ELIAS An Epic of the Ages
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Japheth shall feel the Spirit minister, And Jacob see and hear his risen Lord[26]. God still with man, though not with man's misrule; Still with the just, though Christian-pagan turn His prurient ear to fables, from the truth, And, virtueless as Judah's pharisee, And graceless as Iscariot, self-hung, Parts in the midst, as wide as East from West[31], False church and faithless empire, faction-torn, Twain as the imaged legs of Babel's dream, A split colossus, fallen 'twixt Greece and Rome.
God still with man, though not with man's misrule, Never with thee, daughter of force and fraud, Mother of guile—thy refuge and thy shame! Never with thee, thou wanton by the way, Roaming tradition's tangled wilderness, Lost in a night that seemeth to thee day; In crooked paths that fain would straight appear; Warming thy withered fingers o'er the coals Alive 'mid ashes of the ancient fires, Where She was wont[32] to kindle faith, hope, love, And flash the beacon o'er a wandering world.
There holding to thy heart an empty urn, There cherishing a name, a memory, Mumbling vain prayers, "Lord, Lord," protesting still, And still forgetful of thy Lord's command! Nay, not with thee, thou crimson courtesan[33], Robed in the horrid hue of countless crimes! Fierce dragon's maw, thrice-cruel murderess, Thy hands a-reek with blood of innocence, With blood of prophets, blood of priests and kings, Whose martyred souls sue vengeance, judgment-sworn! Vengeance on thee, thou slaughterer of saints, Vengeance on him, thy sceptered paramour, Whose princes ten while Mammon's host shall wail , Loathing where once they loved all lustfully, And lived, as thou hast lived, deliciously, When found no more God's wheat 'mid Satan's tares, When thou art saltless, saintless, savorless, When thou art ripened unto rottenness, Shall give thy crumbling body to be burned.
Nay, Anti-Christ, presuming tyranny, Never with thee, usurping power of sin!
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Plotting to sway Jehovah's sovereignty, To rear thy throne where His alone shall stand; Perdition, warring 'gainst the Saints of God, And overcoming till the Judgment sits[34], When swift-winged morn shall overtake the night, And glory lift the gloom[35] of centuries. Meanwhile the mission of the Moonlike One[36], Brooding above the waters of the world, Stronger than storms, mightier than wind or wave, Moving on mortal seas, on human souls; Dynamic impulse of Divinity, Impelling to all action[37] wise, sublime.
Ye patriarchs and prophets of old time! Ye seers and bards of sacred Israel!
Elias: An Epic of the Ages by Orson F. Whitney
Elect of God, earth-wandering witnesses, Sowers on goodly and on stony ground! Souls mercy-sent, man's erring steps to win From folly's paths of wickedness and strife, To wisdom's way of purity and peace! Shepherds to fold and feed a wolf-torn flock, Holding the hallowed keys that loose and bind! Are ye alone forerunners of the Light?
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Nay, for as kings and conquerors they come; Anon, as champions of democracy; Founders of faiths and stern iconoclasts; Sword, tongue and pen of progress and reform. The fountain lights of literature, whose rays Spill their white splendor on the hills of fame; Masters of melody, whose strains awake The slumbering memories of eternity; Pilgrims to continents and climes unknown, Uncurtained for the play of liberty, Now nearing the finale of her dreams, Dreams that shall waken to reality; Waste-winners; probers of the polar way; Invention's wizards, wielding magic might— Launching fleet words on atmospheric wave, Cleaving with bird-like wing the shoreless blue, Outspeeding speed, outblazing brilliancy, Thrilling the world with lightning's vivid wand, Ruling all realms with scintillating sway; Sages in art, in science past profound, Subduing matter and exploring mind, Sounding the depths of psychic mystery, Scaling thought's pinnacles, that pierce the night, To greet the early glintings of the morn.
These also are the mighty, kin to those, Divinest of Jehovah's messengers. Each hath his freedom, and succeeds or fails, But all subserve the Will Omnipotent. Is God then mocked? Made void His vast design?
Creator foiled by creature? Speeds ne'er to earth a spoiler of His plan, Nor spares His rod a recreant messenger. Whate'er betide, the soul that sins atones: All oracles of light, all arms of power, Preparers of the way one face before; Their strength but part of His omnipotence, Their fault God-given lest man be deified, And pride in him dethrone humility. Declare His truth, His generations tell, O'er whom the many marveled, some to say Elias, slain of Herod, lives again; While some said Jeremias[39].
Who say ye, Man-hated, though God-missioned ministers, Unctioned with fire, anointed from on High! Guardians yet watchful o'er the widening fold!