“And thou art judged for evermore.”
As in “Christmas-Eve,” the question rises of a Presence in the awful scene.
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What if, ’twixt skies
And prostrate earth, he should surprise
The imaged vapour, head to foot,
Surveying, motionless and mute,
Its work, ere, in a whirlwind rapt
It vanish up again?—So hapt