 |
When the Terror descends |
 |
(and none denies its descending) |
 |
abasing, exalting, |
 |
when the earth shall be rocked |
 |
and the mountains crumbled |
 |
and become a dust, scattered, |
 |
and you shall be three bands -- |
 |
Companions of the Right (O Companions of the Right!) |
 |
Companions of the Left (O Companions of the Left!) |
 |
and the Outstrippers: the Outstrippers |
 |
those are they brought nigh the Throne, |
 |
in the Gardens of Delight |
 |
(a throng of the ancients |
 |
and how few of the later folk) |
 |
upon close-wrought couches |