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And by the Holy Spirit donning flesh

And for him three towers did the mighty heaven

But in the reverential acts of men--

And thou shalt sacrifice to the immortal

Of frankincense in fire, nor with the sword

Slaying the shaggy-haired lamb, but with all

Having cried: "As the Father did beget

Thee, the Word, Father, I sent forth a bird,

And the man went away thereafter. . . .

The undefiled, whom hands did not produce.

When the tenth time shall come. Amid the waves

When the tenth time shall come. Amid the waves

Rugged Mygdonia, beacon of the sea

When thou wouldst to the eye seem to remain

And ye shall see the entire land destroyed

The whole land. It shall set the hills on fire,

The whole land. It shall set the hills on fire,

Shall burn the rivers, and exhaust the springs.

Shall burn the rivers, and exhaust the springs.

The world shall be disordered whilst mankind

Are perishing. And then the wretched ones,

From under flesh, and burning in the spirit

Through the changed air; and they shall undergo

Shameful things, nourishing the evil time.

And the Hebrews who put on the shaggy skins

And the Hebrews who put on the shaggy skins

And not mislead the just, who through the heart

And not mislead the just, who through the heart

But in the third lot of revolving years,

Eighth the first, shall another world appear.

And then shall pass around the dreadful stench

And shall the race establish, as it was

Straight guiding dip the iron down; nor vines

The sad one. For how many evil things

Those in need and among the foremost went

Men shall beside the margin of the sea

Men shall beside the margin of the sea

In the last age upon the faithless world

In the last age upon the faithless world

According to their cities. From the time

When the great tower fell and the tongues of men

When the great tower fell and the tongues of men

And also of the Ethiopians

Then the great pride of boasting Macedon,

Then, fifth, the famous lawless kingdom last

Of the Italians shall show many evils

Unto all mortals and shall spend the toils

The untamed kings of nations to the West,

The untamed kings of nations to the West,

Late do the mills of God grind the fine flour.

Late do the mills of God grind the fine flour.

To fine dust the heads of the high-leafed hills

To fine dust the heads of the high-leafed hills

The Father, nor yet faith and piety

And the land shall have its borders and each sea

Shall those who purpose to possess the land

And if the huge earth from the starry heaven

And if the huge earth from the starry heaven

And thou shalt be the first to bend thy neck

And be rased to the ground, and thee shall fire

Of senate? Where shall be the race of Rhea,

Images of the worn-out dead, whose tombs

Crete the ill-starred shall hold a cause of pride,

And honor the unconscious dead with thrones?

Thrice five, enslaving the world from the east

Thrice five, enslaving the world from the east

Unto the west, there shall be then a lord

Gray-headed, having name of the near sea,

The world inspecting with a nimble foot,

The ancient mysteries of deceit to all.

Sad then the time when he himself, sad one,

Shall perish. And yet shall the people say:

At once perceiving that the evil day

Beside the Tiber's lamentable banks.

After him at the latest day of all

The heavenly, of whom is the power both now

The heavenly, of whom is the power both now

The scepter long shall wield, most piteous king,

All the goods of the world, in order that,

All the goods of the world, in order that,

When from the utmost limits of the earth

When from the utmost limits of the earth

That man, the matricidal fugitive,

The luster of the broad-striped purple robe

The luster of the broad-striped purple robe

The glory of that arrogance of thine

But shalt lie prostrate. For the glory also

Of mortals, when the Almighty shall himself

To the tribunal come to judge the souls

To the tribunal come to judge the souls

Of the living and the dead and all the world.

Of the living and the dead and all the world.

Of the living and the dead and all the world.

And scattering and conquest, and when the fall

Of cities comes and yawnings of the earth.

And with full belly shall come on the waves

Is the end of the world and the last day

Is the end of the world and the last day

Is the end of the world and the last day

And judgment of the immortal God for them