Angels and Women (1924)

150 ANGELS AND WOMENsounds now issue from the center of thisdesolate orb; it is about to fall to pieces. Itsdisruption will endanger the earth.Hesperus is called. He, ranging in thetwilight hour along the bounds of day anddarkness, beholds with alarm a strange musteringof the Heavenly host. The balanceof the worlds is unsettled, the Earth isthreatened with dire catastrophe. Tempestswill prevail; a great deluge will come,by the breaking of the last great waterycanopy which envelops the Earth, letting ina mighty flood of waters?A cry of horror burst from all the band,succeeded by a hush of fear. Then likewaves that growl above the wreck, outspakeZorabah, darkest and most fierce. He wouldabandon this troublesome world, leave it tothe wrath of Jehovah; he scorned men, anddetested women and children. In his realm,he said, is an untenanted world of exceedingbeauty. There, free from the offense odiousSee Appendix, Note 20.