Elijah and Elishah

Our portents linger—
Where is the God of Elijah?
The son who hearkeneth unto His words,
Crying of violence out of his sorrows,
Saith, Where is the Rock and His Names?’
A thousand years He hath not answered him.
The Tishbite decreed for Ephraim,
And closed up the heavens;
At his word came fire and water down;
On Mount Carmel—there he proved Him.
He spake of the jar and the cruse,
And therein set a blessing flowering;
He restored the dead from the pit—
Who hath heard such things and who hath seen them?
He caused the burning of the captains and their fifties;
He fasted forty days with their nights;
The ravens assembled as though called together To give him his food.
And when he went lip on high in a whirlwind,
And in a burning chariot of fire,
Then turned Elisha, bitterly crying:
"My father, my father!” but he answered him not.
The floods of Jordan were congealed,
So that their feet slipped not;
Also for Elisha stood they up—
They that looked on him saw and were amazed.
Those watching for the signs foretold—
How long, until they see the wondrous happenings
When these marvels are wrought before them,
The work of the Lord which is terrible .