JAVA.
Joaquin Miller
- "And darkness was upon the face of the
- deep; and the Spirit of God moved upon
- the waters."
he oceans roar; the mountains reel; - The world stands still, with bated breath.
- Now burst of flame! and woe and weal
- All drowned in darkness and in death.
- Wild beasts in herds, strange, beauteous birds
- God's rainbow birds, gone in a breath!
- O God! is earth, then, incomplete
- The six days labor not yet done
- That she must melt beneath Thy feet
- And her fair face forget the sun?
- Must isles go down, and cities drown,
- And good and evil be as one?
- The great, warm heart of Mother Earth
- Is broken o'er her Javan Isles.
- Lo! ashes strew her ruined hearth
- Along a thousand watery miles.
- I hear her groan, I hear her moan,
- All day above her drowning isles.
- Tall ships are sailing silently
- Above her buried isles to-day.
- In marble halls beneath the sea
- The sea-god's children shout and play;
- They mock and shout in merry rout
- Where mortals dwelt but yesterday.