AMPHORA 
XI 
 
 
EVEN are the Spirits and the lamps are seven ; 
I saw a wonder in the house of heaven. 
Behold a woman girded with the sun 
Beneath whose feet the liquid moon did run ! 
 
Twelve were the stars that crowned that shining 
head 
Whereon the HOLY GHOST His silence shed, 
That so Her womb a SAVIOUR should environ 
To rule the nations with a rod of iron. 
 
I saw moreover how She bore the Child, 
And how the Dragon drave Her to the wild, 
Loosing a flood of venom ; but the earth 
Gaped and devoured it in her warrior girth. 
 
I saw red war in heaven ; Saint Michael fell 
With all his angels on the host of hell. 
Saint Michael !  praise to thee who didst prevail 
And pen the demons in the hollow vale ! 
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