Anon He pictures Japheth's destiny[50]:
The Gentile prospering in the Promised Land,
The guardian of the ark of liberty,
So long as he for human right shall stand,
Nor trample on Jehovah's high command.
But woe to them of flinty heart and face
Who from Him turn, to smite with ruthless hand
The withered remnant of a star-ruled race! 1810
For Laman yet shall spring, a lion to the chase[51].
Vexing the vexer with a vengeance sore,
Who, false to highest hope of human need,
Shall tyrant turn, and play the part no more
Of nursing parent unto Joseph's seed,
For whom a nation founded was and freed,
That from its hand to his fierce house might flow
The promise of his fathers. God shall plead
With Japheth, till his pride shall melt like snow,
Swept from the mountain side, chased by the sun's red glow[52]. 1820
His word now builds the New Jerusalem—
(Earth-born, though basking in eternal rays)[53],
Which Japheth, blent with Jacob, joined with Shem,
Shall rear on Joseph's land in modern days.
The Father's work of wonder He portrays:—
A servant, marred[54], though hurt not, and yet healed,
Whom wisdom hearkens to, whom faith obeys;
Arm of the Lord, long lying unrevealed,
Uplifted and made bare, His flock to fold and shield.
Sounds then a parting note, a plaint of woe, 1830
'Gainst coming ages of iniquity,
Ere purifying floods o'er earth shall flow,
And man from sin and self delivered be.
Then, of the twelve, he sanctifieth three[55],
With power o'er death, and gives them to remain
Till comes He in His glory, Lo! they see
The opening heavens receive Him once again;
And marvels else behold, that mortal tongues must chain.
Three generations pass in righteousness;
A fourth begins, and still from strand to strand 1840
Peace rules, love reigns, and wealth and wisdom bless
The banded nations, walking hand in hand;
Christ's word supreme above a willing land,
Where rich and poor, common their goods, their gold,
Seeking God's glory, free and equal stand,
Loving each one his neighbor, as of old;
Forebeam of day divine[56], when night's dull mists have rolled.
That restful day shall dawn; but e'en as storm,
Darkness and devastation, judgments dire,
Changed with convulsive throe the land's first form, 1850
Made mountains plains, plains mountains, purged with fire
And flood this soil—as saw my nation's sire,
Ere light and peace looked down from realms above;—
So shall it be[57], and more, when heaven's hot ire,
Besoming a world's iniquity, shall move,
In burning, melting might, the gold, the dross, to prove.
Two centuries of love the land caress;
Buried the ancient feud, and banished vice;
When pride, to breed anew the old distress,
Crawls like a serpent to this paradise: 1860
Again the tempter's wiles the weak entice;
Again the fall, the sorrow and the shame;
Again, while angels weep, do fiends rejoice;
For now divided hearts, with hate aflame,
Belie with wicked deeds their righteous faith and fame.
Farewell to peace and power forever past!
Deepest in crime the once delightsome race,
Which melts as would the avalanche if cast
Into the furnace of the red sun's face[58].
Men vie in deeds that devils would debase; 1870
Southland 'gainst Northland strives with might insane;
Backward, still backward, bends the bloody chase[59];
Crimson the land with carnage; main to main
Surges a sea of slaughter—millions are the slain!
The white dissolves; the swart, the red, remains.
Night clothes the continents, and 'thwart the gloom
No ray descends on shadowed peaks or plains,
From history's sun. Darkness, a living doom,
Mantles mind, soul, making the land one tomb.
Then bursts the dawn—breaks forth the East in light, 1880
Where Japheth, cramped and straitened, cries for room.
Rent mystery's veil, naked, in savage plight,
Now occidental realms greet oriental sight[60]!
First found by him whose faith was mightiest,
And now by one whose patience[61] most excels.
Ere storm-pushed prow hath pierced the wordless West,
A kingly soul, unthroned, uncrowned, compels
The homage of a queen. His mind dispels
The gathered gloom of ages; mutineers
And malcontents his presence calms and quells. 1890
Past threatening reefs of bigotry he steers,
And builds a bridge of life that binds the hemispheres.