The wilderness shall blossom as a rose.’

One answered: ‘Rend the veil, declare the end,

Strengthen her ere she goes.’”

Then earth and heaven are rolled up like a scroll, and she gazes into heaven. Wonderful indeed is the picture drawn of the heavenly court; but we have already quoted at such length that we fear to tire our readers. Still, we must find room for the following three verses:

“Tier beyond tier they rose and rose and rose

So high that it was dreadful, flames with flames:

No man could number them, no tongue disclose

Their secret sacred names.

“As though one pulse stirred all, one rush of blood

Fed all, one breath swept through them myriad-voiced,