and

Into the deep, and thus shall be destroyed.

She that was once revered and given a name

To ashes, wail, and o'er great Syria,

And o'er Phœnicia that bas many tribes.

Upon the painful land! And it shall dash

With evil earthquake and with bitter streams

And there shall be for Phrygia fearful wrath

Mother of Zeus, and there continued long.

And barbarous nation, and beneath the earth

And barbarous nation, and beneath the earth

The river of deep eddies and deep flow,

Zeus himself and the august Hera bore

And shameless whom all mortals and best men

And shameless whom all mortals and best men

Abhor; for he slew many and laid hands

And of men stained with blood had he been formed.

And he shall come to monarchs of the Medes

And Persians, first whom he loved and to whom

And Persians, first whom he loved and to whom

And on the temple made by God he seized

And citizens and people going in,

And citizens and people going in,

Was shaken and kings perished--and yet power

Was shaken and kings perished--and yet power

Remained among them, and they quite destroyed

The mighty city and the righteous people.

From heaven into the dreadful sea and burn

The vasty deep, and Babylon itself,

And the land of Italy, because, of which

Among the Hebrews and a people true.

And lawless carnal intercourse with boys,

And the river Tiber shall lament for thee,

And impious soul. Didst thou not understand

What God can do, and what he doth devise?

But thou saidst, "I'm alone, and me no one

Thee and all thine destroy, and in that land

Thee and all thine destroy, and in that land

And mixed with burning fire inhabit thou

And now again, O Egypt, I bewail

And thou shalt make atonement for all things

And a mighty man of the Ethiopians

Who shall explain thy follies? And Cyrene,

Among the Britons and among the Gauls,

And he shall slaughter thee, thyself, Ravenna,

And unto slaughter shall he lead the way.

O Indians and great-hearted Ethiops,

Of Capricorn and Taurus in the Twins

Virgo then rising, and about his front

And a new nature in the warlike stars,

Shall perish in the midst of fire and groans.

And weep thou, Corinth, the destruction sad

He also shall destroy and smite thy land,

And first with sickle cleaving off the roots

Slaughter and terrors are laid up in store

because of the great city and just people

O thou unstable one and ill-advised,

Both a beginning and great end of toil,--

Of suffering creation and of part

Of evils, and for men a great curse, who

Hast thou disposed all things and washed away

All that is fair, and by thee have been changed

And how dost thou say, "I will thee persuade,"

And "If in any thing thou blame me, speak?"

Appeared and grew, and day arose on all.

Appeared and grew, and day arose on all.

And grief shall come in that day. For mankind

Both a beginning and great end of toil,--

Of suffering creation and of part

From war and plague and groaning, in that day

From war and plague and groaning, in that day

And even as far as Joppa building round

And one shall come again from heaven, a man

When he spoke with fair word and holy lips,

And noble branch, a scion much beloved,

[And be expert in songs and holy tongues],

[And be expert in songs and holy tongues],

With sacrifices of all kinds and prayers

Of small affliction and the just shall have

And hide themselves until the world be changed.

And there shall be a rain of gleaming fire

From the clouds; and no more shall mortals reap

And unplowed, until mortal men shall know

Always existing, and no more revere

And what things Egypt taught to magnify

With dumb months and dull lips. But all these things

A stream and from a spring ambrosial milk

Having great piety and faith they hoped.

And now thee, wretched Asia, piteously

I mourn and the race of Ionians

And Carians and Lydians rich in gold.

And Carians and Lydians rich in gold.

Alas, alas for thee, O Sardis; and alas

And ruined, and be also changed to dust.

And ruined, and be also changed to dust.

And to Asia gloomy. . . .

By chasms, and earthquakes come headlong down

Overwhelm ships. And up-turned Ephesus

And for her temple search which is no more.

And then incensed shall God the imperishable,

And in the place of winter there shall be