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 JASSOKBT 
 
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 A N E M N. 
 
 A KAMB LE. 
 
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 AUTHOB OF 
 
 THE INDIAN GIBL. MONUACUTAPB. THE TRTPFIQUER. 
 
 TUB HAUP. THE LAKH UF TEARS. ON THE STRAND. 
 
 QUUKN VICTUUIA'S OLIVK TUEK, AND OTHER PufiMMt 
 
 THE STORK. t'LYINO EASTWARD. 
 
 THREE VOLUMES IN MINIATURE. 
 
 A SKBSNADU. THE TWO Ol<'i<BRlNOS« 
 THK UECLUSK: A CANZONET. 
 
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 JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Scene : A Tree-grown Ruin, Timet Evening, ] 
 
 Jassokd. 
 Yes ! bring my heart the ftagrance of its youth. 
 And I will laugh with thee a summer's day. 
 From morn till evensong. Nay, Anemon, 
 I do not sorrow for departed hours. 
 They lived — are gone — it was for this they lived. 
 But they should pass into forgetfulness 
 Leaving fair stoaesof joy by that still stream 
 Wliere lie old glories wasteful. 
 
 Anemon. 
 
 Have not thine 
 Bequethed fair forms to walk the slumbrous billsy 
 And watch the well of immortality ? 
 
 Ja$iokeL 
 Rather, a shadow and a presence have 
 Come up about me, and — I do not dream. 
 But earth, this fair earth, is an autumn tree 
 Which blasts have robbed of fruitage. 
 
 Anemon, 
 
 Jassoket, 
 Thy heart is in a cavern, sombre, cold, 
 
JAS80KET AND ANEMON. 
 
 
 But I will bring a torch and enter it. 
 
 Jassokd. 
 If thou wilt so, 'twill straightway be a palace. 
 No wand of magian could transform it more. 
 
 Anemon, 
 Come — I must know the secret of this sorrow. 
 None but us two are present — and yon heaven 
 So blue so beautiful. The sun is standing 
 Like a tired conqueror leaning now his shield 
 On the sea's rim, and saying to the earth, 
 Farewell a few short hours. ; , 
 
 Jcissoket, 
 
 The secret ? ay. 
 What if it be a riddle like this Ruin, 
 A mystery though touching me, beyond me ? 
 And so in sooth it seems. Some mood perverse, 
 
 Anemon. ., ., !•) .-;};, ,: 
 
 Some unassimilated nutriment, 
 Or foreign matter, which tb e economy 
 Of nature while rejecting proves too feeble > 
 To trounce beyond the precincts of her sanctum. 
 
 JassoJcet, ^«.»i» 
 
 Doubtless the plaint is mine. The opportune 
 Determination to resist evasion, 
 And grow what Heavenly Providence designed, 
 Seems still required of us. Yet falteringly 
 Ifill we the role of the Supernal will, 
 And suffer oft and much in consequence. 
 
 Anemon. . ' ' 
 
 Diversified in aspect and in frame, ^ 
 And variant in mental equipage, 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Some are traduced by qualms. 
 
 Jassoket. ^ 
 
 Dear Anemon, 
 
 Blushing I arrogate delinquency. 
 And proudly feel that thou art different. 
 Nerved by a buoyant spirit. But with me 
 The gambols of hilarity give scope 
 At intervals to themes of sober musing. 
 To clouds, surmises. To some blasts that savor 
 Of that set time, when autumn grown indignant 
 Beckons the stormy equipage of winter. 
 Bow can one be contemplative indeed. 
 And not find much to make one serious ? 
 With sorrow and with indignation, often. 
 Cast I aside some treatise which should teach 
 The honor of The Maker. 
 Anemon. 
 
 Does it not ? 
 Tou mean as I suppose some sapient comment^ 
 Bearing a renerence unto Holy Writ. 
 
 
 Possibly you construe the tome amiss ? ; 
 
 Some Ruins, but not these, you say, revive 
 Stern legends of sad sorrowing pendency. 
 
 Jasaoket. 
 Life then and liberty were simply pledget* 
 Stuffed in the scath of sacerdotal sores ; 
 Used, trampled, burnt, by blind infuriate zeal, 
 Infatuated hatred of all good. 
 Sad, is it not, to think of liuman kindness 
 Being unknown, and armed proscription vaidir^ 
 With chains with racks with tortures horrible ; 
 
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JASSOKET AND AirElirOK. 
 
 And free thought branded, interdited, bled 
 Midst drunken laud, and orgies tolerant, 
 
 Anemon. 
 But such mementos are of savage days. 
 We need but contemplate them distantly. 
 Unsavory and repulsive ! That versed Power 
 Is milder now attired. No re-enacting 
 Of those red slaughters can again occur. 
 
 Note the insinuating suav ty 
 
 Such richness, such munificence, such state ; 
 And yet so mild so lamb-like ! Not austere, 
 Nat distant — seemingly so cordial I 
 
 Jassoket. 
 Alas, dear Anemon, the Persecutor, 
 Though posing meek and deprecatory^ 
 Hand-cuffed, ill bears in fervor of his zeal, ^ 
 His fallen jwestige and his crippled power. 
 But loose him — thou and I, and thousands more 
 "Would taste the drugged cup of his tendeniiess. 
 Think you 'tis stran^je I cease to contemplate 
 Matters like these with sheer indifference ? — 
 Enticed by the coiled Python some approach, 
 Charmed by his glittering folds and dreamy eyes , 
 Coy and infatuating blandishments. 
 And interchanging vistas of delight. 
 Lo ! flashing gems and gorgeous robes of state. 
 Purple and scarlet, of exceeding cost, 
 Dissolving music, high and rapturous strains ! 
 And now in closing circles reel the prey. 
 Intoxicated, till the crushing folds 
 Of the lithe Monster clasp them evermore I 
 
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JASSOKliT AXD AW EM ON. 
 
 Anei7ion. 
 Alas that some will grow so venturous. 
 But let us ciiangG the theme — a truce a truce. 
 
 Over tliese trees a tender trance is stealing, 
 liike a sweet memory noiselessly oerspreading. 
 The song of birds is low and intermittent. 
 While on a field of sappliire, regal clouds 
 As cohorts posed on open campaign figure. 
 In slow precession, stately evolution. 
 Note the translusion delicately variant, 
 Golden — and now rich purple soft suffused. 
 
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 Dear JassoVet, what mystery in all — 
 Ourselves and our surroundings. Is it nature? 
 Then what is nature, just a Something potent. 
 Dateless an 1 seli-existent ? Abstract power. 
 Vigor not necessarily created. 
 Or was it built of God, devised by Him 
 "With all its exquisite inconceivable 
 Equipments ? But, alack, my views are cursory. 
 They reach not to the secret cores of things, 
 "Which sage philosophers deep steeped in science, 
 Maintain they can. I scarcely credit them. 
 Long hidden powers arise, startling as Phantoms, 
 That still elude the grasp. Yet by degrees. 
 And after long recusance, they are chained 
 To the great wheel of toil. But tell me, Jassoket, 
 Is the chief Builder nature without God, 
 
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JASSOKBT A.yD ANEMOIT. 
 
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 Or with but slight and general supervision ? 
 O, I forget — to this I think you alluded. 
 When hinting your disgust at certain authors. 
 Do you then censure loyal theologians ? 
 
 Jansoket. 
 I do indeed ! And own with what surprise. 
 What indignation, what supreme contempt, 
 I read some comments made by men whose office. 
 Whose ministrations, whose reputed faith 
 In truth revealed, should hold them far above 
 Cringing to scientific infidels. 
 Great braves whose whole life's labor had one aim 
 And that, to brand the Invulnerable Book ! 
 Gemmed staff of consolation, by whose aid 
 The pilgrim mounts the difficult hill whose top 
 Is high advanced, and angels visit it. 
 
 Anemon. 
 Instance in something kindly, Jassoket.— • 
 Oh, I am but a humming-bird in June, 
 Dipping its bill, while sunning its green plumes 
 On whirring wings of mist, and but a moment 
 Poised over any blossom. Then away 
 To others, sipping nectar from them all, 
 Yes honey, ever sweet. I never linger 
 Shuddering above the secret tides that drag 
 The icebergs of cold questioning, to shock 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANFMON. 
 
 The fervency of volatile enjoyment. 
 But see— O see — lo«A yon ler, Jassokct — 
 Those clouds, those droping clouds, far in the east 
 Glory alights upon them! Oli how matchless. 
 What living hues that soar. Although the sun 
 Is no\r quite level with the sea. No rain 
 Stirs a leaf here. But the grand Bow is there. 
 Magical apparition. Do you know 
 Silently as I view the pitchy cloud. 
 And note the charming iris on its bosom, 
 Natal in rain drops, meekly awed I join 
 In Nature's sovereign cult. A Newton was it 
 Who ascertained the law, dispelled the mystery 
 Which previou^ily enveloped this sublime 
 Result of changeless sequence. From far depths 
 Of early nature. Of uncounted ag s — 
 (No savant even yet has fixt the date 
 When it first spanned the cloud, pab and so faintly) 
 Bui after ages most indefinite, 
 To Noah, who had seen it from a child 
 Thousands of times admiring, we are told, 
 After the Flood — (which Miller who believed 
 The Bible says, and proves, extended only 
 Some thousand leagues in its circumference.) 
 It pleased Qod to appoint it for a sign, 
 And cited Noah to it, telling him, 
 The bow which he had seen six hundred years, 
 
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JASSOKET Ann ANEMON, 
 
 (Yes, and had oft and oft when a mere boy, 
 Chased the gay spectre in his youthful glee. 
 O'er odorous banks in that first fairer world) — 
 Is constitiited now a Sign and pledge, 
 To him and all the earth. And we are told 
 By sage and pious men who prize the Bible, 
 That God just simply took a thing that was. 
 And consecrated it to be a Sign. 
 And learn'd men now — yes most religious men. 
 Affirm there is no reason why God should not 
 Take something quite familiar, and make that 
 The confirmatory token of His promise. 
 
 Infinitesimal — and slowly changed : 
 From star-dust and from monera arising, 
 Nature evolved. So pleads philosophy. 
 And eons piled on eons scarce sufficed — 
 Myriads of ages — gownsmen yet agree not 
 In the long computation. And great prelates 
 Fully assent to all these various things. 
 
 But, Jassoket, why seem you sad and thoughtful. 
 I, who just skim along the ocean level, j 
 
 Close as a flying fish, have picked up thus much. 
 But why so sober ? Now it makes me sigh, " 
 Do you not think so ? ,,j ^^ 
 
 Jassoket. 
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JAS80KET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Anemon — impossible — 
 Whs^t ? you so silly ! — Shame, O burning sham & 
 That watchmen on the sacred tower of truth, 
 Believe not in The Mighty One of Hosts, 
 The God of Israel. But in a God, 
 Mean as an idol god that can do nothing ! 
 That will do nothing ; and that never did 
 Make an original ; ani that never can ! 
 A God that neither did nor can create. 
 Bat merely efform things that always were. 
 Jassoket. 
 
 Science propounds and steadily affirms : 
 That out of nothing nothing can be made : 
 That matter can not be annihilated : 
 That law itself in matter is innate : 
 That nature is immutable in act, 
 Impervious to change or interferance. 
 JassoJcet. 
 
 And tbeso Are axioms blazoned and supreme. 
 Thus they construct an idol as their God, • 
 A deity that spurns not subterfuge, 
 A being formed of their imaginations. 
 Like to themselves ; a fine god of their own I 
 And not The Holy One of Israel. 
 
 Anetnon. 
 Dear Jassoket — Oh, are you not censorious ? 
 The laws of nature can they be suspended, 
 Or intercepted, much less set aside ? 
 Is their assent not simple ? They concur 
 In philosophic proscript. 
 
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1A9S0XBT AND AXBSfOX. 
 
 
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 Aitd discredit 
 The law-creating fiat of The King. 
 What I dare insult the Majesty of Heaven, 
 By circumscription, yes, by tacit charges 
 Of incapacity, of falsehood even, 
 Of doing what a child would scarce pretend. 
 A soveneir ? No, a perpetrated sham. 
 Lacking the element of commemoration. 
 Sign ? *twas no sign, nor could be named as such 
 If ever seen before, if ever Noah 
 Beheld it ere that smoke of sacrifice 
 Ascended firom the altar unto God, 
 High from the hill top on that gracious mom 
 Which dawned upon a desolated world. 
 Weeping, but now at rest. For a great fiood 
 Had swept foul rampant wickedness away. 
 But never till that hour was rainbow seen. 
 Then first that new created arch embellished 
 The pitchy cloud, while the saved men rejoiced. 
 
 Anemon. 
 
 Tes, now I recollect, dear Jassoket, 
 That even when clans of old commemorated 
 Some deed, or made some treaty, or some con pact, 
 A ceremony, pledge, marked stone, or mound. 
 Figured as testimony. Jacob also, 
 Great Prince, when he awaked set up the Pillar, 
 And consecrated it with oil, in token 
 
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JASSOXET AND AVEMOZT. 
 
 Of that trancendent vision which appeared. 
 While his head rested on it in the night. 
 Where hides that Stone ? Now I again recal 
 How our proud ancestors split saplings tender, 
 And placed them in the archives of our Isles, 
 In way of testimony. 
 
 Jauoket. 
 
 These are witnesses. 
 There must he innovation, change at least, 
 An act of some sort. Will they dare to say. 
 That God did absolutely nothing. Not 
 The slightest act, but merely pointed Noah 
 To a phenomenon familiar! 
 O blind theologists ! O base irreverence. 
 What I tacitly charge the Maker of all worlds. 
 With sheer ineptitude to make a Sign ! 
 
 Anemon, 
 
 Placed thus so plain, dear Jassoket, His awful. 
 Surely they must be quite insensible . 
 To the great wrong thus done the glorious Maker. 
 Most clearly then this rich creative act 
 Marked a great Epoch, worthy of the Lord. 
 Olad gracious Sign, sweet smiling confidence* 
 jpignal and adequate : Ood*s peerless Bow. 
 
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 JASSOKET AND Al^EMOJ^, 
 
 Scene : A Tree-grown Ruin. Time, Morning. 
 
 Jassoket. 
 Deep puzzles yet accost us. Here we sit. 
 On a squared stone, huge fragment of a wall. 
 Who built it ? Sturdy and deft hands upreared 
 This rampart formidable. Long denuded, 
 Before these towering trees with tasseled arms 
 Perched on its crumbling stonewoA. History 
 Is speechless as, the quarry whence it rose. 
 No phantoms of tradition haun£ these spaces,. 
 Of splendors overthrown, of outpoured days. 
 Yet here are vestiges. And mystic gravings 
 Picture an age when stern construction boasted 
 Skill nd achievements with no meager claim. 
 Days in which tasks herculean were achieved 
 Yes, when great hills were terraced when canals 
 Distributed this green world's crystal bath. 
 Effused and dipt and poured aye making laughter 
 And exultation in a thirsty clime. 
 But these great stones — each in itself a tome. 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 How came they to be here while leagues afar 
 
 The rifled quarry yawns ? The tireless zeal 
 
 Of the first acres cannot be denied. 
 
 And yet, disfigured by idolatry, 
 
 Their doom was desolation. Else the vigor 
 
 Of all first glories had not passed away. 
 
 Anemon. 
 Yonder — a stragler — Sakal — Is it he ? 
 Often we meet him. 
 
 ■• Jassokef. 
 
 Restless, bright but clouded. 
 His intellect though sufi'ering eclipse, 
 Deals yet in marvels. A biologist. 
 Stuffed with crude dreams. 
 
 > Anemon. 
 
 How lost amongst the riddles 
 Of the impenetrable. And yet there. 
 An autocrat in fancy. Do you think 
 His visions and imaginary flights 
 
 Occur while he is sleeping ? 
 
 JassoJeet. 
 
 Possibly. 
 
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 JA8S0KBX ±VD AKKMOll. 
 
 But star-dust, jelly-fish, and all the nonsense 
 Of speculative science, long absorbed him. 
 Now that his reason needs an arbiter 
 Wild fancies gambol with his intellect. 
 And who shall prove that his absurdities 
 ^'■o not as rational as very much 
 Which begs the name of science. ? Lost in reverie* 
 
 Anemon. 
 
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 Good morning, Sacal. Have you some discovery. 
 Or sapient dogma to refresh our ears } 
 
 Sacal. 
 Lady, I was a dreamer in the woods. 
 Slumbering in gladness. And a Phantom came. 
 And dipt me in a shadow which remains. 
 Why do I make thue sad — thou who art all 
 Ensphered in sweet regards ? Bland as the earth 
 Enveloped in warm mists, when the great firas 
 Of the coal measures, shook the towering cloud. 
 Ages on ages, and the Megalosaurus, 
 Midst rank club mosses and commetic trails. 
 With extinct mammals revelled in their glory. 
 While uncompleted man was yet an ape. 
 
 Jiusoket. 
 Some apish tricks I fear still cling to him. 
 
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JA8P0XET AnD AKElfON, 
 
 Saca'', 
 Yes, and his long e\olvement is moat certain. 
 —-—Lady, I was a loiterer in the woods. 
 Between two rivulets, cool clear and sparkling. 
 I must have dreamed. Is ideality 
 Capable of such flights — so far so fleetly. 
 And in one moment back ? — I don't believe it ! 
 Heavens countless, yes I saw them, doubt it not. 
 Would it be tedious just to listen ? 
 
 Anemon. 
 
 No. 
 
 Sacal, proceed, we like philosophy. 
 Refresh our ears with quaint discoveries. 
 Braid us a garland of rich odorous blossoms, 
 Fresh from some wandering planet dipt in dews. 
 
 Jassokei. 
 Finds, scientific, seem oracular, 
 Tho* variant as the breezes and as trustless. 
 What sage announcements in unchallenged runics 
 Are blown as specs from an illumined sky. 
 And tarnish not its glory ! Theirs are guesses, 
 And, Sacal, yours may be as reasonable 
 As other pundits. 
 
 Sacal. 
 
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JA8S0KET AND ANFMOK. 
 
 Do T divulge my plausive theories. 
 Dive I not into Nature's subtle essence ? 
 Simply admit me an authority. 
 And be admonished by my latest trip 
 Through avenues of space. 
 
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 Anemon, 
 
 Pleased we attend. 
 Your claim may be quite valid. Those researches 
 Are strangely fascinating, 
 
 Sacal. ' ^ ' ' 
 
 As I lay 
 Resting and musing by those tinkling brooks, 
 It suddenly occurred to me, that hearsay, 
 And lean conjecture were but trustless vagrants. 
 Mere will-o-the-wisps» while actual inspection 
 And scrutiny most intimate and searching, 
 Were much more to the point. 
 
 So off I sailed 
 Through the cold space to a great nebula 
 "Which never optic tube has yet resolved. 
 Will you believe me that a mass of splendor. 
 But of another type astounded me, 
 Stardust there was none. Orbs and central suilB 
 Seemed to be missing. But magnificence 
 In wondrous parks and globes and palaced cubes, 
 Reticulate, unique, superb and dazzling, 
 
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 JASSOKET AITD ANEMON. 
 
 Of varied hues and exquisite in blendings, 
 
 Moved in a pleasing amplitude of space, 
 
 In vortises and orbits intricate. 
 
 And joyous denizens in nascent splendor, 
 
 Groups of them, companies, that with least effort 
 
 Glided from place to place in glowing converse. 
 
 And when I said to myself: Can this be Heaven? 
 
 Something replied : Or but a Tarryiug Place ? — 
 
 Had they been denizens of this dim earth, 
 
 Or whence and whither there ? It seemed to me. 
 
 As a great hostclrie where many meet. 
 
 Become acquainted and some moments rest. 
 
 And thence pass onward unto other mansions. 
 
 I paused in wonder and astonishment. 
 
 And when I cried : All these of Stardust molded ! 
 
 Stardust ? fell echoed with a laugh a jeer. 
 
 Shame smote me, and I fled away abashed. 
 
 Anmion. 
 Sacal, your vision rather stultifies 
 Those scientific claims. Why did you not 
 Dream things coroborative ? 
 
 Sacal. 
 
 Lady, tell me, 
 Before you drempt could you prefix the motto. 
 And plan the scenes, or must you wait till after ? 
 And yet a dream is but a childish firolic 
 
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JASSOKET A,ND ANBMOIT. 
 
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 Of Mstless fancy. Oft it pnr^.Ies me 
 To kuow the origin, the firist great fact 
 Of time and n&ture. But on this I rest, 
 That Vapor — call it Stardust or aught else, 
 Is the capa.ioua matrice of the whole, 
 Of all, of every thing. Tact, energies. 
 By circle^ of developement achieved, — 
 All that we see, all that wc can concieve of, 
 Were Vapor once, that term comprises all. 
 
 Ah, S^rcal, if theio were no Providence 
 Nothing could be preserved. If no Creator, 
 Svcry thing would be nothing. 
 
 Sacah 
 
 Can you prove it ? 
 
 Anemo.u 
 Alas, your theory confutes itself. 
 Imposibilities compose its basis : 
 Its superstructure is absurdities. 
 
 Sacal. 
 Good morning, Lady. I have ceased to argue. 
 The matrix of the universe is Vapor, 
 Formative, unassisted and complete. 
 
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 Scene 3 ; A Tree-grown Ruin. Time^ Mlorning, 
 
 Enter Delia. 
 Now Anemon, — oh, you will thlnl; mc silly, 
 And gobbled up by struting pageantry, , 
 Badly as Sacal. But I too have drefnpL ! 
 And yet was not a dreamer in the wood. 
 Between two rivulets bright and wonderful 
 As stars dissolved : rich as the diamond angel 
 Of the swift heart, that visits every thing 
 And yet seems not to have gone, as Sacal boasts. 
 I stept into a star 1 
 
 Antmon. 
 
 Some plannet beautiful 
 Or a great nursery ? 
 
 Delia. 
 
 No, a central orb 
 Of young and violet life. The very air 
 Was formed of tremulous lustres and ensphered 
 
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 < 7A880EBZ AND ANEMON. 
 
 That mighty globe. And, very strange, it scemsd 
 
 Some royal post of science ringed with vantage, 
 
 A seat of observasion. Reason's throne, 
 
 To scan and wait — The far off seemed so near. 
 
 Long I stood gazing upwards, and I saw 
 
 Heavens scooped from heavens diversified in hue. 
 
 As from an obelisk in Egypt old. 
 
 When on its wing of glory proud emblazed. 
 
 The wonders of high art entablitured. 
 
 In dazzling prospect overpowered the sight : 
 
 So, starry systems numberless as sands, 
 
 Charmed me with dreams august. 
 
 Jassoket. ♦ 
 
 Well, really. 
 Delia, your dream comes nearer to plain fact. 
 Than much that's current for grave theory. 
 
 Delia. 
 But there was something — an enticing glory. 
 Which beckoned me from those infinitudes. , 
 But how ahall I attain it ? For indeed 
 Oft have I paused in life's gay reel and flutter. 
 Imprest with something beyond life's iUusion, 
 
 Jassoket. 
 Tbere is an Ancient Roll. Dusty it lies. 
 
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JA880KET ADD ANEMON, 
 
 Veiled by inJiffer- nee. Buried milst the whirl 
 01 mistit'ying tomes. Go — dig; it up. 
 There's light in it. 
 
 Delia. 
 
 Now I remember me 
 That I have seen, hope, gladness, choice content 
 In certain ones by whom 'twas richly stored. 
 Which to my shame and loss in truth I have not. 
 And yet have conned it over variously. 
 Its themes reach far. 
 
 Anemon. 
 
 How far I 
 
 Delia. 
 
 I feel indeed 
 That I am compassed by thr»e mysteries. 
 Time, Space, and the Great Life of life, the One 
 Invisible, Immortal. 
 
 An^mon, 
 
 Unbelieved, 
 Or much disliked by self-deluding folly. 
 How strong in might 1 How lavish of His love ! 
 
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 JAS80XET AND AITEMON. 
 
 Jassoket. 
 His lips created space immeasurable, 
 Stored it with marvellous infinitudes : 
 With lights, lifcs, objects, motions, expuisites. 
 Intangibles, and influences hale. 
 Great Sage of sages, King of kings. He only 
 Has might and comprehension glorious, 
 Each all-embracing. Lo, even dust of dust. 
 The least in life, which aided eye has never 
 Scanned or perceived, is carefully recorded, 
 Apportioned and enstated in full life. 
 
 Delia. 
 Your words extend beyond my grasp and scope. 
 If space itself be found as you aver 
 An absolute creation, could there be 
 Aught when there^was no space ? 
 
 JassoTcet. 
 
 Ah, Delia, 
 The glory uncreated of the High One, 
 Forms the great camp of the infinitudes. 
 
 Anemon. 
 
 %Vhcre did our Lord ascend, when finally 
 He bade his friends adieu on olivet ? 
 
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JASBOKET AND ANEMOX. 
 
 tTassok(t. 
 
 Far, far above all heavens, into the sphere 
 Of light all unapproachable. Amidst 
 The inconcievable splendors of the KING. 
 Is there not much of which we not'.iing know ? 
 
 Anemon. 
 We dream we see and boast that we discover 
 The make up and the origin of things ; 
 And yet that sham of science is as bootless — 
 
 Delia. 
 As the wild vision which I told you of. 
 Perhaps as trastless. 
 
 Ja&sohd. 
 
 God's true word alone 
 Records the historic facts of the creation. 
 The grand and simple genesis, from which 
 The theories of science falsely named. 
 Will be swept off by the incoming tide. 
 
 Delia. 
 A pure resolve, like a fair wing of beauty, 
 Alights within my heart. 
 
 Anemon. 
 
 Right glad am I. 
 
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 See those pearl vested clouds that scattered float 
 Loitering in the cerulean vault. No breath 
 To move them. And the sun's proud flaming eye 
 Looks through them unopposed. 
 
 O hark--— hark, Delia — 
 That was my hidden lyrist ! — soit — again I 
 Invisible songster — sad pathetic joyous ; 
 Deep, composite, what modulated rapture ! 
 You ask the songbird's name— really I know not. 
 Nor would I desecrate its leafy grotto 
 To ascertain. But oft and oft it charms me 
 With a like song. Kepeated all too seldom. 
 
 flassoket. 
 How rieh our Father makes us with theie gifts, 
 And interchanges. Lo, this earth of Hig, 
 Even since its curse ('twas cursed in love to us I) 
 Abounds in beauty and variety. 
 And constant note of time by sun and moon. 
 And movements of the spheres. 
 
 Anemon. 
 
 Then how much more 
 By the surprising method of redemption, 
 By the choice gift of a dear Intercessor. 
 He woos us back, He loves us, He entreats us 
 
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JAS80KET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Bit was it of himself our dear Lard spoke, 
 In the similitu le of a Mjrchant Prince ? 
 
 Jassoliii. 
 To which similitude do you refer, 
 That of the pearl ? 
 
 Delia. 
 
 Is not our Lord himself 
 The invitin,!? pearl — anly to be obtained 
 By selling all ? 
 
 All, what have we to sell ! 
 We who are sold ourselves — yea hopelessly 
 Consigned to poverty ? Yet, Delia, yet 
 Wc — even ourselves compose the very pearl 
 Our dear Lord valued. And by selling all, 
 He purchased ua ! 
 
 Delia. 
 
 Did He indeed thus prize 
 The race of fallen men ! 
 Jassokct. 
 
 Now mark the cost. 
 For a parenthesis of toil and smiting, 
 He abdicates triumphal splendors old, 
 
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JASSOKET AND AWT M IN. 
 
 He comes a Man, the hated Man — high bearing 
 God's broken law. Exhibiting in sorrow, 
 The love that stints not to the last stern mite, 
 In paying for his pearl that costs so dearly. 
 And taking all our sins uj on Himself — 
 
 Insufferable load it crushed His life. 
 
 And in the rockhewn tomb of Joseph laid him. 
 
 Victor He comes ! He re appears with spoils, 
 Wrenched from the master grasp of man's 
 
 Destroyer. 
 Shows dazzling trophies for eternity, 
 Quitting the Dragon crippled and in chains. 
 
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JASSC KET AND ANEMOIS". 
 
 Scene 4 ; A Vine Shaded Portico. TimCy Noor^. 
 
 A»ei)ion. 
 Have I disturbed you, dearest Jassoket ? 
 Close not the treatise — lay it not aside. 
 I fear I am intruding. 
 
 Jassoket. 
 
 No indeed ! 
 Glad you have come. I am a little puzzled 
 By this profound pretentious oracle. 
 Head and take note — -vvhat effort to convince. 
 And yet I doubt its plausible deductions. 
 The premises somcMhat conjectural, 
 Though fortified by rounded periods, 
 Betray a lack of solid inference, 
 And basis indesputablc. To nu; 
 At least it seems so. 
 
 AncinoTi. 
 
 I Iiunc conned the wojk. 
 It treats of chaos and the pre-existeiit, 
 Basis of matter. Do you think it trier 
 To presuppose a heterogencoufci l^^lat 
 
JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Of elemental crudities : that after 
 
 Collected and coordinated, formed 
 
 Suns and their systems ? In the holy Record, 
 
 Is there not written first and pomincnt, 
 
 "In the beginning"? When was that beginning? 
 
 The sacred text I think docs not inform us. 
 
 Is not that previous time conjectural. 
 
 And independent of the after dale ? 
 
 Jassoket. 
 
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 Dear Anemon, is it precisely so ? 
 
 A foisted "fAe" is most equivocal : 
 
 For simply IN BEGINNiXlf are the words. 
 
 The interjected particle distills 
 
 A mist and brings obscurity, [t serves 
 
 The purpose of a gloss unwarranted. 
 
 It lacks fidelity. 
 
 Anemon. 
 
 Ah, Jassoket 
 Is not the meaning simple, and the same 
 In cither case ? I see no difference. 
 
 Jassoket. 
 Dear Anemon, I know you do not. Yet 
 There is a difference — and great indeed, 
 It makes the Ilccord contradict itself ! 
 
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JASSOKET AnD ANEMON, 
 
 Lets in a bald hiatus. 
 
 An-mion, 
 
 Even yet 
 Fi.il I to see the variance of a tint 
 In scope or meaning. 
 
 Jassoh t. 
 
 Yet I must assure you, 
 I am not hypercritical when arguing, 
 How very literal — O how exactly — 
 Should every word be rendered, every figure 
 Untarnished by the slightest touch. Though odd 
 And needing explanation, as one thinks, 
 To make it popularly understood. 
 Every iota is most sacred here, 
 Nothing superfluous, nought inscribed at random. 
 
 Ancmon. 
 Dear Jassoket, and yet I fail to grasp 
 The liair line of your argument ; so narrow. 
 So inappreciablo seems the difference 
 To my dull apprehension. 
 
 Jassoket. 
 
 Anemon, 
 Let us go forward with the inspired account, 
 Note what the God of Israel inscribed 
 
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JASSOICET AND A.N J M OH. 
 
 On tlie two Tulles in the flaniii)fi- iiiOi.nt. 
 Mark thcra 'tis written tlms: For in six ((ai/a 
 yAllVEH. madt lirimn and carlJi Ihc stu iiiidal 
 That ill tliem is, and rested the seventh ddij. 
 Now here arc heaven and eartli, by that hiaius 
 Cast out of the ac(;ount of" (liosu six day-i, 
 And relegated to uncertain tiinL^^, 
 In the great past beyond. 
 
 Anemoii, 
 
 Were not those days 
 Of the creation, myriads of ages, 
 Unmeasured by rotation of the sjiliercs ? 
 For it is written, that witli Tlie Most High, 
 A thousand years are merely but a day ? 
 And were not such those days of the creation ? 
 IMiilosophers indeed and theologians. 
 Seem quite agreed that it was really so. 
 — Oh I we arc so delighted, reverend ISir. 
 
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 Enter : Dr. Dan-n. 
 ]*ard()ii my entering midst your colloquy, 
 Quite inadvertently 1 stole the gist. 
 Dear Lady I am fully in accord 
 AV'ith your remark. The ]iible , my dear Sir, 
 Is not a treatise geological, 
 
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JASSOKET AXD ANEMON. 
 
 Nor yet a terse compondiuin of science. 
 Oil these points tiieologians arc agreed. 
 
 tTassoJiCf. 
 You caupjht the {jjist, but not tho prior query. 
 My arjjjuincnt was this : That six true days, 
 Six days of lenj^th like ours — in lon<^th precisely > 
 Saw heaven and earth created and completed. 
 
 Dr. Daiim, 
 But, my dear 8ir, I beg to differ with you. 
 Your argument subverts the very basis 
 Of scientitic facts. Such lame contention, 
 Enters the lists with champions robust, 
 Embattles with redoubted scientists. 
 
 JassnJcet. 
 Facts, are thoy facts.^ I brand thorn is foil si in br 
 Wiiat ! challenge not the passag ) of the bridge, 
 Wliich they have made a second Lodi ? No sir. 
 G )d's word is trutli. And no prevarication 
 Sullies the sacred text. 
 
 Dr. Dawn. 
 
 I also credit 
 The Bible — well so far as seems inspired — 
 Subject to doubt-embodying (vxegesis, 
 And siftings of the higher criticism. 
 
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JASSOKKT AN1> \NEMON. 
 
 Premising; that it bo intori)r(tO(l 
 
 III consonance with well coUatoil facts : — 
 
 Pi'liberate vcnlict ot those studious men, 
 
 AVhose lives have been d xoteil tn the task 
 
 Of cautious, shrewd indnetion. ]''rom the trend 
 
 And plainly written mysteries of nature, 
 
 The laws that actuate and i^overn it. 
 
 Have been deduced, defined, and relef];atcd 
 
 To impartatio.i ui that facile chaos, 
 
 "Whence ever}- thing originally sj)rang. 
 
 Where do you find that chaos, may I ask ? 
 Is it a revelation through the Word, 
 Some grey tradition, or mere supposition ? 
 
 Dr. Dav;n. 
 Deduced from God's own M'ord: In the beginning 
 Is the prime clause inscribed upon the lloU, 
 Now when was that beginning ? 
 
 Jassocct. 
 
 Is it written 
 That chaos ever was ? Or that some ^ircvious 
 Creation of our astral system spacious, 
 Had ere that time been made ? 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Dr. Dawn. 
 
 Most certainly. 
 The nebular tlieory is adequate, 
 And very well established as the method 
 Employed to build the universe. How grand 
 Was its conception, and how scientific ! 
 A nebulous stupendous atmosphere, 
 Stridiug the utmost limit ol our system, 
 Including the most devious comet's track. 
 "With temperature decidedly intense. 
 In the long trend of uncomputed cycles, 
 Slowly revolving, and as slowly cooling. 
 And in its cooling still condensing ever. 
 With centralizing emphsis endued. 
 Increasing in rapidity of rotation. 
 Obedient to well known dynamic laws. 
 After vast ages : in the outer skirts. 
 The force centrifugal would overbalance 
 Attraction to the centre. Rings would then 
 Split off successively. Impinging still. 
 In the fierce grasp of dominating forces, 
 The giant nucleus would form a sun. 
 Flaming intensely. Those exterior rings 
 Compose the planets and their satellites, 
 Elaborated in conformity 
 With these great laws of nature. 
 
JASSOKET AnD AXKMON, 
 
 Jassoket. 
 
 8tuff like this, 
 I hesitate not to denounce, and s'^orn 
 As mvst e;::jref^i()!is nousonse. But ijo on, 
 And treat us with clioico thooretio views, 
 As you accopt thorn. For myself 1 s^m 
 "With infinite contempt the baseless dreams 
 Of mad conspirators. 
 
 ' Dr. Davm^ 
 
 Well, my good friend, 
 Since you arc so erratic \\\ your views, 
 Averse to rational conviction ; truly 
 The experiment is hopeless— but I will 
 Propound the elemjnts of my belief — 
 All wlii I ar views of ;ji;cner .1 acce )t;itlon — 
 In the terse method of the schools. Presuminjr 
 That if not to your taste, 'twould relish slightly, 
 On your dear wife's account. Who, I perceive, 
 Is sensible and very courteous. 
 
 Anemon. 
 Thank you. But flattery, though often pleasing 
 To eager hope, is fulsome still ; nor seldom 
 Just tolerated as a much worn coin, 
 Less for intrinsic value, than because 
 A rough refusal would be inexpedient. 
 
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JASSOKET AND AN EM ON. 
 
 Possibly, Sir, you over estimated 
 The prcfcrciice wliich you sup])osi' I share. 
 In natural problems as now formulated 
 Ey the great tliiikcrs. F(^r in very fact 
 I yet have no established category, 
 Or predilection for these various themes. 
 But listening to Jassoket, sometimes 
 Improvise cheeks to the decided tone 
 Wherein he chalenges some point of note. 
 
 I can but add, that I am greatly pained ^^ 
 
 To find so much distrust, such disposition 7^ 
 
 To cavil at God's Truth, to treat the Bible — 
 
 The^llecord of The King of Kings, which He 
 
 Has given, as a legacy unvalued. 
 
 By patriarchs and kings and mai tyred prophets— 
 
 With lack of reverence. O is it not, 
 
 Of all things the most sacred in the world ? 
 
 Sole source of light. Rich fount of the sublime. 
 
 Transcendent. Precious. Always in advance. 
 
 Pathway to wisdom, comfort, blessedness. 
 
 In this world and ucyond. — But let us now 
 
 Partake of a collation. Afterwards, 
 
 Under the shadow of those towering pines, 
 
 "While I will listen, you and Jassoket 
 
 May test your arguuK lits a little further : 
 
 And part good^fiicnds, \\\\\. n.uti.i;l_lcnt£.t. 
 
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JASSOKET Al^D AI^EMOj^. 
 
 Scane o : Under Shading Pines. Time, Afternoon 
 
 Anemon. 
 Under tall pines, in this balsamic shade. 
 Seated on uptlirown mossclud roots grotesque, 
 While the soft tremulous airs are whispering, 
 Discussions, broken off may be renewed ; 
 Abreviated arguments, assume 
 Proportions more athletic, and assert 
 The opposition of high argument, 
 With stern embattled theories entrenched, 
 Midst real dudgeon, and in mimic fray. 
 
 Pardon me, Gentlemen, if I predict, 
 Thai now, this quiet safe delightful nook, 
 May tremble with brisk passages of arms, 
 Shako at the romp of reeds from bloated quivers. 
 On wellpjised shields, and nimble footed aids. 
 As each shall summon and lead up his troop, 
 With clarion, and noisy beat of drum. 
 AVho wins the day ? Alas, who shall decide ! 
 When each one, silently — if not aloud, 
 Claims to be victor ? 
 
*; JASSOKFT AND ANEMOIf. 
 
 Dr. Dawn. 
 
 Wiiryou kindly sit 
 As uiripire ? — Kcally, it sly merriment 
 Has any virtie in it, we may leave 
 With[a ^oo^l ^^race, our verdict of contention 
 To this fair Lady. Do you think so ? — Then, 
 Our Umpire 1 
 
 Anevnon. 
 
 Nay, dear Sir, can I indeed 
 Being unprovided, without secret leaning, 
 Adjudge the fiay ? While pure indifference, ' 
 Mingled witn strictest justice, is required. 
 Yet you will not adjudge my playfulness. 
 Hilarity should oft go hand in hand, 
 With sober thought and muscular endeavour. 
 Most things are joyous — avcn jocular 
 In some degree. 
 
 But laying now aside 
 The sportive mood. And counting on the rescue. 
 And vantage — If 1 must pick up the glajiye — 
 Veiituiiug I ask in meek simplicity : 
 What euiistitutes a^JNUricIe rj And if 
 There have been things which were miraculous — 
 So beyond creed and natural endeavor, 
 As to Le ranked and credited as such ? 
 
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JAS80KET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Dr. Daivn. 
 Truly, dear Lady. I am of opinion, 
 There have been thinj^s — perhaps referable 
 To causes natural — which very nicely 
 
 Enter tliat catalogue. 
 
 Anetnon. 
 
 And is that all ? 
 
 Ah Jassokct, yo i m ist assume the gage ! 
 Njw be my champion in the fearful odds. 
 For with a smile and blush I quit the field, 
 
 Jassokct. 
 
 Thus, Anomon, you force me in the gap. 
 Must I n.'pjat tlie question: Is that all ? 
 Is there no God dissevcrant from nature ? 
 
 Dr. Daw. 
 "Well, my contention, Sir, is simply this : 
 I hold, that the Creator formed all tilings 
 Out of Himself. And what beside indeed 
 Was there to form tlicm of ? Proved is it not, 
 A fact self evident, that out of nothinjj 
 Nothing can be evolved ? And by this fact. 
 Annihilation equally is debarred. 
 Then must not nature be insepcrate, 
 Even its inscipiencc, and chaotic form, 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMOW. 
 
 From the Great Form'^r ? \n'1 yet mark -no. Sir, 
 No p'lnthcist am I. Tiie Puissant Mak;u', 
 C ) n n m Is mv a lofition — n )!- the wjrk, 
 Tiiou^h expuisitely moulded. 
 
 Jassoket. 
 
 TTow could Ho, 
 The Pure and Lofty One, impart his sui)stance 
 To ()l)jects and to beings who wouM f;ill 
 From purity and glory ! Aro yo i n')t 
 Lfuidiajij a'^c^ordanco to a most absurd, 
 Illogical ;j.nd impious theory ? 
 
 Dr. Daiun. 
 Permit mo just to say, I cannot see it. 
 Now, to pass onward with a simple leap. 
 To statements Biblical. Twoiild really seem 
 In reference to chapters first and s?con 1, 
 That man's creation, notjd chapter one, 
 Is unequivocally different 
 From the naration found in chapter two. 
 Which argues a pre adamite creation. 
 The first took place outside the sacred Garden, 
 The last near and within its chosen precincts. - 
 The last comprises two ; the forn\er largely 
 Speaks, as of numbers previously formed. 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANIMON. 
 
 Previously — do we know how m iny decades ? 
 
 Prolific — but no I'mit is prescribod. 
 
 F'or do you not remember, that when Cain 
 
 "Was speedily deported for his crime ; 
 
 A wife was his-but whence that wife * And at 
 
 The advent of one son he builds a city. 
 
 Yes. and said previoiisly, that every one 
 
 Who found, would kill him. Now decipher this, 
 
 If Adam were the sole progenitor, 
 
 Conjoined with Eve, of the whole human race ? 
 
 Jassoket, 
 
 May there not be some slight discrepancy. 
 Not in the Sacred Scroll, but in the mjthod 
 Of those who comment on those primal facts ? 
 At the first noted birth, how old was Adam ? 
 
 Dr. Dawn. 
 The statement is not made. No date is given, 
 Till Scth is born. 
 
 Jassokef. 
 
 Seth was a noted son. 
 And so were Cain and Abel. But I ask, 
 In all the Record is it stated ever 
 That Cain was Kvcs first Child .'' Yet if the first, 
 How many sons and daughters doubtless played 
 
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JA880KET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Midst the rich fruitage of that glorious world. 
 
 Ere that a Cain and Abel, brought their several 
 
 Offerings before the Cherub guarded gate. 
 
 For then was Cain a tiller of the soil, 
 
 And Abel led his flocks. Can we suppose, 
 
 They were even then the only progeny 
 
 Of Eve and Adam, when The Glorious One, 
 
 Blessing, had said : Be fruitful, multiply. 
 
 And dominate and beautify the earth. 
 
 Dr. Dawn, 
 Not in that light to me perceptible : 
 Facts argue a pre Adamite creation, 
 Cain and his brother were the primal first. 
 And in my aprehcnsion they were twins. 
 Eve dreamed she had the promised Seed acquired 
 To bruise the Serpent's head. And when surprised 
 By yet another, named him Vanity. 
 As an addition quite inexplicable. 
 And after these, the sole the next was Seth. 
 
 Jassoket. 
 Excuse me, if I smile at arguments 
 Which seem to lack a reasonable basis. 
 Initial personages, those notorious, 
 Typical, or distinguished by some act, 
 Either good or bad-and only these are mentioned 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 The common progeny must be inferred, 
 
 And supplemented by collateral facts. 
 
 Not theoretical, but involved most clearly 
 
 From salutary impact of decree. 
 
 And vigorous impulse of those dawning ages. 
 
 Thus at the death of Abel, indesputably, 
 
 The progeny of Adam were not sparse. 
 
 But numbered many thousands. Yes, even then 
 
 Were crystalizing in communities , 
 
 And growing into cities. Is it not 
 
 Clearly iuferred ? 
 
 Dr. Davm. 
 
 ' But I am not convinced. 
 
 I fail to understand it in that vein. 
 No commentator ever argued thus. 
 Doubtless a prehistoric race supplied 
 The sons of Adam. Consequently Cain 
 Builded a city in his banishment, 
 On birth of his first son. 
 
 Jassocet. 
 
 Thus you dispute 
 The Sacred Record. Once again I ask 
 Proof of a chaos, proof from God's own word, 
 In His revealed economy. 
 
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JASSOKET AHD ANEMON, 
 
 Dr. Dawn. 
 
 Most certainly. 
 Did I not plead before : **In The Beginning," 
 As the prime clause closed in the sacred Roll ? 
 Count me the ages heaped in that beginning. 
 Midst indisputable chaos. 
 
 Jassoket. ' ' 
 
 Written is it, 
 The heavens[were embryotic, or involved, 
 Crude, and commingled with material germs, 
 In elemental strife ? 
 
 Dr. Dawn. 
 
 Assuredly — 
 **In the beginning." Read a little further : 
 "Earth without form and void." 
 
 Jassoket. 
 
 Kindly, dear Sir, 
 Scan somewhat closely the original, 
 The pruned significance of the sacred text. 
 
 Anemon. 
 —Pardon me, Gentlemen — but now the sun, 
 In golden trail, from lijgcning altitude 
 Threats us beneath our pines. Had we not better* 
 Accept the inviting knoll beneath those elms. 
 See ! boughs profuse droop to the dreaming brook, 
 Swathed is the bank with blossoms of sweet odor, 
 
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 JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Scene 6 ; Under Shading Elms. Time^ Afternoon 
 
 Anemon, 
 Here basks the drowsy rivulet. How grateful 
 Is change, even limited by things f; miliar. 
 Some simple variation, or assemblage. 
 By hidings, or new aspects of the view, 
 Anear or in the offskip. Hence variety 
 Seems transformation, with additional 
 Enrolment of delight. So excellent. 
 So overdripping with grave merriment. 
 Are all God's blissful works. 
 
 How sweetly now, 
 "Winged with reverberate gladness flits the day. 
 And seated thus, the line of argument 
 May in some pool of thought receive a nibble, 
 And treat us to an intellectual trout. 
 Thus may it prove ! Permit me now to listen. 
 
 Br. Dawn, 
 
 Friend, are you not too rich in this fair Lady ! 
 I almost envy you such cheering banter. 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Tia healthful as the fragrance of choice roses, 
 Midst the profusion of this floAver hid bank. 
 
 But to our argument — I quite forget 
 The milestone of our prog ess. O, I have it. 
 ••In the beginning." Yes, a little further, 
 "Earth without form and void." 
 
 Jassoktt. 
 
 And I repeat, 
 M rk, and scan closely the original : 
 The text is both concise and positive. 
 And no addition supplementary. 
 Can. be admitted. 
 
 Dr. Dawn. 
 
 And I ask, Why not 
 Is not the expression used eliptical. 
 And but expanded in translation ? 
 
 Jassohet. 
 
 Show me 
 Authority to thus interpolate 
 The awful truth of God. That sacred phrase, 
 Desplays no hal no the between those words : 
 But simply "In Beginning" forms the phrase. 
 
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 JA8S0KET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Dr. Dawn, 
 Well, my dear Sir, once more 1 can but say, 
 I hold the Bible high. Two thousand years. 
 Or nearly, but suffised for its production. 
 By forty different men. Yet what agreement, 
 Very surprising in its various statements. 
 Extant in all the different manuscripts. 
 The ancient classics are not so preserved. 
 Such statements as are deemed most incorrect. 
 Are generally theories supplementary, 
 Construed into the text and ousting science : 
 Quite adverse to philosophy. For instance. 
 You also with the untaught err by thinking 
 Six thousand years exceeds the real age 
 Of this great world. Imagining that man 
 In genesis is synchronous with earth. 
 But the tcxf says not so. There comes a pause. 
 After the birth of heaven and earth, so called* 
 A period of chaos intervenes. 
 Some say, then probably the angels lived 
 Upon this earth, and flourished and rebelled. 
 Some indications point that Lucifer, 
 Now Satan, and his boon campanions ruled, 
 And instituted their envenomed cult. 
 Prince of this world our gracious Lord has 
 
 called him. 
 As if of earth phenomenal possessor, 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANtMON. 
 
 Ho ari'l his horde. And if s;ippIantod v.vqv 
 By a new Race, bitt t hostility 
 Thus is accounted for, with Adam's f^ill. 
 The Bible has been clopod nnsciontific, 
 Yet recent science reaffirms the truth 
 Of many of its statements rightly viewed. 
 For instance, light is spoken of, as first 
 Of things created. But how little ago, 
 This fact was ridiculed )y scientists, 
 While now they are con\ need and acpuiosce. 
 Statements of scripture art misunderstood. 
 The Rainbow, which the uninstructcd reader 
 Imagines was created since the flood, 
 Is proved, by sifting of the hebrew text, 
 Just — constituted — as a covenant, 
 Which quite eliminates the difficulty. 
 And relegates it from the realm of faith. 
 Thus quashing it at once, -So Joshua, 
 In figurative language from the Book 
 Poetical, of Jasher, represents 
 The sun as standing still at his command, — 
 A mere phenomenon quite scientific. 
 Laws of refraction, without miracle. 
 Accomplished the supposed extension simply. 
 You know, we say the sun both sets and rises, 
 And yet it don't. Just so metonymy 
 Plays havoc with the wonderful, 
 
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JA880KET AND ANEMON. 
 
 
 JdssokeK 
 
 How shameless ! 
 Drest in the vantage garb of holiness. 
 
 A wooden god and not The God of Gods, 
 
 Is worthy of thee ! 
 
 Antmon. 
 
 Oh, my Jassoket, 
 Surely you are too rude — too very rude. 
 Truth will redress itselt". 
 
 Jassoket. 
 
 Shall I be mute, 
 And hear the facts of God's great Book assailed 
 Even by its sworn defenders ? 
 
 Dr. DaiiM. 
 
 My dear Sir, 
 By the consensus of all Christendom, 
 These principles of strict interpretation 
 Are well established. And can you confound 
 The hosts of theologians ? 
 
 Jassoket. 
 
 You decry 
 God's Word as a plain narative of facts, 
 Stated concisely, without ostentation. 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMOIT. 
 
 For the plain word and in its lieu you place 
 A false interpretation, substituting 
 Something you think more logical than truth. 
 And easier for the God of your imagination, 
 Who is no Qod atall. 
 
 Dr. Dawn. 
 
 But, my good Sir, 
 Do you not misconstrue my arguments ? 
 Things, palpably incomprehensible, 
 Aparently miraculous and new, 
 Through intimate converse with initial laws, 
 Become responsive to the nod ot skill, 
 Facile, and easy of interpretation. 
 Filling the role completely. 
 
 Jassoket. 
 
 Haught and brave ! 
 Such the perversity of reckless men. 
 Objects transcendent, high, immeasurable. 
 Themes, awful, veiled in dread, unsearchable ; 
 Are tossed about, mere baubles in their eyes. 
 The Great King is dishonored. His pure word 
 Turned into table. Chance created them 1 
 Endowed by Chanc* with salutary powers. ' 
 With life and all its exquisite emotions. 
 Worship no god but Nature ! Honor nought, 
 But Chance I 
 
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JASSOKET AnD ANEMON, 
 
 Dr, Dawn' 
 Dear Sir, the inherent laws of matter 
 
 Jassoket. 
 Sample me something that is understood, 
 Something in which the savants are at peace. 
 How diverse are the theories of light. 
 Is it an efflux or reverberation ? 
 Even the air we breathe, has never yet 
 Disclosed its salient escence, dropt its secrets 
 Around us, as a fruit tree fully shaken. 
 And what is sound ? A voice articulate, 
 In mystery clad, and can it be disrobed ? 
 God's simplest work, the very least in glory, 
 Defies the searchlight of proud arrogance. 
 Truth jeers above the fallen crests of pride. 
 Such is the phantom of false science, Mark me. 
 And thus repeatedly you obviate 
 The clutch of argument, and on a tangent 
 Escape. 
 
 Dr. Daton, 
 My dear Sir, are you not severe ? 
 But poorly anger serves as argument. 
 Denunciation gratifies some qualm, 
 Or latent itch to dominate. Excuse me, 
 If I too speak a trifle somewhat plainly ; 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 My purpose being to advocate the truth, 
 As I accept it — I, but one of many, 
 
 One of a great majority. You stand 
 
 Must I say solus f 
 
 Jassocet. 
 
 I am not offended. 
 Duplicity I hate. Truth, pungent, stern. 
 Commands my admiration. Whether for, 
 Or pitted 'gainst me. Now, I bluntly ask you. 
 Will you^ — devoted to a sacred calling — 
 As an expounder of God's holy word. 
 Meet me in argument, direct and squarely. 
 Barred from side issues. 
 
 JDr. Daum. 
 
 Certainly, dear Sir. 
 
 Most cheerfully it is my heart's desire. 
 
 Have I not done so quite decidedly ? 
 Awaiting still your motion. 
 
 Jassoket. 
 
 Well, my Friend,- 
 
 Anemon. 
 Dear Jassoket — O I had quite forgotten 
 That Chipper the Geologist, politely 
 Expressed a wish for kindly audience, 
 
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 JAS80KET AND ANEMON. 
 
 This evening, if our leisure might but serve. 
 Now just returned from the Laurentian hills. 
 He brings a purse of specimens, and asks 
 The pleasure of exhibiting to us. 
 
 I named the cliff that overlooks the sea, 
 Beneath the old birches, as a favorite spot. 
 So, Qentlemen, permit me to propose, 
 That we at once adjourn — I think 'tis tea-time — 
 And after, if our learn' d Friend acquiesce, 
 He will go with us as my chaperon. 
 To meet our relative the Geologist. 
 And would it not be wisdom, to postpone 
 The questions that absorb you, my dear Friends, 
 Till by the cascade in the cedar clump, 
 We sit and talk, tomorrow afternoon. 
 For much I fear me, neither of you show 
 The gentle phase of genial argument. 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Scene 7 ; Sea Shore, Under Old Birches. Starlight 
 
 Anemon. 
 
 Beside the Sea, on this bold cliff we wait. 
 
 Oh, Jassoket ! how rich the silent heavens. 
 Mellow with glooms, engem'd with blazing studs 
 Planted amidst the banks of glowing dust. 
 Dust golden as if shaken from the plumes 
 Of tnighty seraphs. But we know that dust — 
 Each particle — is a gigantic orb, 
 Kinged with its cortege of attendant worlds. 
 Oh ! I am speechless with astonishment, 
 Midst clueless labyrinths of admiration. 
 How marvellous our GOD ! 
 
 Just now, while reading 
 Some legends of the Micmacs, here preserved 
 By Silas Rand, their sometime Missionary, 
 Who from them, in their Camps, not only learned 
 Their laaguage, but compiled laborious classbooks 
 And gave them many of the Sacred Writings, 
 
JA8S0KKT ANI> ANEMON. 
 
 In their own musical tongue, which he extols 
 As comprehensive noble and unique. 
 
 And now a problem like a birchen skiff, 
 
 With Micmac, kneeling, dipping stealthily 
 
 A paddle that scarce drips — It asks solution. 
 
 The question, Jassoket, is this — and merely : 
 
 How does it hap, that our imaginings, 
 
 Not only ours, but that of all earth's tribes. 
 
 Delight in fictions, wild, improbable, 
 
 In transformations, transmutations startling. 
 
 Adventures — transpositions — lightning speed. 
 
 In prodigies and fabulous creations. 
 
 Yes: hordes of imps and deevs materialized. 
 
 Jassoket, what assoils it ? 
 
 Jassoket. 
 
 The enigma 
 
 Seems it not very plain, when we reflect 
 That we are waiters in a maze of marvels. 
 Dozing at threshold of a Hall of wonders. 
 Those myths are premonitions. Thaumaturgies 
 Await us midst interminable years : 
 Creations of a twinkling, constituted 
 Wonders forever. For the works of God 
 Are done in truth ; real and permanent. 
 Not baseless and illusory like those myths. 
 
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JASSOKET AXD AXIMON. 
 
 Bat hither coinos our friend. 
 
 Ancmon. 
 
 Ah consin Chippor, 
 We're waiting: ^^^ yo^i — gladly wc;lcoin2 you, 
 In the round radiance of the white banked moon 
 Just risen full and clear. But Dr. Dawn, 
 My chaperon, he has not ventured forth. 
 Well, Jassoket seems seldom over courteou . 
 Really I think he scarcely relishes 
 Some sharp remonstrances. Now cousin Cliippcr 
 Heartily welcome to our lordly dome, 
 These grand aspiring birches. 
 
 Chipper. 
 
 Cousin, truly 
 I count it a f^reat honor to be here. 
 But did not lug my sack of specimens, 
 Suspecting moonlight scarcely might affirm 
 The glory that is in them. 
 
 Jassoket. 
 
 You bring chippings 
 From the Laurentian chain. Somo years ago, 
 I visited — ')ut not to sam^)le thorn — . 
 Those interesting basic monuments, 
 Admiring God's great plan. 
 
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JASSOKBT AND ANE.VtON. 
 
 Chipper. 
 
 The oldest bed, 
 Of rock formation sedimentary, 
 A stern columnar stancheon of the globe. 
 Condensed, upheaved distorted crinkled cleft, 
 Through myriads of ages. 
 
 Jassoket. 
 
 Is that so ? 
 I have a Treatise old and singular, 
 A terse compendium of geology. 
 Which seems to differ from the general verdict 
 Of scientific men. 
 
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 Chipper. 
 
 Dear Sir, you really 
 Possess a work that I have not discovered, 
 In my brief peeps amongst the sand hid lefts, 
 And physiological canyons. Whilst away, 
 I visited Niagara, and spent 
 Some days immured in thunders of its fall. 
 Watched the vast volume leaping from its ledge. 
 Dreamed, speculated on its grand old birth. 
 More than a century, you know, the men 
 Of science have been figuring its age. 
 Elliot computes it, thousands fifty-five. 
 In seventeen-ninety. Fifty years elapse, 
 
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JASSOKET AND AJS^EMON. 
 
 Writes Lyell, it exceeds not thirty-five. 
 Woodward in eighty-six reduced the figures 
 To twelve millenniums. Still more recently 
 After learned arguments about the matter, 
 Gilbert computes those centuries sixty-seven. 
 Spencer comes forward now with measurements, 
 Aud valuations, making a recount, 
 Thirty-two thousand years, he thinks the limit, 
 Aud argues for a thousand years at least, 
 Ere a cascade was formed. The River drained 
 The Erie Basin. Lake Ontario 
 Subsided — and the Cataract resulted. 
 Formed gradually with resistless floods 
 Sweeping off soil and rock, ploughing a channel 
 Through the long ages to its throne of thunders. , 
 And lustrums countless — yes five thousand years 
 This cataract may roar with little change. 
 What think you, Cousin, of this ? 
 
 Jassoket. 
 
 Well, if I differ 
 In some essentials, 'twill be scarcely gracious 
 To specify them. Doubtless there was much 
 To stimulate enquiry. 
 
 Chipper. 
 
 Very much. 
 Truly a peerless study and a pastime 
 To note those sights. Indeed a predilection 
 
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 JA8S0KET Ani) ANEMON, 
 
 For such pursuits possesses me. I'm restless, 
 Unless prospecting, culling specimens 
 Of plant and fossil, hints of vanished life. 
 Midst rocks and old formations. "Lost in rambles 
 And speculations. Cousin A.nemon, 
 
 What think you of geology ? 
 
 Anemon. 
 
 Really, Chipper, 
 'Tis grand — enchanting, a bewitching study. 
 What fun to have a romp amongst the hills ! 
 Armed with a hammer, and a silken net 
 To bag my finds. Then strict analysis. 
 With apparatus, and assumptions proper, 
 Would fit the sequel nicely. 
 
 Chipper. 
 
 Yes ! you think 
 That we make guesses ? Well, I don't deny it. 
 Guesses are topmost — glowing. The substratum 
 Of fact lies far too deep. But never mind. 
 Conjecture woos us, pranked in garb of truth. 
 Even though astray. You, cousin Jassoket, 
 Seem reticent. I dearly love to learn. 
 
 Anemon. 
 And I'll play tutor ! Notice carefully. 
 These birches white, such towering noble trees. 
 Five, from a thicket all with snowy stems. 
 
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JASSOKBT AND ANEMOIT. 
 
 Each ermined princely. Garlanded with leaves 
 Choice cut, of loveliest green. From such the 
 
 Micmacs, 
 And Melaseets built gossamer canoes. 
 Felled the proud sachems and stript off the bark. 
 And now, absurdity — we dub it, science — 
 Would steal the jewel out of every marvel. 
 Oh, what temerity — what insolence, 
 To call those bliisly things, mere drift of Chance I 
 
 Chipper. 
 Nay, Cousin — the exuberant power of Nature. 
 You certainly mistake the sentiment. 
 
 Anemon. 
 
 Do I ? — But I am Querist ! What is Nature ? 
 
 Excuse me — I have now, from Jassoket, 
 ■~ Acquired impertinence — maybe to rouse him I 
 " Surely — ah Jassoket ! come to my aid — 
 
 Shall I be vanquished ? 
 
 Jassoket. 
 
 And you don't deserve it ! 
 You know my sentiments are quite distasteful 
 To men of science. Then why should you wisk 
 To treat with unappreciated views, 
 Even our courteous friends. 
 
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JA8S0KET AND ANEMON. 
 
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 Chipper. 
 
 Nay Cousin, truly 
 This was the exciting nugget of my quest, 
 To see you and to hear. Not as a cynic ; 
 But as one anxious to participate 
 In the hale airing of a free discussion. 
 Yet only as a learner. I admire 
 Original conjectures, sparkling theories. 
 For much that we are taught, is soiled and rent, 
 And needs at least strong patchings — If the patch 
 Be spacious, — yes, particularly spacious. 
 This globe's a theorem, a puzzling knot 
 That cannot be untied. 
 
 Jassoket. 
 
 No' yet be severed 
 By keenest scymitar. And still a problem 
 Susceptible of solution. Can you th.nk so ? 
 
 Chipper, 
 Somewhat I question it. But really th''# 
 The how and composition of its birth. 
 Its date and genesis, are not quite cL ai 
 To studious specialists : who even yet 
 Seem quite at sea. Midst tiresome computations, 
 Those sublime periods — presumably 
 With scarce a limit, yield, with all their threshing 
 No churlish grain of wheat. Sir, do you really 
 Accept this mighty indolence of creation, 
 As matter of fact ? 
 
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JA880KET AND ANFMON. 
 
 flasHokcf. 
 
 Do you believe the Bible ? 
 
 Chipijvt. 
 Yes ! I believe it. 'Twas my father's treasure. 
 
 He lived— he died— exulting; in its truth. 
 
 My mother loved it.s wells ot consolation. 
 
 U'hat, beauty, wisdom, majesty, attest 
 Its superhuman source t 
 
 Jassoket. 
 
 Yes, gift Divine. 
 Then you have redd it. Did you fail to notice 
 The manner of the miracles recorded ? 
 
 Ghipp&r. 
 To what distinctive trait do you refer ? 
 
 Jassocet. 
 The manner— just the manner — Instantaneous. 
 
 Chipper. 
 I've noticed it. But hitherto it has not 
 Struck me as somethiug specimentary 
 Of much that seems so puzzling and so.deep. 
 Of great creative acts which baffle us. 
 
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 JAS80KET AND ANPMOlT. 
 
 Most of those works indeed were instantaneous. 
 Wlien on the lake whelmed in the bursting storm 
 HE spoke — the winds were caught, the tumbling 
 
 waters 
 Knelt at His feet — no throb, no slightest motion. 
 Stilled in a twinkling. Yes, He spoke-'twas done ! 
 This is suggestive. I must think it over. 
 
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 Anemon. 
 Why falls it to my lot repeatedly 
 To shake, as with a cold blast, the glad tree 
 Of full blown converse. And the blossoms drop. 
 Swept by the kindest words that seem unkindly. 
 Yes, Gentlemen, regrets are out of tune. 
 Watch where I point — so far above the sea, 
 Floats the meek moon, silent and soft in lustre. 
 Charming the night to dreams, and rest rebuilding 
 
 May we not in the morning meet again — 
 This spot is pleasant ? Cousin, fetch us then, 
 Values of your research : relics of fauna : 
 And vestiges of flora, vanished long. 
 
 Reluctantly — yet we must say — good night. 
 
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JASSOXET Ai^D ANEMON. 
 
 Scene 7 ; Sea Shore^ Under White Birches. 3Iorning 
 
 Anemon. 
 Friends, how you everjoy ua, what a treat ! 
 Yes, you. Dean Mist, and you, Frotessor Frost. 
 Thanks for this kind attention, Doctor Dawn. 
 We can forgive you the apparent slit^ht 
 Last eveninp:, since you tlius invade our camp, 
 Bringing these Gentlemen. In early spring. 
 Oft flights of birds rise quite unheralded. 
 On the far sky, and with white wings and notes 
 Divert us. And we did not dream of them, 
 Till they were passing. So it seems today. — 
 What ? both decline to argue : will but listen. 
 Jassoket, guard yourself ! they hold in hiding, 
 Each of them a proud bomb for your confusion. 
 Impossible those bombs should turn to puif balls 1 
 Jassoket, they design to catechise you. 
 Dare to deny — 'tis peeping in your eyes ! — — . 
 Ah, Chipper, you are late across the dews. 
 Here are three gentlemen ahead of you. 
 
JASSOKET AND AXEMON. 
 
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 Place hero your ba;^ of treasures, >j;entlc? sir. 
 
 Oir courteous friends, dew sprunt, reg.ilc us now 
 
 Fresh as the dawn, they cheer and clear and polish 
 
 The steeled monotony of life. Indeed 
 
 I ought not say so, for to me at least, 
 
 No blur of a monotony exists. 
 
 A bland spontaneous something, effortless. 
 
 Fans me as with a stem of sweet wild roses 
 
 And thankfulness, like young birds in their neat, 
 
 Responds to Heaven. -0 Chipper what success I 
 
 Such industry, such fine discrimination. 
 
 But Cousin did you dream we had a spectacle ? 
 
 Three Gentlemen accord us the great honor, 
 
 To make our camp the scene of a dumb show. 
 
 They listen to us, but will take no part. 
 
 In a discussion Only for the present — 
 
 I feel it Gentlemen. \ es they admit it. 
 Now, cousin Chipper, we attend on you. 
 
 Chipper. 
 On this smooth stone I set the microscope, 
 Will place the chips in situe for review, 
 AVith slight remark. None of the specimens 
 Are stran^, o you. This is the catalogue. 
 These simple bcat-offs from the mountain gorges, 
 Of Eozoic ages, furnish sparcely 
 The attitude of life. Yet, Cousin, see. 
 Look at this Trilobitc, so long extinct, 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Anowon, 
 What eyes — oh such congeries of lenses ! 
 Chipper. 
 
 Nature's first effort ! On this fragment, trace 
 
 The evidence of its toil. The tiny creature, 
 
 "With its broad head plate and its many eyes, 
 
 Delved in the sedimentery depositcs 
 
 Of the great seas. Midst myriads of toilers. 
 
 Possibly many that ha-^'e left no trace. 
 
 Njw have we other samples. But we pass them 
 
 For ores : gold, silver, copper, antimony 
 
 A'ld many others. Yes, 1 always view them. 
 
 With admiration of the grand repleteness 
 
 Of Nature. 
 
 Jas&oh't. 
 
 I am pleased with your success. 
 Industry, Cousin, wins a fair reward. 
 Commendable, iiut. wlien you speak of Nature, 
 What am I to infer ? 
 
 Chipper. 
 
 Well surely, Cousin, 
 These vestiges must fortify the issue 
 Geologists assume to be correct. 
 In reffcrence to the gradual upbuilding 
 
 By Nature, as apparent in this globe. — 
 
 Void of the eager relish, some evince 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
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 For those anl kindred tolls, I own I i a not ; 
 
 Yet I demur to accept the misty basis 
 
 On which so many speculations rest. 
 
 Without some closer study, and the probe 
 
 Of broader observation. Even then, 
 
 The opportunity the time the spare, 
 
 Are lacking. I accede to thus much only, 
 
 Of nature's theoretic genesis : 
 
 Simply admit, that, being material, 
 
 From vapors aeriform incorporated. 
 
 In vast but yet imbounded stellar spaces. 
 
 Times most capacious, eons all uncroniclcd, 
 
 Seem indcspensible in their construction. 
 
 Nor see I aught to battle this conclusion. 
 
 i\ll nature speaks it : watch the processes, 
 
 Of seasons ; of the products of the earth. 
 
 All seeds require their time to germinate. 
 
 How gradually how statedly each springs. 
 
 And ])assing through the intermediate stages, 
 
 The flower, and last of all the ripened fruit. 
 
 And so with animated nature. Each 
 
 Is classified, with many individuals, 
 
 Being controlled by laws invariant, 
 
 N.) sadden change ; slight variations only, 
 
 Firh species bounded by its habitat. 
 
 And tardily perfected. 
 
 JassoJcd. 
 
 or. 
 
JASSOKET AXJ> AXEXfON". 
 
 You believe, that God 
 Is the Creator of all worlds : Sole KING. 
 That when HE speaks — 'tis done ? That 
 
 His glad Kook, 
 Is true — the truth — and only light from Heaven ? 
 
 The Visitors all hastily ariae., 
 -Oh, Gentlemen, what makes you in such haste ? 
 Can you not stay, and share in the discussion ? 
 
 They offer excuses and request single audience. 
 Certainly, since you wish it, I will meet you, 
 Each, at the times you mention. — I admit it : 
 The right of private judgment is most sacred. 
 Adieu then till we meet. 
 
 Anemov . 
 
 We thank you, Gentlemen, 
 Whilst sighing at your unexpected flight, 
 Like those swift birds I mentioned, you pass on. 
 Delighting other groups. Now come again. 
 
 They (JO. 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Scene 8 ; Sea Shore, Under White Birches. 3Iorning 
 
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 Anemon. 
 
 what expunged our guests ! I could but laugh 
 
 To see the Ritualist, the shrewd Professor, 
 
 And our good Rector also, very shy. 
 
 When God's high Book is mentioned. Really ! 
 
 1 said good morning, but coul I scarce repress 
 The mood, half jocular, that still outcrops. 
 When funny things occur. You, Chipper, surely 
 Are not averse to God's rich Book. 
 
 Chipper. 
 
 I love it. 
 Though much within its pages seems mysterious. 
 Nature's arcana also are too deep. 
 
 Jansoket. 
 And blissful that it is so : constituting 
 Proof how incontrovertible, that lie. 
 Creator of such wonders, is Himself 
 Magnificent beyond the loftiest thought. 
 
JASSOKKT AND ANFMON. 
 
 \Vh(>rr is the <i:r!ts]) in human intellect. 
 With all its boast, to lift the obscurino; veil, 
 Even from the smallest work of Ood. The secret 
 Thereto pertaininj^ rests inviolate. 
 
 Chipper. 
 But must it thus remain ? The prying quest, 
 The indagation due to sleepless nif^fhts. 
 Have proved effectual at many points. 
 
 Jasi^nhct. 
 No pining vigils, no untiring zeal, 
 No ceaceless quest, no towering intellect. 
 But must be baffled. 
 
 Chipper. 
 
 Yet the alchemist. 
 Merged in the hazards of his treacherous art, 
 Combining, analizing, skillful, patient, 
 Labels the elemental energies ; 
 Detects the inherent properties of each, 
 And seperates whate'er is seperable. 
 Astonishing discoveries reward him. 
 What terrible effects from combination ! 
 Say, lifts he not the veil — if partially, 
 By chemical forces, by the application 
 Of his re-agents ? 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 JtfSfioki't. 
 
 When the Great Creator 
 Culled forth this <^lobe, lie loaded it with riches. 
 He foi'med the race of adam to possess it, 
 And consequently left him work to do. 
 He placed him in a {garden, to enhance, 
 And tastefully record its joy and bounty. 
 Its bands of jocund birds, fruits, watts of life, 
 All its swathed splendors to restrain and cherish. 
 And thence uplead the triumphs of the earth, 
 By toils — to be not toils but charming offices. 
 With the yoked elements to make the globe 
 A theatre of spacious kindliness, 
 Of beauty, of renown, of cheer repaying. 
 Of light and holiness. Transgression fawned : 
 Duped by the luring blandislmient of lies. 
 That hour man doomed himself to drudgery. 
 To disappointment, to whate'er is hard. 
 Now the proud physicist, though quite at sea, 
 Kansacks both earth and nature, and attempts 
 The riddle of creation. How absurd. 
 
 Chipper. 
 Ah, Cousin, surely science is not vain. 
 Perhaps, thus purposely was nature left 
 To lurnish motive for the mind and arm. 
 
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JASSOKET Ani) ANEMON, 
 
 Arc n(;t tlie liopcful oiibvyons oflif'^ 
 Embelished and matured by sedulous care. 
 
 A suppliment of culture was decreed, 
 Tlie stimulus of wise activity. 
 Nature comes forward, and delivers up 
 Ihe treasures held in readiness. Reserved 
 As tlie reward of toil. We understand 
 The excellence of labor, and iuiii^ine 
 That all things bow to our shrewvl a[)prehension. 
 Bit when it comes to the ins})iring etscencc, 
 Who then can lay a iinger on its tige ? 
 What eye can penetrate it ? Who can say 
 What is attraction simply? What, cohesion? 
 Or what, repulsion ? What is magnetism ? 
 What, electricity ? Or what is odor. 
 So subtle so etherial so pervading ? 
 And what is life ? These, simply in exhibit, 
 As potencies as verities sublime, 
 Are recognized by certain properties 
 Peculiar unto each. Who can go further ? 
 Of all the thousand things that exercise 
 Our care and vigilance repeatedly. 
 How ignorant are we of the radical cqvg 
 And nucleus, recluscd and locked forever. 
 
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J ASS OK KT AND ANKMON. 
 
 Just so, and sound, what is its mode of action ? 
 Arc strnctnrists afrrocd ? Thny aro not surely. 
 Some (rravcdy claim it is l)y simple wavelets. 
 Others affirm it as an cue >,'y 
 Distinct and in Icpondeut of such motion. 
 Philosophy would seem to need revision 
 In many of its lonjr accepted views. 
 Some thinq;s indeed appear to be removed 
 From our intelligence. So high is nature 
 In its fixt laws beyond us. 
 
 Anemon. 
 
 When was law — 
 That law, the order which we now observe, 
 First instituted, or say, introduced 
 Amidst the concrete ? Was it previous 
 To tlie first rudiments, while in suspension, 
 
 Im])alj)ably difi'uscd, or was it after ? 
 
 Oh I just paddle in philosophy 
 Around the fort of questioning, Please call it 
 A port of entry. Nothing contraband 
 Shall escape challenging ! 
 
 Chijiper. 
 
 I'll just believe it. 
 Well, Cousin, really, I must co nicss, 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 'Tis difficult to fix the time. The mode 
 l8 now determined by close observation, 
 With some conjecture, and the strict appliance 
 Of overt fact. 
 
 Anemon. 
 
 And, Chipper, thus you think 
 A vast effused efflatus, competent 
 To form the astral systems. To evolve 
 Plannet and sun, with all implied provisions. 
 With the titanic energies. And fearful 
 Exhibits of the little globe we live in. ? 
 
 Chipper. 
 
 I think so. 
 
 Anemon. 
 ■"" On what ground, I beg to ask ? 
 Did God evoke things out of nothing, think you ? 
 Or were Material and Space eternal ? 
 
 Chipper. 
 Now have you got me in a corner, Cousin ! 
 I do believe, that space and its containing, 
 Were all created by The Infinite, 
 The God of Israel, The KING Eternal. ' 
 
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 JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Ancmon. 
 Excuse mo. And you yet "boliovo The) Bible ; 
 Interpretin^T its record to your tasto : 
 Elimitinf; its lan^^uaj^o rmst diroct, 
 And substituting the apol(><Ty 
 Of metiiphoric glosses. Do you not 
 Percieve that this is doing violence 
 To the plain record, and dishonoring 
 The prophet and the prophecy of truth, 
 By theories, impossible, absurd ? 
 Now for a moment ponder on the words 
 In which the holy rule is couched. 
 
 Chipper. 
 
 I notice 
 Those words can echo no uncertain meaning, 
 Nothing ambiguous — well, most direct. 
 Yet is it not a metaphoric form. 
 Susceptible of extended exegesis ? 
 
 Anemon. 
 When we abandon the direct account. 
 And enter some domain of fond conjecture, 
 .\i > we not quite astray ? I have indeed 
 Ajsumed the garb of staid interlocution. 
 Yes — being incompetent — excuse me kindly. 
 'Tis an infirmity of human nature. 
 And yet in its results, oft not unmixt 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMOIC. 
 
 "With various benefits : yes, much of good. 
 For who indeed is really competent 
 For any work however simple ? Truly 
 "•Jj t best we are imperfect instruments, 
 Achieving but a little at the most. 
 But if there be alegiance to the Truth, 
 Excuses are less needed or implied. 
 
 Chipper. 
 Now Anemon, amidst our varied talks 
 On the deep teachings of the Holy Word, 
 And on its sage interpreters : while musing, 
 Sometimes I have been questioning myself. 
 What is a sign or marvel really ? 
 And why suspended now ? And were they ever 
 Governed by the inherent laws of matter ? 
 
 Anemon. 
 If merely the evolvement of a law, 
 It could not be a miracle in fact. — 
 What constitutes your creed ? 
 
 Chipper. 
 
 Few w^ords suffice : 
 My creed is built upon the crag of reason. 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 I view this globe, so exquisitely fillecl 
 With a contriving skill, that fails not ever, 
 In greatest or in least. I watch the heavens ; 
 And lost in rapture and amazement, ask. 
 Can there be one so stupid, as to think. 
 Those objects selfcreated. Or existant 
 Eternally as thus. Fortuitous : 
 Mere work of chance ! 
 
 Anejnon, 
 
 Not as the work of chance, 
 But by inherent thrall. By imprimatur. 
 Or embriotic output. Some inception. 
 All outlined, to be filled in leisurely. 
 This is your code — alas! — Now, Jassokct ! 
 
 Jassokd. 
 
 '•nsin ! how blind how false is limping science. 
 I'ne wisdom and the majesty Supreme, 
 Dazzling by outbursts, yet are not perreivod. 
 The sacred Record, sim[)ly and most plainly 
 Explodes ail vain and hobbling theories. 
 Yes I by a single declaration dashes 
 Forever into fragments the false gods ^ 
 
 or human effort. God created all. 
 
 From nothing — by a word. Yes, by a word. 
 
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 JASPOKF.T Ani) ANFMON, 
 
 Coinnvni 1'-'l -tUoy avoso in life and beauty 
 Ami |niini. iv'nc(\ 
 
 J)o you not misconstrue 
 Thi" Sacred Scroll r They rose not suddenly 
 With haste extreme, as we accept the word. 
 For who can think, that instantaneously, — 
 When we test carefully the course of nature, — 
 Chaos or any thing, was formed from nothing ? 
 
 (Tassohct. 
 Cousin, though s( eniing to withold assent, 
 I know that ycm are loyal re he truth. 
 And honor the great Scripts that tell of God. 
 Creations nuirvt llous we have not witnessed. 
 lu the great future we shall learn — shall see — 
 T.io unli-euipt niijjsty of our Creator. 
 (Jud spoke— t' was done! Commanded — fast it 
 
 stood ! 
 Such is the testimony of -he Roll, 
 Narating a creatit)n o( the past. 
 And, my dear sir, just for a moment pause 
 O'er the prophetic tableau oi the future. 
 How sudden strange and rapid pass the changes. 
 Incomprehensible-— what awful splendor. 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 The (lead saints rise, the living saints are changea 
 All in a moment. While the wicked swarms, 
 Hushing to kill the last remaining saints, 
 ]iiirn with the earth — But swiftly rise again. 
 With all the wicked dead, and come to judgment ! 
 Wliile tlaming Earth burnt to anihilation, 
 Has fled away and ocupies no place. 
 Then, when the great decisions are revealed. 
 Behold a new earth I Not the old earth purged. 
 But a vast glorious globe for the redeemed. 
 To which the City of Our God descends, 
 That choice work of the wonder making Builder. 
 
 
 Now, Chipper, when The Omnific King affirms, 
 That in six days He made the earth and heavens, 
 And all that in tliem is — will you believe 
 The absurd imaginations that deny it ? 
 The most impossible, contemptible, 
 And impious theories of physicists } 
 
 A Great King am I : saith The Lord of Hosts. 
 
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JASSOIvET Al^D AXEMON. 
 
 Scene 9 ; Gasca le; Thlckd of Cj J irs. Afternoon. 
 
 
 Enter Anemon,, VUa, Dr. Dawn & Jassokd. 
 
 Dr. Dmcn, 
 Amidst the cedars — ah, tlie cataract ! 
 Friend Jassoket, do we not rest encU'btcd 
 Hopelessly to the ladies ? Wliat enchantment. 
 How charming is the taste which thus selects. 
 
 Vida. 
 I too, dear Anomon, rnnst praise your choice. 
 Under tliese balmy cedars, close embowerin-j;. 
 Steals the soft zephyr And the dashing rill, 
 The mimic cataract diffuses coolness. 
 Dispensing music soft, monotonous, 
 But ever grateful. 
 
 Anemon, 
 
 Now, kind Friends, thus seated, 
 Proceed with your discussion — earnestly. 
 Vida and me are umpires self assumed. 
 And our decision, stern, but not disclosed, 
 
JA.RSOivET AND ANKMON. 
 
 Is not tlio less to be escaped — rcmombor ! 
 So let keen arguments be duly ))arricd. 
 As in a feint and practice of ligbt arms. 
 Sparkle — but wound not. 
 
 Dr. Dawn. 
 
 We are aonsitivo, 
 Dear Lady, and a little warmth, besprent 
 AVith the cool dews of this inspiring nook, 
 AV'ill scarcely harm us. Now, friend Jassokct, 
 My word for it, I shall not stint nor spare 
 To cleave your arguments, or pinion them, 
 If my good rapier fail not. 
 
 Jassoket. 
 
 Well, good Sir, 
 Proceed : it is the frequent lot of error, 
 To boast and then be vancpiished. 
 
 Dr. Dawn. 
 
 That's prophetic ! 
 I stand on the sound jdank of fixt opinion. 
 The basis of philosopby and reason. 
 AVith the coneurrenec of the nmstcTs all. 
 Of science, of ilivinlty. No divergence 
 Occurs throughout th»> sphere to be explored, 
 
JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 From the most sacred Record, duly balanced, 
 With those close verdicts. In bald majesty. 
 Harmonious with the grandest of all themes. 
 Opens the sacred Book. A few broad strokes 
 Limns the progeessive stages of the work 
 Through countless ages. Traits characteristic, 
 Shading impenetrable mysteries 
 With picture settings — overlooked by some : 
 A popular misapprehension. Ages 
 Indeffinite and monstrous, are termed days. 
 Preserving the similetudes, of night, 
 And morning. Obvious familiar measures 
 Of times. A day is used in every language. 
 For perio Is of duration, long or short. 
 Thus the two records prove coincident. 
 The records of the Book and of geology, 
 In close agreement, as is now confest. 
 Throughout long periods of activity. 
 Broad nature was elaborated slowly. 
 Great epic of creation ! how sublime 
 In figurative glory it is couched. 
 Enquirers, be they candid, conscienciouS, 
 Must rest in faith, appeased. And confident 
 That myriads of ages were engrossed 
 In God's creation. 
 
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 Jassokef. 
 
 When The Great Eternal, 
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 JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 In awful majesty, amidst the crash 
 
 Of shivering thunders and fierce leapiufj; fires — 
 
 Midst rolling smoke and tlio droad tnim[)ot peal 
 
 Spoke to the quaking hosts of Israel . 
 
 In the announcement of that fiery law, 
 
 Used He a language plainly understood ; 
 
 Simple, concise, no ambiguity ? 
 
 Or was it veiled in metaphor, and needing 
 
 Expounding glosses ? 
 
 Dr. Dawn. 
 
 Freely I admit 
 The Ten Commandments seem so terse, so plai 
 Very much comment certainly is precluded, 
 At least in the obligations. 
 
 Jassohet. 
 
 Can you think, 
 The Holy One, to those assembled hosts, 
 Would emphasize a work by proclamation, 
 Which He performed not ? 
 
 Dr. Tiawn. 
 
 May I ask, What work ? 
 
 Jassokel. 
 Must we rc.^^r you to the testimony ? 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON". 
 
 Now, Vida, kindly favor us by readinp^ 
 The Ten Commandments. — Yes, in Exodus. 
 
 Villa. 
 The twentieth I think, if T mistake not. 
 Now — shall I read the whole, or sections only ? 
 
 Jaasokef. 
 Part of the chapter — to the nineteenth verse 
 Inclusive, is suffieint for our purpose. 
 
 Vida reads to tiventicth verse. 
 Please slowly read again-ninth-tcnth-eleventh. 
 Now, Vida, simply tell us your impression. 
 Just how you understand the sacred text. 
 I mean in reference to those days; what were they? 
 
 Veda, 
 Days, Sir, precisely equaling u\ len^h 
 The days of that same week when God promulged 
 These holy words from awful Sinai. 
 Impossible those quaking hosts could think them 
 Other than just such days from eve to eve«. 
 Who could dream otherwise } 
 
 Dr. Dawn. 
 
 My dear young Friend, 
 The grave consensus of matured opinion, 
 Falls^not in line with yours. 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMOR. 
 
 Vida. 
 
 Yet, reverend Sir, 
 I said just what 1 think — That's simply all. 
 Let the elaborate tutelage of science, 
 Announce its dictum as it please. That Law, 
 By God was given in words most plain, to people 
 Who understood plain words. Impossible 
 That God could lie, or by metonymy 
 Say di'fs with unmistakable distinctness. 
 And mean vast periods and not days at all. 
 But what al out the day on which God rested ? 
 Could that seventh day be diverse from the others? 
 Each of those days, all seven, were they not equal ? 
 Asuredly they differed not one moment ! 
 Now I remember that another scripture 
 Says, Rested and was Refreshed.** How could 
 
 God need 
 Rest and refreshing, if vast periods 
 Of merest — tardiest — activity, 
 Requiring very little supervision. 
 Had snailpaced far the dim bleak glebes of time. 
 Till nature, proud, self moulded and complete, 
 Bore bird and beast, looked lofty with its men. 
 As we behold it now — or nearly so ? 
 Why the mere supposition is perverse ! 
 Disastrous as a wild hallucination. 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 And men deemed rational accord and crouch ! 
 
 Jassoket. 
 Sir, are you answered now ? Tf blushing youth 
 Notice the rancorous incongruity. 
 And specious glosses of the vaunted cult, 
 Is it not time the sacred Rook of God 
 Recieved a scrupulous interpretation. 
 Comprised by principles of common sense ? 
 Let soaring intellect kneel low. Let pride 
 Tremble and wonder. Lo He speaks, 'Tis done ! 
 Estates Dominions Orders pledge Him HIGH. 
 
 Deviser exquisite, magnific Donor 
 
 Of nature, life and law. 
 
 Dr. Dawn. 
 
 Friend Jassoket, 
 Staunch here I stand, all unconvinced behold me 
 Backed by the many in accord. On me 
 Your arguments slide oflf, like driving hail 
 Spent on a mountain crag. They shake me not. 
 
 Anemon, 
 
 Dear Frien ds, the twilight being the time 
 appealed, 
 In which I think Professor Frost designs 
 To electrify us with some propositions, 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Ami trounco our aberrant views. Were it not wel: 
 
 'J\) liavo a brief siesta. And collation 
 
 A little i)reviously ? Especially, 
 
 As we conjecture, shrewd may be the thrusts 
 
 Of his potential poiniard forged of facts, 
 
 Quite tantamount to weapons of true steel, 
 
 Tempered in metaphor, high wrought and pliant. 
 
 Vila. • 
 
 The shrubbery you said would be illumined 
 
 For the occasion, did you not ? 
 
 Aneinon. 
 
 I did. 
 Yes we will emphasize it by desplay 
 Of oriental lanterns of stray colors. 
 I call them hues estray, for they beseem not 
 The tender glooms and stars serene in splendor, 
 Differing in hue so very slightly. Vida, 
 How St. ange it seems we are so fond of contrast 
 
 And gaudy ornaments and yet it is not. 
 
 For see what gorgeous flowers, in countless 
 
 patterns, 
 What myriads of differing leaves and stems ! 
 And each one dipt in beauty, God has showered 
 Oil all this m.irvollo'as globe so rich so charming. 
 
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JASSOKET A]^D AXEMO?^. 
 
 Scene 10. A Shrnhheri/, Tlhnnrl. Evening, 
 udia and Vlda, Ilioing arranged the lanterns, 
 
 Delia. 
 Now nicely placed are all. Vida, your checks 
 Are hot and all aglow. Nimhle were we ! 
 And here hies Anemon. 
 
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 Oh Nymphs — superb! 
 All tastily arrannred — I am delighted. 
 Those mimic globes of variagated colors. 
 Pendent amidst the branches, interspersed 
 Mon ,'8t the green leaves and tufts of trailing bloom 
 Matchless in natal charms. While yet the glome 
 Just lisps the hush of sunset sweet and faint. 
 But while we loiter here our guests approach. 
 See — in a group — and Jassoket is leading 
 To the stone slab under the locust tree. 
 
 Vida. 
 Shall we withdraw ? Some standing, others sit. 
 There are Dean Mist Professor Frost and Chippe7 
 
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 And Doctor Dawn also is prominont. 
 Why seem they eager to crave audience 
 With Jassoket ? 
 
 Anemon. 
 
 Dear Vida, not because 
 They reverence his opinions. It is merely 
 Due to this simple reason : They declaim 
 And seek to overthrow his arguments. 
 Pretending that they think them dangerous, 
 At conflict with the basic syllabus. 
 Which they account foundation principles 
 Of the recieved philosophy. 
 
 Vida. 
 
 But surely- 
 
 Ancmnn, 
 Dear Vida, trutli is bright, but shadow plumed. 
 And aspects differing cause diversity 
 In what is apprehended. Even sincerity 
 Itself may be a source of difference, 
 In those who evidently seek for facts. 
 'J" lien add the prejudice of early training. 
 And the outcroping is no longer strange. 
 But fails in line of sheer necessity. 
 
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JASSOKET AXD ANEMON. 
 
 Wc will advance. It is our privilege 
 To listen to the arguments and learn, 
 "Whatever be the topic. Notwithstanding, 
 Discourteous we will not be to disturb them, 
 But in the alcove, screened and silently 
 Listen to old antagonistic views, 
 And caustic comments. If indeed there prove 
 Some earnestness in their contention. 
 
 Delia. .:. 
 
 Fear you, 
 Dear Anemon, they may so far forget j 
 
 All deferent politeness, as to press. 
 In hot or bitter mood, conflicting views ? 
 
 Annnon. 
 Yes — but I hope not. Though I know indeed, 
 Thai Jassoket is earnest, and at times 
 Ilebukes the arrogance that plants itself 
 Against the plain words of the Holy book. 
 And may again. Ah, Sacal — it is he. 
 He joins the group. The lists are now complete ! 
 
 Come girls — the alcove. Quick will we be there. 
 
 They j)aHs along to an alcove near the stone seat. 
 
 Here let us wait. 
 
 Vula. 
 
 What soft o'erhanglng glooms, 
 Besprent with fairy lights midst climbing flowcrsi 
 
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 JASSOKET ATID A^•T:Mn^^ 
 
 Whose fragrance is a solace. Sacal spies us. 
 Hither he comes ! 
 
 Anemon. 
 
 Now Sacal, yoi arc wjhin?. 
 Quietly sit beside us. We design 
 To offer no intrusion, for the present, 
 liut when the colloquy has been concluded. 
 How charming then come your discoveries : 
 For we are gay, and not fastidious, 
 
 Prof. Frost. 
 I understand you perfectly, as saying, 
 You wish a terse synopsis of my views 
 Of sundry statements made in Genesis. 
 Well Sir, concisely, pointedly I answer, 
 1 con with scientific deference. 
 The enigmas introductory of tliat book. 
 The underlying strata of true science, 
 Arc quite immovable. So we 'naiutain 
 That periods arc spoken of as days. 
 Tliat Xature, co-extensive and coeval 
 With periods immense, was slowly moulded. 
 That when, for instance we are told : God said : 
 Let there be liglit. He did not at that time 
 Create it. But then slowly passed away 
 The mists that hid the sun. Assuredly 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 God simply wills ii tbinj?. He does not speak. 
 He is said to speak — that we may understaiui 
 He simply vjilh it — eons pass — 'tis done I 
 
 Jaasol'i't. 
 You say God does not speak. T hc^ to know 
 The likeness and the image in which Adam 
 Became a man. 
 
 /'/•()/. Frost. 
 
 Anthropomorphitc, Sir, 
 
 I hesitate to call you. Who imagines 
 
 The Invisible Go I to have a scnsile form ^ 
 
 Man was created in His rational image. 
 
 In righteousness and in true holiness. 
 
 Surely you cannot for a moment think 
 
 A spiritual escence 1o have form, 
 
 And human form, witli lingers and with mouth. 
 
 And the etceteras ? I'repostcrous ! 
 
 Those w'ords express mere tantanu)unts. 
 
 They servo 
 To pose the Invisible within the rango 
 Of linite comprehension, by the uso 
 Of figurative substitutes. Im i)ly ii g 
 The paucity of language to convey 
 The merest transcript to our ardent quest. 
 
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JAS80KET AND ANEMON. 
 
 
 Jassokd. 
 
 Well, Sir, I list with unrestrained contempt 
 To statements vain, dishonorinj^, perverse I 
 To trancendental bubbles — yes, mere foam. 
 Such mistifying foibles, false at core. 
 Distempered dreams, O fine theosophy ! 
 It aims to stilt lame Reason on a pylon. 
 Dizzy it reels — 'tis doomed — it bites the rock. 
 There let it lie, spurned trodden in the dust. 
 Mark, Sir, 'tis written in the Roll of Truth : 
 Let us make man, God said, in our own image. 
 And he was moulded in the likeness glorious 
 Of Christ the loving Man who talked witli hi?n ; 
 Of Christ the IMAGH OF Till'] INVISIBLE. 
 Made thus the exponent of His likeness, wholly 
 In body, soul and spirit. Did the Maker 
 Not talk with Adam face to face, and parley 
 With questionings and joyous sympathy. 
 Yet arguing, you dare audaciously 
 To say the Paternal One is void of form ; 
 Ponders midst slow decrees, but never speaks ! 
 
 Prof. Frost. 
 Good Sir, ought I indeed suppress surprise, 
 That you — that youj! can set at nought decisions 
 Of minds titanic, of distinguished churchmen, 
 
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jassoki:t and animon. 
 
 Mon of most subtile parts, profound of thought. 
 And their opinions irrefutable, 
 Who shall condemn ? But I refrain to argue, 
 Siuce it avails not. Also you dispute 
 Earth's scientific genesis as well ? 
 
 JassoJcet. 
 Yes, rest assured I hold the truth most sacred 
 That notes the age of Adam when be died. 
 And I expand not to indefinite cycles 
 The six days of creation. 
 
 Prof. Frost. 
 
 Be advised. 
 There is a mystery in all those matters. 
 Have you a plummet and a line sulheicnt ? 
 Will you account for the extinct creations, 
 Those ancient organisms, fossils, growths. 
 Of all the geologic periods. 
 
 Where page on page, responsive to the changes, 
 Strangely embalmed, in perpetuity, 
 Kefutes the ignorance that would abridge 
 The romance of creation. Yes ! subtend 
 A line of demarkation. And cut off 
 The illimitable ages which went by, 
 With the inscrutible dole of centuries. 
 
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 JASSOKET AND ANEMOH. 
 
 The hioro^rlyphic record of a past. 
 Adverse beyond conception. 
 
 Jasaohd. 
 
 I have learned, 
 That to the intellect, however trained, 
 Tis still how very foreijjn, to admit 
 A possibility that the thinji^s we see. 
 Have been created, absolutely, simply. 
 And instantaneously. Ah, this transcends us. 
 ^Ve can believe that somethin<^ once existed. 
 Lived and exhibited peculiar traits. 
 If we can find a skeleton, or rouse 
 A bone a vestige, or nnearth a tooth — 
 JJut that a neAV creation introduced 
 New elemental principles in nature ; 
 This we will never credit — nor admit 
 Its possibility — yes, flatly challenj^e 
 The barren supposition. You deny it ? 
 Do so — but it remains a stubborn fact. 
 I positively charj^e, that the assumptions. 
 And va^^^ue deductions from the vestiges 
 Unearthed, are altogatlier insufficient 
 1o fix the periods of their overthrow, 
 Or bounil their habitat. 
 
 Fiof. Frost. 
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JASSOKET AND ANRMON. 
 
 Well Sir, why not* 
 Wlnt is there of mor'^ sterliiiu; ]-)ro)f thnn the 
 Are they not fo'^sils of pro.ligiious creatures 
 
 Tliat filled the globe ? 
 
 Fillcil it ? This gloho was never 
 Sprinkled like sauds with monstrous organisms. 
 
 Prnf. Frosf. 
 Facts are aujainst yo i — suulry catecdysnis, 
 Clianges r.i[uiriu4 myriads of y.-ars. 
 These iiave uccurrel, must wo not classify them? 
 
 Yes — And how le>s tliau little do we know! 
 The aparent is not evermore tlio real. 
 Wuat wouders of creative lite .i:c.)st us, 
 At every step, and wo accept tiieiu not. 
 
 Chipper. 
 Life is a delegation and a gift, 
 A fund created, a Divine su})ply. 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Scene 11. A Shnibhcrf/, Tlhime<l. Evening, 
 Deliay Vida^ Anemon, and Ike Gentleincn. 
 
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 Dr, Dawn. 
 How happens it we have ignored the Ladies ? 
 So much we owe them — Oh forgive us kindly. 
 Here are our two sweet girls and honored friend. 
 And we have placed them in oblivion. 
 Ladies, come forward please — you will delight us 
 And Sakal too. Excuse me, but I tire 
 Of this contention. Though we argue much, 
 Who is convinced ? Alas, our simple say-so 
 Is profitless and powerless. 
 
 Anemon. 
 
 That's quite true. 
 And Sakul will, I think, irradiate 
 Some points in our philosophy, and charm us 
 With dreams that have a moral. Will you not? 
 
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JASSOKET AST) ANFMON. 
 
 Salccd. 
 Dear Ladies — you and only you — alas, 
 'Twill be but trespassing — you will not like it. 
 
 Vida. 
 Oh yes we will— I shall, and with such glee ! 
 
 Delia. 
 We shall be charmed instructed, Sakal, grandly. 
 
 Anpmnn. 
 Yes, hnply illustrate omv expositions. 
 Refreshing as an interlude of music. 
 
 Dr. Da mi. 
 By way of countcri^oisc and relaxation, 
 Variety is needful and cxhilarant. 
 You're not ungallunt to refuse the ladies ? 
 
 Vida. 
 Sakal, we are all ears. Yes, expectation 
 On tiptoe waits. 
 
 Salal. 
 
 Though I accede, remember 
 'Tis only at the instance of the Ladies, 
 And maybe not amusing as you think. 
 
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 "<VSSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 RamblinfT one noon, aweary I was sittinof 
 On a blue era"; beneath wild cliffs that frowned, 
 Under a tree — 'twas dry, but clinihod by vines, 
 Pofuse of leaves, and yet without a blossom. 
 As I sat ravcllinn; the perversity 
 Of human nature : and the pedigree 
 Mysterious, of some things : A long train 
 Rolled on before my sight. — Do you suppose. 
 Ladies, such things can happen — merely happen? 
 
 Vifla. 
 Ah, Sakal, we all yield to happenings. 
 
 Delia. 
 We call it fortune — sometimes. Providence. 
 
 Anemon. 
 For we are blear eyed, and percieve but dimly. 
 
 Sakal. 
 And you conclude mysterious things can happen, 
 And nothing of it ? I presume it is so. 
 For quite unconsciously I dropt asleep. 
 And as I slept, some one — perhaps a phantom, 
 Touched me with silver wand and said : up ! up I 
 
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JASSOKT-.T AND A^fTlMOTf. 
 
 Great mustcrin<:js on the hill, straiifre spectacles, 
 Pageant and pantomime and carnival ! 
 Prince of the powers of air has summoned it. 
 Let us be goiag. But I answered him: 
 Is not that mountain belching forth thick fumes. 
 With soot and asiies ? (Quickly he replied : 
 So 'twas indeed. But now those fires are (piiet. 
 
 We went. But, Ladies, judge of my amazement. 
 On mountain top — a dizzy height — we dropt. 
 TJiat sight ! my creeping hair stood up. it froze mo. 
 1 see it ! and each hair repels its fellow, 
 Even now. You wont believe me — in that crater, 
 The very cup that holds the molten lava, 
 Cooled and yet sputtering with nascent fires. 
 Lay a great pile of maimed and quivering victims 
 High over them, on nine fierce dragons throned. 
 Sat a grim Monster, crowned with hissing snakes 
 In glittering braid with livid brandished tongues. 
 Perched on that wreath black wings a vulture flapt 
 His chair was iron, white with glowing heat. 
 A scourge of cobras nine his sceptre topt. 
 
 Now as two mermen two groat seasliclls blew. 
 To the masked carnival what muster ings ! 
 From thick fogs issuinir, rise horrible 
 Grandees of hell. IS'ounted on flying dragor 
 
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JASSOKET AXl) ANE.MON. 
 
 See those stern battle kintjs in fiery fray. 
 I lark to tlie din of shields an I savage thrusts 
 Of spears and slashing swords. The comliitants 
 Frantic with fury charge. At every onset 
 No-ls the grim Monster from his iron seat. 
 !Sh:ik(;.s his bhick sceptre with the cohras nine, 
 And cliiefs and dragons roll convulsed in dust. 
 Soon with wild uproar victory is won. 
 
 The victors carry off their prisoners bound. 
 
 Just now the sky was black with them 
 
 Where are they ? 
 Vida. 
 What, quick as that ? Ah there was witcliory. 
 But that's not startling mongst the horribles, 
 
 Dc'in. 
 Sacal, what next ? Pardon the interruption. 
 W^e like the rare and terrible — but only 
 In halls of old phanlasmagoria. 
 
 Sabd. 
 Have you not sometimes suffered disappointment 
 Sweet Girls ? It may so hajjpen now. My dream 
 Falls under outlines of sad liistory. 
 And tragic scenes which have a fearful basis, 
 May not be pleasant to you. Only look ! 
 O see you not yon purple cloud ? Look, loo k , 
 
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JASSOKET AnD A>rF.MON, 
 
 What mj^rmodons like sho\-crs of hail are blown, 
 For mimic scenes from the black dons of hell. 
 Ho there — 'tis Jaggornaut : the dust, the noise. 
 High perched in chariot, huge they urge him on, 
 Crowds hemming crowds attracted and propense, 
 Su. round and choke his car — but it moves on. 
 And tliose preceding liim, deluded swarins, 
 An\ those that follov.' nf»er him. how sad, 
 In rayless blindness and tixt ignorance, 
 Unhesitating confidence of lies. 
 
 Tie stulted dread fatiuty of hale 
 
 Al is, the very drunkenness of hell ! 
 
 F il prone before this dumb and senseless god. 
 
 Flinging, poor devotees, their wretched lives, 
 
 In a wild hour of mad enthusiasm, 
 
 Ik'fore the horriil idol's murderous wheels. 
 
 (.'rushed to attain supreme hlieity. 
 
 Now the throned Demon nods and shakes his stuff, 
 His coronet of hissing serpents swells. 
 And the scene clianges. Dear (Jirls, could you see 
 That queer tableau 1 What has befallon the Race ? 
 Tlie world is turned to Liliputs by titans, 
 A marvellous brood of Giants. Tliere they stalk. 
 Brutal, imi)etuous, ruthless — evil only, 
 liuiding the globe, and sparing but the m icked. 
 
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JASSOKKT AND ANIIMON. 
 
 The music of the earth expires in wiiils. 
 Its hope and ghidness whisper in the caverns. 
 The trophies won by long and patient toil. 
 The stately edifice, the charming villa. 
 Structures of grandeur, and the lowly cot, 
 With all their gladness vanish as an iris. 
 The earth becomes a den, and few escape. 
 The wisdom of those early wondrous men. 
 The full years given to study and research, 
 liy those first vigorous sages. Unto whom, 
 Long centuries of youthful prime were granted. 
 Those mighty masters who before the Flood, 
 Were kings in science, and contrivers rare 
 
 01 arts perhaps not duplicated yet. 
 
 They vanish and their knowledge leaves a glory. 
 Like a faint sunset purpling in a cloud. 
 Alas, the grand traditions of the Race 
 So young, so buoyant, and so full of wealth, 
 Sated with splendor of attainments vast — 
 Even subsecpiently to its first sad fall ; 
 Was thus obliterated and made void. 
 By evil that bespoke its own dread doom, 
 
 Dr. Dmrn. 
 Your visions seem plienomenal. Wliy really. 
 There must be method in those sly excursions 
 On the broad pini'jns of imagination. 
 
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 JASSOKET AND AX;-.vION. 
 
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 ^ 
 
 My dreams are for the Ladies only, Sir. 
 What if indeed tliey prove contemplative ? 
 Or even hazardous on application 
 To some dry finjment of the rationalist ?- 
 
 But possibly the Girls would like them ended. 
 
 VlJr. 
 Oh no — why Sakal, we are so deliirlitod — 
 Fairly enamored with the panorama. 
 With its wild fantasy — though horrible. 
 
 Delia. 
 Yes, that weird vision of the carnival, 
 Fairly enchants us. O you must proceed. 
 
 Chipper, 
 Might I extend a wish, or dare a maxim : 
 I would just intimate, with scarce a word, 
 That amiable loveliness enriches 
 Even the beholder, and ennobles all 
 Who move amidst its sacred influence. 
 This we are pleased to learn and proud lo prove. 
 
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 103 
 
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 JASSOKET Al^D AIS^EMON. 
 
 '^^3 
 
 Scene 12. A SJirnhherj^, lUnmorl. Ev'niwq, 
 JJeliuy V ida, Aiietnon, and the Gcidlciiien. 
 
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 -I too ask 
 
 Anetno7i, 
 Sakal, the Girls arc loyal. - 
 A little breakiiifr up of that cold criKst, 
 That shuts the wellsprin}^ of hi<);h nature from us. 
 The froKon rivor of our contemplations, 
 Xceds som'jthinnf moi*e than a mtvk how-d-yo-do 
 More than the j^lancing beams of admiration ; 
 Needs the sharp action of some weighty truth, 
 To crack the ice and set the stream aflow. 
 Even your wild spectral tliji^hts may help indeed. 
 And, Doctor Dawn, is it improbable, 
 'iiiat ruthless demons, who delight in evil. 
 May not tht'msclves hold sports and pantomimes? 
 T.iiuk of the wild bulfoonery and pranks 
 Of giddy mortals, and the lawless deeds, 
 Their mischief and low fun, led on by devils. 
 
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J.VSSOX^r AND VXEMOH". 
 
 Salcal. 
 Well, my kind Friends, even if 'tis flattery, 
 Who could resist it from suoh lips— so charming? 
 And you shall hear it. But those Gentlemen, 
 Will kindly hold their sapience in abayauce. 
 1 cannot pause to analize their strictures. 
 
 Anon the horrible Demon, the fierce monster, 
 Bid the two mermiu sound the sea shells loud. 
 Stampt, startling the red dragons under him. 
 Scaring the vulture perched upon his crown. 
 Flourished his sceptre with the cobras nine. 
 When lo, a legion of fierce sateless devils, 
 Came dragging — but in speechless mimicry, 
 Racks manacles chains stakes and faggots many. 
 And dungeons — yes, the jailers and the inmates. 
 
 -I dare not show you all — only a little. 
 
 Notice the cells and those fast lodged in them. 
 Surely not history— this must be fiction I — 
 Who dare place men in dens so foul and fetid ? 
 What have they done to be traduced and banned > 
 Torn limb from limb and grieved by many tortures? 
 Look and not shudder ! Yes, the worst in H- U— 
 If there be worst, alone could furnish forth 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Such instruments of torture, and inspire 
 Those human fiends to love the awful cli irg3 
 Of tortures exquisite and nameless lioiror.s. 
 What is their crime that they are outraged thas ? 
 On yon red dragon mounted sits a horseman. 
 Begemmed and robed in scarlet, tripple crowned. 
 Bearing a flag inscribed : "Fall down and worsliip 
 No worshipers but mine shall walk the earth !" 
 Ah that's the score the sum of their offending. 
 
 'Prepare the pyres the stakes-away with thum 1" 
 Thunders the furious dragon-mounted god. 
 And lo the piles as countless torches lighted. 
 
 Like fireflies sparkling all a summer night. 
 
 But these illume broad day — is the day dark ? 
 
 Paintings of demons in presumed employ, 
 Figure their robes — they enter-they are chained. 
 They vanish midst the flames. Terific smiles 
 Satan, and cheers his dragon-mounted god, 
 Beckons him and approves with high raised staff. 
 
 A varied entertainment now proceeds. 
 Shows of idolatrous temples and their priests. 
 Their gods of wood of stone of beasts of reptiles. 
 Their boast and baseness in variety. 
 Mid st the great hubbub, fortunetellers, wizards. 
 
 106 
 
JASSOTCET AND ANEMON". 
 
 Charmers antl thauinaturgics of the East, 
 And there in circles closed, with tapers dim, 
 "Wait spiritists for comm;jrcc with the dead. 
 Stir not — materialized they come — shake hands» 
 Leave them white lippt, and slylie disappear. 
 Suddenly, at a signal from the Demon, 
 Those mermen's shells swept off the carnival. 
 Midst lurid flashes mutterings and thick fog. 
 
 Delia. 
 And that completes the drama — Is it so ? 
 
 Anemon, 
 Sakal, we are so much indebted to you 
 For this strange entertainment. Which we think 
 Instructive, though most terrible and sad. 
 
 Vida. 
 And this concludes the drama? I can't think so.' 
 The scene dissolves — The program's incomplete. 
 There must be more. Sakal, oh gratify us I 
 
 Sakal. 
 My audience of sweet Girls, it seems too bad 
 To entertain you with ungenial themes. - 
 But so it happens. ^ '^ ' as hummingbirda 
 
 107 
 
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 JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Dip deep in the wild flowers, avoid the briars, 
 And sip the richest honey, — so may you. 
 
 The Exposition of the hlack abyss, 
 Had vanished with its mimicry. When lo, 
 Arose a spacious amphitheatre. 
 High on a throne superb, in repeal state, 
 Supported by a phalanx on tall ppears. 
 Sat the Arch Tyrant, now transformed and bland. 
 With solemn pomp. Loud, vested heralds blow. 
 And all the gods satanic — a great herd. 
 Covering the ages — with their symbols, sat 
 Advanced and high in conclave palatine. 
 And now by proclamation all is hushed. 
 While the Arch Demon bold and proudly vaunts 
 
 ''*' Gods and invincible legions, mighty chiefs, 
 Who aided me to make this globe a ruin. 
 Proofs of my wisdom and sagacity, 
 Have not been lacking. With consummate guile 
 I emptied Paradise, I stole its treasure. 
 I smote the earth, in all its pristine glory. 
 With a dread curse. You are assured that nothing 
 Escaped two terrible catas trophies. 
 Such trophies I have won ! And now, sweet friends 
 Our masterpiece of statecraft, our dear offspring, 
 
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JASSOKKT ANn ANKMON. 
 
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 Born in our olden Babylonish Fanes, 
 Mil.' t not be jeoparded I, 1 have summoned you, 
 T I at we may arbitrate what new departure 
 S Kill celebrate your valour. Now prepare. 
 Our rule must not be shaken by the Truth. 
 That Book— the Book of God— is our grand foe 
 Stacks of it we have burnt— and yet it lives. 
 Now we must chain it, or corrupt its teachings. 
 Hark I foil its teachers, puz/le them hoodwink them 
 Have we not done it often and securely ? 
 Silenced and bled and burnt them. You remember 
 The music of their tortures. How you gloated. 
 Winked and cxhilerated, as the flames 
 Fed on them. And although you lost the victims. 
 You pickt the bones of those who lit the fires- 
 Choice fat ones— what sweet titbits for your teethl 
 Stern leaders, gods, and potentates of Hell, ^ 
 What counsel ye ? Be up ! arouse your cunning 
 
 For this emergency. 
 
 Then one arose 
 
 Amidst the hush, and said : 
 
 Lucifer, 
 
 Millions of loyal fiends are at your beck. 
 And we, though gods of old and dominators. 
 Prefer to rest the hazard of this crisis, 
 On thee the king of all the legions lapsed. 
 
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JASSOKET AnD ANEMON, 
 
 He ceased, and mingled voices raised acclaim. 
 Some echoing moments. Tiien the Archfiend said: 
 
 Leaders and warrinj^ j^ods, on me devolves 
 By ancient right the ordering of your councils. 
 Ye bow to me as the supreme dictator. 
 Nor unprovided shall you find me now. 
 1'hink you it was by accident, those grave 
 And honest Theologians, who revised 
 The Book of our Great Enemy, cast in 
 Addition il words ? The is was made thai is. 
 You recollect the passage — being familiar 
 "With tlie old transcripts. Both words, as you know 
 Are supplementary. But the last supplies 
 Full licence — mark — to question the whole Book. 
 Yes, every word of it ! Admire my wisdom ! 
 
 Such clappings stampings and such stuning yells. 
 Laughter and cries of — hear ! 
 
 The Fiend went on : 
 Yes, my brave legions, stealthily we caught them 
 What latitude to "higher criticism ! " 
 The jots and tittles — just the quags we dread — 
 Are clean swept off. And now-I scorn to boast- 
 But mark me- I'm not napping when I show you. 
 Systems of all philosophies ; the various 
 Synopses, creeds and mysteries of religion 
 
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JASSOKET AND .VN KMON. 
 
 The Bible is despised— full half of it 
 
 Yes, such religion I boni in uuivirsities, 
 
 Proclaimed in pulpits, populi:, ai);)l;i;i'ie 1 
 
 'Tis wormed and mined by m? with .slurs an 1 li^'s, 
 
 And only wiits one sp u-k f.)i- an explosion. 
 
 Light is our enemy. Obscurity 
 
 Is a grand engine whicli we work to purpose. 
 
 Many are my fast friends— I just p-ep in — • 
 
 Need not some new enlisted energy — 
 
 I nudge them, wink and slily close the door. 
 
 Just in the dark ! Take the sea serpent, I 
 
 By silly folk am held to be a myth. 
 
 But that Leviathan, in liehring Sea, 
 
 King of the ocean monsters, has his play-ground — 
 
 Ay scores of them exliibit force mythilic. 
 
 And fatten there on whales Their coils can crush 
 
 Even the monsters. Hundreds of sleek yards, 
 
 Encircle them with ease most terrible. 
 
 What an embrace ! Is it like mine, sweet friends? »» 
 
 While giggles shouts and thunders of applause, 
 
 Greeted the old Destroyer Suddenly 
 
 I waked, and it was raining. Heavy drops 
 From the dry tree were falling on my face. 
 As I sprang up, a peal of rattling thunder 
 Shook the deep hills, and linked red liglitnings 
 leaped. 
 
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JASSOKET A]\^D AXEMON. 
 
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 Scene 13. A Promovtory. Forc.sf Trees. 
 Fallen colaiiin. Aneiuon, Vida, Delia^ Inez. Noon, 
 
 Anemon. 
 Our theolof^ians very much remind me 
 Of an occurence in the olden time. 
 
 Delia. 
 Something that happened to the Israelites ? 
 
 Inez. 
 Sin interveicd amidst their tutelage. 
 Strange incidents occurred. But was it they? 
 
 Vida. 
 I recollect they served the Canaanites : 
 For they had sinned — and sin implies defeat, 
 
 Anemon. 
 No single artisan was left amongst them, 
 But every implement was carried down 
 To blacksmiths of the Canaanites, to hammer, 
 To weld, to mend, to grind. So we just now, 
 Are at the mercy of the Scientists, 
 Who stultify the word of God. And frighten 
 The best of us — Yes bang us hip and thigh, 
 With the base club of infidelity. 
 
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J.VSSaXET AND AXEVIDX. 
 
 
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 And is there one -even one who dure defy them? 
 
 Arc they so wiiik - to tremble for the truth ! 
 
 Annnov, 
 Tlif^y tremble rather for their reputation : 
 Yet scarcely thnt-for they are stupified. 
 Chained to a philosophic Jafrgprnaut, 
 Or rather to the jiriests wlio worship it. 
 
 Ddia 
 Ah that reminds me much of Sakal's fancies, 
 And his extra vaf^^ant ronianticisuis. 
 
 Vila. 
 Well consin Anenion, it seems to me, 
 If I were a divine I -would not dare 
 To muffle God's clear word by any science. 
 
 Anonon. 
 But they are baffled and intoxicated 
 With the strong drink of premature deduction, 
 Palmed off as patent and substantial facts. 
 (ireat sheaves of causes thus they unify. 
 Efficiencies The Miglity One ordained 
 In multitudes — the hidden energies. 
 Of which are we not ignorant as the trees 
 Shading these vestiges of other days ? - 
 
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JASSOKET AIIT) ANEMON, 
 
 Vida. 
 Dear Anemon, how magical is the past ! 
 These squared and broken stones, thus overgrown 
 These oaks and birches gray, and vinehid trunks, 
 Seem centinels of mystery. What naratives 
 Of noise, of work, of life, of death, lie here, 
 Dumb and forever. Ages have walked by. 
 Looked on and frowned. Though Action seemed 
 
 gigantic, 
 How mute lipt now ! It peeps not, but is hovered 
 By dark winged days. How absolute is time ; 
 Ah who can deprecate it ? Slow — but swift. 
 
 Aneynon. 
 Swift ? it outflashes light — even thought comes 
 
 lagging. 
 Infinitesimal, how stern — how tireless ! 
 Why its minutest mite may grasp an age, 
 And crumble into acts. How can it be ? 
 Amazing — oh, stupendous beyond thought ! 
 Futile all effort. But wrapt up in God, 
 Rest its live issues. 
 Delia. 
 
 Anemon, indeed 
 I would not care to listen to the tale 
 Of much that's happened here. 'Twould be a story 
 To make one shudder. 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Vifla. 
 
 Yonder they are comlnpf. 
 Professor Frost, and— yes the Dean is with him. 
 
 Inez. 
 And by the gray rock, Jassoket now joins them. 
 Hither they come conversing. 
 
 Anemon, 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 Most welcome to our regal sylvan sanctum : 
 These old and famous trees, this fallen fortress. 
 
 Prof. Frost. 
 Though its memorial has perished long. 
 Who knows but it still lingers in these ruins. 
 And some strange day may whisper from the dust? 
 Kind Lady, we accept your courtesy. 
 With flowing thanks. And pleased participate 
 The grateful coolness underneath these trees. 
 I speak for all— our friends seem much engaged. 
 
 Delia. 
 They seem absorbed, they scarcely notice us. 
 We miss the courtly phi/, of Doctor Dawn. 
 
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JASSOKET AXD AMMON. 
 
 Dean 3Iisf. 
 Am I not loyal to the rubric, Sir ? 
 Loaning with others to observances 
 Traditional — illumed and copied largely 
 From the rich roll of our magnific Mother, 
 The ancient Church. 
 
 JassoJcet. 
 
 Ah, reverend Sir, do I 
 Distinctly understand you ? Do you call 
 That ghastly Mystery, magnific Mother ? 
 Even copying her infamous confessional ? 
 Surely you do not I 
 
 Dean Mist. 
 
 Well, "ly id kindly light." 
 Thus Newman sang. And then he followed it 
 Into the bosom of the holy Church. 
 
 Jassoket. 
 A marsh light, Sir 1 It led him thro' the swamps, 
 Into the Mystery of Iniquity, 
 To Babylon the Great. Had he but followed 
 The Book of God, which is the only light 
 Sent down from Heaven, no kindly bog-light, thus 
 Had lost him in the mire. 
 
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JA8SOKET AND VNKMON. 
 
 Dean Mist, 
 
 We hold tradition 
 As t'le most certain element of light. 
 Is it not written of Peter : On this rock 
 I build my church, and never shall the gates 
 Of hell prevail against it. Now we see 
 Tie holy Pontiff in direct succession 
 From this Apostle. Can you parry that ? 
 
 Successors- 
 
 Jassoket. 
 -upostolic- 
 
 -is it so? 
 
 L )ok for a mom Jiit at their dogmas, Sir, 
 
 And by their fruits award their status frankly. 
 
 Note their stale traffic in indulgences. 
 
 With the assumption of remissive power. 
 
 A fiery falsehood is their absolution. 
 
 False at their own best showing. The poor culprit^ 
 
 After receiving priestly pardon, passes. 
 
 Not into Heaven — but purgatorial hell! 
 
 Yes, after absolution from his sins, 
 
 With hierarchal pardon in his hand, 
 
 Must welter in the torments of the dammed ! 
 
 How long ? how long ? Ah, only not forever ! 
 
 Dean Mht. 
 And needs not erring nature to be purged. 
 By penance and those purifying flames. 
 Ere made possesscr of serene repose ? 
 
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JASSOKET A.ND ANEMON. 
 
 Imm 
 
 JasHohi. 
 Whom Jesus Ciirist forgives and reconciles, 
 Them He consigns not to a burning hell, 
 But takes them up to Heaven, renewed and owned 
 Sons of His Father and joint heirs with Him. 
 "What blissful grace and glory crown the truth! 
 
 Dran Mist. 
 Outsirle of the communion of that church, 
 "Whose nucleus and bedded rock was Peter, 
 How can there be salvation or a gospel ? 
 
 Jassokcf. 
 Peter the nucleus the rock ? — a gospel ? 
 The gospel of a purgatory ! Hah, 
 lledemption's nil — and now no other gospel I 
 
 horrible. And this ! for that salvation 
 Wrought by the loving Saviour, by the Lamb 
 Slain that we might have life. Yes life in Him, 
 High o'er all hells all purgatories. Strange, 
 Are you an anglican, a son of Israel, 
 
 And preach such stuff — the infamy of satan ? 
 
 Dean Mist. 
 
 1 decline further parley. Must I say, 
 
 My course i^ taken. Yes, with more than on e ; 
 Men highly cultured, cautious and convinced. 
 
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JASSOKKT AND AXKMON. 
 
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 ^r(y\f 14. A rr(V)ovffry. Trrea. A T\i'iv. 
 Avtenivv^ 1 v>/r', 7 cr/r, /»/»■/., Gentlniici , -Noon. 
 
 I am no thoolofjian— b\it liave Icr.rnc I 
 A certain ]v.'(\i2roo. Permit mc now 
 To lift the veil Some ('i<;hteen centuries. 
 Before the Star of Bethlehem leA {'o"th 
 The K; stern Saijes An Assyrian qu^cn, 
 ■R'^enme renowned and mi^j;hty, thro' her son, 
 No'orious hy conquest. And subdued 
 Asl«iand K-iypt. — She was called Astarto, 
 And Athor. And was subsequently worshiped 
 Under the names of Aphrodite, Cyhele, 
 Isis, Semiramis. In Palestine, 
 As Ashtarotli — the shame of Israel ! 
 Ht^r son — Assarac — also deified. 
 Was honored and adored by various names : 
 Apollo, Bacchus, Korus, and Adouis.- 
 And in thi' Land of Israel, as Tammu/,, 
 Wept womcu for him ! — He was slain in battle. 
 
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.TA9S0KET AXD A.NEMON. 
 
 TKese ar ^ tho queen of ho^von and her son. 
 Now worshipoil !\(» the Virgin nnd her Child,- 
 In terra-'O^^ta imaf^es, unearthed 
 In buried Rabel. 
 
 Dean Mhf, 
 
 Are they so indeed ? 
 I challenge that — 'tis not her pedigree, 
 Nor are those imaj^es hers. 
 
 I If 
 
 JassokeK 
 
 Permit me, Sir — 
 
 I but submit the facts of history. 
 
 At Zidon, how ma<^niHcent her fane ! 
 Served by three hundred priests. And there 
 
 were preached. 
 By di;^'nitaries, acolytes and celibates, 
 Tiio merit of m ms' w )rk.s, and purj^atory. 
 There monks and nuns of various orders crooned 
 Their vile idolatries. 
 
 Dean Mist. 
 
 All this, my Friend, 
 
 If it be history, is forcijjjn only. 
 
 Jossokct. 
 
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J.VSsOKi:! AM; AXEMOX. 
 
 "^■'^y. Dean, l.iit ^v(> arc Jieariji" to tlic pinch. 
 JMids^ troublous times, that vile iuolutry, 
 In irs sojournin- to the Seven liil.'s, 
 Halted at Per-aaius— mark— "Satan's seat" 
 ■^'ou will reniemher is the a])pelation 
 -Proplietical bestowel. And later on, 
 Augistus Cesar, erewhile priest of Jui)iter, 
 J'oatifex Maximus now dons the vestments 
 Of the idolatry. ']"lr,nce passing; on, 
 Till Grateaii had reins. >d to bo attired 
 In robes pontifical. Soon, monks of Carmel— 
 Assyrian and Koy;„ian, Babylonians, 
 And founded by th- i)riests of Jesebel,-— 
 Made raid upon the liishopric ot Home. 
 Three hundred Christians who opposed the 
 
 measure. 
 Were slaughtered. And the seven hilled city then 
 Was ceded to the Babylonian Harlot. 
 Became the sink of foul idolatry. 
 The killer of the saints, the torturer, 
 Inspired of hell. 
 
 Dean J fiat, 
 
 I dare you to the proof 
 Oi" those black charges. Your discovery 
 
 Is l)l:i^onry— strained— ])roblcmatical— 
 It lacks the clement of fact. 
 
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 JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Jassokd. 
 
 You think so ? 
 Search for yourself. The oportun'ty 
 Is favorable. The task not difficul . 
 Where are the victims of the Inquisition, 
 Those, more than thousands thirty four, it burnt ? 
 Where are the millions this Magnific Modier, 
 Has slain because they loved the Clirist of God ? 
 And now this Monster fawns and seems a lamb. 
 Desplays atrocious smiles and reddened eyes — - 
 She weeps to kill ! Go, Sir, she presses you. 
 But Israel spurns the Harlot's cup with horror. 
 
 Prof. Frost. 
 Friend Jassoket, since now the Deai demurs 
 To absolve or abrogate your arguments — 
 We like our own decisions, right or wrong — 
 Just to beat off rude Silence, I would like 
 To ask you something — not to rcinvoke 
 A wordy contest — further I desire none — 
 But simply conversational exchange. 
 The question is-this book-l've just perused it. 
 'Tis by a noted author. One esteemed, 
 Both as a writer and a scientist. 
 With pleasure and approval I have redd it. 
 What do you think of it ? 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMOIT. 
 
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 Jassokc'. 
 
 I have not redd it. 
 Have merely seen some notice of the work, 
 With a few extracts. But in these detect 
 A close adherence to the favorite views 
 Of irreligious men — excuse me. Sir. 
 Why is God's righteous indignation, hurled 
 Upon the wicked Cities of the Plain, 
 Now philosophically minimized ? 
 
 Prof. Frost. 
 How reasonable, how irrefutable, 
 When thus commented on, and certified 
 By facts historic and accessible. 
 As thus explained, how very feasible ! 
 Amidst an outburst of ripe elements. 
 It merely happened— or it might have merely. 
 From natural causes, at that very time. 
 
 Jassokct. 
 And thus God's awful judgments, His decrees. 
 By visible agents sent and executed, 
 Are held referrable to natural law ! 
 
 Prof. Frost. 
 Well— we think God declines to intervene. 
 Even by miracle— or work outside 
 
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JAS80KET AND ANIMO^f. 
 
 (}i nature's actual course. Phenomena 
 
 The pilhir of salt, for instance, he su(t|)o.s( .^;, 
 
 Hut saline mud that cased the wife of Lot : 
 
 As the effect, the simple nude result 
 
 Of tardiness, when she looked back and linjTjered. 
 
 Thus miricles are ruled as nature's comments, 
 
 As processes cscntial to its work. 
 
 Xeeding but little interference. Merely 
 
 Just the forecasting of some line effuse, 
 
 Or burst of water on deep hidden fires. 
 
 His treatise is considered sound and christian. 
 
 And readily I admit it. 
 
 Jassoket. 
 
 Tluis the word 
 Of The ^lost High, that word of awful trutli, 
 Is fleeced and cast aside — accounted empty ! 
 And this by men who wear the Christian garb. 
 And dream that they are loyal to God's truth. 
 O what a God have they not made of Him ! 
 Who neither sees nor hears nor helps nor cares 1 
 
 Prof. Fmsf. 
 Surely you do not think them bad as that ? 
 
 ' 
 
 Jast^oJicf. 
 
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.TASSOKKT .VXD \Ni-,AI()N, 
 
 Are thcv not worse tlian inflJels — thoac men 
 Who, while piol'(\ssin>]; they believe God's word, 
 Presinne to make a sliam of it ? Yes, dare 
 Aiiiiul tlie element that constitutes 
 T;i it w:)r I t'lo fi it of the Llviii;^ Go'\ ! 
 
 Dear Vida, will you kin Uy take The T'ook, 
 And read tiie hi6tu2y [avpaicd of God. 
 
 Vida. 
 Genesis fifteentli chapter I have found it. 
 
 Jansolcet. 
 From fifteenth verse please read to twentyscventh. 
 
 ]'i'Ia reads the staltnient. 
 Now tell us, Vithi, what is your impression ? 
 Was tliat cataslrophy some cliance eruption — 
 Bitumen, slime, and fused volcanic matter ? 
 
 Vida. 
 No ! God rained fire and brimstone out of heaven. 
 The statement is perspicuous and terse. 
 And no eruption of the earth is mentioned. 
 O yes, and God himslf has joined the angels, 
 See Lot addresses Him as Adonai. 
 And God spares Zoar, just at Lot's request ! 
 
 Jassoh'f, 
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JA8S0KET AND AXEMO^f. 
 
 What says the scripture of the wife of Lot ? 
 
 VvJa. 
 She looked back from behind him, and became 
 A pillar of salt. The word is most express. 
 
 Ane^non. 
 Was she a statue, cased in mud saline ? 
 
 Villa. 
 Transmuted — she became, the Bible says, 
 A pdlar, not a statue — are they different ? 
 
 Delia 
 Professor Frost perhaps will solve the querie. 
 
 Prof. Frost. 
 A statue I suppose could be a pillar. 
 But yet there seems no refference to size. 
 
 Anemon. 
 Her disobedience monumentalized, 
 It seems was not an image, but a pillar. 
 
 Jassoket. 
 Now what is it but travesty of God's word, 
 
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 JASSOTvET AnT) ANEMON, 
 
 To tort-ire its sipjnificancc, an.l make it ^ 
 Conlbnn lo the va<,nie science of the day . 
 
 Prof. Frost, 
 We hold that very much of symbolism, 
 And metaphoric hinguage are emi)h)yed 
 In the old diction of the sacred Book. 
 
 Which needs the touch of science, and ex 
 
 Of modern exe<?esis, as apphcd 
 
 liy a more perfect system, to expound it. 
 
 If a great pillar of salt is there implied, 
 Where is it ? The discovery is hickiug 
 
 -n all thst drear and desiccative region. 
 
 Jassoket. 
 The fact is noted by soms ancient authors 
 Aud by Our Lord himself is called to mind. 
 God has permitted it to disappear, 
 As an accomplished testimony, doubtless. 
 
 Anemon. 
 A time seems imminent when the schemes jejune 
 ' And iridescent foibles of false science, 
 
 Will vanish in pale mirage from the sands. 
 Then the brave conjurers who hang the corners 
 Of the grand hall of truth with silken nets, 
 Will weep to see he objects of tliinr toil, 
 Their silly victims and pler.sed votaries, 
 Released, escaped, and buzzing round unharmed I 
 
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JASSOKET AXD A.XEMON. 
 
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 Smic 1'). .1 ProDiniilnr'/. 7V'r>'. .-I R^nn. 
 Aiiemon, \' uhi, ()lj<< r^ . (i,'i/ilnii<'ii. XiterKo(n\ 
 
 AWk'onu' (le:ir Miuily — Arthur — Now luv-v jj,l;nl ! 
 But wliy of late sucli stranji:crs ? I am an^TV ! 
 I'll pick a crow with you for staying away. 
 
 Kiiiilij. 
 Slick, fat and plunip-wc'll auction off the plumes. 
 
 A rfh II .'•. 
 If you for;j^ivo us when tlio hird is ])luckt, 
 We'll have it for a luuclieon. Roast it nicely ' — 
 To see tliu Uirls, I'm here — yourseU'as one of them 
 
 Aiiimmi, 
 I won't (lisput it. We'll reserve th ' winp;s 
 'J'o fan an interlude. -Dear Friends what jileasure, 
 What more than pleasure ! liately we havo hud 
 Too much of fro/,''n argument — perha[)s 
 Tliat's not the term — 111 mertdy call it-j)osinfT. 
 N''ith<'r dix^s that seem (piite to tit the sconce. 
 l)Ut it has hern an airiu'^' of opinions, 
 iSu''h h'dd anf i^-oni^'^^ such fl ishiir^ brands. 
 And simply that. \\'!i;;t more may come of it ? 
 
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JASSOKET AND AXEMON. 
 
 Vi(Jn. 
 
 ^^ay — ratlior, ivy (1( ar ConPin, a Cloliath, 
 Who dares impugn the sacred Word of Truth. 
 
 C'S. 
 
 God loves Tis, Vida, mid may send a David, 
 With a smoothe pebble from a wayside brook. 
 
 ArtJinr. 
 Girls, I confess you are two rcnl puzzlers. 
 Questions like these seem new. What cruel thargcs 
 — I.cst truly merittr— your werds im]dy. 
 Not versed in these strange questions, I forbear 
 
 To meddle with them. And just pass along. 
 
 O Emily, how fine this promontory ! 
 
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 Inez. 
 Oblivious— yes to all things but the Girls. 
 Now just awaking to superior charms. 
 Hub your eyes well ! the scene is exquisite. 
 
 Arthur. 
 Yes, but I turn from gayer loveliness, 
 
 From charms divine nay ! witches £razcd 
 
 with romance. 
 From romping chatting imps that love to tease. 
 
 X 129 
 
JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Emily. 
 How salient is this spot, and how com 'ti an ling. 
 Tho vigorous air blows freshly from the sea. 
 Far away, on the dim rotund, a sail 
 
 Floats like a feather on the ocean's verge. 
 
 Vida, what stones are these-some ancient ruin ? 
 Some preliistoric hints of vanislied peoples. 
 A broken column and outpecping stones. 
 
 Vida. 
 Were Viking here 'twonld be a topic for him. 
 It seems as if transported now we stand 
 Far in the ages dim. Midst facination 
 That conjures up the past. 
 
 Delia 
 
 Maybe those scenes 
 Revolting, are best hidden from our glimpses, 
 llomancc with you I love, and ideality, 
 Avoiding tragic scenes. 
 Emlhj. 
 
 Why not evoko 
 The beautiful with each bewitching feature 
 Of good, of glory ? 
 
 Vida. 
 
 Yee, why not ? 
 Delia. 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMOW. 
 
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 9. 
 
 O never, 
 Dear Vida, brood amidst the|dimes of silence. 
 Better the cheerful lays that woo content. 
 
 Vida. 
 Delia, the slightest touch of fond'*duress. 
 Steals like a lull of music o'er tlie heart. 
 There waits a pleasure in this kiss|of sadness. 
 More than in fiulic. J -ike the wind\< faint trill 
 In golden dawns, It clepes the swetest odors 
 From new waked flowers. 
 
 Evdly. 
 
 Vida, what diverse tastes ! 
 How very much we differ. See, that ship 
 Is passing and comes nearer. I delight 
 To sail the foam wreathed waters. O so thrilling 
 To play the phantom o'er unsounded crypts. 
 No land in r^'ght. And oft and oft pass spcctrcSj 
 A glittering ice hill, or a mossgrown wreck, 
 Or craft to far port bound. 
 
 Inez. 
 
 Fmily, 
 How strange your taste, to met'would be a terror. 
 The sea I love to watcli, but not to venture 
 On its relentless waves. 
 
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JASSOItET AND AKEMON. 
 
 J^m'ly, 
 
 Ah — who comes yonder? 
 
 
 Ivrr.. 
 Viking the Antiquary ? It is he. 
 
 Vlda. 
 How oportune I kmw that he dolif^hts 
 In bold depictinpjs, and in restorations, 
 By inturencc, antl schemes of compensation. 
 
 Ano.rnon. 
 Vikinnf, how i^hid, how very <^^ul to sec you. 
 The Oirls are puzzled by tliis fallen shaft. 
 And crave your pity to dccypher it. 
 
 Inez. 
 O Vikinpf, tell us of some giant race. 
 Who pickt up these great stones in little arinfuls 
 And carried them so'ne miles-yes several leagues 
 And dropt them carefully all in a row. 
 See the strong roots that lock them fast. The trees 
 That sit astraddle. 
 
 \iking. 
 
 Ah, you talk of giants, 
 Inez, and yet you think there never was one. 
 
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JASHOKF.T AND VNKMON. 
 
 
 Tll'Z. 
 
 Oh now — T do iudocl. I know there were. 
 And such hiw u -jdod to tr,insp>)rt tliosc stones 
 From the tar qu irr/ It is ascertained 
 That every stone— an! O Nvliat piles of them — 
 Were broui^ht some mii.s, and over a low valley. 
 High up tins hill. 
 
 Viking. 
 
 I do not tliink, dear Inez, 
 These works w 'rodoae by (giants notwithstanding. 
 I scarcely would des])ute it, were it claimed 
 That some ol I relics — not perhaps just these, 
 llepresent autevleluviaus. 
 
 Inez. 
 
 Ah, Viking, 
 Tell us if it be true that tliere are yet 
 Proofs positive, by parts of skeletons, 
 F oni remote a^jes, pi kt up 0,1 the marge 
 Of the great sea tliat beats on life's rough shore — 
 Yes bones prodigeous of dread Nephalim ? 
 
 Viking. 
 You are poetical, Inez. But I'll tell you, 
 Just ill i)lain euglish without nietaphor. 
 That there were giants — as tlie Uiblu suys. 
 
JASSOKET Ann ANEMOIT, 
 
 Would you be startled, Inez, should you see 
 Approacliiiig you with patronizing air, 
 A gentleman — a little oversize, 
 AVith one of those tall saplings for a cane, 
 With genial smiles — a hundred feet in air ! 
 And bowing gracefully ? 
 
 Inez, 
 
 Viking- 
 
 -0 fie 
 
 We would be thunder struck. Ah, you have cau't 
 This romance now from Sakal. Just imagine 
 A smiling monster with great bushy head, 
 A hundred feet in height. With pensive steps. 
 Soft little steps — each not quite twenty yards ! 
 Ah Viking, you are mcri'y. We believe 
 In giants — but not such as never lived. 
 
 Yiking. 
 Well — well — but, Inez, we will just suppose. 
 This gentleman approaching a young lady, 
 A charming and accomplished one, of course. 
 Improvise now a mansion, with grand portal 
 Of burnished brass, two hundred feet in height. 
 Admitting to a hall of spacious area, 
 Susfcained by pillars of a hundred yards. 
 There he beholds ids graceful ladybird. 
 All loveliness in rich but plain attire. 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 Wo will sxippose, that aeatorl in divan, 
 With this titanic beauty of oil days. 
 He takes the blushin;? fjirl upon his lap, 
 Snug on his knees, up ten good yards or more. 
 — A scene potential for your crayon, Inez, — 
 One kiss ! — like the percussion of a cannon, 
 Startles the eagles nested in the peaks. 
 
 Inez. 
 Viking ! — You give us all the hickups — stop ! 
 
 \ikmc). 
 Well laugh — ^just laugh. You think this scene 
 
 ideal, 
 And such as never were. I must convince you — 
 When your sly merriment is quieted, 
 By irresistible facta, that such things once. 
 And for a time were common place affairs, 
 On this same globe of ours. Such ominous things 
 Transpired with all their terrible result. 
 
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JASSOKCT \^B AXEMON. 
 
 
 
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 Scone IG. A P'O'ih hi/f)'-'/. Tr''n.s. A Rnil. 
 AneDion, Vida, Ofhcrs . GeiUlcmcn. XttarN^-Jon, 
 
 Aneiaon. 
 We have b^^en much amused by our frieul \'ikiiig 
 With his cartoons illustrative of times 
 BL'yoiid that awf'al flo'j.l, when God in m.Tcy 
 Swept sin's insufferable broods away. 
 And man awaked a second time in hope. 
 
 Vidn. 
 Some things appear incredible — yet are fact. 
 
 Inez. 
 Viking, if now not treating us to myths, 
 Just for our entertainment — we will listea. 
 
 y iking. 
 Facts, unsophisticated facts — a few, 
 But well establishe I, Inez you will learn. 
 At Totu in liohcmia, in the year 
 Seven hundred fifty eight, the skeleton 
 
 136 
 
 
i-.i 
 
 JASSOKKT AND A:MEM0N'. 
 
 Of a hufje o-iant was unearthed, enough 
 To chill the blood with liorror. A hus;c scull. 
 Yes, an enormous l^ead, which two men's arms 
 Could scarce encircle. 
 
 Inez. 
 
 But I wont believe it 
 Without clear proofs. A story — how incredible ! 
 
 Yildng. 
 Inez, facts sometimes are more strange than fiction 
 And much of fiction, is Fact stalking forth, 
 Mist-blanketed, distorted by the distance. 
 That spectral head was mounted once on shanks 
 Twenty six feet in length. Those shank bones lay 
 So saith the record—Inez, don't believe it!— 
 Fully a thousand years within the castle, 
 A spectacle and wonder for the many. 
 In that same city of Bohemia. 
 
 Inez. In malce-helieve. 
 Oh ! Doctor Dawn — some kind presentiment ! 
 For you are just in time as my abettor. 
 Viking is making us the sport of myths, 
 I do believe. You'll not decline to aid us ? 
 Viking ! unfoil your cars and stoop to hear him. 
 Impersonating Dr. Daivn. 
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JASSOKET A]S'D ANKMON. 
 
 I called to aid you — and annoimcc just tliis : 
 llesearch and science have abolished giants ! 
 
 Ylklnf]. 
 Ah ! there is mischief in those langhinj^ eyes ! 
 Doctor, just treat them to a homily. 
 They are offenders pjrave incorrijiible, 
 Gainst all the laws and smilinf^ offices 
 Of queenly courtesy. But I have trickt them ! 
 
 Inez. 
 
 Proceed now, Viking, if you dare to do it, 
 Before kind Doctor Dawn. He'll pull your ears — 
 I know he will, before you get half through. 
 
 Viking. 
 Well Girls, we will be serious for a little. 
 For these same bones are proofs of a great evil 
 That culminated in destruction dire. 
 In the twelvth century, in our dear England, 
 Bones of a man of fifty feet were found. 
 Some, not a few, have been laid bare by floods. 
 At other times the unsuspecting serf, 
 Amazed by some titanic relic old, 
 Has dropt his spade transfixed with brief alarm. 
 
 Delia. 
 
 138 
 
JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 If there were giants once, then why not now? 
 
 Yikinfj. 
 Not many have been living since the Flood, 
 And these inferior to the olden brood. 
 Such were exterminated, you remember, 
 By our Forefathers when our Tribes advanced. 
 And seized those treasures, by fell wickedness 
 Forfeited — which our God bestowed on us. 
 
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 Emily. 
 On vs — are yoii a Jew ? Wc claiTi to be 
 Christians of ethnic stock. 
 
 \ iking. 
 
 No — not a Jew, 
 But yet a Hebrew of those Ten fled Tribc9> 
 Spurned from their Land by foul idolatry. 
 And doomed to obscuration for a space. 
 But destined to a signal reassertion, 
 From the thick cloud that yet conceals and 
 
 wards them, 
 When the set hour shall strike. 
 
 Anemon. 
 
 Viking, indeed I 
 An Israelite with us — with Jassoket ! 
 That is precisely what he claims and argues, 
 
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jAssoKET a;«i) ajtemo:;*. 
 
 How came you by this knowlcge? 
 
 Viking. 
 
 Really 
 It seemed an intuition. Rut a hint, 
 Some trilling h* t, midst ridicule of others, 
 Opened my e; nd flooded me with light. 
 There's grace u. _ glory in it. 
 
 Anemon, 
 
 Then, Viking, why 
 Scorned by so many unaccountably ? 
 Dare they despise those dazzling Promises, 
 Made to the Fathers of our Race, our Nobles, 
 To Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob , 
 Each of them a great Prophet and a King ? 
 
 Y iking. 
 Know we not certainly that there must be 
 An implantation, and Celestial touch 
 To clear our vision. For a palpable blindness, 
 Stolid indifference and stupidity, 
 Afflict us as a Race. And no — no never 
 Will the proud fact be Nationally Crowned, 
 Till after the red day of Armageddon. 
 
 Anemoii. 
 
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JA^^S(lKK•r A\n ANF-MON. 
 
 Ikncc but a few have glimpses of ihi-s truth! 
 Yes, iiotwithstaiulinj^- suubright cvitlences, 
 »Tis hidden lioui ourselves iiud other nations. 
 
 Inez. 
 
 But, ViVin^s those dread ^rijuits— surely now 
 You have not done with tiicai. Auother to[>ic 
 Mu8t not annihilate those monstrous hones. 
 Are we tormenting imps : I guess you know it. 
 
 Vikhuj. 
 Now, Inez, one or two more instances 
 ^ote them, and then retire incrcdulus 
 
 In seventeen hundred twelve, by Doctor Mather, 
 
 Startling accounts are furnished, of strange tacts. 
 
 In Albany of our rich continent, 
 
 Bones monstrous, and enormous teeth were found. 
 
 One human tooth weighed four pounds and 
 three-tour I hp. 
 
 And there, a thigli bone seventeen feet in length, 
 
 AVhich crumbled^oii exposure to the air. 
 
 Times ancient, by their annotations scored 
 
 In fragments of imperfect history. 
 Confirm the records of more recent dates, 
 That there were giants, as God's Book declares. 
 
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JASSOKET AND AMiMON. 
 
 Itil, 
 
 Now for myself. Viking, T"ll not pronounce 
 Lpon those tilings. It may l>e tluy are fuett-. 
 In just proportion, not exagcratid. 
 And even etlinicul. And yet I think 
 Some awful mystery some woeful crisis, 
 Must have contributed to the production 
 Of people — it they were indeed but people. 
 Who grew to such amazing magnitutles. 
 And dared to fill the earth with violence. 
 
 Delia 
 Goliath, as we read, was much less monstroii* 
 Than the purported measures of those drifts. 
 The sons of Anak, notably gigantic, 
 Grow meager in the scope of their dimensions. 
 To the old tyrants predeluvial, 
 "Wiiose staring bones were freijuently discovered. 
 In driven soils, sunk \ales and upturned clays, 
 Oit and again for many hundred years. 
 
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 JASSOKET Ai^D AXEMOX. 
 
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 Sci>np 17. A Prnnioiitnri/. T-^h. A R'li'i. 
 
 Anomnn. 
 
 Thcsr' thinfjs iuv marvcUou'^ and terrible. 
 
 But here come Jassoket and Doctor Dawn. 
 Inez, they come in person — lo you see them! 
 
 Gentlemen just in nick of time you come ! 
 I took some liberty to impersonate. 
 And summon you in pliantom. I'ardon mc. 
 For Vikini^ terrified us with wild le<j;ends. 
 Too monstrous for the fj^rasp of sober thou<xbt. 
 Yes ! terrible !?iii»ts. Doctor Dawn, to you 
 Wc look for right ex))oundin,u: of the text 
 That offers lunch to such uncouth device 
 Of hungry spectres striding from the glens. 
 
 Dr. Dawn. 
 Well, my dear Child, I heartily admire 
 The humerous sapience which not easily 
 M ly be impuicd oa by incredible tales. 
 
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JASPOKr.T ATin AMMON, 
 
 Fri(>n(l Jiissoki-t, wo soinotimos arc surprised 
 
 Hy wisdom that has overk'apL'd its date, 
 
 An I promises cx:iiiisiton?sH ofI)h)')m. 
 
 li it why, sweet Girl, do yo i ap;)ly to m ' ? 
 
 We know that o ir friend Vikin<j; is not i^MDrant 
 
 Of porisms hy onr cabinet of kings, 
 
 ^Vho cdiallenf^e these big stories, and refuse 
 
 A clean sign-manuel Yes, my dear Sir. 
 
 Wo arc assured by Cnvier and others, 
 
 Tuat such colossal bones were never liunvin, 
 
 Mather and other writers notwithstandin<^. 
 
 The classical accounts are not trustworthy. 
 
 And Matiters bones were those of a mastodon. 
 
 T7k/n7. 
 Thus, Reverend Sir, you handle testimony. 
 Taus aro'^ite to recent valuations, 
 Tiie seclaloiis verdict of old naturalists. 
 Tiiink you, strict skilled expert anatomists, 
 Artists to whom each curve and conformation, 
 Every articulation bone and nerve, 
 Were scrupulously intimately known, 
 C)idd be so inexact, so superlicial, 
 •So re diless of the truth — they bein<; m\sters, 
 As to report as hum in, bones of beasts. 
 Is it nut most illoj;ical, absurd? 
 
 Dr. Duicn. 
 
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 JASSOKET AND AXEMON. 
 
 Tho Nephiliin ami Gihorlm, dear Sir, 
 
 AViTo reckless cruel slroii^^ luid hlowsy men. 
 
 liiLerpretcd in sLuadards (if theolo'i;}'. 
 
 Thci sous of Adam, called the sous of God, 
 
 Took wives of wicked Cain's posterity, 
 
 Reported beautiful. And this ill union 
 
 Produced the race of Ne])hilim denounced. 
 
 Men stormy false d.'xraded fierce and foaming. 
 
 Not necssarily of <i;i;^antic form: 
 
 Which really seems (piite foreign to the sense. 
 
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 Doctor, is that the' sixon of the text, 
 The veritable teaching of God's Word? 
 
 Dr. Daicn. 
 I know some few suppose, with certain others 
 Of former times, that tliosc misguided men 
 Denominated sons of God, were angels, 
 but that's preposterous assuredly. 
 
 Jassnkd. 
 Is such the obvious meaning of those words» 
 Which in a flash dei)ict this history ? 
 Let us not budge a hairbri'adth from the text, 
 Whatever be the challenge or citation. 
 Let us consult the Holy Oracles. 
 
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JASSOKET AND AXEVION. 
 
 Read, my dear Vida, versos first and sccmr', 
 Yes, third and fourth and fifth : of Ooncsis, 
 III Chapter sixth. And very scnipidously 
 Weigh all of God's true words. 
 Vida reads the pnssarj'-s. 
 
 Now, Doctor D;nvn, 
 Note the deep bearing; of the sacrcl Word : 
 Sons of the Alehim — not sons of Adam 
 
 Dr. Damn. 
 What think you. Viking ? 
 
 Y iking. 
 
 As I understand it, 
 The Nephilim were giants notably, 
 Emphatic both inTorce and reckhissness. 
 Accentuated ruffains, vile, malign. 
 Records of archeology refuse 
 To be accesory to the merest doubt, ^ 
 
 If we accept its varied testimony. 
 The daughters of the Adamites wore lovely. 
 And these are represented as the offspring 
 Of int('rmariage witii these sons of God. 
 Now 'tis a fact, not rare enough indeed, 
 Tjuit wicked horid fierce abandoned wretches, 
 Have wooed and won the very loveliest 
 
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JASSOKKT /VND ANEMON. 
 
 
 es, 
 
 And best of women and tlio oposifo — 
 
 But how can loveliness he else llian •^)()d ! 
 I blush to charge it. 8ir, admonish me, 
 JIavc Nephilim, have monsters hucje and stern, 
 ()'ertoppin<^ the couligaioiis coUages, 
 Blackened the jiage of such disastrous unions ? 
 And if not noAV, why then ? I liesitate not 
 To join the cavalcade of those sage ancients, 
 "Who held that tliev were angels— sons of God, 
 \V'iio left their hal)itation — first estate, 
 And visited the earth and took them wives 
 Of the enchanting daughters of our Fac. 
 Tiie glee of disobedience ami dread ruin, 
 To them to Eve's fair daughters and the earth. 
 
 Dr. Danni. 
 Must I record my absolute denay, 
 On such interpretation ? Is not Adam 
 Jlimself, denominated — son of God ? 
 And did not Satan in the days of Job 
 Trescnt himself amongst the sons of God ? 
 Ami were not they the righteous of those tinioG ? 
 
 i/a,s,sok'Y. 
 Satan no doubt is double armed and cunning, 
 Posing both as accuser ami deceiver. 
 Hut men were not the sons of God, midst whom 
 The audacious tempter at that time appeared. 
 
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JASSOKET AND ANEMON. 
 
 I 
 
 They were angelic boinjjfs notably. 
 
 Sons of the Alehim, not sons of Adam. 
 
 Thus in both instances alike 'tLs plain. — 
 
 Yes, with your strictures, Vikinuj, I concur. 
 
 Miirk, it is written : " Also after tliat :"' 
 
 In which we find the like sin indicated. 
 
 In sons of Anak of the Nephalim. 
 
 Not medium si/;ed hairy and rutldess men, 
 
 But giants foredoomed to extermination. 
 
 To whom the Israelites were but as grasshoppers 
 
 Dr. Davm. 
 
 Why 'tis a thing absurd — impossible. 
 Young Ladies, would it not alarm you terribly. 
 If radiant seraphs on bright wings alighted, 
 Addressing you as lovers most devout ? 
 
 JlK'/.. 
 
 Oh Doctor, I should think so ! Strange; idea, 
 AN'hat ilid 1 tell you, \'il\iiig? Now you liouudcr. 
 Caught in the meshes of consistont logic. 
 Viking, I blush I'ur your lemerity ! 
 
 I'lkiny. 
 Langli, lue/— )our remarks are i»ertinent. 
 liut if tiiose siuis of (liod a)i[iearedas men, 
 I'uli in the bloom of vigor and delight, 
 
j.vssok; 1 \Nn wi-.mon. 
 
 lers 
 
 lelcr. 
 
 Witli sly (l(-""i»1;Mn ;iti;1 ]VTsunsivf> arts, 
 Wooin;;'Kvu's l^vly 4 i i,;ht"rs— lo you Ihink 
 There svouM b-' m ich alir-n : Too soon r.h'-y won 
 Tiic pri//J t')L' wliich thoy fort'citcd their rank, 
 And braved the doom of disobedu'uce. 
 
 I)/'. l)'f('-/i. 
 TlioY were contrivers of elysian bowers. 
 (^11 t' c r .'•tre.n^^ win^s. i;. '.r'- al exrursions, 
 Bearing their wives away to niouiituiu toj>s, 
 xVnil iialls romantic, feasting there on nectar. 
 These are the myths of ohl mytliology. 
 
 YikiiKj. 
 Doctor with mi; 'tis scarcely now a qu(>sti(>n. 
 Whether tiu; obsolete mytliology, 
 May not have liad its ori-rin ami basis. 
 In just this very thing. 
 
 Ui . Dawn. 
 
 Are yo\i apprised 
 That this is made the blare of infidels : 
 Heathen mythology has been the protoplast 
 Of these mysterious notes. Had we not better 
 Elect 8ome sensible iiil(>rpretation, 
 And stop the mouths of unbelief and scorn? 
 
.TASSOKKT ANP ANKMOW. 
 
 My fjnod Friend, must, vvc not cvon just admit 
 'I'liat tlie iiiytlmloiiy o{' the lu'athcn, rissted 
 l-'[)i)ii tiic it'al basis of these facts ? 
 IMuch of tlu' stories of thi'ir _uods, tliose mytlis. 
 Their marveHous careers, suju'rl) exploits, 
 llest on tlie hohl rebellioa of these angels. 
 They fell from their alloi:;iencc and involved 
 The f^-lorious race of Adam in dire ruin. 
 Do you not know that at this very epoch, 
 Upon the lap.se of those celestial cohort?, 
 'J'his ('o.ible tall of auj^els and Eve's daughters, - 
 ■J'iiat (jod repented He had made the earth. 
 And (Kaujiiig l>y an awful fload d.'creed ? 
 
 Di\ Dawn. 
 Sir, I must cliakrige every argument 
 Founded upon coiiji.ctiircs such as these. 
 Those sons of God were Sethites and not angels. 
 All this, friend Jassoket, seems (piite at par 
 "With your philosophy, which sets at naught. 
 The dee}) researches of devoted students, 
 And earth's thesauric forces. While we know, 
 Tlie only life-endowed jnaterial. 
 Of wnicu we are cogni/.ant — is protoj)lasm. 
 At first aniurphuo uud unintegratcd. 
 
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JASSOKET Am> AMCMON, 
 
 The while within it closed lay all the ;j;lory 
 
 Of animal and ve.iijftahle form--. 
 
 Tims almost self inspired with miracle. 
 
 ,Tasso]\'f. 
 I scorn such stuff! 'tis stark stupidity. 
 Somnambulism of reason wand-rin^i; nude. 
 Daring to set at notiulit the Infinite King, 
 Tae God wiio formed us. 
 
 Dr, Davrn. 
 
 Are you not severe' ? 
 Earth is inscribed with secticuis of upbuilding. 
 Giants — but not excessively gigantic — 
 1 will admit — for there are specimens, 
 Exhibited as such. But whence are these? 
 
 \iking. 
 The overgrown and short-lived ])ro(l<'gies 
 Of modern times, effete and inelHcient, 
 Are but monstrosities, and not true giants, 
 The progeny of gods. 
 
 Inez. 
 
 So I should think ' — 
 I'll help you, Doctor Dawn.- Ah Vildng, I surely 
 /our fancies have run mad and grown to giants. 
 131 
 
JASSOKl-yr AND AXEM)X. 
 
 r*Sii,. • 
 
 AiKunon. Vitl'i, O'lirr.-i . (riuith-in'in. AlUr!^ )Oii, 
 
 l)j;ir Inc/,, Viking c.iutioasly lias f,oucho;l 
 M Liters [>r'.)foii;i lly iatjro'.stiug. Sliu;:itly 
 J^jrii.ips your morrin\Mit ha.>> iii- ltd down 
 T.'io pile which hi; i-.itriiili'il to despLiy, 
 Or r(>i)i>L'd it (u'-sonx,- ^-litter. Vou must know, 
 Tiu; barrows, <;ainis, t;io' tumuli, the mounds, 
 So numerous so rufhlrssly ])roi'aned : 
 'J'hc stron,^-, deep hnrird /orts, the terraced hills. 
 T)iL' up'Jirowu dykes that held the Hoods in leash. 
 Tne traced canals, di.i^j^ed by prodigious toil. 
 Which fed the mighty rivers to the hills, 
 And made the vales piU'terres of fragrancy. 
 And blissly bounteous harbingers of food. 
 AU these innum:!rous, despoiled remain 
 ]l;'p(»sitories of mute history, 
 In portions of this continent of ours. 
 A:i-1 fully they corroberate and prove 
 All Viking iia.s advanced. 
 
 I.j2 
 
JASOKET AND ANRMOTT, 
 
 At Eagle Point, 
 Down on tlie Misisissippi, sotic years since, 
 In grading for a railroad. iStartlingly, 
 A double chambered Temple rc-appcared. 
 Kose from its dream of many tliousand years, 
 Where, in the gloom locked bosom of the hills, 
 No whisper had disturbed it since the Flood. 
 There in a spacious hall in that strange Fane, 
 As if weird phantoms practiced on our sight, 
 Twenty-four human Skeletons appeared, 
 Sitting in semicircle, as in worship 
 Of the pale cressivo moon. And were they thus 
 Transfixt by scorching lightnings at the burst 
 Of heaven and earth, when the old world was 
 
 drowned ? 
 There postured for long ages ! These are men, 
 Each of ten feet in height — except the Chief, 
 The apparent monarch seated in the midst, 
 With regal staff of gold and glittering metals, 
 Held in his boney clutch. Two feet he towered 
 Above his fellows. 
 
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 Now, my saucy Girls, 
 Why don't you laugh ? 
 
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 Tlio' tempered, tho' extjuisitely edij^e-bjurinnj. 
 An art lon:^ lost, which f'avofc I rno'tallur^ists, 
 Toiled but remained successless to recover. 
 The formula seemed irrevocable. 
 Soon an untutored Youth was swept by dreams 
 Ofji^olden ^dory. The proud alchemy, 
 To which he turned as novice, and committed 
 T:ie biibblini,rs of his life, rose up b :>foi'e liim. 
 An I he addressed him -self, as an adventurer, 
 To a stern task with hazards yet concealed. 
 He braved q:reat di(fteulties toils privations. 
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 'I h at ;jjnawc'd into liis earnestness of soul. 
 IJat still addressivl liim to the witching prize, 
 Guessin'jj the old obliterated trail, 
 AVilh pitieiK'e th;it tho' foiled will persevere. 
 With i'ii!'r;;y that ba(H \s circumstances. 
 ^Vlth t.'stings liiat but fail — -to be rcjuewed. 
 /Vn 1 lo, he dons the clnplet of success ! 
 The lon,:^ soii^'lit j)r(!C(!pt is deli^■ered up 
 From the sealed Vases oi' Auticiuity. 
 
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