Lo ! Lying at his feet as dead, I saw
The leaping-forth of Law
:
Division of the North wind and the South,
The Hghtning of the armies of the Lord
;
East rolled asunder from the rended West ;
Height clove the depth : the Voice begotten said :
" Divided be thy ways and limited
! "
Answered
the reflux and the indrawn breath :
" Let there be Life, and Death !"
" The Earth,
she shall be governed by her parts :
Division be upon her !
Let her glory
From crown to valley, source
and spring to mouth,
North unto South,
Smooth gulf and sea to rugged promontory,
Always be vexed and drunken, that the hearts
Ruling her course
round alway in the sky ;
And as an handmaid let her serve and die !
One season,
let it still confound another
;
No man behold his brother
;
No creature in it or upon,
the same
!
Her members,
let them differ ; be no soul
Equal !
Let thought,
let reasonable things,
Bow to thy wings.
Thy manifest control,
Vexation
! weeding out of one another.
Their dwelling-places,
let them
lose their name
!
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