3. Before Creation peopled earth, Its eye shall roll through chaos back; 4. Above or Love, Hope, Hate, or Fear, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die. VISION OF BELSHAZZAR. 1. THE King was on his throne, In Judah deem'd divine- The godless Heathen's wine! 2. In that same hour and hall, Came forth against the wall, And wrote as if on sand: The fingers of a man;— Along the letters ran, And traced them like a wand. 3. The monarch saw, and shook, "And expound the words of fear, 4. Chaldea's seers are good, But here they have no skill; And Babel's men of age Are wise and deep in lore; But now they were not sage, 5. A captive in the land, A stranger and a youth, VOL. V. H The lamps around were bright, The prophecy in view; 6. « Belshazzar's grave is made, "His kingdom pass'd away, "He, in the balance weigh'd, "Is light and worthless clay. "The shroud, his robe of state, "His canopy the stone; "The Mede is at his gate! "The Persian on his throne!" SUN OF THE SLEEPLESS! SUN of the sleepless! melancholy star! |