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Excerpt from Pastime Sketches The Final Conflagration "The sun shall be turned into darkness." "Thou spakest, and at Thy feet The universe gave way." - Kirk White. The mighty angel stood on sea and shore, And loud proclaimed, - "there shall be Time no more;" Instant, Earth's keepers from their stations go, With glance of thought, and leave the world below; While forces warring with electric power, The earth possessing, bring the final hour. Now glows the globe, involved in lurid light; The mountains, melting, with the seas unite; Sea, mountain, vale and stream "dissolve" away; - All human works, - all life, - gone in a day! The wasting earth, swung from its central poise, Wide from its orbit rolls, in flame and noise; While endless worlds, on their eternal round, Disorbed, collide and burn, thro' space profound. 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.