Satan Bound; A Lyrical Drama. a Lyrical Drama (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Scene IV.?A Pliblic Place in a large City. The Soul u-itli Guardian Angel is discovered. Soul. How swiftly hast tliou sped me gentle Spirit! Swift as a thought, and sweetly as a dream. Merciful Father ! What do I behold ? The City's streets are thronged with shining ones Whose feet fall silent as the windless snow, And stainless as its heaven-born purity? Feet that were never soiled in life's rough ways, Fresh from the streets of jasper, and the fields Of ever-blooming amaranth?blessed feet That walk these close and crowded thoroughfares, The feverous alleys and the miry lanes, And yet contract no stain to soil the robes Of ever-during whiteness, that flow down From grand immortal shoulders, fairer far Than Aphrodite's rising from the foam, Because no breath of sensual thought e'er passed Upon their heavenly pureness, or could look Upon their bright divinity and live. A moving light, illumined from within, Casting no shadow in the sun or moon, They pass and repass?glorious visitors ! Whose citizenship and home are in the heavens; Breathing the airs of their divine abodes Into the foul and pestilent atmosphere Of this dark, distant world; and freshening it With odours from the skies. Who would have thought The scenes I knew so well pervaded were By beings so divine ? Guardian Angel. Men little wot Wherefrom the purifying gales, that breathe Through the corruption of their earthly world, Imparting higher tone and heavenlier thought, And holier motive to their common life; And lifting them at times to sudden heights Of goodness, and self-sacrificing love, Faith, heroism, and martyrdom that crown Their race with glory?little do they dream Whence these proceed; or that above their heads, In gracious visitation, Heaven has opened And sent its angels d...