Of the subsiding deluge, from its slime,

When the hot sun hath baked the reeking soil

Into a world, shall give again to Time190

New beings—years, diseases, sorrow, crime—

With all companionship of hate and toil,

Until——

Japh. (Interrupting them).

The eternal Will

Shall deign to expound this dream

Of good and evil; and redeem