Shall rise before her speaking in this wise:
"So hast thou heard the promises of one,—
Of her, with whom the God of gods is wroth,—
For whom was prophesied at Babylon
The second death—Chaldæan Mylidoth!
Whose feet take hold on darkness and despair,
Hissing destruction in her heart and hair!
"Wouldst thou behold the vessel she would bring?—
A wreck! ten hundred years have smeared with slime: