The heavens have had their dropsy, they drowned the world. They shall have their fever and burn the world.
The world had a foreknowledge of the Flood 120 years before it came and so some made provision against it and were saved.
The fever shall break out in an instant and consume all.
The Flood did no harm to the heavens from whence it fell, it did not put out those lights, it did not quench those heats.
But the fever, the fire shall burn the furnace itself, annihilate those heavens that breathe it out . [10]
When Nemesis wreaks her vengeance
Let us pray that it will be
Not through war & conflagration
Or the fury of the sea,
Not from nuclear desolation
And extinction by degrees
From slow corroding poisons
Or untreatable disease,
But rather as a blessing
That the kindly gods bestow;
The obliterating mercy
Of interminable snow
That falls until no lineaments
Of raddled earth remain
And the innocence of Eden
Is restored to us again
Philip A Nicholson
