This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...year, Its years as moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; _ 30 A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die. VISION OF BELSHAZZAR The King was on his throne, The Satraps throng'd the hall; A thousand bright lamps shone O'er that high festival. A ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...year, Its years as moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; _ 30 A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die. VISION OF BELSHAZZAR The King was on his throne, The Satraps throng'd the hall; A thousand bright lamps shone O'er that high festival. A thousand cups of gold, In Judah deem'd divine--Jehovah's vessels hold The godless Heathen's wine I In that same hour and hall, The fingers of a hand n Came forth against the wall, And wrote as if on sand; The fingers of a man;--A solitary hand Along the letters ran, And traced them like a wand. The monarch saw, and shook, And bade no more rejoice; All bloodless wax'd his look, And tremulous his voice. 20 Let the men of lore appear, The wisest of the earth, And expound the words of fear, Which mar our royal mirth.' Chaldea's seers are good, But here they have no skill; And the unknown letters stood Untold and awful still. And Babel's men of age Are wise and deep in lore; 3c But now they were not sage, They saw--but knew no more. A captive in the land, A stranger and a youth, He heard the king's command, He saw that writing's truth. The lamps around were bright, The prophecy in view; He read it on that night, --The morrow proved it true. +. - Belshazzar's grave is made, His kingdom pnss'd away, He, in the balance weigh'd, Is light and worthless clay; The shroud, his robe of state, His canopy the stone: The Mode is at his gate I The Persian on his throne I' THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB Publ. 1815 The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer i..
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