Zethar, the Celestial Visitant: a Poem, in ** Books
Zethar, the Celestial Visitant: a Poem, in ** Books
Haskell, Barnabas D
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Again on the pinions celestial, they soar Southwestward, their course over desert and sea,— Sahara, Atlantic, Brazil, Paraquay, And ocean Pacific. At length they alight, Unseen, at a cluster of beautiful Isles, With climate that rivalFd Alcyone blest ; They wander not long through the spice-scented groves, For, gaining a hill, at its base they beheld A group of dark savages, seated around A smouldering fire, — all begrim'd were their forms, Their features repulsive and stupid, — their mien And ...manners degraded, and beastly, and fierce, Voracious they clutch'd some charr'd flesh from the fire, And grumbled and fought, like a herd of starved curs A carcass bestride. 'Twas a cannibal feast. The sight fill'd the cherub with instant disgust, And quickly he turn'd from the loath'some display : '* What creatures are these? Are they demons?" said he. '* Come forward," said Ucal, " approach and behold ; These are not mere phantoms, conjured by the wand, But men that thou seest, descendants of those Beheld in the vision ; whose beauty and fate Alike won thy love and thy grief at the first." Unseen, they now loiter'd around the vile group And noted, unnoted, their manners and work : ^ How fallen, besotted and cruel the man !
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