XLV.

_THE FUTURE._

_Veggo in candida robba._

Clothed in white robes I see the Holy Sire

Descend to hold his court amid the band

Of shining saints and elders: at his hand

The white immortal Lamb commands their choir.

John ends his long lament for torments dire,

Now Judah's lion rises to expand

The fatal book, and the first broken band

Sends the white courier forth to work God's ire.

The first fair spirits raimented in white

Go out to meet him who on his white cloud

Comes heralded by horsemen white as snow.

Ye black-stoled folk, be dumb, who hate the loud

Blare of God's lifted angel-trumpets! Lo,

The pure white dove puts the black crows to flight!

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