But at length, O God, wilt thou not cast Death and Hell into the lake of Fire-even into thine own consuming self? Death shall then die everlastingly, And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. Then indeed wilt thou be all in all. For then our poor brothers and sisters, every one-O God, we trust in thee, the Consuming Fire-shall have been burnt clean and brought home. For if their moans, myriads of ages away, would turn heaven for us into hell-shall a man be more merciful than God? Shall, of all his glories, his mercy alone not be infinite? Shall a
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