and

And dreadful, to thy homes, which thou didst hope

A sword shall pass, and scattering and death

A sword shall pass, and scattering and death

And famine shall prevail until of kings

The seventh generation, and then cease.

Alas for thee, O land of Gog and Magog

And house of judgment among men be called,

And thy land of much dew shall drink black blood!

Alas for thee, O Libya, and alas,

Both sea and land! O daughters of the west,

And ye shall come pursued by grievous strife,

Dreadful and grievous; there shall be again

A dreadful judgment, and ye all shall come

And with iron teeth ye chewed it dreadfully.

And by the demon of all violence,

Famine and plague, and some by barbarous foes.

Famine and plague, and some by barbarous foes.

And all thy land shall be a wilderness,

And desolations shall thy cities be.

And in the west there shall a star shine forth

Of the sword and of famine and of death,

Of the sword and of famine and of death,

And murder of great leaders and chief men.

And murder of great leaders and chief men.

And yet again there shall be among men

Shall leave Maeotis's lake, and there shall be

And the vast flow shall hold a neck of land.

And there are hollow chasms and yawning pits;

And there are hollow chasms and yawning pits;

And many cities, men and all, shall fall:--

And many cities, men and all, shall fall:--

Astypalaia; and in Europe--Tanagra,

Is near destruction, and the past year then

And her destructive outrage pay her back.

In poverty, and numerous debts incur.

And wedded in no honorable way.

And oft shall mistress shear thy pretty hair,

And wreaking satisfaction cast thee down

From heaven to earth, and from the earth again

And of unrighteous life are held fast bound.

And of avenging Smyrna overthrown

And wickedness of them that have command

And Rome a room; but the decrees of God

And a calm peace to Asian land shall go.

And Europe shall be happy then, well fed,

Pure air, full of years, strong, and undisturbed

By wintry storms and hail, bearing, all things,

Even birds and creeping things and beasts of earth.

Even birds and creeping things and beasts of earth.

And justice, and the prudent unity

And justice, and the prudent unity

And kindness, confidence, and love of guests;

And kindness, confidence, and love of guests;

Blame, envy, wrath, and folly; poverty

Shall flee away from men, and force shall flee,

And murder, baneful strifes and bitter feuds,

And murder, baneful strifes and bitter feuds,

And theft, and every evil in those days.

And theft, and every evil in those days.

A grievous suffering, and the greatest sore

A family of bastards and of slaves.

And she shall tame fenced city Babylon,

And of each land the sun looks down upon

Call herself mistress, and then come to naught

And sometime into Asia's prosperous land

And this man he who wields the thunderbolt

Roused forwards; and all Asia shall sustain

An evil yoke, and her soil wet with rain

Destroy the unknown king; and that man's offspring

Shall cut from ten horns, and plant by their side

Shall cut a warlike father off, and Ares,

Baneful and hostile, by a grandson's hand

Shall himself perish; and then shall the horn

And unto life-sustaining Phrygia

Shall, root and branch, in one night disappear

With a city, men and all, of the Earth-shaker

And walls demolish. And not signs of good

And walls demolish. And not signs of good

Ever-famed, noblest scion, and shall leave

On Asia and Europe a wide-spreading wave;

But to thee most of all she'll bear and cause

Wailings and toils and groans; but there shall be

Wailings and toils and groans; but there shall be

And there shall be an aged mortal then,

False writer and of doubtful native land;

And in his eyes the light shall fade away;

Large mind and verses measured with great skill

Shall he have and be blended with two names,

Shall call himself a Chian and shall write

But skillfully; for of my verse and meters

Hector of Priam and Achilles, son

Of Peleus, and the others who have care

For warlike deeds. And also by their side

False-writing every way. And it shall be

Cause many evils. And thee, Chalcedon,

Shall break off. And, Byzantium of Ares,

And also groans and blood immeasurable

And also groans and blood immeasurable

Shalt thou receive. And Cragus, lofty mount

Shall crash the crested billow. And thou, Rhodes,