Beauty for Ashes/Part 1
PART I.
THE OLD DOCTRINE;
OR,
Ashes.
"And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord."—Ezekiel xxxii. 7, 8.
"Thick darkness broodeth o'er the world:
The raven pinions of the night.
Close on her silent bosom furled,
Reflect no gleam of orient light."
S. H. Whitman.