the

The ocean with dead bodies shall be filled

From the river and be red with flesh and blood

Of the foolish ones. Then thus a feebleness

Shall be on earth, so that of men the number

May be seen and the measure of the women,

May be seen and the measure of the women,

And the dire race shall wail for myriad things

At last when the sun sets to rise no more,

For it beheld the wickedness unclean

Shall be a fame around the mighty heaven,

And no small mist shall hide the world's ravines

Shall guide the good men, who sang praise to God.

Shalt on the waters of the Nile remain,

Shalt on the waters of the Nile remain,

A Maenad out of order on the sands

Remembrance of thee over all the earth.

The fearful law of our forefathers change,

The imperishable, who himself is Father,

The everlasting One, the Lord of all,

The everlasting One, the Lord of all,

The true One, the King, life-sustaining Father,

The true One, the King, life-sustaining Father,

The mighty God existing evermore."

In Egypt, and the people made by God

But when the Ethiopians, forsaking

The shameless tribes of the Triballians,

The shameless tribes of the Triballians,

Begin their baseness, that the later things

The mighty temple of the Egyptian land;

The mighty temple of the Egyptian land;

And God shall rain down on the earth dire wrath

Among them, so that all the wicked ones

I saw the threatening of the shining Sun

I saw the threatening of the shining Sun

Among the stars, and in the lightning flash

Among the stars, and in the lightning flash

The dire wrath of the Moon; the stars travailed

The dire wrath of the Moon; the stars travailed

The dire wrath of the Moon; the stars travailed

For long fire-flames rebelled against the Sun;

Began the fight; and the Moon's double horn

Began the fight; and the Moon's double horn

Abide his yoke; the lot of Gemini

The Pleiads; Draco disavowed his zone;

And from the Sun's flame Sirius slipped away;

And the strength of the mighty Shining One

And the strength of the mighty Shining One

Was roused, until he shook the warring ones;

Then swiftly smitten down upon the baths

Of Ocean they set all the earth on fire;

And the high heaven remained without a star.

The great Son of the Immortal famed in song

The great Son of the Immortal famed in song

I from the heart proclaim, to whom a throne,

To be held fast the most Father gave

According to flesh given, washed, at the mouth

Of the river Jordan, which goes rushing on

Trailing its gleaming billows, from the fire

Descending with the wings of a white dove.

And he shall show the ways to men, and show

The heavenly paths, and teach all with wise

Shall he destroy, he shall raise up the dead,

When the house of David shall bring forth a child;

And in his hand the whole world, earth, heaven, sea.

And he shall flash upon the earth, as once

The two begotten from each other's ribs

When earth shall be glad in the hope of child.

O the Wood, O so blessed, upon which

God was outstretched; the earth shall not have thee,

Thee will I mourn; and thou shalt be the first

Bereft of men, but of the means of life

Delos, and be unstable on the water;

The fire that burns within thee shall consume.

Shall be destroyed by waters. And the winds

O Phrygia, first shalt thou flame from the crest

Of the water; and first in impiety

The hapless Ethiopians under pain,

Be smitten whilst they crouch upon the ground.

Shall drive out Apis, not the god for men.

He himself who is born the mighty God,

An axle in the midst, and place for men

Whose drops shall slay the races of mankind

Gave him the power and put it in his hand;

Put forth eyes, the creation, which to all

And it shall with the times be full. But when

The ruin of his mother; and with sire

From the force of the spear. But they shall leave

From the force of the spear. But they shall leave

Upon the land a lance inscribed with gold,

Which as the signal ensign of their rule

The foremost fighters carry constantly.

Consult the oracle, O Colophon;

Ill-wedded Thessaly, the earth no more

Escaping from the mainland thou shalt swim;

For, made a widow by the feebleness

The last hold, upon whom the briny sea

The last hold, upon whom the briny sea

Who once in the mouth of Jordan washed himself,

--And the Spirit spread his wings in flight towards him--

Who before both the earth and starry heaven