II.

Behold! I have stood on the mountains, and this was writ in the

sky:--

"She is weighed in the Scales and found wanting, the balance God

holds on high!"

The balance He once weighed Babylon, the Mother of Harlots, in:

One scale holds thy pride and thy power and empire, begotten of sin;

Heavy with woe and torture, the crimes of a thousand years,

Mortared and welded together with fire and blood and tears;

In the other, for justice and mercy, a blade with never a stain,

Is laid the Sword of Liberty, and the balance dips, O Spain!

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