| nan | O THOU high-thundering blessed heavenly One |
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| nan | 10 Which God commands me to proclaim to men. |
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| nan | 100 And to the mighty earth and sea shall fall |
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| nan | The entire multiform sky; and there shall flow |
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| nan | A tireless cataract of raging fire |
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| nan | And it shall burn the land, and burn the sea |
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| nan | And heavenly sky, and night, and day, and melt |
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| nan | 105 Creation itself together and pick out |
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| nan | What is pure. No more laughing spheres of light |
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| nan | Nor night, nor dawn, nor many days of care |
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| nan | Nor spring, nor winter, nor the summer-time |
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| nan | Nor autumn. And then of the mighty God |
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| nan | O men, that in your image have a form |
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| nan | 110 The judgment midway in a mighty age |
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| nan | Shall come, when all these things shall come to pass. |
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| nan | O navigable waters and each land |
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| nan | Of the Orient and of the Occident |
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| nan | Subject shall all things be to him who come |
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| nan | 115 Into the world again, and therefore he |
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| nan | Himself became first conscious of his power. |
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| nan | But when the threatenings of the mighty God |
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| nan | Are fulfilled, which he threatened mortals once |
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| nan | When in Assyrian land they built a tower;– |
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| nan | Fashioned of God, why do ye vainly stray |
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| nan | 120 (And they all spoke one language, and resolved |
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| nan | To mount aloft into the starry heaven; |
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| nan | But on the air the Immortal straightway put |
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| nan | A mighty force; and then winds from above |
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| nan | Cast down the great tower and stirred mortals up |
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| nan | 125 To wrangling with each other; therefore men |
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| nan | Gave to that city the name of Babylon);– |
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| nan | Now when the tower fell and the tongues of men |
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| nan | Turned to all sorts of sounds, straightway all earth |
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| nan | Was filled with men and kingdoms were divided; |
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| nan | And walk not in the straight way, always mindful |
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| nan | 130 And then the generation tenth appeared |
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| nan | Of mortal men, from the time when the flood |
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| nan | Came upon earlier men. And Cronos reigned |
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| nan | And Titan and Iapetus; and men called them |
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| nan | Best offspring of Gaia and of Uranus |
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| nan | 135 Giving to them names both of earth and heaven |
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| nan | Since they were very first of mortal men. |
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| nan | So there were three divisions of the earth |
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| nan | According to the allotment of each man |
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| nan | And each one having his own portion reigned |
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| nan | Of the immortal Maker? God is one |
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| nan | 140 And fought not; for a father's oaths were there |
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| nan | And equal were their portions. But the time |
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| nan | Complete of old age on the father came |
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| nan | And he died; and the sons infringing oath |
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| nan | Stirred up against each other bitter strife |
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| nan | 145 Which one should have the royal rank and rule |
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| nan | Over all mortals; and against each other |
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| nan | Cronos and Titan fought. But Rhea and Gaia |
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| nan | And Aphrodite fond of crowns, Demeter |
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| nan | And Hestia and Dione of fair lock |
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| nan | 15 Sovereign, ineffable, dwelling in heaven |
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| nan | 150 Brought them to friendship, and together called |
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| nan | All who were kings, both brothers and near kin |
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| nan | And others of the same ancestral blood |
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| nan | And they judged Cronos should reign king of all |
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| nan | For he was oldest and of noblest form. |
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| nan | 155 But Titan laid on Cronos mighty oath |
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| nan | To rear no male posterity, that he |
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| nan | Himself might reign when age and fate should come |
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| nan | To Cronos. And whenever Rhea bore |
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| nan | Beside her sat the Titans, and all male |
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| nan | The self-existent and invisible |
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| nan | 160 In pieces tore, but let the females live |
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| nan | To be reared by the mother. But When now |
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| nan | At the third birth the august Rhea bore |
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| nan | She brought forth Hera first; and when they saw |
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| nan | A female offspring, the fierce Titan men |
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| nan | 165 Betook them to their homes. And thereupon |
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| nan | Rhea a male child bore, and having bound |
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| nan | Three men of Crete by oath she quickly sent |
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| nan | Him into Phrygia to be reared apart |
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| nan | In secret; therefore did they name him Zeus |
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| nan | Himself alone beholding everything; |
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| nan | 170 For he was sent away. And thus she sent |
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| nan | Poseidon also secretly away. |
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| nan | And Pluto, third, did Rhea yet again |
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| nan | Noblest of women, at Dodona bear |
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| nan | Whence flows Europus' river's liquid course |
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| nan | 175 And with Peneus mixed pours in the sea |
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| nan | Its water, and men call it Stygian. |
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| nan | But when the Titans heard that there were son |
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| nan | Kept secretly, whom Cronos and his wife |
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| nan | Rhea begat, then Titan sixty youth |
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| nan | Him sculptor's hand made not, nor is his form |
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| nan | 180 Together gathered, and held fast in chain |
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| nan | Cronos and his wife Rhea, and concealed |
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| nan | Them in the earth and guarded them in bonds. |
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| nan | And then the sons of powerful Cronos heard |
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| nan | And a great war and uproar they aroused. |
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| nan | 185 And this is the beginning of dire war |
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| nan | Among all mortals. [For it is indeed |
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| nan | With mortals the prime origin of war.] |
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| nan | And then did God award the Titans evil. |
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| nan | And all of Titans and of Cronos born |
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| nan | Shown by man's art from gold or ivory; |
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| nan | 190 Died. But then as time rolled around there rose |
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| nan | The Egyptian kingdom, then that of the Persian |
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| nan | And of the Medes, and Ethiopians |
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| nan | And of Assyria and Babylon |
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| nan | And then that of the Macedonians |
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| nan | 195 Egyptian yet again, then that of Rome. |
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| nan | And then a message of the mighty God |
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| nan | Was set within my breast, and it bade me |
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| nan | Proclaim through all earth and in royal heart |
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| nan | Plant things which are to be. And to my mind |
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| nan | Who hast set in their place the cherubim |
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| nan | 20 But he, eternal Lord, proclaims himself |
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| nan | 200 This God imparted first, bow many kingdom |
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| nan | Have been together gathered of mankind. |
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| nan | For first of all the house of Solomon |
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| nan | Shall include horsemen of Phœnicia |
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| nan | And Syria, and of the islands too |
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| nan | 205 And the race of Pamphylians and Persian |
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| nan | And Phrygians, Carians, and Mysian |
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| nan | And the race of the Lydians rich in gold. |
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| nan | And then shall Hellenes, proud and impure |
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| nan | Then shall a Macedonian nation rule |
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| nan | As one who is and was erst and shall be |
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| nan | 210 Great, shrewd, who as a fearful cloud of war |
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| nan | Shall come to mortals. But the God of heaven |
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| nan | Shall utterly destroy them from the depth. |
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| nan | And then shall be another kingdom, white |
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| nan | And many-headed, from the western sea |
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| nan | 215 Which shall rule much land, and shake many men |
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| nan | And to all kings bring terror afterwards |
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| nan | And out of many cities shall destroy |
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| nan | Much gold and silver; but in the vast earth |
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| nan | There will again be gold, and silver too |
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| nan | Again hereafter. For who being mortal |
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| nan | 220 And ornament. And they will oppress mortals; |
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| nan | And to those men shall great disaster be |
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| nan | When they begin unrighteous arrogance. |
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| nan | And forthwith in them there shall be a force |
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| nan | Of wickedness, male will consort with male |
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| nan | 225 And children they will place in dens of shame; |
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| nan | And in those days there shall be among men |
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| nan | A great affliction, and it shall disturb |
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| nan | All things, and break all things, and fill all thing |
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| nan | With evils by a shameful covetousness |
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| nan | Can see God with his eyes? Or who shall bear |
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| nan | 230 And by ill-gotten wealth in many lands |
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| nan | But most of all in Macedonia. |
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| nan | And it shall stir up hatred, and all guile |
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| nan | Shalt be with them even to the seventh kingdom |
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| nan | Of which a king of Egypt shall be king |
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| nan | 235 Who shall be a descendant from the Greeks. |
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| nan | And then the nation of the mighty God |
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| nan | Shall be again strong and they shall be guide |
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| nan | Of life to all men. But why did God place |
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| nan | This also in my mind to tell: what first |
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| nan | To hear the only name of heaven's great God |
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| nan | 240 And what next, and what evil last shall be |
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| nan | On all men? Which of these shall take the lead? |
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| nan | First on the Titans will God visit evil. |
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| nan | For they shall pay to mighty Cronos's son |
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| nan | The penal satisfaction, since they bound |
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| nan | 245 Both Cronos and the mother dearly loved. |
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| nan | Again shall there be tyrants for the Greek |
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| nan | And fierce kings overweening and impure |
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| nan | Adulterous and altogether bad; |
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| nan | And for men shall be no more rest from war. |
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| nan | 25 The ruler of the world? He by his word |
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| nan | 250 And the dread Phrygians shall perish all |
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| nan | And unto Troy shall evil come that day. |
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| nan | And to the Persians and Assyrian |
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| nan | Evil shall straightaway come, and to all Egypt |
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| nan | And Libya and the Ethiopians |
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| nan | 255 And to the Carians and Pamphylians– |
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| nan | Evil to pass from one place to another |
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| nan | And to all mortals. Why now one by one |
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| nan | Do I speak forth? But when the first receive |
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| nan | Fulfillment, then straightway shall come on men |
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| nan | Created all things, even heaven and sea |
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| nan | 260 The second. So the very first I'll tell. |
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| nan | There shall an evil come to pious men |
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| nan | Who dwell by the great temple of Solomon |
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| nan | And who are progeny of righteous men. |
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| nan | Alike of all these also I will tell |
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| nan | 265 The tribe and line of fathers and homeland– |
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| nan | All things with care, O mortal shrewd in mind. |
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| nan | There is a city . . . on the earth |
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| nan | Ur of the Chaldees, whence there is a race |
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| nan | Of men most righteous, to whom both good will |
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| nan | And tireless sun, and full moon and bright stars |
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| nan | 270 And noble deeds have ever been a care. |
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| nan | For they have no concern about the course |
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| nan | Of the sun's revolution, nor the moon's |
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| nan | Nor wondrous things beneath the earth, nor depth |
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| nan | Of joy-imparting sea Oceanus |
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| nan | 275 Nor signs of sneezing, nor the wings of birds |
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| nan | Nor soothsayers, nor wizards, nor enchanters |
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| nan | Nor tricks of dull words of ventriloquists |
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| nan | Neither do they astrologize with skill |
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| nan | And mighty mother Tethys, springs and rivers |
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| nan | 28 Of the Chaldeans, nor astronomize; |
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| nan | 285 Come many evils leading them astray |
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| nan | From good ways and just deeds. But they have care |
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| nan | For righteousness and virtue, and not greed |
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| nan | Which breeds unnumbered ills to mortal men |
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| nan | War and unending famine. But with them |
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| nan | Imperishable fire, and days and nights. |
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| nan | O For these are all deceptive, in so far |
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| nan | 290 Just measure, both in fields and cities, holds |
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| nan | Nor steal they from each other in the night |
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| nan | Nor drive off herds of cattle, sheep, and goats |
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| nan | Nor neighbor remove landmarks of a neighbor |
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| nan | Nor any man of great wealth grieve the one |
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| nan | 295 Less favored, nor to widows cause distress |
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| nan | But rather aids them, ever helping them |
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| nan | With wheat and wine and oil; and always doe |
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| nan | The rich man in the country send a share |
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| nan | At the time of the harvests unto them |
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| nan | I, who have uttered what is all too true |
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| nan | 30 This is the God who formed four-lettered Adam |
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| nan | As foolish men go seeking day by day |
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| nan | 300 That have not, but are needy, thus fulfilling |
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| nan | The saying of the mighty God, a hymn |
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| nan | In legal setting; for the Heavenly One |
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| nan | Finished the earth a common good for all. |
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| nan | Now when the people of twelve tribes depart |
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| nan | 305 From Egypt, and with leaders sent of God |
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| nan | Nightly pursue their way by a pillar of fire |
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| nan | And during all the day by one of cloud |
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| nan | For them then God a leader will appoint– |
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| nan | A great man, Moses, whom a princess found |
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| nan | The first one formed, and filling with his name |
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| nan | Training their souls unto no useful work; |
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| nan | 310 Beside a marsh, and carried off and reared |
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| nan | And called her son. And at the time he came |
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| nan | As leader for the people whom God led |
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| nan | From Egypt unto the. steel) Sinai mount |
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| nan | His own law God delivered them from heaven |
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| nan | 315 Writing on two flat stones all righteous thing |
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| nan | Which he enjoined to do; and if, perchance |
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| nan | One give no heed, he must unto the law |
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| nan | Make satisfaction, either at men's hand |
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| nan | Or, if men's notice he escape, he shall |
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| nan | East, west, and south, and north. The same is he |
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| nan | And then did they teach miserable men |
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| nan | 320 By ample satisfaction he destroyed. |
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| nan | [For the Heavenly finished earth a common good |
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| nan | For all, and in all hearts as best gift thought.] |
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| nan | A hundredfold from one, and thus complete |
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| nan | 325 God's measure. But to them shall also come |
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| nan | Misfortune, nor do they escape from plague. |
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| nan | And even thou, forsaking thy fair shrine |
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| nan | Shalt flee away when it becomes thy lot |
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| nan | To leave the holy land. And thou shalt be |
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| nan | Who fixed the pattern of the human form |
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| nan | Deceptions, whence to mortals on the earth |
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| nan | 330 Carried to the Assyrians, and shalt see |
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| nan | Young children and wives serving hostile men; |
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| nan | And every means of life and wealth shall perish; |
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| nan | And every land shall be filled up with thee |
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| nan | And every sea; and everyone shall be |
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| nan | 335 Offended with thy customs; and thy land |
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| nan | Shall all be desert; and the altar fenced |
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| nan | And temple of the great God and long wall |
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| nan | Shall all fall to the ground, since in thy heart |
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| nan | The holy law of the immortal God |
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| nan | And made wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls. |
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| nan | 340 Thou didst not keep, but, erring, thou didst serve |
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| nan | Unseemly images, and didst not fear |
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| nan | The immortal Father, God of all mankind |
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| nan | Nor will to honor him; but image |
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| nan | Of mortals thou didst honor Therefore now |
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| nan | 345 Of time seven decades shall thy fruitful land |
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| nan | And the wonders of thy temple all be waste. |
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| nan | But there remains for thee a goodly end |
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| nan | And greatest glory, as the immortal God |
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| nan | Granted thee. But do thou wait and confide |
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| nan | 35 Ye do not worship neither fear ye God |
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| nan | 350 In the great God's pure laws, when he shall lift |
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| nan | Thy wearied knee upright unto the light. |
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| nan | And then will God from heaven send a king |
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| nan | To judge each man in blood and light of fire. |
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| nan | There is a royal tribe, the race of which |
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| nan | 355 Shall be unfailing; and as times revolve |
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| nan | This race shall bear rule and begin to build |
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| nan | God's temple new. And all the Persian king |
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| nan | Shall aid with bronze and gold and well-wrought iron. |
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| nan | For God himself will give the holy dream |
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| nan | But vainly go astray and bow the knee |
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| nan | 360 By night. And then the temple shall again |
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| nan | Be, as it was before. . . . |
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| nan | Now when my soul had rest from inspired song |
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| nan | And I prayed the great Father for a rest |
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| nan | From constraint; even in my heart again |
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| nan | 365 Was set a message of the mighty God |
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| nan | And he bade me proclaim through all the earth |
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| nan | And plant in royal minds things yet to be. |
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| nan | And in my mind God put this first to say |
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| nan | How many lamentable suffering |
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| nan | To serpents, and make offering to cats |
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| nan | 370 The Immortal purposed upon Babylon |
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| nan | Because she his great temple had destroyed. |
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| nan | Alas, alas for thee! O Babylon |
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| nan | And for the offspring of the Assyrian men! |
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| nan | Through all the earth the rush of sinful men |
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| nan | 375 Shall some time come, and shout of mortal men |
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| nan | And stroke of the great God, who inspires songs |
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| nan | Shall ruin every land. For high in air to thee |
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| nan | O Babylon, shall it come from above |
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| nan | And out of heaven from holy ones to thee |
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| nan | And idols, and stone images of men |
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| nan | 380 Shall it come down, and the soul in thy children |
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| nan | Shall the Eternal utterly destroy. |
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| nan | And then shalt thou be, as thou wast before |
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| nan | As one not born; and then shalt thou be filled |
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| nan | Again with blood, as thou thyself before |
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| nan | 385 Didst shed that of good, just, and holy men |
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| nan | Whose blood yet cries out to the lofty heaven. |
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| nan | To thee, O Egypt, shall a great blow come |
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| nan | And dreadful, to thy homes, which thou didst hope |
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| nan | Might never fall on thee. For through thy midst |
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| nan | And sit before the doors of godless temples; |
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| nan | 390 A sword shall pass, and scattering and death |
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| nan | And famine shall prevail until of king |
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| nan | The seventh generation, and then cease. |
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| nan | Alas for thee, O land of Gog and Magog |
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| nan | In the midst of the rivers of Ethiopia! |
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| nan | 395 What pouring out of blood shalt thou receive |
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| nan | And house of judgment among men be called |
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| nan | And thy land of much dew shall drink black blood! |
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| nan | Alas for thee, O Libya, and alas |
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| nan | Both sea and land! O daughters of the west |
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| nan | Entreat thee, let me have a little rest; |
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| nan | 40 Ye guard him who is God, who keeps all things |
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| nan | 400 So shall ye come unto a bitter day. |
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| nan | And ye shall come pursued by grievous strife |
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| nan | Dreadful and grievous; there shall be again |
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| nan | A dreadful judgment, and ye all shall come |
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| nan | By force unto destruction, for ye tore |
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| nan | 405 In pieces the great house of the Immortal |
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| nan | And with iron teeth ye chewed it dreadfully. |
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| nan | Therefore shalt thou then look upon thy land |
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| nan | Full of the dead, some of them fallen by war |
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| nan | And by the demon of all violence |
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| nan | And merry with the wickedness of stone |
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| nan | 410 Famine and plague, and some by barbarous foes. |
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| nan | And all thy land shall be a wilderness |
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| nan | And desolations shall thy cities be. |
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| nan | And in the west there shall a star shine forth |
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| nan | Which they will call a comet, sign to men |
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| nan | 415 Of the sword and of famine and of death |
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| nan | And murder of great leaders and chief men. |
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| nan | And yet again there shall be among men |
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| nan | Greatest signs; for deep-eddying Tanai |
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| nan | Shall leave Mæotis's lake, and there shall be |
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| nan | Forget the judgment of the immortal Saviour |
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| nan | 420 Down the deep stream a fruitful, furrow's track |
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| nan | And the vast flow shall hold a neck of land. |
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| nan | And there are hollow chasms and yawning pits; |
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| nan | And many cities, men and all, shall fall:– |
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| nan | In Asia–Iassus, Cebren, Pandonia |
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| nan | 425 Colophon, Ephesus, Nicæa, Antioch |
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| nan | Syagra, Sinope, Smyrna, Myrina |
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| nan | Most happy Gaza, Hierapolis, . |
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| nan | Astypalaia; and in Europe–Tanagra |
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| nan | Clitor, Basilis, Meropeia, Antigone |
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| nan | Who made the heaven and earth. Alas! a race |
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| nan | 430 Magnessa, Mykene, Oiantheia. |
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| nan | Know then that the destructive race of Egypt |
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| nan | Is near destruction, and the past year then |
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| nan | Is better for the Alexandrians. |
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| nan | As much of tribute as Rome did receive |
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| nan | 435 Of Asia, even thrice as many good |
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| nan | Shall Asia back again from Rome receive |
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| nan | And her destructive outrage pay her back. |
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| nan | As many as from Asia ever served |
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| nan | A house of the Italians, twenty time |
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| nan | That has delight in blood, deceitful, vile |
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| nan | 440 As many Italians shall in Asia serve |
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| nan | In poverty, and numerous debts incur. |
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| nan | O virgin, soft rich child of Latin Rome |
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| nan | Oft at thy much-remembered marriage feast |
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| nan | Drunken with wine, now shalt thou be a slave |
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| nan | 445 And wedded in no honorable way. |
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| nan | And oft shall mistress shear thy pretty hair |
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| nan | And wreaking satisfaction cast thee down |
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| nan | From heaven to earth, and from the earth again |
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| nan | Raise thee to heaven, for mortals of low rank |
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| nan | 45 Ungodly, of false, double-tongued, immoral men |
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| nan | 450 And of unrighteous life are held fast bound. |
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| nan | And of avenging Smyrna overthrown |
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| nan | There shall be no thought, but by evil plan |
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| nan | And wickedness of them that have command |
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| nan | Shall Samos be sand, Delos shall be dull |
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| nan | 455 And Rome a room; but the decrees of God |
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| nan | Shall all of them be perfectly fulfilled. |
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| nan | And a calm peace to Asian land shall go. |
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| nan | And Europe shall be happy then, well fed |
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| nan | Pure air, full of years, strong, and undisturbed |
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| nan | Adulterous, idolous, designing fraud |
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| nan | 460 By wintry storms and hail, bearing, all things |
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| nan | Even birds and creeping things and beasts of earth. |
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| nan | O happy upon earth shall that man be |
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| nan | Or woman; what a home unspeakable |
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| nan | Of happy ones! For from the starry heaven |
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| nan | 465 Shall all good order come upon mankind |
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| nan | And justice, and the prudent unity |
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| nan | Which of all things is excellent for men |
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| nan | And kindness, confidence, and love of guests; |
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| nan | But far from them shall lawlessness depart |
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| nan | An evil madness raving in their hearts |
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| nan | 470 Blame, envy, wrath, and folly; poverty |
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| nan | Shall flee away from men, and force shall flee |
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| nan | And murder, baneful strifes and bitter feuds |
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| nan | And theft, and every evil in those days. |
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| nan | But Macedonia shall to Asia bear |
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| nan | 475 A grievous suffering, and the greatest sore |
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| nan | To Europe shall spring up from Cronian stock |
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| nan | A family of bastards and of slaves. |
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| nan | And she shall tame fenced city Babylon |
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| nan | And of each land the sun looks down upon |
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| nan | For themselves plundering, having shameless soul; |
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| nan | 480 Call herself mistress, and then come to naught |
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| nan | By ruinous misfortunes, having fame |
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| nan | In later generations distant far. |
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| nan | And sometime into Asia's prosperous land |
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| nan | Shall come a man unheard of, shoulder-clad |
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| nan | 485 With purple robe, fierce, unjust, fiery; |
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| nan | 485 Do not delay and loiter, but do thou |
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| nan | And this man he who wields the thunderbolt |
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| nan | Tossed to and fro, turn and propitiate God. |
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| nan | Roused forwards; and all Asia shall sustain |
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| nan | Offer to God Your hecatombs of bull |
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| nan | An evil yoke, and her soil wet with rain |
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| nan | And firstling lambs and goats, as times revolve. |
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| nan | Shall drink much murder. But even so shall Hade |
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| nan | But him propitiate, the immortal God |
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| nan | For no one who has riches will impart |
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| nan | 490 Destroy the unknown king; and that man's offspring |
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| nan | 490 If haply he show mercy. For he i |
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| nan | Shall forthwith perish by the race of those |
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| nan | The only God, and other there is none. |
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| nan | Whose offspring he himself would fain destroy; |
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| nan | And honor justice and oppress no man. |
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| nan | Producing one root which the bane of men |
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| nan | For these things the Immortal doth enjoin |
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| nan | Shall cut from ten horns, and plant by their side |
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| nan | On miserable men. But do thou heed |
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| nan | 495 Another plant. A father purple-clad |
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| nan | Shall cut a warlike father off, and Ares |
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| nan | Baneful and hostile, by a grandson's hand |
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| nan | Shall himself perish; and then shall the horn |
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| nan | Planted beside them forthwith bear the rule. |
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| nan | 5 For my heart has grown weary from within. |
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| nan | 50 To another, but dire wickedness shall be |
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| nan | 500 And unto life-sustaining Phrygia |
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| nan | Straightway shall there a certain token be |
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| nan | When Rhea's blood-stained race, in the great earth |
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| nan | Blooming perennial in impervious roots |
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| nan | Shall, root and branch, in one night disappear |
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| nan | 505 With a city, men and all, of the Earth-shaker |
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| nan | Poseidon; which place they shall sometime call |
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| nan | Dorylæum, of dark ancient Phrygia |
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| nan | Much-bewailed. Therefore shall that time be called |
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| nan | Earth-shaker; dens of earth shall he break up |
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| nan | Among all mortals, and for sake of gain |
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| nan | 510 And walls demolish. And not signs of good |
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| nan | But a beginning of evil shall be made; |
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| nan | The baneful violence of general war |
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| nan | Ye'll have, sons of Æneas, Dative blood |
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| nan | Of Ilus from the soil. But afterward |
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| nan | 515 A spoil shalt thou become for greedy men. |
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| nan | O Ilium, I pity thee; for there shall bloom |
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| nan | In Sparta an Erinys very fair |
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| nan | Ever-famed, noblest scion, and shall leave |
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| nan | On Asia and Europe a wide-spreading wave; |
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| nan | Will many widows not at all keep faith |
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| nan | 520 But to thee most of all she'll bear and cause |
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| nan | Wailings and toils and groans; but there shall be |
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| nan | Undying fame with those who are to come. |
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| nan | And there shall be an aged mortal then |
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| nan | False writer and of doubtful native land; |
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| nan | 525 And in his eyes the light shall fade away; |
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| nan | Large mind and verses measured with great skill |
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| nan | Shall he have and be blended with two names |
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| nan | Shall call himself a Chian and shall write |
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| nan | Of Ilium, not truthfully, indeed |
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| nan | But secretly love others, and the bond |
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| nan | 530 But skillfully; for of my verse and meter |
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| nan | He will be master; for he first my book |
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| nan | Will open with his hands; but he himself |
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| nan | Will much embellish helmed chiefs of war |
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| nan | Hector of Priam and Achilles, son |
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| nan | 535 Of Peleus, and the others who have care |
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| nan | For warlike deeds. And also by their side |
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| nan | Will he make gods stand, empty-headed men |
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| nan | False-writing every way. And it shall be |
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| nan | Glory the rather, widely spread, for them |
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| nan | Of life those who have husbands do not keep. |
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| nan | 540 To die at Ilium; but he himself |
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| nan | Shall also works of recompense receive. |
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| nan | Also to Lycia shall a Locrian race |
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| nan | Cause many evils. And thee, Chalcedon |
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| nan | Holding by lot a strait of narrow sea |
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| nan | 545 Shall an Ætolian youth sometime despoil. |
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| nan | Cyzicus, also thy vast wealth the sea |
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| nan | Shall break off. And, Byzantium of Ares |
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| nan | Thou some time shalt by Asia be laid waste |
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| nan | And also groans and blood immeasurable |
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| nan | 55 But when Rome shall o'er Egypt also rule |
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| nan | 550 Shalt thou receive. And Cragus, lofty mount |
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| nan | Of Lycia, from thy peaks by yawning chasm |
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| nan | Of opened rock shall babbling water flow |
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| nan | Until even Patara's oracles shall cease. |
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| nan | O Cyzicus, that dwellest by Proponti |
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| nan | 555 The wine-producing, round thee Rhyndacu |
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| nan | Shall crash the crested billow. And thou, Rhodes |
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| nan | Daughter of day, shalt long be unenslaved |
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| nan | And great shall be thy happiness hereafter |
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| nan | And on the sea thy power shall be supreme. |
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| nan | Governing always, then shall there appear |
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| nan | 560 But afterwards a spoil shalt thou become |
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| nan | For greedy men, and put upon thy neck |
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| nan | By beauty and by wealth a fearful yoke. |
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| nan | A Lydian earthquake shall again despoil |
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| nan | The power of Persia, and most horribly |
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| nan | 565 Shall the people of Europe and Asia suffer pain. |
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| nan | And Sidon's hurtful king with battle-din |
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| nan | Dreadful shall work a mournful overthrow |
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| nan | To the seafaring Samians. On the soil |
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| nan | Shall slain men's dark blood babble to the sea; |
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| nan | The greatest kingdom of the immortal King |
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| nan | 570 And wives together with the noble bride |
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| nan | Shall their outrageous insolence lament |
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| nan | Some for their bridegrooms, some for fallen sons. |
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| nan | O sign of Cyprus, may an earthquake waste |
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| nan | Thy phalanxes away, and many soul |
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| nan | 575 With one accord shall Hades bold in charge. |
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| nan | And Trallis near by Ephesus, and wall |
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| nan | Well made, and very precious wealth of men |
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| nan | Shall be dissolved by earthquake; and the land |
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| nan | Shall burst out with hot water; and the earth |
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| nan | Over men. And a holy Lord shall come |
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| nan | 580 Shall swallow down those who are by the fire |
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| nan | And stench of brimstone heavily oppressed. |
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| nan | And Samos shall in time build royal houses. |
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| nan | But to thee, Italy, no foreign war |
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| nan | Shall come, but lamentable tribal blood |
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| nan | 585 Not easily exhausted, much renowned |
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| nan | Shall make thee, impudent one, desolate. |
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| nan | And thou thyself beside hot ashes stretched |
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| nan | As thou in thine own heart didst not foresee |
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| nan | Shalt slay thyself. And thou shalt not of men |
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| nan | To hold the scepter over every land |
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| nan | 590 Be mother, but a nurse of beasts of prey. |
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| nan | But when from Italy shall come a man |
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| nan | A spoiler, then, Laodicea, thou |
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| nan | Beautiful city of the Carian |
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| nan | By Lycus's wondrous water, falling prone |
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| nan | 595 Shalt weep in silence for thy boastful sire. |
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| nan | Thracian Crobyzi shall rise up on Hæmus. |
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| nan | Chatter of teeth to the Campanians come |
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| nan | Because of wasting famine; Corsica |
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| nan | Weeps her old father, and Sardinia |
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| nan | But why again leaps my heart, and my soul |
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| nan | 60 Unto all ages of fast-hastening time. |
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| nan | 600 Shall by great storms of winter and the stroke |
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| nan | of a holy God sink down in ocean depths |
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| nan | Great wonder to the of the sea. |
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| nan | Alas, alas, how many virgin maid |
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| nan | Will Hades wed, and of as many youth |
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| nan | 605 Will the deep take without funeral rites! |
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| nan | Alas, alas, the helpless little one |
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| nan | And the vast riches swimming in the sea! |
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| nan | O happy land of Mysians, suddenly |
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| nan | A royal race shall be formed. Truly now |
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| nan | And then shall come inexorable wrath |
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| nan | 610 Not for a long time shall Chalcedon be. |
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| nan | 610 Woe, woe to thee, O Thrace! So shalt thou come |
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| nan | And there shall be a very bitter grief |
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| nan | Beneath a servile yoke, when the Galatian |
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| nan | To the Galatians. And to Tenedo |
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| nan | United with the sons of Dardanu |
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| nan | Shall there a last but greatest evil come. |
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| nan | Rush on to ravage Hellas, thine shall be |
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| nan | And Sicyon, with strong yells, and Corinth, thou |
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| nan | The evil; and unto a foreign land |
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| nan | 615 Shalt boast o'er all, but flute shall sound like strain. |
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| nan | . . . . . . . Now, when my soul had. rest from inspired song. |
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| nan | Even again within my heart was set |
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| nan | A message of the mighty God, and he |
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| nan | Commanded me to prophesy on earth. |
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| nan | On Latin men; three shall by piteous fate |
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| nan | 620 Woe, woe to the race of Phœnician men |
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| nan | And women, and all cities by the sea; |
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| nan | Not one of you shall in the common light |
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| nan | Abide before the shining of the sun |
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| nan | Nor of life shall there any longer be |
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| nan | 625 Number and tribe, because of unjust speech |
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| nan | And lawless life impure which they lived |
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| nan | Opening a mouth impure, and fearful word |
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| nan | Deceitful and unrighteous forth |
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| nan | And stood against the God, the King |
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| nan | Endamage Rome. And perish shall all men |
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| nan | 630 And opened loathsome month deceitfully |
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| nan | Therefore may he subdue them terribly |
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| nan | By strokes o'er all the earth, and bitter fate |
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| nan | Shall God send on them burning from the ground. |
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| nan | Cities and of the cities the foundations. |
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| nan | 635 Woe, woe to thee, O Crete! To thee shall come |
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| nan | A very painful stroke, and terribly |
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| nan | Shall the Eternal sack thee; and again |
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| nan | Shall every land behold thee black with smoke |
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| nan | Fire ne'er shall leave thee, but thou shalt be burned. |
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| nan | With their own houses, when from heaven shall flow |
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| nan | 645 Much shalt thou give, not anything receive. |
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| nan | Woe to thee, Gog and Magog, and to all |
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| nan | One after another, Mardians and Daians; |
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| nan | How many evils fate, shall bring on thee! |
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| nan | Woe also to the soil of Lycia |
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| nan | 65 A fiery cataract. Ah, wretched me! |
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| nan | 650 And those of Mysia and Phrygia. |
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| nan | And many nations of Pamphylians |
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| nan | And Lydians, Carians, Cappadocians |
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| nan | And Ethiopian and Arabian men |
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| nan | Of a strange tongue shall fall. How now may I |
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| nan | 655 Of each speak fitly? For on all the nation |
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| nan | Which dwell on earth the Highest shall send dire plague. |
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| nan | When now again a barbarous nation come |
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| nan | Against the Greeks it shall slay many head |
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| nan | Of chosen men; and they shall tear in piece |
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| nan | When shall that day and when shall judgment come |
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| nan | 660 Many fat flocks of sheep of men, and herd |
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| nan | Of horses and of mules and lowing kine; |
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| nan | And well-made houses shall they burn with fire |
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| nan | Lawlessly; and unto a foreign land |
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| nan | Shall they by force lead many slaves away |
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| nan | 665 And children, and deep-girded women soft |
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| nan | From bridal chambers creeping on before |
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| nan | With delicate feet; and they shall be bound fast |
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| nan | With fetters by their foes of foreign tongue |
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| nan | Suffering all fearful outrage; and to them |
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| nan | Of the immortal God, the mighty King? |
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| nan | 670 There shall not be one to supply the toil |
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| nan | Of battle and come to their help in life. |
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| nan | And they shall see their goods and all their wealth |
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| nan | Enrich the enemy; and there shall be |
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| nan | A trembling of the knees. And there shall fly |
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| nan | 675 A hundred, and one shall destroy them all; |
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| nan | And five shall rout a mighty company; |
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| nan | But they, among themselves mixed shamefully |
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| nan | Shall by war and dire tumult bring delight |
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| nan | To enemies, but sorrow to the Greeks. |
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| nan | But just now, O ye cities, ye are built |
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| nan | 680 And then upon all Hellas there shall be |
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| nan | A servile yoke; and war and pestilence |
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| nan | Together shall upon all mortals come. |
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| nan | And God will make the mighty heaven on high |
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| nan | Like brass and over all the earth a drought |
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| nan | 685 And earth itself like iron. And thereupon |
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| nan | Shall mortals all lament the barrenne |
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| nan | And lack of cultivation; and on earth |
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| nan | Shall he set, who created heaven and earth |
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| nan | A much-distressing fire; and of all men |
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| nan | And all adorned with temples and race-grounds |
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| nan | 690 The third part only shall thereafter be. |
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| nan | O Greece, why hast thou trusted mortal men |
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| nan | As leaders, who cannot escape from death? |
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| nan | And wherefore bringest thou thy foolish gift |
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| nan | Unto the dead and sacrifice to idols? |
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| nan | 695 Who put the error in thy heart to do |
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| nan | These things and leave the face of God the mighty? |
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| nan | Honor the All-Father's name, and let it not |
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| nan | Escape thee. It is now a thousand years |
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| nan | Yea, and five hundred more, since haughty king |
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| nan | With a whip smitten from within constrained |
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| nan | 70 Markets, and images of wood, of gold |
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| nan | 700 Ruled o'er the Greeks, who first to mortal men |
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| nan | Introduced evils, setting up for worship |
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| nan | Images many of gods that are dead |
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| nan | Because of which ye were taught foolish thoughts. |
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| nan | But when the anger of the mighty God |
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| nan | 705 Shall come upon you, then ye'll recognize |
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| nan | The face of God the mighty. And all soul |
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| nan | Of men, with mighty groaning lifting up |
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| nan | Their hands to the broad heaven, shall begin |
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| nan | To call the great King helper, and to seek |
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| nan | Of silver and of stone, that ye may come |
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| nan | 710 The rescuer from great wrath who is to be. |
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| nan | But come and learn this and store in your hearts |
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| nan | What troubles in the rolling years shall come. |
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| nan | And what as whole burnt-offering Hellas brought |
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| nan | Of cows and bellowing bulls unto the temple |
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| nan | 715 Of the great God, she from ill-sounding war |
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| nan | And fear and pestilence shall flee away |
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| nan | And from the servile yoke escape again. |
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| nan | But until that time there shall be a race |
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| nan | Of godless men, even when that fated day |
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| nan | Unto the bitter day. For it shall come |
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| nan | 720 Shall reach its end. For offering to God |
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| nan | Ye should not make till all things come to pass |
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| nan | Which God alone shall purpose not in vain |
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| nan | To be all fulfilled; and strong force shall urge. |
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| nan | And there shall be again a holy race |
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| nan | 725 Of godly men who, keeping to the counsel |
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| nan | And mind of the Most High, shall honor much |
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| nan | The great God's temple with drink-offerings |
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| nan | When there shall pass among all men a stench |
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| nan | Of brimstone. Yet each thing will I declare |
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| nan | 75 In all the cities where men suffer ills. |
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| nan | From the Sebastenes Beliar shall come |
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| nan | Hereafter, and the height of hills shall he |
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| nan | Establish, and shall make the sea stand still |
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| nan | And the great fiery sun and the bright moon |
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| nan | To utter forth its message unto all? |
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| nan | 80 And he shall raise the dead, and many sign |
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| nan | Work before men: but nothing shall be brought |
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| nan | By him unto completion but deceit |
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| nan | And many mortals shall be lead astray |
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| nan | Hebrews both true and choice, and lawless men |
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| nan | 85 Besides who never gave ear to God's word. |
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| nan | But when the threatenings of the mighty God |
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| nan | Shall draw near, and a flaming power shall come |
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| nan | By billow to the earth, it shall consume |
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| nan | Both Beliar and all the haughty men |
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| nan | But yet again will I proclaim all thing |
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| nan | 90 Who put their trust in him. And thereupon |
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| nan | Shall the whole world be governed by the hand |
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| nan | Of a woman and obedient everywhere. |
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| nan | Then when a widow shall o'er all the world |
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| nan | Gain the rule, and cast in the mighty sea |
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| nan | 95 Both gold and silver, also brass and iron |
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| nan | Of short lived men into the deep shall cast |
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| nan | Then all the elements shall be bereft |
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| nan | Of order, when the God who dwells on high |
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| nan | Shall roll the heaven, even as a scroll is rolled; |
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