression of our ,first ,parents was malum prohibitum1 and the consequent descent from an immortal to a mortal condition was the ,fall4 #h--adgj4 9999,love's ,work49999 ,adam's fall prepared the way for ,christ's redemptive mission4 ,had there been no fall1 man would have remained a spirit1 without a body1 and consequently imperfect4 ,christ redeemed the soul--spirit and body--and put it in the way to perfection4 #i--adga4 9999,zion of ,primeval ,days49999 ,the ,city of ,enoch4 7,moses #g3ah-fd2 ,history of the ,church1 ,vol4 #d1 pp4 #bji1 #baj2 ,d4 and ,c4 #hd3ii-ajb47 #aj--adgi4 9999,final ,change49999 ,the change wrought upon the people of ,enoch by translation not being equivalent to resurrection1 they will have to undergo a further change1 to prepare them for celestial glory4 ,but they will not taste of death4 ,a similar lot is that of ,john the ,beloved 7,john #ba3bj-bc2 ,d4 and ,c4 #g72 also of the ,three ,nephites 7,,iii ,nephi #bh7 and of certain ones mentioned by ,paul 7,i ,cor4 #ae3ej-ed74 #aa--adhj4 9999,new ,jerusalem49999 ,the divinely chosen site for the ,holy ,city is ,independence1 ,jackson ,county1 ,missouri4 #ab--adhd4 9999,japheth 99 99 99 ,shem49999 ,the reference is to ,noah's blessing upon ,shem and ,japheth 7,gen4 #i3bf-bg74 ,from ,shem came ,abraham1 the ancestor of the ,house of ,israel2 and from ,japheth the ,gentiles1 the founders of the most enlightened nations of modern times1 including the ,united ,states of ,america4 ,ham1 through ,canaan1 was the progenitor of the negro race1 long held in slavery in this and other ,gentile countries4 ,the ,ethiopian has also served the ,semite1 as ,noah predicted4 ,how ,japheth has dwelt in the tents of ,shem1 is partly shown by the history of ,palestine1 long dominated by the ,gentiles1 particularly the ,turks1 who still possess it4 ,japheth's remarkable blessing has also been realized in the history of our own country1 ,america1 which the ,gentiles now inhabit1 and where1 according to the ,book of ,mormon1 they are to assist in gathering ,israel and building the ,new ,jerusalem1 7,,iii ,nephi #bj and #ba74 ,it is their privilege to share1 if they will1 in all the blessings promised to the chosen people4 7,abraham #b3i-aa47 ,the tents of ,shem may be interpreted to mean the homes of the people of ,god1 lineally descended from ,shem1 through ,abraham4 #ac--adhe4 9999,an ,ark of ,peace49999 ,it shall be the only people that shall not be at war one with another4 7,d4 and ,c4 #de3fi74 #ad--adhf4 9999,the ,ensign49999 ,the ,church of ,christ in ,latter ,days4 #ae--adhg4 9999,joseph ,signals ,jacob49999 ,joseph1 in ,ephraim1 begins the work of ,israel's gathering4 #af--adhi4 9999,ancient of ,days49999 ,adam as the ,ancient of ,days will return to the place where he blessed his posterity4 7,d4 and ,c4 #aaf2 ,history of the ,church1 ,vol4 #c1 p4 #chh74 ,see notes #d and #f4 #ag--aejg4 9999,hesperia49999 ,the ,west--,america4 #ah--aeab4 9999,that ,servant49999 ,the servant mentioned by the ,saviour to the ,nephites4 7,,iii ,nephi #ba3aj1 #aa74 #ai--aeae4 9999,god's ,legion49999 ,zion1 which shall come forth out of all the creations which ,i have made4 7,moses #g3fd74 #bj--aeag4 9999,land of ,joseph49999 ,america1 as the ,latter-day ,saints have been taught to believe1 was given to ,joseph of old as an inheritance4 7,gen4 #di3bb1 #bf2 ,deut4 #cc3ac-ag74 #ba--aeai4 9999,gog and ,magog49999 ,gog is the name of a person2 ,magog1 of a country or people4 ,according to ,ezekiel 7#ch and #ci7 ,gog1 the chief prince of ,meshech and ,tubal1 was to come with his people from the ,north to invade the land of ,israel and there suffer defeat4 ,gog and ,magog are generally understood as symbolical expressions for the heathen nations of ,asia1 more particularly the ,scythians4 ,in this poem the allusion is to those nations that war against ,zion4 #bb--aech4 9999,where1 ,joseph89999 ,joseph ,smith is meant4 ,to him1 after a general introduction1 ,moroni relates the story of the ,jaredites1 as told in that part of the ,book of ,mormon entitled ,the ,book of ,ether4 #bc--aedj4 9999,wide ,severing49999 ,in the days of ,peleg the earth was divided 7,gen4 #aj3be74 ,whether this means the dividing to the nations of their inheritance 7,deut4 #cb4h71 or a tearing asunder of the land into continents and islands1 is not stated4 ,the latter view1 the one here suggested1 may help to explain why the site of the ,garden of ,eden is now in ,north ,america4 #bd--aedc4 9999,sons of ,shinar49999 ,the ,jaredites1 who came from the ,tower of ,babel1 the place of which was a plain in the ,land of ,shinar4 7,gen4 #aa3b74 ,shinar was ,chaldea4 #be--aedg4 9999,primal ,tongue49999 ,the language of the ,jaredites--the pure ,adamic tongue--was not confounded4 #bf--aeed4 9999,a ,book ,sublime49999 ,a book written by the ,jaredite leader1 and yet to come forth4 ,that leader was ,mahonri ,moriancumr1 though this name does not occur in the ,book of ,mormon4 ,the ,brother of ,jared is the only appellation bestowed upon him there4 ,joseph ,smith supplied the missing name4 #bg--aeeg4 9999,baptismal ,billows49999 ,the ,jaredites1 in barges1 passed through the depths of the ocean1 to reach their ,land of ,promise 7,ether #f3f74 ,their voyage was therefore a baptism1 more literal than the passage of the ,israelites through the ,red ,sea1 and referred to by ,paul as a baptism4 7#a ,cor4 #aj3b47 #bh--aefa4 9999,shelem's ,height49999 ,the ,mount ,shelem1 so called because of its exceeding height4 7,ether #c3a74 #bi--aeff4 9999,wing-,like ,continents49999 ,north and ,south ,america4 #cj--aegc4 9999,mahonri's ,realm49999 ,north ,america1 possessed by the ,jaredites down to about #fjj ,b4 ,c41 when the nation was destroyed by internecine strife4 #ca--aehj4 9999,freedom's ,greater ,cause49999 ,the ,cause of ,christ4 #cb--aeia4 9999,past ,zions ,rose49999 ,thou hast taken ,zion to thine own bosom1 from all thy creations1 from all eternity to all eternity4 7,moses #g3ca47 #cc--aeie4 9999,fortressed by ,god's ,mightiness49999 ,i ,nephi #ac3ai2 ,ether #b3ab2 ,d4 and ,c4 #de3gj4 #cd--afja4 9999,give ,us a ,king49999 ,the ,jaredites demanded a king--a demand reluctantly acceded to by their leaders1 who foresaw1 as did ,samuel the ,prophet1 in a similar situation1 the evils that would result4 7,ether #f3bb-bh2 ,i ,samuel #h3d-bb74 #ce--afde4 9999,solitary ,twain49999 ,the ,prophet ,ether and ,king ,coriantumr1 the last of the ,jaredites4 #cf--afec4 9999,another ,nation49999 ,the ,nephites4 #cg--afeg4 9999,after ,tale49999 ,these words--part of a brief comment by the author--introduce a summary of the ,nephite narrative4 #ch--affe4 9999,a ,leper49999 ,jerusalem in her degenerate state4 #ci--afff4 9999,prophet ,pioneer49999 ,lehi1 a descendant of ,joseph1 through ,manasseh1 with a colony from ,jerusalem1 succeeds the all but extinct ,jaredites upon the ,land of ,promise1 where they extend the glory of their great ancestor4 #dj--affi4 9999,joseph's ,bough49999 ,joseph is a fruitful bough4 7,gen4 #di3bb74 #da--afij4 9999,chosen ,seer49999 ,lehi predicts the coming of a choice seer who is to be a lineal descendant of ,joseph4 ,the name of that seer is also to be ,joseph1 and it is to be the name of his father--a prophecy fulfilled in ,joseph ,smith1 ,jr4 7,,ii ,nephi #c47 #db--afib4 9999,buried ,lore49999 ,the ,book of ,mormon4 #dc--afie4 9999,favored ,son49999 ,nephi1 who succeeded his father ,lehi1 and against whom his brothers ,laman and ,lemuel rebelled1 thus dividing the nation into ,nephites and ,lamanites4 #dd--agab4 9999,heavy ,rod49999 ,the ,lord used the savage ,lamanites to scourge the enlightened yet ofttimes disobedient ,nephites4 #de--agag4 9999,infinite and ,spirit ,minister49999 ,the ,spirit of the ,lord1 declared by ,nephi to be in the form of man1 and with whom he conversed as one man converses with another4 7,i ,nephi #aa3aa74 #df--agca4 9999,prophet ,prince ,foresaw49999 ,nephi's vision of the future1 in which he beheld events upon both hemispheres--,christ's crucifixion and resurrection1 and his subsequent appearings to the more righteous of the ,nephites1 preceded by awful judgments upon the wicked 7,,iii ,nephi #h-aa74 #dg--ageg4 9999,final ,doom49999 ,the conflagrations that destroyed ,nephite cities were prophetic of the end of the world1 which is to be by fire4 #dh--agga4 9999,infant ,innocence49999 ,the children of the ,nephites1 blessed by the ,saviour4 7,,iii ,nephi #ag3aa-bd74 #di--aghe4 9999,other ,sheep49999 ,jesus said to his ,jewish disciples1 ,other sheep ,i have1 which are not of this fold4 7,john #aj3af74 ,they supposed that he meant the ,gentiles1 instead of which1 as the ,book of ,mormon tells1 he had reference to the ,nephites and to other branches of the ,house of ,israel4 7,,iii ,nephi #ae3ag-bd2 #af3a2 #ag3d47 #ej--ahjc4 9999,japheth's ,destiny49999 ,the ,saviour portrays the future of ,america and the diverse fates of the obedient and disobedient ,gentiles 7,,iii ,nephi #af and #ba74 #ea--ahaa4 9999,a ,lion to the ,chase49999 ,,iii ,nephi1 #bj3af2 #ba3ab4 #eb--ahbj4 9999,sun's ,red ,glow49999 ,the wrath of the ,lamanites1 turning upon their white oppressors4 #ec--ahbb4 9999,eternal ,rays49999 ,divinely revealed laws by which ,zion will be redeemed 7,d4 and ,c4 #aje3d1 #e74 #ed--ahbf4 9999,servant ,marred49999 ,he shall be marred because of them4 7,,iii ,nephi #ba3aj47 #ee--ahcd4 9999,he ,sanctifieth ,three49999 ,the ,three ,nephites 7,,iii ,nephi #bh74 #ef--ahdg4 9999,forebeam of ,day ,divine49999 ,the happy condition of the ,nephites1 for two centuries after the coming of ,christ1 was a foretaste of the ,millennium4 #eg--ahed4 9999,so ,shall ,it ,be49999 ,terrible calamities are to precede the ,reign of ,peace1 as they preceded the events that typified it4 7,matthew #bd74 #eh--ahfi4 9999,avalanche 99 99 99 ,sun's ,face49999 ,nephites and ,lamanites4 #ei--ahgb4 9999,bloody ,chase49999 ,the ,lamanites driving the ,nephites to their doom at the ,hill ,cumorah4 #fj--ahhc4 9999,oriental ,sight49999 ,the ,western ,hemisphere discovered by the ,eastern4 #fa--ahhe4 9999,faith 99 99 99 ,patience49999 ,the ,brother of ,jared was noted for his exceeding faith 7,ether #c3i74 ,columbus triumphed by patient endurance4 #fb--ahid4 9999,zion's ,land49999 ,joseph ,smith declared the whole of ,america to be the ,land of ,zion4 #fc--ahii4 9999,oppressed ,become ,oppressors49999 ,even the liberty-loving settlers of ,new ,england1 who had fled from tyranny in the ,old ,world to find freedom in the ,new1 enslaved the red man and drove him from his ancient possessions4 #fd--aijd4 9999,the ,motherland49999 ,great ,britain1 mother of the ,new ,england colonies4 #fe--aiji4 9999,man of ,matchless ,worth49999 ,washington4 #ff--aibb4 9999,joseph's ,namesake ,seer49999 ,joseph ,smith1 ,jr41 7,,ii ,nephi #c74 #fg--aica4 9999,the ,iron ,rod49999 ,the ,word of ,god 7#a ,nephi #aa3be74 #fh--aide4 9999,spirit ,gardens49999 ,the ,heavenly fields4 7,d4 and ,c4 #hh3ea-fa74 --- ,,canto ,,seven #a--,title3 9999,the ,arcana of the ,infinite49999 ,arcana1 the ,latin plural of ,arcanum1 signifies hidden1 secret4 ,this title is intended to be an equivalent for ,the ,mysteries of the ,kingdom--the esoteric features or advanced principles of the ,gospel4 ,herein are summarized those sublime doctrines that came directly to the modern ,revelator during and subsequent to the translating of the ancient plates4 ,a vision of the dispensations is involved--the reading of the ,book of ,time and the ,volume of ,eternity4 #b--aihf4 9999,one ,vast ,mind49999 ,joseph ,smith1 ,prophet1 ,seer1 and ,revelator4 #c--bjji4 9999,the ,solemn ,dispensations49999 ,in theology the term dispensation--from dispense1 to deal out or distribute--signifies the method or scheme by which ,god has at different times developed his purposes and revealed himself to man4 ,it also denotes a period marked by some particular development of the ,lord's work1 such as the ,mosaic ,dispensation1 lasting from ,moses to ,christ2 or the ,meridian ,dispensation1 ending in the apostacy that made necessary another restoration of the ,gospel and the ,priesthood4 ,while revelation is silent upon the subject1 it is probable that there are seven ,gospel dispensations--seven distinct periods during which the ,plan of ,progression1 revealed from ,heaven to ,earth1 has been among the children of men4 ,the belief as to seven is partly based upon the scriptural or symbolical character of that number1 and upon the ,prophet ,joseph's teachings relative to the seven periods1 each of a thousand years1 answering to the seven seals of the mystical ,book seen by ,john in his vision on ,patmos 7,rev4 #e1 #f2 ,d4 and ,c4 #gg74 #d--bjbb4 9999,the ,trumpets ,seven49999 ,the ,angels of the ,dispensations4 7,d4 and ,c4 #hh3ib-aaf74 #e--bjcb4 9999,the ,holy ,order49999 ,the ,eternal ,priesthood--divine authority--and those who wield it1 in ,heaven and on ,earth4 7,history of the ,church1 ,vol4 ,,iii1 p4 #che2 ,vol4 ,,iv1 p4 #bjg2 ,d4 and ,c4 #bj1 #fh1 #hd1 #ajg1 #aab1 #aba1 #abd2 ,alma #ac3a-aj47 #f--bjeg4 9999,ere ,earth ,knew ,abraham49999 ,the pre-existence of the ,house of ,israel is intimated by ,moses 7,deut4 #cb3g1 #h74 ,the #add1jjj mentioned by ,john 7,rev4 #ad3a7 and by ,joseph 7,d4 and ,c4 #gg3aa7 were of all the tribes of the children of ,israel4 #g--bjei4 9999,ark of ,god 99 99 99 ,sword of ,flame49999 ,emblems1 respectively1 of the ,priesthood and the ,gospel4 #h--bjfc4 9999,shine and ,shadow49999 ,dispensations of heavenly light1 alternating with periods of spiritual darkness4 #i--bjfh4 9999,succeeded ,by ,the ,less49999 ,moses1 with the ,melchisedek ,priesthood and the fulness of the ,gospel1 was taken back to ,heaven1 leaving ,israel to be governed by the ,aaronic ,priesthood and the ,law4 7,d4 and ,c4 #hd3ai-bh47 #aj--bjga4 9999,ministers ,upon ,each ,hemisphere49999 ,jewish and ,nephite apostles4 #aa--bjgd4 9999,the ,perfect ,church49999 ,the ,church of ,christ on ,earth1 perfected after the pattern of the ,church in ,heaven4 7,d4 and ,c4 #gf3fg2 #ajg3ic4 ,see also ,gospel ,themes1 p4 #ha47 #ab--bjhi4 9999,the ,ancient ,one49999 ,daniel1 in his seventh chapter1 speaks of the ,ancient of ,days2 he means the oldest man1 our father ,adam1 ,michael2 he will call his children together and hold a council with them to prepare them for the coming of the ,son of ,man4--,joseph ,smith 7,history of the ,church1 ,vol4 #c1 p4 #chf2 ,d4 and ,c4 #aaf74 #ac--bjii4 9999,keys of ,light49999 ,three grand keys by which good or bad angels or spirits may be known4 7,d4 and ,c4 #abi74 #ad--bacf4 9999,most ,intelligent49999 ,god himself1 finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory1 because he was more intelligent1 saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest could have a privilege to advance like himself4--,joseph ,smith 7,times and ,seasons1 ,august #ae4 #ahdd74 #ae--badj4 9999,intelligence ,eternal49999 ,intelligence1 or the light of truth1 was not created or made1 neither indeed can be 7,d4 and ,c4 #ic3bi1 #cf74 ,the first principles of man are self existent with ,god4 7,times and ,seasons1 ,august #ae1 #ahdd74 #af--baej4 9999,birth and ,death ,are ,baptism49999 ,see ,gospel ,themes1 pp4 #ff1 #fg4 #ag--bafa4 9999,earthly ,sorrow49999 ,the trials of mortal life1 foreseen from spirit heights by the children of ,god1 who nevertheless rejoiced at the prospect of glory beyond4 #ah--bafg4 9999,second ,estate49999 ,man's first estate is the spirit life2 his second estate1 the mortal life4 ,in the former he walks by sight1 in the latter by faith4 #ai--bahh4 9999,sun or ,moon or ,varying ,star49999 ,the heavenly bodies typify celestial1 terrestrial1 and telestial glories4 7,d4 and ,c4 #gf3if-ih47 #bj--baig4 9999,vicarious ,ordinance49999 ,temple work1 done by the living in behalf of the dead4 7,d4 and ,c4 #abg and #abh47 #ba--bbhh4 9999,felon's ,debt49999 ,this earth was organized or formed out of other planets which were broken up and remodeled and made into the one on which we live4--,joseph ,smith 7,compendium1 p4 #bhg74 #bb--bbic4 9999,law ,hath ,magnified49999 ,the earth abideth the law of a celestial kingdom4 7,d4 and ,c4 #hh3be74 #bc--bbih4 9999,celestial ,seer ,stone49999 ,earth in its sanctified1 immortal1 and eternal state will be like a sea of glass and fire 7,rev4 #d3f71 a great ,urim and ,thummim to its glorified inhabitants 7,d4 and ,c4 #acj3f-aa74 #bd--bcbe4 9999,would ,have ,lived ,the ,law49999 ,men's desires as well as deeds will form a basis for eternal judgment 7,history of the ,church1 ,vol4 #b1 p4 #chj74 #be--bccc4 9999,judah's ,one and ,joseph's ,three49999 ,john the ,revelator and the ,three ,nephites4 #bf--bccf4 9999,unclothed ,spirit49999 ,the ,spirit seen by the ,brother of ,jared1 and afterwards embodied as ,jesus of ,nazareth4 #bg--bccg4 9999,the ,triple ,seer49999 ,the ,apostle ,paul1 caught up to the third heaven 7,,ii ,cor4 #ab3b74 --- ,,canto ,,eight #a--,title3 9999,the ,lifted ,ensign49999 ,the ,church of ,jesus ,christ of ,latter-day ,saints1 organized ,april #f1 #ahcj4 #b--bceg4 9999,shepherds ,twain49999 ,joseph ,smith and ,oliver ,cowdery1 the first and second ,elders of the ,church4 #c--bcff4 9999,giant of ,untruth49999 ,the parallel begun in the first stanza continues through the second4 #d--bchj4 9999,time ,yet ,was ,young49999 ,here the main narrative reverts to the story of ,enoch and his city1 as revealed to ,joseph the ,seer1 and embodied in the ,book of ,moses 7#f and #g74 ,in the poem that story continues as far as the line1 ,and ,noah's righteous seed in me rejoice4 #e--bchi4 9999,sainted ,commonweal49999 ,the ,city of ,enoch4 #f--bdjj4 9999,chain 99 99 99 ,sundered49999 ,the people of ,enoch1 under the ,law of ,consecration1 attained to such a superior condition that it was said of them3 ,and the ,lord called his people ,zion1 because they were of one heart and one mind and dwelt in righteousness1 and there was no poor among them4 7,moses #g3ah47 #g--bdjd4 9999,armageddon's ,conflict49999 ,the final struggle between the powers of ,good and ,evil1 when ,satan will be overthrown 7,d4 and ,c4 #hh3aab-aae74 #h--bdji4 9999,terrestrial ,radiance49999 ,their place of habitation is that of the terrestrial order4 ,they are held in reserve to be ministering angels unto many planets1 and as yet have not entered into so great a fulness as those who are resurrected from the dead4 ,joseph ,smith 7,history of the ,church1 ,vol4 #d1 pp4 #bji1 #baj74 #i--bdbj4 9999,the ,captive ,free49999 ,christ1 during the interval between his crucifixion and resurrection1 visited and preached to the spirits in prison--spirits disobedient in the days of ,noah1 and swept away by the ,deluge 7,i ,peter #c3ai1 #bj2 and #d3fa2 ,key to ,theology #ad74 #aj--bdbd4 9999,climbing ,robber-like49999 ,according to the ,bible1 the people who built the ,tower of ,babel did so that its top might reach unto heaven 7,gen4 #aa3d74 ,joseph ,smith is said to have declared that the heaven they had in view was the ,city of ,enoch1 then suspended within sight of the earth4 ,endeavoring to get to ,heaven by another way1 the builders of ,babel were comparable to thieves and robbers4 ,tradition asserts that the ,city of ,enoch stood where the ,gulf of ,mexico now is4 #aa--bdcb4 9999,tri-,branching ,tree49999 ,noah and his three sons1 ,japheth1 ,shem and ,ham4 #ab--bdfd4 9999,one ,like ,unto ,him49999 ,joseph ,smith was a man like unto ,moses1 who was like unto ,christ4 ,moses led ,israel out of temporal bondage1 and ,joseph began a work destined to deliver ,israel from spiritual bondage4 ,thus ,moses and ,joseph were both typical of ,him who redeemed the world from the bondage of sin and death4 #ac--bdfg4 9999,a ,two-,fold ,type49999 ,the social and spiritual condition of the ,jewish saints and the ,nephite disciples foretokened the ,millennium4 ,joseph ,smith had in view the realization of what ,enoch had achieved1 and what the primitive ,christians endeavored to accomplish1 in preparing a people for the presence of the ,lord4 #ad--bdgc4 9999,sought ,fulfillment49999 ,following these words is a description of social conditions at the time of the advent of ,mormonism4 #ae--bfjd4 9999,the ,trampled ,terror49999 ,a personification of the ,french ,revolution4 #af--bfjg4 9999,frowning ,mass1 ,contemning ,class49999 ,the social problem of the ,twentieth ,century4 #ag--bfcj4 9999,time ,an ,enoch ,came49999 ,joseph ,smith is likened unto ,enoch1 and even called by that name1 in some of the early revelations 7,d4 and ,c41 #gh1 #ib1 #if1 and #ajd74 ,this may have been done to impress the fact that ,joseph's work was similar to that of ,enoch4 #ah--bfef4 9999,a ,holy ,hand49999 ,john the ,baptist1 ordaining ,joseph and ,oliver to the ,aaronic ,priesthood1 ,may #ae1 #ahbi 7,d4 and ,c4 #ac74 #ai--bffa4 9999,panoply of ,power49999 ,the ,priesthood4 ,the main narrative here resumes from the point of digression4 #bj--bfid4 9999,again ,the ,woman ,wonderful49999 ,the ,church of ,christ in its ,latter-day ,restoration4 --- ,,canto ,,nine #a--,title3 9999,upon the ,shoulders of the ,philistine49999 ,under this caption1 suggested by ,isaiah #aa3ad1 is treated the westward movement of the ,latter-day ,saints1 incidental to the gathering of scattered ,israel4 #b--bgbb4 9999,eaglet's ,nest ,is ,empty49999 ,within a year after its organization the church migrated from its birthplace1 ,fayette1 ,seneca ,county1 ,new ,york1 and the surrounding region4 #c--bgbd4 9999,storied ,strand49999 ,the shore of ,lake ,erie1 in ,northern ,ohio1 where the ,saints began to settle early in #ahca4 ,there they built their first ,temple1 and took initial steps toward founding the ,united ,order1 under the ,law of ,consecration4 #d--bgdb4 9999,shinea's ,land49999 ,kirtland1 ,ohio1 and its environs1 was ,the ,land of ,shinehah 7,d4 and ,c4 #hb3ab and #ajd3dj-dh74 ,from that part1 in #ahcg-ch1 the ,church moved its headquarters to ,far ,west1 ,caldwell ,county1 ,missouri4 #e--bgej4 9999,their ,powers ,bestow49999 ,an allusion to visions seen in the ,kirtland ,temple1 ,april #c1 #ahcf 7,d4 and ,c4 #aaj74 #f--bgei4 9999,laman's ,bands49999 ,the first mission to the ,lamanites 7,indians7 was undertaken in the autumn of #ahcj4 ,the missionaries labored also among the white people of ,ohio and ,missouri4 ,at ,independence1 which was then on the frontier of the ,united ,states1 they crossed the line into ,indian ,territory1 now the ,state of ,kansas4 #g--bgfg4 9999,lands the ,rarest49999 ,the region drained by the ,mississippi and ,missouri rivers4 #h--bggi4 9999,japheth's ,wrath49999 ,the ,gentiles in ,western ,missouri1 misapprehending the motives of the ,mormons in gathering to that part1 and incited by evil-minded agitators1 rose against the newcomers1 and drove them first from ,jackson ,county1 and eventually from the ,state4 #i--bghh4 9999,the ,shoulders49999 ,civilization1 with its steamships1 railroads1 and other utilities1 and persecution1 with faggot and sword1 have helped ,god's people to accomplish their destiny4 ,the blood of the martyrs has been the seed of the ,church1 whose every movement1 voluntary or compulsory1 has been toward the goal of its ultimate triumph4 #aj--bgia4 9999,calm ,caesar49999 ,julius ,caesar1 while crossing a stormswept water1 quieted the apprehensions of his boatman by remarking1 ,fear not1 you carry ,caesar and his fortunes4 #aa--bgid4 9999,the ,law of ,liberty49999 ,the ,gospel of ,christ1 misnamed ,mormonism4 #ab--bhjj4 9999,sees ,menace49999 ,having come mostly from the ,north and the ,east1 the ,mormons were suspected by the slave-holding ,missourians of being abolitionists4 ,this false charge1 with others equally groundless1 caused the persecution that followed4 #ac--bhac4 9999,a ,second ,pharaoh 99 99 99 ,a ,herod49999 ,these epithets fitly characterize the ,governor of ,missouri1 ,lilburn ,w4 ,boggs1 who issued the edict under which the persecuted people were expelled4 ,said he1 to the mob-militia who drove them from their homes3 ,the ,mormons must be exterminated or driven from the ,state4 #ad--bhae4 9999,gathering the ,whirlwind49999 ,missouri paid her debt to justice during the ,civil ,war1 when her ,western borders1 where mob violence had assailed her ,mormon citizens1 were ravaged again and again by the fierce guerilla warfare that spent its fury in that unhappy region4 #ae--bhbi4 9999,shakes the ,dungeon49999 ,joseph ,smith and others were imprisoned in ,richmond ,jail1 where they were taunted by their guards1 who boasted of murders and outrages committed upon the defenseless people after the surrender of ,far ,west4 ,the lion-hearted leader endured it till he could endure no more4 ,springing to his feet1 he rebuked the ribald wretches1 commanding them in the name of ,jesus ,christ to be still4 ,they obeyed1 cowering before him and begging his pardon4 ,parley ,p4 ,pratt1 a fellow prisoner with the ,prophet1 says of this remarkable incident3 ,he ceased to speak4 ,he stood erect in terrible majesty1 chained and without a weapon4 99 99 99 ,i have seen the ministers of justice1 clothed in magisterial robes1 and criminals arraigned before them1 while life was suspended on a breath in the courts of ,england2 ,i have witnessed a ,congress in solemn session to give laws to nations 99 99 99 but dignity and majesty have ,i seen but once1 as it stood in chains at midnight in a dungeon1 in an obscure village of ,missouri4 7,autobiography1 pp4 #bbi1 #bcj47 #af--bhce4 9999,disease and ,death ,subdued49999 ,after the ,prophet had regained his freedom1 and while his followers were settling at ,commerce 7afterwards ,nauvoo71 an epidemic of fever and ague swept over that region4 ,many1 prostrated by the malady1 were miraculously healed under his administrations4 #ag--bhcf4 9999,sire of ,waters49999 ,the ,mississippi ,river4 #ah--bhci4 9999,city1 ,mother of ,many49999 ,nauvoo the ,beautiful1 built upon the site of ,commerce1 in ,hancock ,county1 ,illinois1 was the parent and model of many other cities subsequently founded by the ,latter-day ,saints1 mostly in the region of the ,rocky ,mountains4 #ai--bhdf4 9999,unworldly ,link49999 ,the ,nauvoo ,temple1 where work began in this dispensation for the salvation of the dead4 #bj--bhdg4 9999,elijah's ,mightier ,mission49999 ,malachi #c3a and #d3e1 #f2 ,d4 and ,c4 #aaj3d-af2 ,history of the ,church1 ,vol4 #d1 p4 #baa2 ,gospel ,themes1 pp4 #ach1 #aci4 #ba--bhfj4 9999,crisis ,past49999 ,early in #ahcg1 during a period of apostacy at ,kirtland1 the ,prophet said3 ,something new must be done to save the ,church4 ,thereupon he appointed ,heber ,c4 ,kimball1 of the ,council of the ,twelve1 to head a mission to ,europe4 ,part of the opposition encountered by ,elder ,kimball and his associates was a fierce onslaught by evil spirits1 at ,preston1 ,england1 where they began their labors4 7,life of ,heber ,c4 ,kimball1 pp4 #ach-adf47 ,the first company of emigrating ,saints from abroad sailed from ,liverpool for ,nauvoo1 in #ahdj4 ,by that time another apostolic mission1 headed by ,brigham ,young1 ,president of the ,twelve1 had been sent to the ,british ,isles4 #bb--bhfc4 9999,befriended by the ,just49999 ,many of the people of ,illinois extended a hospitable welcome to the plundered and homeless ,mormons1 fleeing out of ,missouri4 #bc--bhff4 9999,earliest ,offering49999 ,ephraim is the first branch of the ,israelitish tree to bear the fruits of faith in and obedience to the ,gospel in latter days4 ,ephraim is my first-born1 the ,lord says through ,jeremiah 7#ca3i74 ,that is1 ,ephraim1 who mixed himself among the people 7,hosea #g3h71 is the first to be born of ,god--baptized and gathered out from the nations4 #bd--bhgg4 9999,egypt of the ,west49999 ,america1 where the gathered descendants of ,joseph are to re-enact upon a larger scale the part played by their great ancestor in the famine-stricken nation on the ,nile4 #be--bhhb4 9999,long ,lost ,captives49999 ,the ,ten ,tribes1 carried away by the ,assyrians1 ,b4 ,c4 #gba1 and who are to return from the north countries 7,d4 and ,c4 #acc3bf-ce74 #bf--bhia4 9999,rallying the ,loyal49999 ,the ,latter-day ,saints have been taught to look forward to a time when they1 lifting up an ensign to lovers of law1 order1 and liberty1 and reinforced by them1 will save this ,nation1 while anarchy is aiming at its life4 #bg--bijc4 9999,inglorious ,battleground49999 ,the field of ,cumorah4 #bh--bije4 9999,where ,erst ,he ,fled49999 ,the ,house of ,joseph1 in modern times1 begins its march of destiny at the ,hill ,cumorah1 where the ,nephites 7also of ,joseph7 met their tragic fate4 ,there is a tradition to the effect that every ,temple reared by the ,latter-day ,saints marks a stage in the flight of the doomed ,nephites1 pursued by the victorious ,lamanites1 to the final slaughter at that historic hill4 #bi--biai4 9999,ruined ,lie49999 ,the allusion is to cities and temples built and abandoned by the ,saints in ,ohio1 ,missouri1 and ,illinois4 7,d4 and ,c4 #aja1 #ajc1 and #aje47 #cj--bibd4 9999,union 99 99 99 ,enoch ,saw49999 ,the ,united ,order--all things consecrated to ,god4 7,d4 and ,c4 #aje3d1 #e47 #ca--bicj4 9999,her ,trembling ,foes49999 ,let us not go up to battle against ,zion1 for the inhabitants of ,zion are terrible4 7,d4 and ,c4 #de3gj47 #cb--biea4 9999,pain ,shall ,bring ,thee ,power49999 ,sacrificial trials1 that purify and elevate1 redound to the advantage of posterity4 ,the parents suffer that the children may be blest4 ,all noble and powerful races have come up through great tribulation4 #cc--bifi4 9999,city of ,joseph49999 ,a name given to ,nauvoo after the ,prophet's martyrdom4 --- ,,canto ,,ten #a--,title3 9999,the ,parted ,veil49999 ,joseph's vision and prophecy of the future4 ,he is represented as foretelling to his people their great destiny4 #b--biid4 9999,honor of a ,state49999 ,joseph the ,prophet and ,hyrum the ,patriarch were murdered while under the pledged protection of the ,governor of ,illinois4 ,the mob that fired its fatal volleys into the bosoms of the martyrs1 and went unwhipped of justice1 struck down the honor of a sovereign commonwealth of the ,american ,union4 #c--biih4 9999,the ,blazing ,dome49999 ,the ,nauvoo ,temple1 burned by the mob forces1 after they had captured the city and expelled the remnant of the persecuted community left behind at the beginning of the exodus in ,february1 #ahdf4 #d--cjjc4 9999,new ,born ,babes49999 ,nine infants1 it is said1 were born in the camps of the fugitive ,saints1 on ,sugar ,creek1 ,iowa1 the first night out from ,nauvoo4 #e--cjaa4 9999,born in a ,day4 ,little ,one--,a ,thousand49999--,applications of ancient prophecy4 7,isaiah #fj3bb and #ff3h74 #f--cjaf4 9999,cities ,twain49999 ,zion and ,jerusalem1 the future capitals of the ,saviour's ,kingdom2 the former the seat of representative government1 the latter of monarchical power4 ,out of ,zion shall go forth the law1 and the word of the ,lord from ,jerusalem4 7,isaiah #b3c2 ,micah #d3b47 #g--cjbd4 9999,fain ,would ,dwell49999 ,the extension of slavery to the ,west was the dream of the ,south before the ,civil ,war4 ,this was one reason why the ,southern ,states favored the war with ,mexico4 #h--cjbf4 9999,aztec's ,altar49999 ,the region settled by the ,mormon people1 between the ,rocky ,mountains and the ,sierra ,nevada1 belonged to ,mexico1 the ,land of the ,aztecs4 #i--cjcj4 9999,golden ,empire69999 ,california1 as a ,mexican province1 included the present ,states of ,utah and ,nevada4 ,some of the earliest settlers of ,salt ,lake ,valley had previously helped to colonize ,california1 and were among those who discovered gold there1 ,january1 #ahdh4 #aj--cjcb4 9999,eden on the ,desert ,brine49999 ,the redeemed ,wilderness surrounding the ,great ,salt ,lake1 and formerly known as ,the ,great ,american ,desert4 #aa--cjdd4 9999,land of the ,honey ,bee49999 ,the ,state of ,utah4 #ab--cjde4 9999,pilgrim ,sire49999 ,the author's father1 ,horace ,kimball ,whitney1 was one of the ,pioneers who entered ,salt ,lake ,valley1 ,july #bd1 #ahdg4 #ac--cjed4 9999,hear ,me1 ,my ,people69999 ,at this point begins the ,prophet's farewell address4 ,the preceding stanzas of this ,canto are a generalization of what follows in detail4 #ad--cjgc4 9999,nebo's ,height49999 ,joseph1 compared to ,moses1 is predicting his own death and the coming of his successor1 the ,president of the ,twelve1 upon whom the ,prophet placed the right of succession4 #ae--cjhb4 9999,stalwart ,upon the ,mountains49999 ,at ,montrose1 ,iowa1 ,august #f1 #ahdb1 ,joseph ,smith predicted that the ,saints would be driven westward1 and would become a mighty people in the midst of the ,rocky ,mountains4 #af--cjij4 9999,war ,shall ,wound49999 ,on ,christmas ,day1 #ahcb1 the ,prophet foretold the war between the ,north and ,south4 7,d4 and ,c4 #hg47 ,according to tradition1 he also declared that those nations that first received the ,gospel in this dispensation1 would be preserved when the consumption decreed made a full end of all nations4 #ag--djcd4 9999,first ,born ,fold49999 ,ephraim1 fulfilling his mission in the region of the ,rocky ,mountains4 #ah--djda4 9999,brave ,sons of ,battling ,sires49999 ,descendants of the patriots of the ,american ,revolution4 #ai--djec4 9999,and by that ,power49999 ,the redemption of ,zion must needs come by power4 7,d4 and ,c4 #ajc3ae47 #bj--djff4 9999,zion's ,land49999 ,zion in a restricted sense--,jackson ,county4 #ba--djhj4 9999,the ,common ,good49999 ,christ's ,commonwealth1 foreshadowed by the ,american ,union4 #bb--djhi4 9999,the ,sceptered ,harlot49999 ,the ,woman described in the ,apocalypse as sitting upon many waters--a great city reigning over the kings of the earth4 7,rev4 #ag47 #bc--ejjb4 9999,a ,seventh ,realm49999 ,joseph1 paraphrasing ,paul1 said concerning himself3 ,i know a man who was caught up to the seventh heaven4 #bd--ejcc4 9999,i ,am49999 ,the ,name ,divine4 7,ex4 #c3ad47 #be--ejdg4 9999,light and ,liberty49999 ,at the first organization in ,heaven we were all present and saw the ,saviour chosen and appointed1 and the plan of salvation made1 and we sanctioned it4--,joseph ,smith 7,compendium1 p4 #bhh74 #bf--ejee4 9999,freedom's ,code49999 ,the ,gospel of ,christ1 the perfect law of liberty1 typed by the ,american ,constitution1 guaranteeing freedom and equal rights4 #bg--ejgj4 9999,not ,esau's ,hand49999 ,culture as well as strength must play its part in the building up of ,god's ,kingdom4 ,zion1 at first primitive and crude1 shall become the perfection of beauty1 the joy of the whole earth4 ,her original builders may be likened to the massive1 immovable foundations of a structure whose polished walls and glittering spires are represented by their children1 educated under improved conditions1 and yet to stand in the forefront of the world's civilization4 #bh--ejgb4 9999,the ,kingdom to ,complete49999 ,the spirit and power of ,elijah is to come after1 holding the keys of power1 building the temple to the capstone1 placing the seals of the ,melchisedek ,priesthood upon the ,house of ,israel1 and making all things ready2 then ,messiah comes to his ,temple4--,joseph ,smith 7,compendium1 p4 #bhc2 ,d4 and ,c4 #bg74 --- ,,epilogue #a--,title3 9999,the ,angel ,ascendant49999 ,the ,angel ascending from the ,east 7,rev4 #g3b2 ,d4 and ,c4 #gg3i74 ,this is ,elias1 an address to and a response from whom forms the body of the epilogue1 or final division of the poem4 #b--fjag4 9999,rose ,again49999 ,elias the ,all-restorer is represented as reopening for ,adam the closed communication between ,earth and ,heaven4 #c--fjah4 9999,the ,city ,sanctified49999 ,the ,city of ,enoch4 #d--fjbe4 9999,alien ,fire49999 ,the ,gospel1 restored through ,noah1 standing at the head of a dispensation1 was carried by his descendants1 after the ,flood1 to various parts of the earth1 where fragments of it remain1 mixed with the traditions of men4 ,ceremonies similar to1 or suggestive of ,gospel ordinances1 and found among primitive peoples1 are thus accounted for4 #e--fjbg4 9999,the ,root of ,shiloh49999 ,abraham1 ancestor to ,jesus of ,nazareth4 #f--fjbi4 9999,believing ,blood49999 ,how1 by the dispersion of the children of ,abraham1 was the promise to the patriarch fulfilled1 that in him and in his seed should all the nations of the earth be blessed8 99 99 99 ,by this dispersion the blood of ,abraham1 ,isaac1 and ,jacob--the blood of faith1 the blood that believes--with choice spirits answering to that blood1 and selected for that purpose1 were sent into those nations where the ,gospel was afterwards preached1 spirits capable of recognizing the truth1 and brave enough to embrace it4 7,gospel ,themes1 p4 #aef47 #g--fjcc4 9999,egypt's ,chain49999 ,the spirit of ,elias was upon ,moses when he led ,israel out of bondage4 #h--fjcf4 9999,long ,captivity49999 ,the ,assyrian ,captivity1 which carried away the ten tribes4 #i--fjch4 9999,whose ,sword49999 ,the sword of ,joshua1 the conqueror of ,canaan4 #aj--fjdb4 9999,kishon's ,brook49999 ,it was at the ,brook ,kishon that ,elijah slew the ,priests of ,baal4 #aa--fjde4 9999,named ,ere ,born49999 ,cyrus1 the conqueror of ,babylon1 who restored the captive ,jews1 was named by ,isaiah more than a century before his birth4 7,isaiah1 #de3a47 #ab--fjdi4 9999,long ,sealed ,canopy49999 ,the ,heavens at the opening of the ,last ,dispensation4 #ac--fjee4 9999,the ,kingdom's ,keys49999 ,the ,melchisedek ,priesthood4 ,elijah holds the keys of the authority to administer in all the ordinances of the ,priesthood4 7,history of the ,church1 ,vol4 #d1 p4 #baa2 ,d4 and ,c4 #b47 #ad--fjfc4 9999,abrahamic ,keys49999 ,elias1 in the ,kirtland ,temple1 committed the keys of the ,gospel of ,abraham4 7,d4 and ,c4 #aaj3ab47 #ae--fjfg4 9999,how ,tell the ,sum89999 ,this stanza associates ,columbus1 ,jefferson and ,washington1 impersonally1 with others previously mentioned1 as agents of ,elias4 #af--fjhc4 9999,jacob ,upon ,esau's ,heel49999 ,genesis1 #be3bf4 #ag--gjja4 9999,chaldean ,dream49999 ,the nations represented by the image seen in ,nebuchadnezzar's dream1 are to pass1 like the dream itself1 which the king was unable to recall4 #ah--gjaj4 9999,adorned and ,ready49999 ,when the ,church1 the ,bride1 is fully prepared1 the ,lord1 the ,bridegroom1 will come4 #ai--gjae4 9999,destroyers ,four49999 ,four angels 7,rev4 #g3a2 ,d4 and ,c4 #gg3h1 #i74 #bj--gjag4 9999,twelve ,times ,twelve49999 ,the ,one ,hundred and ,forty-,four ,thousand4 7,rev4 #ad3a2 ,d4 and ,c4 #gg3aa47 #ba--gjbb4 9999,the ,bow's ,bright ,promise49999 ,joseph the ,seer gave1 as a sign of the ,second ,coming1 the withdrawal of the rainbow4 ,christ would not come during any year that the rainbow was visible2 but when it was permanently withdrawn1 the world might know that ,his coming was near at hand4 7,compendium1 p4 #hc47 #bb--gjcf4 9999,prophet of the ,dawn49999 ,elias1 the ,morning ,star4