What overturn of laws immutable;—
What contradictions in the mind Supreme;
Have wrought this pregnant ruin,—earth throughout!
VIII.
O,—priest, whose ministrations, laid aside
To bring fulfillment of the fearful curse
Upon thy race, have now that curse assured,—
Look back!—and see the altar, bared to view
Of vulgar herd and phrenzied populace.
"The veil in twain is rent,"—and never more