Mary's Vision

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Excerpt from Mary's Vision: A Poem "So, 't was an idle dream" - well, dreams have been A power that shaped the destinies of men. A Pharaoh dreamed, a captive Hebrew heard, That skilled in dreams, interpreted the word, And stores of corn in Egypt's garners grew, That plenty's hand to suppliant famine threw, And Judah lived, and Judah's line gave birth To Him whose kingdom fills the heavens and earth. A sightless beggar dreamed of Helen's charms And Illion's fall, and skilled in arts and arms, A State grew up, whose influence will expire When the last mortal sees a world on fire. When idle visions of a midnight hour, Saved the Redeemer from a tyrant's power, A long predicted empire sprung to view, And hoary time began to count anew Creation's annals, from a kingdom's rise, Whose grand emporium is in the skies, Its borders unexplored - and none will write, (No future Gibbon, ) "Here, it reached its height: About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.