Then vanishing far down the unfathomed Deep.

Down came the Deluge. Kuma's lonely vale
Beneath far stretching Caucasus no more
Glowed in its beauty like a virgin bride
Unclosing the barr'd vizor of her lord.
The bright and glorious hills above the flood
Looked forth and vanished, while the victims clung
To the drown'd cliffs and topmost trees and gasped
Their last quenched shriek for succour; every puls
Ceased in the turbid waters-every head

Sank on its cold, dark pillow—all was still!
One moment's struggle-and the silence fell;
One awful pang-and Death swept o'er the sea
And found no sacrifice! Then hoary CAIN,
Whom multitude of years, baptized in guilt,
And branded with impieties, had brought
To this dread expiation, 'mid his sons,
His nation of idolaters, o'erwhelmed
By the resistless billows, proudly fell
In sullen haughty silence and cold scorn
And unrepentant pride; and his last breath
Quivered with voiceless curses as he swirled
Along the surf and vanished in the gulf.

"Obeys his monarch and the world is mine!" Creation groaned; the universe throughout Infinity with sudden terror quaked,

Then came a Voice: "Thou dost what GOD permi "Apostate, reprobated slave of crime!

"The author, punisher and victim too "Of recusant and unforgiven guilt!

"Vaunt not, with fond ovation, evil done

"By heaven's allowance, lest thy doom should be
"To invent fresh torture for thy fellow fiends!"
The Dæmon quailed; yet soon above the Ark
Hovered on giant pinions, looking down
With vulture eyes unsated by despair.
The mountains trembled in the vast abyss,
The Hazaldera to their centre shook,
Hyrcania's sea forgot its ancient bounds,
Wandering o'er precipice and wood and wild,
And ocean's viewless monsters o'er their tops
And in their awful caverns rolled their vast
Unwieldy forms and played their giant game.

Meantime, the floating temple wandered on; And in the bosom of the house of God Rested the child of heaven; and praise and prayer, Chastened affection, gentle gratitude,

ལ་བས ཕཔ་ བབ་མལ་ས་

"Till Time expires, shall dewy seedtime fail "Or cheerful harvest; cold and heat shall track "Each other's footsteps in the round of years, "And birth and death to nations shall succeed "As nature dictates." Upward soared the voice.

Revered in reverend age, for all his deeds,
Were chronicled in Honour's living scroll
And with remembrances most sacred charged-
Beloved in his last hour-the deeper then-
For countless hearts had garnered up his thoughts,
His counsels, his examples, faith and love—
The Patriarch (by the sage of thousand years
Named Noah, consolation for the curse)
Summoned around his deathbed from afar,
Cathay, fair Al-Gezira and the isles

Since titled of the Gentiles, and the shores
Of Oman's sea and the broad realms that clasp
Those waters trusted in all times with wealth
Of argosies and galleons and triremes,
Laden by Egypt, Sidon, Tyre and Moors
Of Afric and proud lords of Christendom-
These called he-sons yet chiefs and kings-
Before his presence ere the soul grew dim,
Pour'd in their waiting minds dread prophecies,

"Behold Dair Abunah-the temple-tomb
"Of him who saw the world expire and lived.”

Once more the earth was peopled, and the land
Portioned among the children of the just.
The branching olive in the valley grew,
The vintage on the hillside blushed, and grain
Waved its green glories o'er rejoicing fields.

But men forgot their blessings and despised

Their birthright, and the standard of their king
Deserted in the faithlessness of sin,

Deeming their own vain workmanship could build
Castles impregnable, towers proudly crown'd
By the blue heavens, secure from future wreck.
Thus tempted he, ABADDON, for he knew

That doubt brings terror-fear of boundless power
Avoidance of communion and concern

And final hate; and to this scope he swayed
The fickle mind of youth, with dread of ill
Blending sublime and thrilling phantasies
Of honour, greatness, affluence, and fame.
Hence rose corrupt condemners-judges throned
In bought authority and base insolence,
Accusers, yet dispensers of men's doom.