Angels and Women (1924)

150 ANGELS AND WOMEN
sounds now issue from the center of this
desolate orb; it is about to fall to pieces. Its
disruption will endanger the earth.
Hesperus is called. He, ranging in the
twilight hour along the bounds of day and
darkness, beholds with alarm a strange mustering
of the Heavenly host. The balance
of the worlds is unsettled, the Earth is
threatened with dire catastrophe. Tempests
will prevail; a great deluge will come,
by the breaking of the last great watery
canopy which envelops the Earth, letting in
a mighty flood of waters?
A cry of horror burst from all the band,
succeeded by a hush of fear. Then like
waves that growl above the wreck, outspake
Zorabah, darkest and most fierce. He would
abandon this troublesome world, leave it to
the wrath of Jehovah; he scorned men, and
detested women and children. In his realm,
he said, is an untenanted world of exceeding
beauty. There, free from the offense odious
See Appendix, Note 20.