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قراءة كتاب The Angel of Death
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Than the sun containeth,
Has He, whose might
From the throne there reigneth,
With grace to all in that city stay;
And life and bliss doth His glance convey!
For all is room in the Promised Land!
And, like, when fig-trees their buds are oping
You know that summer is near at hand;
Thus, when the chill
Of your evening broaches,
You feel, with thrill,
That the friend approaches,
To lead you homeward, where joys excel,
United ever with Him to dwell.
With sombre curtains, your hills and dales,
Then, to release you, He near shall hover,
Whose power, great as his love, prevails.
The eye-lids, laded,
A while are closing, ...
The work-tools, jaded,
Benumbed reposing, ...
Another while—and a new career,
In splendor, shall to your view appear!
The son of heaven and earth is new,
And misses not, since become immortal,
The narrow homestead, whence he withdrew.
It ceased existing,
It ceased attracting—
But faith persisting,
But virtue acting!
You have, before you, the lot prepared,
By abject spirits not seen or shared.
All wounds removed by the healing hand....
Again, midst corpses and biers, I never,
With torch inverted and quenched shall stand
In darkness rife;—
But, the torch upturning,
By flames of life
I restore its burning—
And then, Seraphic, with you unite
In songs of praise at the Throne of Light.
BRIEF EXPLANATORY NOTES.
Page 17, last line; i. e.—Air, Water, Earth, Fire, the four elements, in which, according to the ancient philosophers, all exists, and of which the whole world is composed.
Page 24, "Alexanders" i. e.—Such as Alexander III, "the Great," king of Macedonia, etc., the greatest of Military Conquerors; born 356 B. C.; died, 323 B. C.
"Neros" i. e.—Such as Nero, Lucius Domitius, Roman Emperor; born 37; died 68; probably the most prominent type known of wickedness and cruelty, and, nevertheless, a coward.
Page 27, "Crest and Foil;" emblematic of Knighthood or Nobility.
Page 29, "Brother" "Equal," i. e.—Neighbor, as exemplified by Christ to the Lawyer; see Gospel, St. Luke, x. 25, et. seq. The emphasized "then" on the second line refers to when "for its keeping you shall account;" (see previous stanza, page 28) the sense of the two first lines being: too late then to mend evil deeds by charity.
Page 39, lines 3 and 4; see Swedish and General History; Three champions of political and religious liberty; prominent in removing excessive taxation, extending the rights, guarantees and educational facilities of the people and undermining and finally crushing the pernicious and immense power, wealth and influence of a corrupt and arbitrary hierarchy.—
Engelbrekt, an influential private citizen, went, on his own responsibility, to demand of the then king (Erik XIII) amelioration in the condition of the utterly enslaved, tax-ridden and tyranized people. This being refused, he induced the people, under his leadership, to rise in arms (in the fall of 1433) and, during three years of successive victories, drove out of the country all foreign oppressors and their adherents, put other men in their places, and enforced changes in the government, and a reduction everywhere of 33 per cent. in the taxes. He was murdered April 27th, 1436.
Gustavus 1st, savior of the independence of Sweden, who gave it new Constitution, new Laws, new Church-government, and was the first to institute general education, by establishing public schools throughout the country. He was born in 1496, and reigned from 1521 to his death, 1560.
Gustavus II, Adolphus, born in 1592, Grandson of Gustavus 1st, was king of Sweden from 1611 to his death 1632, when he fell in the famous battle at Lützen, Germany, in the "thirty years war," while fighting for the grand cause of liberty of conscience.
Page 41, "Uriah-note," see Bible, II Samuel, chapter XI.
Page 42, 1st line; see Bible, Genesis, chapter XXXVII.
Page 42, 2nd line; see Bible, II Samuel, chapter I.