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The Survival Of The Gods	A
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Twilight	B
The gods of Nature abdicate	C
When man intrudes too far	D
The Dryad leaves her woodland state	C
And Jove his thunder car	D
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No more Apollo reins the sun	E
Or Neptune rides the sea	F
The race of Oread is run	E
And Pan has ceased to be	F
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The formless Winds are roaming through	G
Druidic grove and vale	H
Deserted Asgard and Meru	G
For Thor and Indra wail	H
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Majestic Forms oblivion 'scape	I
As kelpie sylph and gnome	J
Astarte hides in gentler shape	I
And Vestals hearthless roam	J
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Thrones Dominions Virtues Powers	K
Fall from Their Mystic Tree	G
And sacrilegious Time devours	K
Each Principality	G
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Sceptic	L
Whatever dramas of the Vast	M
About our drama play	N
Or necromancies from the past	M
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Project their gloom to day	N
We seem to hear the Uncreate	N
Slowly let this be known	O
That man has fashioned all his fate	N
And stands on earth alone	O
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That all he needs was in him stored	N
Material and plan	P
That ne'er was deity adored	N
But first was made by man	P
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The Abiding Gods	A
But tho' we mumble sceptic saw	Q
Or sweet old prayers forget	N
And tho' we dream of Higher Law	Q
The gods are living yet	N
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For they who will no Monitor	G
Save One Unnamed allow	R
Allegiance deep to Love or War	G
Or Chance or Wind avow	R
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Avow by no mere cult of names	S
No pattering of creeds	T
But by the sacrificial flames	S
Of lifelong thoughts and deeds	T
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When mediaeval hurricane	U
The gods in exile drove	V
'Thrice greatest' Hermes and his train	U
Usurped the seats of Jove	V
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Where still their Wisdom rules the spheres	W
Of yet uncharted Law	Q
By building in our nerves the fears	W
Our sires in Nature saw	Q
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In other garments everywhere	G
Behold the prophetess	X
Clairaudient interpreter	G
Clairvoyant Pythoness	X
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Suburban Delphis for the rich	Y
The Gnosis for the staid	N
Perennial by the road the witch	Y
Of Endor plies her trade	N
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Mystic	L
All is not daylight in the day	N
Or knowledge in the known	O
The life we are the prayer we pray	N
From deep to deep is blown	O
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Though Reason claim omniscient worth	Z
And lush her dogmas thrive	V
Our present home is more than earth	Z
Our senses more than five	V
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And the mystic who sees the star folk throng	L
Where we but the noonday blue	G
Knows no religion yet was wrong	L
And never a myth untrue	G
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The wrong road now was the old high way	N
Of young Truth's caravan	P
To morrow is not to day to day	N
Or the baby yet a man	P
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Though mountain watchmen daily see	X
Horizons widen far	G
Dominions of the Boundary	X
Have ever ruled and are	G
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Heracleitic	L
The lines of godhood all converge	A2
At last to unity	X
And the images of all emerge	A2
From every god we see	X
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So Hermes here and Venus there	G
Are Memory are Fate	N
And all are Winds and the Sirens fair	G
Mute in the Wisdoms wait	N
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All life is a stream and mortals stand	N
On a heaving and passing earth	Z
And the land of gods is a changing land	N
As the land that gave it birth	Z
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Life is a stream through a gorge we go	L
'Tween a deep and a living deep	I
Form is the gorge and change is the flow	L
And the source and the mouth are sleep	I
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Historic	L
Torrential barbarisms need	N
Charioteers of Pain	U
And wise gods sleep when men recede	N
To callow youth again	B2
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But in that age long sleep have waned	N
A myriad gods or fled	N
Olympic altars are disdained	N
And Gnostic Wisdom dead	N
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For what to Vandals or to Huns	X
When Rome's red lips were ripe	I
Were calm Hellenic Shining Ones	X
Or Gnostic Archetype	I
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Yet Time matured to mellow wine	C2
The Roman Gothic must	N
For Mercy and a Maid Divine	C2
Subdued the hate and lust	N
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Till Hedonist and Stoic hold	N
Antique debates anew	G
And hither return the virtues old	N
Alas and old vice too	G
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Marooned no more we sail the sea	X
Ere sad gods were we knew	G
And from Platonic prows decree	X
'The gods are Me are You '	-
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Omni Benevolence	X
Yet shaping slowly through the storm	D2
And bidding darkness fade	N
Evolving eyes discern a Form	D2
No clay creator made	N
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A Symbol Form that mirrors ours	X
That is yet is not we	X
That seems to hint of Higher Powers	X
Than Fate or Memory	X
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That takes the image as we gaze	X
Of the Holiest Ones that were	G
For here It looks from Jesus' face	X
And from Mohammed's there	G
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'Tis Moses yea 'tis Krishna's form	D2
'Tis fire 'tis star 'tis sun	E
A myriad now Its faces swarm	D2
Now All and It are One	E
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The Chinese 'Way' one watcher sees	X
And one a Brooding Dove	V
One Baldur Buddh or Socrates	X
But always It is Love	V

Bernard O'dowd

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