IV.

Ancient wrongs are being righted,—
Ancient rights lift up the head;

Savage realms and tribes benighted
Rise to life as from the dead;

Ignorance is out of season,

Wickedness is glad to hide,—

Nothing stands but faith and reason,

Nothing falls but sin and pride.

V.

We, in days so full and fleeting,

Spend our lives on eagles' wings,

Throng'd by marvels marvels meeting,

Flock'd about by wondrous things;

Every day the whole world's history Spread out map-like stirs the mind,

Every day some ripen'd mystery

Stands consummate for mankind.

VI.

Nineveh with ghostly message

Rises from her mounded graves;

Polar Ice has clued the Passage

Winding through its hummock'd waves;

Saurian monsters crawl before us,

Storms their whirling laws avow,—

All Creation shouts in chorus,

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Nothing shall be secret now!"

VII.

Earth's forgotten wastes and corners,

Peopled thick through gold broadcast,

Tell the scoffers and the scorners

How she is "subdued" at last:

GOD commands; and nothing frees us
Till that word we all obey,-

Even China bows to Jesus,

Even Africa doth pray!

VI.

Nineveh with ghostly message

Rises from her mounded graves;

Polar Ice has clued the Passage

Winding through its hummock'd waves;

Saurian monsters crawl before us,

Storms their whirling laws avow,

All Creation shouts in chorus,

"Nothing shall be secret now!"

VII.

Earth's forgotten wastes and corners,

Peopled thick through gold broadcast,

Tell the scoffers and the scorners

How she is "subdued" at last:

GOD commands; and nothing frees us
Till that word we all obey,-

Even China bows to Jesus,

Even Africa doth pray!

VIII.

Ravel-skeins of old beginnings

Tapestried around the Cross,

And Creation's final winnings

Well outbalancing her loss,All subdued, and all replenish'd,

All things, sealing up the sum, Preach, how nearly, It is finish'd,

Tell how soon the Christ will come!