THERE seemed a strangeness in the air, Vermilion light on the land's lean face; I heard a Voice from I knew not where: -- "The Great Adjustment is taking place! "I set thick darkness over you, And fogged you all your years therein; At last I uncloud your view, Which I am weary of holding in. "Men have not heard, men have not seen Since the beginning of the world What earth and heaven mean; But now their curtains shall be furled, "And they shall see what is, ere long, Not through a glass, but face to face; And Right shall disestablish Wrong: The Great Adjustment is taking place." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHAMBER MUSIC: 4 by JAMES JOYCE PEDANTIC LITERALIST by MARIANNE MOORE POETS ARE BORN NOT MADE by ROBERT FROST AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS WAR by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE GARDEN OF ADONIS by EMMA LAZARUS |