Before him weltered like a shoreless sea
The souls of them that had not sought to be,
With all their guilt upon them, and they cried,
They that had sinned from hate and lust and pride,
“Thou that didst make us what we might become,
Judge us!” The Judge of all the earth was dumb;
But high above them, in His sovereign place,
He lifted up...
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A Dead soul lay in the light of day,
Desperate, wan, it had passed;
Oft foiled, it had toiled on its upward way,
Till it perished, spent, aghast,
After a thousand defeats the prey
Of its conquering sin at last.Said a stranger:—“Lo, how in shame and woe
Is Satan’s seal ever set!”
Laughed a foe:—“Doth the carrion lie so... -
Departed to the judgment,
A mighty afternoon ;
Great clouds like ushers leaning,
Creation looking on.
The flesh surrendered, cancelled,
The bodiless begun ;
Two worlds, like audiences, disperse
And leave the...Judgment is justest
When the Judged,
His action laid away,
Divested is of every Disk
But his sincerity.
Honor is then the safest hue
In a posthumous Sun —
Not any color will endure
That scrutiny can burn.