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THE MILLENNIUM. - ZaunköniG - 05.05.2009 THE MILLENNIUM. Darkness and tumult till the thousandth year; As in the dreary nights, when men lie dumb, Listening the whirlwind; then pale lights to some Shine, as the gusty morning climbs the sphere. The thunders of Time's chariot wheel draw near: It hath gone by—the dread Millennium— Shout, for the world hath ages yet to come; Rise man, that like a bull-rush crouched for fear. He rises.—O'er the mighty Lombard plain, By far Transalpine cities, domes and spires, And baptisteries, sweet charm of mortal sorrow, Spring up ; like flowers dew-glitter ing, when the quires Of birds from winter loosed break forth again, In a new note, from the old that yet doth borrow |