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HERALD OF ETERNITY: / It is the day when all the sons of God / Wait in the roofless senate-house, whose floor / Is Chaos, and the immovable abyss / Frozen by His steadfast word to hyaline
The shadow of God, and delegate / Of that before whose breath the universe / Is as a print of dew. / Hierarchs and kings / Who from your thrones pinnacled on the past / Sway the reluctant present, ye who sit / Pavilioned on the radiance or the gloom / Of mortal thought, which like an exhalation / Steaming from earth, conceals the... of heaven / Which gave it birth. assemble here / Before your Father's throne; the swift decree / Yet hovers, and the fiery incarnation / Is yet withheld, clothed in which it shall / annul / The fairest of those wandering isles that gem / The sapphire space of interstellar air, / That green and azure sphere, that earth enwrapped / Less in the beauty of its tender light / Than in an atmosphere of living spirit / Which interpenetrating all the... / it rolls from realm to realm / And age to age, and in its ebb and flow / Impels the generations / To their appointed place, / Whilst the high Arbiter / Beholds the strife, and at the appointed time / Sends His decrees veiled in eternal...