The Course of Time, A Poem, in Ten Books. To Which are Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author, an Analysis of the Poem, and an Index to the Principle Passages, Sentiments, or Descriptions. By Rev. William Jenks, D.D.

1827 Pollok, Robert, A.M. (1798-1827). The Course of Time, A Poem, in Ten Books. To Which are Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author, an Analysis of the Poem, and an Index to the Principle Passages, Sentiments, or Descriptions. By Rev. William Jenks, D.D. 2 vols. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood/London: Thomas Cadell. 3^rd American from 3^rd Edinburgh ed. Boston, MA: Crocker and Brewster/New York: Jonathan Leavitt/ Philadelphia, PA: John Grigg/Baltimore, MD/Cushing and Jewett, 1828. At least 25 editions were published. PSt

Book length poem on Biblical themes including the apocalypse and the return of Christ. The poem describes the history of humankind from a Biblical perspective from the Creation through the final division between saved and damned. About mid-way (end of Book V) is a description of the millennium. Church and state are separated, and the state has righteous leaders. The Jews have returned to a restored Jerusalem. No disease. No war. Abundance. No crime. Animals no longer in conflict with each other or humans. Scottish author.