<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116874" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Vision of Belshazzar</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I<br>The King was on his throne,<br> The Satraps throng'd the hall;<br>A thousand bright lamps shone<br> O'er that high festival.<br>A thousand cups of gold,<br> In Judah deem'd divine—<br>Jehovah's vessels hold<br> The godless Heathen's wine!<br>In that same hour and hall,<br> The fingers of a hand<br>Came forth against the wall,<br> And wrote as if on sand:<br>The fingers of a man;—<br> A solitary hand<br>Along the letters ran,<br> And traced them like a wand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> II<br>The monarch saw, and shook,<br> And bade no more rejoice;<br>All bloodless wax'd his look,<br> And tremulous his voice.<br>"Let the men of lore appear,<br> The wisest of the earth,<br>And expound the words of fear<br> Which mar our royal mirth."<br>Chaldea's seers are good,<br> But here they have no skill;<br>And the unknown letters stood<br> Untold and awful still.<br>And Babel's men of age<br> Are wise and deep in lore;<br>But now they were not sage,<br> They saw—but knew no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> III<br>A captive in the land,<br> A stranger and a youth,<br>He heard the king's command,<br> He saw that writing's truth.<br>The lamps around were bright,<br> The prophecy in view;<br>He read it on that night,—<br> The morrow proved it true.<br>"Belshazzar's grave is made,<br> His kingdom pass'd away,<br>He, in the balance weighed,<br> Is light and worthless clay.<br>The shroud, his robe of state,<br> His canopy the stone;<br>The Mede is at his gate!<br> The Persian on his throne!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Byron">Byron</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116874" data-title="Vision of Belshazzar de Byron" data-description="I/The King was on his throne,/ The Satraps throng'd the hall;/A thousand bright lamps shone/ O'er that high festival./A thousand cups of gold,/ In Judah deem'd divine—/Jehovah's vessels hold/ The godless Heathen's wine!/In that same hour and hal..."></div> </div> </div>

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