THE COURSE OF TIME. BOOK VIII. REANIMATED now, and dressed in robes Still all was calm in heaven: nor yet appeared The Judge: nor aught appeared, save here and there, On wing of golden plumage borne at will, Of God's unsparing vengeance waited still Of men, and every countenance revealed; Had lost all guise of seeming happiness, With which on earth such pains they took to hide Their misery in. On their grim features, now The plain unvisored index of the soul, The true untampered witness of the heart, Like winter on the unprotected flower, |