Lo! Wisdom dwells with Prudence, and the Fear

Of God is her beginning; and to know

The Holy One is understanding clear.

In reason and in righteousness alsō,
Subsists the Universe; and from His Will
Life, Light and Motion, as their fountain, flow.
The Lord by Wisdom founded every hill,

By Understanding He established heaven,

Brake up the depths by Knowledge and by Skill:
And o'er the Gate of Hell hath Wisdom graven
The hidden Counsel of the Eternal Three-
This legend lettered in perpetual leven;

"Order and Love and Possibility,
Eternal Possibility, and Will

For ever active, Bounty ever free,
Perfect to purpose, powerful to fulfil."

PART THE FOURTH.

THE CAPTIVITY.

"Woe to Ariel, to Ariel the city where David dwelt!

"Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of Hosts with thunder, and with earthquake and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as the dream of a night-vision.

It shall be as when a hungry man dreameth, and behold, he eateth; but he awaketh and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion." ISAIAH, xxix. 1. 6—8.

X.

PARADISE.

HERE Time is not, only' a capacity
Æonian, whose clear light no shadow flings
Upon its dial, from apparent sky.

But Song is of the Sense, and Words have wings
And teach by relative motion, time and place,
Order of sequence, and the sum of things.
Our days are as a sleep, and, like dreams, chase
Each other, till the morning shall accede;

And, like the moon, our life has many a phase.
To-morrow's for Eternity decreed,

Our yesterday's are in Eternity,

And to-day is Eternity indeed.

Eternity itself, oh, Man! with thee

Inheres; and thou mayst feel, but listen well,