For I have seen what mortal eyes have not seen, and I have spoken with God's ministers, and am anointed into a new priesthood.' "I mind how he sat on the grass, his voice drifting faint and small like a babe's crying.

He told us nothing of what he was or whence he came, for his soul was possessed of a revelation.

'These be the hills of God,' he cried.

'In a little you will come to a city of the old kings where gold is as plentiful as sand of the sea.

There they sit frozen in metal waiting the judgment.