in

In her luxurious homes; and twice as much

And faith and right be hidden in the world,

. . . Fickle . . . and in unhallowed boldness

In childish folly, in their violence

In childish folly, in their violence

Exulting and in blood holding their bands;

Wash your whole body in perennial streams,

Will he again restrain, if in your hearts

In wars exceeding powerful shall he be;

And in like manner after him to reign

And in all things discreet. And upon thee,

Sister of Isis, to lay up in heart

And thou shalt be in evil hands that day

Immortal in the clouds. Where among men

In some like manner. No more openly

Of the immortal Thunderer in heaven,

Without life and dumb, molten in the fire

Thmois and Xois are in sore distress,

And then shalt thou, in cities very rich,

Who lack in understanding, and show them

And trust in bows. All Asia fire-ablaze

And citizens and people going in,

In all things, Maenad having joy in snakes,

In all things, Maenad having joy in snakes,

Thee and all thine destroy, and in that land

In Hades the Tartarean lawless land.

Thy blind delusion; Memphis, first in toils,

Thou shalt be filled up with the dead; in thee

Reckless in evils, treasury of toils,

Rich in gold, Ocean shall be roaring loud

Of Capricorn and Taurus in the Twins

A mighty conflagration high in air,

And a new nature in the warlike stars,

Shall perish in the midst of fire and groans.

From three heads he shall give food in excess

Slaughter and terrors are laid up in store

The world's fair folds. In strife with us perhaps

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

And grief shall come in that day. For mankind

From war and plague and groaning, in that day

God's city in mid portions of the land,

[And be expert in songs and holy tongues],

Shall flow for all the just; for in one God,

And Carians and Lydians rich in gold.

And in the place of winter there shall be

In that day summer. And to mortal men

Dead bodies more in number than the sand.

Dead in Cymaean streams. And then shall they

In order that thy judgments we may see.

For thou, O God, in kindness didst regard

And to hold fast what God put in their charge.

Trailed in the dust along beneath the mist,

Shall in a mass bring evil strife to pass.

All-desolate, unwept, in blooming land

And sometime high in the broad heaven above

Of the moon again be in the latest time,

In front of heaven. And then will he himself

In the last time, at the turning of the moon,

And carried on with cunning, and in guile.

Fleeing and pondering sharp things in his mind,

And in the plains of Macedonia

Of lightning, murky darkness, night in heaven,

And waste in war and o'er the slaughter mist,

In brothels by assault and punishment

For in thee mother with her child did hold

And in thee kings have their ill-fated mouth

Polluted, and in thee have wicked men

Found couch with cattle. Be in silence hushed,

One blessed, with a scepter in his hand,

In many stades a great and boundless tower

Nor tumult, but a righteous strife in all.

Sole ruler, who wast great in olden time

Shalt lie in golden mountains and by streams

And in the last time shall the sea be dry

In the fifth generation, when the ruin

In Egypt, and in Macedonia

In Egypt, and in Macedonia

And in Asia and among the Libyans

Shall in the dust be a world-maddening war

But to remain submerged in Ocean's waves;

Shalt thou in thrice unhappy Egypt lie.

Imperishable reason in their breast,

In Egypt, and the people made by God

Shall there be any sparing in that land,

Among the stars, and in the lightning flash

Did Virgo change in Aries; no more shone

The great Son of the Immortal famed in song

And in his hand the whole world, earth, heaven, sea.

When earth shall be glad in the hope of child.

Of the water; and first in impiety

Intoxicates, shall in intestine strife

An axle in the midst, and place for men

Gave him the power and put it in his hand;

Who once in the mouth of Jordan washed himself,

--And the Spirit spread his wings in flight towards him--

Establish, in which dwell God's noble guides,

Not having in gold or in silver joy,

Not having in gold or in silver joy,

But in the reverential acts of men--

Of frankincense in fire, nor with the sword