3. The serpent of the field, by art It will not list to wisdom's lore, WHEN COLDNESS WRAPS THIS SUFFERING CLAY. 1. WHEN coldness wraps this suffering clay, But leaves it darken'd dust behind. By steps each planet's heavenly way ? 2, Eternal, boundless, undecay'd, A thought unseen, but seeing all, And all, that was, at once appears. 3. Before Creation peopled earth, Its eyes shall roll through chaos back; And where the furthest heaven had birth, The spirit trace its rising track. And where the future mars or makes, Its glance dilate o'er all to be, While sun is quench'd or system breaks, Fix'd in its own eternity. 4. Above or Love, Hope, Hate, or Fear, An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years as moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, 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, And wrote as if on sand: The fingers of a man;- Along the letters ran, And traced them like a wand. "The wisest of the earth, "And expound the words of fear, "Which mar our royal mirth." 4. Chaldea's seers are good, But here they have no skill? And the unknown letters stood Untold and awful still. And Babel's men of age Are wise and deep in lore; But now they were not sage, They saw-but knew no more. 5. A captive in the land, A stranger and a youth, He heard the king's command, fle saw that writing's truth, C |