“That time of times shall come, shall surely come,When from the golden ether down shall fallFire’s teeming treasure, and in burning flamesAll things of earth and heaven shall be consumed;And then, when all creation is dissolved,The sea’s last wave shall die upon the shore,The bald earth stript of trees, the burning airNo winged thing upon its breast shall bear.There are two roads to Hades, well we know;2601
2601 Some propose to insert these three lines in the centre of the next quotation from Philemon, after the line, “Nay, there’s an eye,” etc.
By this the righteous, and by that the bad,On to their separate fates shall tend; and He,Who all things had destroyed, shall all things save.”
