Ring out, ye crystall sphears;[34]
Once bless our humane ears
(If ye have power to touch our senses so),
And let your silver chime
Move in melodious time,
And let the base of Heav'ns deep organ blow,
And with your ninefold harmony
Make up full consort[35] to th' angelike symphony.
XIV.
For, if such holy song
Enwrap our fancy long,
Time will run back and fetch the age of Gold;[36]
And speckl'd Vanity
Will sicken soon and die,
And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould;[37]
And Hell itself will pass away,
And leave her[38] dolorous mansions to the peering day.
XV.
Yea, Truth and Justice then
Will down return to men,
Orb'd in a rainbow; and, like glories wearing,
Mercy will set between,
Thron'd in celestiall sheen,
With radiant feet the tissued clouds down stearing;
And Heav'n, as at som festivall,
Will open wide the gates of her high palace hall.[39]
XVI.
But wisest Fate sayes no;
This must not yet be so;
The Babe lies yet in smiling infancy,
That on the bitter cross[40]
Must redeem our loss,
So both himself and us to glorifie;
Yet first to those ychain'd[41] in sleep
The wakefull trump[42] of doom must thunder through the deep.
XVII.
With such a horrid clang
As on Mount Sinai rang,[43]
While the red fire and smould'ring clouds out brake;
The aged Earth, agast,
With terrour of that blast,
Shall from the surface to the center shake;
When at the worlds last session[44]
The dreadfull Judge in middle air shall spread his throne.