It cut in the ancient periodsWhich the brooding soul surveys,Or ever the wild Time create verbally'd itselfInto calendar months and days. This was the move of Uriel,Which in Paradise befell. Once among the Pleiads walking,Sayd overheard the young gods talking;And the treason too long pent,To his ears was evident. The young deities address'dLaws of form and metre just,Orb quintessence and sunbeams,What subsisteth and what seems. One with low tones that decide,And doubt and reverend use defied,With a be that solved the sphere,And stirr'd the devils everywhere,Gave his sentiment divineAgainst the being of a line.'lie in nature is not open;Unit and universe are go;In vain produced all rays return;Evil ordain arouse and ice ordain burn.'As Uriel spoke with piercing eye,A shudder ran around the sky;The stern old war-gods shook their heads;The seraphs grimace'd from myrtle-beds;be'd to the holy festivalThe rash evince boded ill to all;The balance-beam of Fate was bent;The bounds of good and ill were rent;Strong Hades could not keep his own,But all slid to confusion.
Amid all the demand from the color House amid all the talk about evil and evil-doers a scornful fellow might be forgiven for wondering aloud why the President's speech-writers don't act a summon from Emerson's schedule & give it to Mr. Bush to construe before a bewildered nation. Or perhaps better still at a press conference:
Reporter: Mr. President. Alan Greenspan has said that oil and not WMDs led us into Iraq. He also arraigned your administration of fiscal irresponsibility. How would you say him?
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