At The Sun-Rise In 1848

God said, Let there be light; and there was light.

Then heard we sounds as though the Earth did sing

And the Earth's angel cried upon the wing:

We saw priests fall together and turn white:

And covered in the dust from the sun's sight,

A king was spied, and yet another king.

We said: “The round world keeps its balancing;

On this globe, they and we are opposite,—

If it is day with us, with them 'tis night.”

Still, Man, in thy just pride, remember this:—

Thou hadst not made that thy sons' sons shall ask

What the word king may mean in their day's task,

But for the light that led: and if light is,

It is because God said, Let there be light.