God in creation and evolution, and the church of every age in light and shade

Preface

AGNOSTICISM and the denial of God's agency in nature is a growing tendency of the times. The boast of scepticism is, That all things can be explained by natural laws. This arises mainly from the fact, that the earth, as a whole, is a system, an organism, and a development from one stage to a higher until Creation was finished. But in this development Spirit Power is ever manifest. The purpose for which the world and all it contains, and the heavens were made, was to reveal the glory of this Infinite Intelligence. The finishing work is Redemption and. man glorified. This is exhibited on the Seventh day, not yet ended : hence no evening or morning for this day or period is mentioned in the Holy Scriptures.

To discourse upon this grand system in its order and symmetry, and show the creating, superintending, alliv Preface.

pervading agency of Spirit, this Spirit God, is the object of this work. Hence the author has not stopped for detail in any part, but has carried the one idea briefly through each successive stage of development. Both holy and fallen angels belong to the theme, since they are a part of creation and sustain a prominent relationship to the earth and man.

The work is an epic poem, without rhyme, as the most fitting channel to treat the great theme with brevity and force, and more especially to allow a liberty to imagination where truth is not absolutely known. Thus leading truths are given and the popular mind may receive them without the labor of hard logic.

Author.

BOOK I. The Creation of the Heavens and Angels

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Scepticism fruitless 2

God in solitude , 3

Inspiration , 7

Creation of matter 11

" angels 13

Satan holy 15

The angel Paradise 16

The stars formed 21

The solar planets and earth formed 25

Rest in God because he is infinite 29

BOOK II The Angels' Fall

The origin of sin 31

Sin progressive 34

Multitudes involved in Satan's fall 37

How to detect the fallen. First, by scandal 38

The same in earth 39

Second, by advocating persecution 41 vi Contents.

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The modern Church surpasses the worldly in this sin 42

Third, by lust of power .... 44

Effect of the same spirit in the Church 46

Repulsion and affinity 46

The battle in Heaven and the result 47

BOOK III. The Creation of the Earth

Hell a literal place 51

The earth a solid 53

Satan instructs the fallen angels 56

Sceptics have like views 57

Evil spirits claim earth as theirs 58

Their power curtailed by the Cross alone 60

BOOK IV. The Creation of Plants

What is life ? 64

First plants of earth 66

The murky atmosphere 70

The fiends in it, but on the alert from fear 70

BOOK V. A Solar Day and Year Begun

The first day of sunshine 73

The first year 76

The starry heavens allure us to God 79

The evil spirits resume their office 81

Contents. vii

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Satan calls a Council 82

His speech to render all things hurtful 84

Pastors bad and good contrasted 87

BOOK VI. Creation of Animals

Enjoyment added to life 94

Fools deny God's agency 96

The waters produce abundantly 103

Coral animals produced 104

Satan rendered animals malintent 107

Satan gives death its sting no

Devils produce imperfect taints, animosities, etc 113

Reptiles produced 114

Gigantic fowl appear 118

Force solely originates from spirit 119

Colossal mammoths appear 120

A new race of fish and flowers appear 124

Pleasure succeeds pain as light darkness 125

BOOK VII. Creation of Man

First a babe 127

Man's endowments 132

Eden 135

Eve created 141

The bliss of Adam and Eve while holy 143

Without Eden the powers of evil reigned as before 145

Eden a dwelling-place too for the holy angels 146 viii Contents.

BOOK VIII. Man's Fall

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The temptation 150

Immaterial, what form of matter spirit uses ■ 152

Eve's fall 153

Its effect upon angels 155

Adam's fall ■. 156

The soul increases power in sinning 159

Sentimentalism in the modern Church 161

Justice and conscience 165

Hell's jubilee over man fallen 167

Christ's descent into hell 171

Evil spirits active where good is being done 176

BOOK IX. Man Redeemed

This period divided in six distinct eras 179

The first era from Adam to the Flood 185

Adam and Eve sentenced 186

Redemption announced in Heaven 192

The summary of the whole theme stated 194

The conscience 195

The human pair driven from Eden 196

The modern Church secularized 200

The sons of Seth marrying daughters of Cain closes the first era 203

The second era begins with Noah saved 205

Ministerial success, as estimated by men, does not determine worth 205

Evil, even in the Church, should be rebuked 212

Seminaries and colleges for good or evil 216

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The second era ends when the Church and world amalgamated 224

The third era begins with Abraham and ends with Israel's Captivity in

Egypt — the Church again absorbed by the world 225

The Church, like Lot, may be ensnared by covetousness 228

Pastors who cater to wealth 229

Pastors' vacations 231

The fourth era begins with Moses and ends with Saul made king 237

God's personal omnipresence 241

Soon death comes and then we will long for God 243

God in person near the leading feature of this era 244

Losing sight of this fact ministers preach a jargon 245

Theological seminaries 247

A place is what the spirit in it is 249

How to teach sacred truths 252

The death of Moses, and Satan claiming his body 255

The Church ought to look for sins within herself rather than and before

looking without 258

The persons of the Trinity 261

Moses in person enters Heaven 264

The fifth era, monarchy , 265

Begins with David 266

The clergy should introspect for sin, and not be so ready to assail others

and the world 267

From suffering to glory 270

The effects of monarchy 270

David anointed king '. 271

Vacant churches selecting pastors 272

David loved and hated, his grace and power over men 274

David a type of Christ providing Heaven for us — Solomon's kingdom

typifying the latter 277

The church in its purity . , . , , 278 x Contents.

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Man nearing blissful homes 280

Solomon king and his personal excellences 281

The glory of his kingdom 282

Moloch worship permitted by Solomon 287

Church persecutions, origin and antidote 288

The world beautiful, man vile, but Heaven pure 291

Ashtareth worship also permitted by Solomon 292

The Church should rule by love 293

The sixth era, Christ born 294

The path to Heaven 296

Millennium 293

Why ungodly men are suffered to act wickedly, or are even permitted to

prosper 298

Our union with God 300

The seventh era yet to come, revealed to John, of which our Sabbath is

a type 3 QI

John in Patmos was given a vision of this coming era 302

The beauty of Saints .- 3°5

Sin incidental to good 3°5

The possibilities of our future development 307

A glimpse of our future home 308

The exchange of this life for future felicities the price of Calvary 311

SPIRIT POWER.

Book I. The Creation Of The Heavens And Angels

AWAKE, O Muse ! and sweep the sounding lyre With skill divine, and hymn the noblest theme Which can the mind of man or angel thrill, Both now and evermore : awake and sing In Heaven's harmony, of worlds evolved ; Of plants and flowers new born ; of angel life Began in bliss, with power to will and act ; Of man dethroned, by sin plunged deep in hell, — - But now redeemed by God, to glory raised High o'er the azure dome of heaven above !

Let Nature with ten thousand tongues awake

And hail the auspicious hour to sing and praise

Our Maker's grace in music of the spheres ;

Let Heaven and Earth their choicest gifts employ

And chant a melody, so rich and rare,

That angels, coming near, will stay their flight

And fold their pinions, glad to tarry long !

'Tis holy knowledge, golden fruit in rich Abundance gives, which keeps forevermore The wealth which neither thieves nor tyrants steal, Which e'en in gloomy death with us abides. Like empty, barren clouds in times of drought, And trees uprooted, fruitless evermore Is knowledge foolishly disclaiming God Supreme — the Spirit Power primordial. His presence personal pervading space To see in every thing, is thought advanced. For infancy, not less maturity Of science, knowledge and intelligence, Begin and end with Spirit Power Supreme. Science, falsely so called, is dangerous, Abortive and destructive otherwise.

Creation of the Heavens and Angels.

Oh, Thou Eternal and immediate In time, to Whom unnumbered ages gone Or ages yet to come are moments length, Instruct the finite mind to view Thy power And majesty in forming act the same Whether wrought through successive cycles past, Beyond compute, or formed in perfect state As soon as willed. Impressed with reverence We'll then begin the noble, glorious theme, A theme aglow with more than fancy's light, Which thought in measure sweet ne'er reached before, And feel the plenitude of infinite Power in this richly varied universe. To worship Thee the darkest night illumes With rays of light which blind the commoner sense !

The Mighty God, enthroned in solitude, The Blessed, uncreated Trinity, Fountain of good, the Godhead in repose, — Had yet displayed no attribute of Being, Save with the co-eternal Son and Spirit He Abode,— one Spirit like, and each to each

Glorious, infinite, alone, — and each

To work in His own proper sphere, revealing

Perfections of the one and only God ;

Nor yet had spoken either world or seraph

Into Being throughout immensity ;

His beauty, grace and loveliness beyond

What creature mind has e'er conceived or known

Were yet hid in the abyss of Deity,

And all that matter and spirit life reveal

Known only to Himself, God infinite !

In solitude — a dreadful Deity !

Our spirit faints beneath the awful thought,

Too ponderous for human, finite strength !

His realm was infinity, with nought

Else but pure spirit, personal, enthroned

In light ineffable and glorious.

For in the ether blue no star in light

Of amber shone and twinkled 'mid the gloom ;

No creature having life adored the throne,

Nor ranged joyously through the heavenly realms ;

Nor was there tree or flower, beast or bird

Yet born to render nature beautiful, —

Creation of the Heavens and Angels.

But God alone, in thought inscrutable, Profound, possessed of possibilities Beyond what Heaven yet knows in solitude ! No marvel hence that graciously He pleased To break eternal silence and reveal Himself in worlds, and other spirit life ; To share with myriads bliss ineffable ; And hence to will and cast a universe And mould it into being, in which to act Himself, best illustrated, but far short Of all the vast and awful truth involved, By human soul within controlling body, — Within and yet above whate'er's controlled !

Oh God, too good Thou art to keep unshared Thy goodness and too great to live alone ! Beyond, in timeless past, when time and space Were not, Thy light, O, dreadful thought ! alone Did shine, — immensity alone Thy throne ! As Son and Holy Ghost, co-equal dwelt Ever with Thee in bliss ineffable, So in Thy bosom sweetly nurtured may We rest, and nestle folded in Thy arms

Live always in Thy Person dread but dear,

And thrilled with ecstacy and love, enjoy

Thy gorgeous face in beauty and caress !

We tremble at the near approach we make

To Thee — at our request so seeming bold !

Our sight will dazzle by Eternal rays

Which in Thy Person shine, — and yet we come

O God ! to Thee, — to perish in Thy arms

Content if needful, ravished by Thy love !

But vain it is to tremble or to fear,

For tenderness and love forever beam

From Thy sweet face — more readily Thou seekest

Us than we seek Thee, — only seemingly

Thou art remote — nor wilt repel our love.

Thou'rt hidden now in part to be revealed

More fully upon the hills of Paradise,

Where better we shall love and bear Thy light !

Oh Fountain inexhaustible, we drink

In Ocean's bliss in seeing, loving Thee !

Come ! pilgrim through the vale of life with me, From life to death upon the shores of time —

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From death to life upon the shores of bliss,

Come, learn with me the mystery of Heaven —

Within the soul, of happiness complete,

Of spirit power divine in gorgeous light.

We'll tarry in the shades of night at times

The better to discern the pure and true :

We'll traverse plains and heights ne'er reached before,

Be dazzled too, at times, by rays divine,

And views obtain appalling human sense :

Into the depths we'll revel seeking God —

But ever is He near and manifest,

And in the end reach home — Elysian fields !

Prophets are given of God, and solely, "vision Of past or prophecy of things to come — Eyes spiritual, vision answering To bodily, from time and sense divorced, — Now Heavenly and divine, the Vision God's : As instinct exercised unerringly Is Wisdom God's, whereby the brutes surpass And shame and put to blush the powers of man. 'Tis not of man or angel, creature born, To look into the dark profound of ages

Since, ere he came to Being or the earth

Or Heavens were lighted in the firmament ;

Nor into future times, as yet unborn —

Against our nature and beyond our powers.

God moves with Hand Divine the mists away,

Throws light upon a scene — and tells us look ! —

Behold ! through Spirit Infinite we see —

Through eyes Divine : and Vision God's a scene

Impresses upon our souls, infallible

Then and alone, thus helped by Spirit Power

Above, outside ourselves and infinite !

'Tis Blessed Spirit here, companionating

With finite in gracious intimacy —

Heaven's Wisdom, Glory, Love or Power disclosed

Long since or yet reserved, revealed to earth

And man, or angels in empyrean heights !

To say we're helped, as helmsmen are to guide

A bark unerringly o'er stormy seas,

Are supervised to keep from error free —

Called Inspiration, given of God to men

Who wrote the Sacred Word, is short of truth,

Or stated but in part by half at least ! —

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The word is good and orthodox, retained —

But as interpreted as well expunged :

Called Supervision would disclose the view

As taken and clear of all entanglements.

But there's a vision given above our powers

Of brilliant gems upon the ocean's bed

And golden palaces with crystal halls,

Of hidden rocks and shoals, blind rocks and shoals

Beneath dark inky waves ; there is a Hand

Removing shades, imposing light, and God

Is eye who casts a vision upon the soul,

The spirit born, finite and limited.

Thus more than helped, or merely supervised, —

God's Vision, infallible, an image casts

Within our soul, and spirit sees the truth,

To speak or write, unerringly, each word,

As given original, by Power Divine.

We're helped as human eyes are instruments

Of spirit : thus is God pre-requisite,

And not a mere adjunct or accident !

Thus only man the future or the past

Discerns, as Moses, prophet of the Lord io Creation of the Heavens and Angels.

Discerned Beginning of the Universe, Angels as yet unborn, and through all time Into the abyss and shades of night delved deep And saw the past and future's history.

As human eyes perceive a flower and know The fact, requiring evidence no further, And laughs to scorn a sceptic asking proof And further demonstration of the fact, So God's Vision, imparting truth for thought, Pleasure and help throughout life's pilgrimage To spirits born, impressing scenes beyond What mortals otherwise could know, cries halt ! — To every doubt and sceptic scheme which steals A march within the lines of truth's strong citadels ! When souls discern through Vision God's, the past Or future mysteries, 'tis gross to cavil, — For further evidence none need to ask.

To Heaven ! let earth's incense most sweet ascend For Inspiration given to sinful man ; For mysteries disclosed and treasuries Unsealed where richest gems with lustre glow !

O ! fellow pilgrim, mark the birth of dust Whence stars were made, and man and angel form, And marvelling adore the first display Of Power Divine — Almighty God revealed ! Born by the word omnific God declared There sprang a universe, a gaseous realm Of matter into Being, rarified Like air from centre to circumference. Whence issued suns in multitude like pearls And crystal sands which deck the ocean's floor, Whose heat and brightness far exceed our own, And all the worlds which plough the ether main. Whate'er material is, from gaseous state Arose, and into its original Returns when it its destiny fulfils. Combined harmoniously are clustered suns, The system one, where peace and happiness Have held their reign supremely sweet since first It rolled a formless airy mass in space : And wondrous suns which gyre around and round, As if in passionate pursuit, with joy Each eyeing the other's changing beauty's hue :

And glimmering clouds of worlds o'er many a rood So far and wide a shooting beam of light E'en tires on wing ere it their limits gains.

The worlds, suns, systems filling space evolved, Moulded by hand divine all beautiful, From elements, the dust original, — As rude and blackened coal when pierced by heaven's Lustre becomes a diamond bright and chaste ; Or like as crystalline formed from the crude And shapeless dust of earth. Here then we look As upon a forest growth in every stage Of germs developed from the tiny sprout Just peeping out the soil its tender head To the exalted tree that rears its trunk Against the sky and proudly spreads its boughs Of perfect beauty which reflect the light. The elements original of matter Are few — or possibly there's only one — But O ! how endless the variety Of body and of substance they assume, And marvellous their beauty to attract The eye, or ugliness repelling thought :

Creation of the Heavens and Angels.

As flesh of gases elementary Is formed the same and like in animal kind : — But mark the maiden, fair and sweet, compared With serpent flesh, repulsive, hard and cold ! So diamond beautiful and lustrous Is carbon, and an elementary- Gas, and likewise coal which is lustreless. So bodies there are, tenements of spirit, Celestial and terrestrial, whether seen Or not by us, alike composed of substance According to their kind and sphere and realm, Of matter simple and original, Born by omnific word, the Spirit Power Who was ere man or angel breathed, the light That solely shone throughout immensity !

O, pilgrim in the shades of solitude, Reclused from things of sense and time, Behold ! An order of Creation in advance Of matter far and incomparable Now appear, — finite spirit, — angel life, — Intelligences pure and holy, like

To God, with thought and sentiment and heart

And faculties and conscious will endowed ;

And tenements superadded to spirit,

Called bodies, like pure ether, richly formed

Of elements from which the universe

Is made, — an airy substance, not discerned

By carnal sense, save otherwise they will

To manifest themselves in earth or heaven.

So animalculae, perceptible

To none, are yet organic substances

With functions requisite to life and pleasure.

For bodies are adapted to the sphere

In which each spirit acts, expands and thinks.

Whether the tenements of soul are formed

In solids, flesh and bone, or gaseous, like

Thin air, but having beauty, shape and form

Discerned by angel spirits and our souls

When disembodied, is quite immaterial.

Our bodies earthy take the form of earth ;

But angel bodies heavenly in form,

A light and gaseous substance like to Heaven.

The great Apostle of the Gentiles hence

Denominates the mass of men as fools, — Because, forsooth, they foolishly inquire Respecting resurrection — with what bodies Do they come ? seemingly a question great, Important — really immaterial. To culture soul, and to prepare for high And spiritual work should be- the end Of body, whether gaseous or in flesh. Then Satan, towering pre-eminent O'er all the myriads which there into Being Came, was archangel 'mong the mighty hosts, — With attributes and powers transcendent, — fresh In youth and beauty as the morning light, — With intellectual faculties ne'er since Surpassed, — with dignity befitting him, Having no peer around the throne of God ; Whose character was lovely and adorned With virtue, as a halo of pure light Illumes a person unalloyed with sin ; His body of so fine a mould it shone In air or ether or at heaven's throne Like to a transparent luminary,

But yet organic, linking him to matter

And spirit, substance having suitable

To his employments, nature and desire

To range the universe of God's domain.

His honored name by which while pure and holy

He was known, is forgotten since his fall !

For Satan and the countless angels great Or small, all holy in ecstatic bliss, A lofty habitation God prepared, Adapted to their nature, labors, tastes And all acquirements destined to engage Their powers superior eternally. From centre to circumference entire, The universe of matter was one Globe, An elemental mass unformed as yet In either suns or worlds, — a chaos crude And marvellously dark, — a wonderful Expanse whose limits e'en an angel swift As light for centuries could scarcely reach : Where now glow worlds upon worlds, suns and stars Illuminating heaven's vast expanse. The angels' Eden was the centre, whence

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Every way they could view alike the works Of God, no east or west or north or south, — Alike above, below, to right or left, So that where'er they looked a wonderful Display of Spirit Power was manifest. Here was prepared an angel Paradise.

Like phosphorescent light upon a sea Which storms have broken into million caps Of foam and spray, now calm, the gale allayed ; So God's command illumed the angel world, And carefully the cradle of their birth, The home of their maturity adorned. Darkness now ceased to reign ! with light the first Created power, the fountain head of all The streams of life was ended first of days. From centre to circumference light shot Darting throughout the elements like tongues Of flame : the dazzled universe was thrilled ! Thus northern lights illume the firmament When winter has thick ribbed the earth with ice, And while the sun's benign rays are withheld. The angels now in wonder rapt, amazed

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Beheld themselves, their forms, alike illumed, —

The beauty of the heavens theirs concrete, —

Their bodies shedding color, lustre, hue

And shade such as adorned the heavenly realms.

Whichever way they looked some new display

Dazzled their senses and restrained their breath,

Inured not yet to glory now revealed.

This heaven, centre of the mighty Globe,

Was like a molten sea of glittering gems :

Where districts seemed of massive silver, bright

But mellow brilliants, others yellow gold,

With varied tints like clouds at setting sun.

Heaven aflame with more than rainbow hues'

Scattered her myriad diamonds, emeralds

And every precious gem like autumn leaves,

To light and beautify her mighty realm.

For beauty, pleasure and utility

Nature has possibilities unthought

Or dreamed, — as dark seeds open into flowers,

Above storm-clouds and soars imperial,

And gorgeous butterflies from worms adorn

The earth and air and range from flower to flower.

The legions of pure angels soon became Enamored with their home. And every new Display of beauty, power, intelligence Enrapt their thought and formed a fitting theme For social converse sweet, which never soured Their appetite or tired their intercourse. Here spirit finite shared the joy and bliss Of Deity, and were employed in all That elevates and renders soul ecstatic, — Shedding the light of Spirit Infinite. How beautiful, how bright the angels were — How blessed to share the bliss of Deity !

The elements primordial, the Globe Of matter, ever in its gaseous state Might have remained except for Spirit Power. For solids by laws natural return Into their elements original,

When they've fulfilled their office, once ordained. The archangels noting some great change near, Thereupon held converse apart and deemed

It prudent to assemble every angel

Within their heavenly precincts secure.

The myriads were scattered everywhere :

In fields of oxygen a multitude

Discoursed upon its affinity in less

Or great proportion with the gases,

Which they from near or from distant fields brought ;

With sulphur others into splendor such

As mortal eye or sense could not endure :

Some in districts of Hydrogen, or Carbon,

Or other elements all pleasurably

Employed. Some journeyed upon the points of light,

The darting beams, to reach the bounds of space.

Some gathered gems, both diamonds, emeralds,

Rubies from fields where beauty glowed intense.

Nature was lavish now of beauty only !

Far in the sphere of heaven's universe,

The marvellous dome all around from where

He stood, a trumpet voice in thunder tones

Was heard, which echoed and re-echoed till

Every angel stood mute and motionless.

'Twas Satan calling them and anxiously

To annul the intervening space between

Them and him in their quick returning flight !

None questioned — all obeyed — no time was lost !

Their pinions cleaving elemental air

Like arrows from a bow, an army dense,

A tempest raised, such as excite the ocean

When whirlwinds sweep through her utmost depths.

Their speed was timely. Moanings deep and dire, And thunderings throughout the gaseous Globe Gave evidence of some new wonder near. Already heaven's centre separate Became, and other globes of million leagues Twice told diameter of liquid fire, And millions, — all like evenly balanced, — hung Ton nothing, — mutually co-acting, — self-poised ; — : And vast and deep the' mighty chasm between — An empty space and void which we call ether. For 'twas God's voice that thundered, Spirit Power, Who in the majesty of might appeared And said, Be there a firmament between The waters and let it divide the waters

From the waters ! And God made the firmament, The ether's wide expanse, transparent blue, Dividing chaos elementary Above, beneath : the firmament called heaven.

Pilgrim of earth and time from lofty heights We've retrospected ancient night, ere light Appeared, and have conceived that matter void, Inert was spread about the central power, When into systems formed, they all revolve. E'en though untrue in each particular, Conceit o'erdrawn, a vision limited And circumscribed, 'tis yet a pleasing thought And may be true, conceived as probable. From out infinity's waste Spirit Power Thence called them forth to life. Before there reigned A solitude akin to Egypt's night, A death we'd shun above what reigns in tombs ! No music of the spheres, now full of life, No ether wave to lash the worlds as water A vessel ploughing ocean's mighty main. Not thus forever could the universe

Remain, for power filling immensity

Was felt to energize with quickening life.

As parent bird the glow of life imparts,

So God's breath moved upon the water's surface

From which the universe evolved, — the pulse

Of life then throbbed throughout chaotic void, —

Impelled by Spirit Power the atoms moved

And systems formed about the central Power,

Which light and beautify the firmament :

Centaur, and Cygnus robed in lilac blue,

And brilliant Sirius, and all that shine,

In anthems sing the music of the spheres,

The solar too whence earth and planets grew.

The immensity of power and harmony, Number and beauty of celestial worlds As suns, astonish the wise of every age. The mighty suns, the clusters; double worlds • Of light, and nebulae as islands vast Are seen to float upon an ocean's depth, Whose limits thought can scarcely reach, whose height, Whose abyss is beyond — and deeper still Though we descend eternally their depths

With finite powers excursive in their range.

Here calmly undisturbed by storms they shine

More beauteous than the flowers of joyous spring,

Or tinted leaves of autumn's long decline.

A lustre of their own they shed as gems

Of earth, but varied more in brightened hues.

Andromeda appears as robed in green

Like earth, and Argus flashing yellow flames

As topaz, for which misers barter Heaven ;

And some of amethyst, a purple tinge

As clouds of evening when the sun has set.

Some shine a sapphire of cerulean hue,

Others in ruby's red, some in the mild

And chastened glow of diamonds polished bright.

O, wonderful the omnipotence divine Which throughout space directs in harmony Vast myriads of creature worlds and keeps Their massive globes from dashing one against Another, whose confusion then would drive The ether waves with heinous booming shrieks Into the very gates of hell to arouse The reigning powers of death and set them free !

These myriad suns and archipelago Of suns controlling vassal spheres unseen, Planets and worlds of systems complicate Move in a circling orbit, as the earth About the sun, around one central power. O ! where does the eternal Majesty Reside round which our system, sun and worlds, Revolves with giddy speed, which is in bonds As are the solar worlds joined close to all The clusters vast of creature stars and systems In heaven's dome, which nightly shed their rays ? God sways His potent sceptre through this space Powdered with myriad systems densely strewn !