'Jove means to settle <br />Astraea in her seat again, <br />And let down his golden chain <br />An age of better metal.' <br /> <br />Ben Johnson 1615 <br /> <br />O POET rare and old! <br />Thy words are prophecies; <br />Forward the age of gold, <br />The new Saturnian lies. <br /> <br />The universal prayer <br />And hope are not in vain; <br />Rise, brothers! and prepare <br />The way for Saturn's reign. <br /> <br />Perish shall all which takes <br />From labor's board and can; <br />Perish shall all which makes <br />A spaniel of the man! <br /> <br />Free from its bonds the mind, <br />The body from the rod; <br />Broken all chains that bind <br />The image of our God. <br /> <br />Just men no longer pine <br />Behind their prison-bars; <br />Through the rent dungeon shine <br />The free sun and the stars. <br /> <br />Earth own, at last, untrod <br />By sect, or caste, or clan, <br />The fatherhood of God, <br />The brotherhood of man! <br /> <br />Fraud fail, craft perish, forth <br />The money-changers driven, <br />And God's will done on earth, <br />As now in heaven;<br /><br />John Greenleaf Whittier<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/astraea/
