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They hear Thee not O God nor see	A
Beneath Thy rod they mock at Thee	A
The princes of our ancient line	B
Lie drunken with Assyrian wine	B
The priests around Thy altar speak	C
The false words which their hearers seek	C
And hymns which Chaldea's wanton maids	D
Have sung in Dura's idol shades	D
Are with the Levites' chant ascending	E
With Zion's holiest anthems blending	E
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On Israel's bleeding bosom set	F
The heathen heel is crushing yet	F
The towers upon our holy hill	G
Echo Chaldean footsteps still	G
Our wasted shrines who weeps for them	H
Who mourneth for Jerusalem	I
Who turneth from his gains away	J
Whose knee with mine is bowed to pray	J
Who leaving feast and purpling cup	K
Takes Zion's lamentation up	K
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A sad and thoughtful youth I went	L
With Israel's early banishment	M
And where the sullen Chebar crept	N
The ritual of my fathers kept	N
The water for the trench I drew	O
The firstling of the flock I slew	O
And standing at the altar's side	P
I shared the Levites' lingering pride	P
That still amidst her mocking foes	Q
The smoke of Zion's offering rose	Q
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In sudden whirlwind cloud and flame	R
The Spirit of the Highest came	R
Before mine eyes a vision passed	S
A glory terrible and vast	S
With dreadful eyes of living things	T
And sounding sweep of angel wings	T
With circling light and sapphire throne	U
And flame like form of One thereon	V
And voice of that dread Likeness sent	L
Down from the crystal firmament	L
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The burden of a prophet's power	W
Fell on me in that fearful hour	W
From off unutterable woes	Q
The curtain of the future rose	Q
I saw far down the coming time	X
The fiery chastisement of crime	X
With noise of mingling hosts and jar	Y
Of falling towers and shouts of war	Z
I saw the nations rise and fall	A2
Like fire gleams on my tent's white wall	A2
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In dream and trance I saw the slain	B2
Of Egypt heaped like harvest grain	B2
I saw the walls of sea born Tyre	C2
Swept over by the spoiler's fire	W
And heard the low expiring moan	U
Of Edom on his rocky throne	U
And woe is me the wild lament	L
From Zion's desolation sent	L
And felt within my heart each blow	D2
Which laid her holy places low	D2
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In bonds and sorrow day by day	L
Before the pictured tile I lay	L
And there as in a mirror saw	E2
The coming of Assyria's war	Z
Her swarthy lines of spearmen pass	F2
Like locusts through Bethhoron's grass	F2
I saw them draw their stormy hem	H
Of battle round Jerusalem	I
And listening heard the Hebrew wail	G2
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Blend with the victor trump of Baal	G2
Who trembled at my warning word	L
Who owned the prophet of the Lord	L
How mocked the rude how scoffed the vile	G2
How stung the Levites' scornful smile	G2
As o'er my spirit dark and slow	G2
The shadow crept of Israel's woe	G2
As if the angel's mournful roll	G2
Had left its record on my soul	G2
And traced in lines of darkness there	H2
The picture of its great despair	H2
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Yet ever at the hour I feel	G2
My lips in prophecy unseal	G2
Prince priest and Levite gather near	I2
And Salem's daughters haste to hear	J2
On Chebar's waste and alien shore	Z
The harp of Judah swept once more	Z
They listen as in Babel's throng	K2
The Chaldeans to the dancer's song	K2
Or wild sabbeka's nightly play	G2
As careless and as vain as they	G2
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And thus O Prophet bard of old	L
Hast thou thy tale of sorrow told	L
The same which earth's unwelcome seers	L2
Have felt in all succeeding years	M2
Sport of the changeful multitude	L
Nor calmly heard nor understood	L
Their song has seemed a trick of art	L
Their warnings but the actor's part	L
With bonds and scorn and evil will	G2
The world requites its prophets still	G2
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So was it when the Holy One	N2
The garments of the flesh put on	O2
Men followed where the Highest led	L
For common gifts of daily bread	L
And gross of ear of vision dim	P2
Owned not the Godlike power of Him	P2
Vain as a dreamer's words to them	H
His wail above Jerusalem	I
And meaningless the watch He kept	L
Through which His weak disciples slept	L
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Yet shrink not thou whoe'er thou art	L
For God's great purpose set apart	L
Before whose far discerning eyes	Q2
The Future as the Present lies	Q2
Beyond a narrow bounded age	R2
Stretches thy prophet heritage	S2
Through Heaven's vast spaces angel trod	L
And through the eternal years of God	L
Thy audience worlds all things to be	A
The witness of the Truth in thee	A

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