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Thou didst make thyself manifest in fire."

A stranger unto thee in need to curb

In pain; a second time to thee, O Rome,

Do I wail bitterly in pitying grief.

From under flesh, and burning in the spirit

Of sheep shall prove false, in which race

But in the third lot of revolving years,

Then a pure mind shall God beget in men,

Those in need and among the foremost went

In the last age upon the faithless world

In order that, procuring larger space,

And wolves and foxes dwell in thy foundations.

And he shall have part in all mysteries

Who in his houses shall shut up and guard

All the goods of the world, in order that,

For then in all earth shall confusion be

When a dragon charged with fire in both his eyes

Nor speaker learned in law, nor magistrate

The blood of sacrifices in libations

Nor those made drunken in the lawless feasts

Of revelry, nor in the choral dance;

And in fear wailing thou shalt give, until

For Rome's power perished then while in its bloom;

Workers of evil and in nothing true,

In false words; they shall have no fill of wealth;

The stars shall all fall forwards in the sea,

All one by one, yet shall men see in heaven

In secret, then shall he all things declare;

By water in twelve springs; and there shall rule

Is in acrostics which give signs of God

Which he indeed aid promise, and in which

For not in glory, but as mortal man

In after time shalt for our form provide

Keeping in mind this purpose he shall come

In peaceful faith. And from five loaves of bread

Shall he fill in the desert, and then taking

Shall be asunder rent and in midday

Shall he as Lord in flesh be visible,

As he before was, and in hands and feet

Exhibit four marks fixed in his own limbs,

Abide in solitude, air, earth, sea, light

And there shall fly no longer in the air

Will they in vain ask God who rules on high,

Gave in seven ages for repentance signs

All these things in my mind God himself showed

In secret, and upon God's judgment seat

Nor blood most hateful. For in memory

Deaf and dumb, in the evil putting trust,

Each one indeed is marked out in thy mind,

Begotten in thy bosom before all

In a form altogether like our own,

In mortal figure, also heaven, air, fire,

For acting in accord with his own will

But in the latest times the earth he passed,

"O virgin, in thy bosom undefiled

Flew into the womb, and in course of time

Born was shown in a manger unto them

And in heart practice lowliness of mind

In worship recollection of good cheer,

And taking pleasure in defilement send

Brought he in yet another race of men

Whose numbers I will tell and in acrostics

Preeminent and just; and then in her

A fearful sign in the Egyptian land,

And he will watch o'er many things in wars.

They do not make escape from in that day.

For he will carry all things in detail

In his might, and will hurl the idols down;

In shady cavern off spring of wild beast

Hurl many headlong down, in numbers both

A great stroke in thy houses; and again

I weep in pity; for to thee from Greece,

He for his brother's sake will go in quest.

How much in one night Hades shall receive,

Homewards shall he in order go. And then

And hurrying through the multitude in dread

He will raise up. And in his fifteenth year,

Destroyed by waters in the depths of sea,

And they who dwell in the land of fair corn

While thought to live in quiet as none else.

Ares of Pella shall in Egypt found,

Thereafter other kings, in a few years,

Nor shall they in that day make their escape

And he himself in turn by his own son,

Whom carrying in their hands the youth of Rome

But having suffered misery in wars

And formerly delighting in great kings

The imperishable God who dwells in heaven,

For he, great soul, shall be the best in wars;

And also in the noble earth he showed

Shall shine forth out of heaven in the mid days,

Come clothed in flesh like mortals; but with him

Recklessly he'll put all things in the earth.

In divination of the greatest things,

Trusting in divination; and the heads

But her the citizens in tearful grief

Tear all in pieces. And a fearful sign

Shall go in Hades' halls by his own fate.

And in addition to these shall be one

And in contending warriors glory much.