...to the angelic symphony. For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold ; And speckled vanity Will sicken...from earthly mould ; And Hell itself will pass away, Yea, Truth and Justice then "Will down return to men, Orb'd in a rainbow ; and, like glories wearing,...

...her scale, Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend, And white-robed Innocence from heaven descend. YEA, Truth and Justice then Will down return to men, Orbed in a rainbow, and, like glories wearing, Mercy will sit between, Throned in celestial sheen, With radiant feet the tissued clouds down-steering,...

...to the angelic symphony. For, if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold ; And speckled Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt with earthly mould ; And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering...

...been brought back to earth, and he gives an eloquent picture of its imminent arrival: And speckl'd vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will...Yea, Truth and Justice then Will down return to men, Th' enamel'd arras of the rainbow wearing. And Mercy set between Thron'd in celestial sheen, With radiant...

...if such holy Song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold, And speikl'd vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mold, And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. (stanza XIV)...

...temple-veil and bid it fall, or, worse still, Milton's poems set as hymns, containing such lines as: And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould, all of which may be very fine in its way but is quite beyond the comprehension of the pupils here....

...if such boly Song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, andfetcb tbe age of gold, And tyeckTd vanity Will sicken soon and die. And leprous sin will melt from eartbly mould, And Hell it self will pass away, And leave ber dolorous mansions to the peering day....

...if such holy Song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold, And speckl'd vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mold, And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. Yea, Truth...

...manifestations of worldly corruption: For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold, And speckled vanity Will sicken soon...And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. 24 Under the holy spell of sustained creative vision, or "fancy," evil falls away and makes space for...

...touched upon metaphorically in the Nativity Ode of the previous year: Time will run back and fetch the age of gold, And speckled vanity Will sicken soon...die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould . . . Yea, Truth and Justice then Will down return to men . . . In the second movement of this new...