THE

CLOSING SCENE:

A VISION.

In Twelve Books.

BY JAMES WOODMANSEE.

Like the baseless fabric of a Vision.-
The cloud-capp'd Towers, the gorgeous Palaces,
The solemn Temples, the great Globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit shall dissolve,
And like this insubstantial pageant faded-
Leave not a rack behind!-SHAKSPEARE.

Cincinnati:

PRINTED AT THE METHODIST BOOK CONCERN,

FOR THE AUTHOR.

R. P. THOMPSON, PRINTER.

1857.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856,

BY JAMES WOODMANSEE,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

TO

My Very Dear Mother,

RACHEL WOODMANSEE,

WHO HATH MADE ME ALL I AM,

The Closing Scene

IS

DEDICATED

BY

HER SON,

THE

AUTHOR.

Let me alone—I go

To a land of darkness, as Darkness itself, To the Shadow of Death without order,

Where Light, is as-Darkness !

JOB.

BOOK I.