 | Virginalia ; or, songs of my summer nights |  |
TOHOO VABOHOO.
All things were changed!—the mighty earth
Grew tremulous with fear!
Heaven's thunders, as the stars went forth,
Shook each one from its sphere!
Earth had no speech—Heaven had no ear—
No word was spoken—heard!
All Nature trembled, dumb with fear,
Waiting upon the Lord!
Grew tremulous with fear!
Heaven's thunders, as the stars went forth,
Shook each one from its sphere!
Earth had no speech—Heaven had no ear—
No word was spoken—heard!
All Nature trembled, dumb with fear,
Waiting upon the Lord!
Time's grave was darkness!—every spot
Was filled with nothing—blight
Was on the face of Nature—not
A star lit Heaven that night!
The Nations now were dumb!—the wars
Were at an end—the strife
Of Empires!—Death, from out Hell's bars,
Looked lean for want of life!
Was filled with nothing—blight
Was on the face of Nature—not
A star lit Heaven that night!
The Nations now were dumb!—the wars
Were at an end—the strife
Of Empires!—Death, from out Hell's bars,
Looked lean for want of life!
There was no world but Heaven!—no eye
To see, if there had been
Aught to have gazed upon!—the sky
Stood everywhere set in
The circle of the Eternal Years,
A concave of pure nought—
Stretching like nothing first appears
To man absorbed in thought,
To see, if there had been
Aught to have gazed upon!—the sky
Stood everywhere set in
The circle of the Eternal Years,
A concave of pure nought—
Stretching like nothing first appears
To man absorbed in thought,
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But over this—above this night—
This gloom encircled by
The will of God—was one bright light
Filling Eternity!
It was the smile of God!—it shone
And lit that Blest Abode;
And all who gathered round the throne
Beheld the face of God!
This gloom encircled by
The will of God—was one bright light
Filling Eternity!
It was the smile of God!—it shone
And lit that Blest Abode;
And all who gathered round the throne
Beheld the face of God!
Middletown, Conn., April 8, 1839.
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