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Sword of Common Sense	A
Our surest gift the sacred chain	B
Of man to man firm earth for trust	C
In structures vowed to permanence	D
Thou guardian issue of the harvest brain	B
Implacable perforce of just	C
With that good treasure in defence	A
Which is our gold crushed out of joy and pain	B
Since first men planted foot and hand was king	E
Bright nimble of the marrow nerve	F
To wield thy double edge retort	G
Or hold the deadlier reserve	F
And through thy victim's weapon sting	E
Thine is the service thine the sport	G
This shifty heart of ours to hunt	H
Across its webs and round the many a ring	E
Where fox it is or snake or mingled seeds	I
Occasion heats to shape or the poor smoke	J
Struck from a puff ball or the troughster's grunt	H
Once lion of our desert's trodden weeds	I
And but for thy straight finger at the yoke	J
Again to be the lordly paw	K
Naming his appetites his needs	I
Behind a decorative cloak	J
Thou of the highest the unwritten Law	K
We read upon that building's architrave	L
In the mind's firmament by men upraised	H
With sweat of blood when they had quitted cave	L
For fellowship and rearward looked amazed	H
Where the prime motive gapes a lurid jaw	K
Thou soul of wakened heads art armed to warn	M
Restrain lest we backslide on whence we sprang	N
Scarce better than our dwarf beginning shoot	H
Of every gathered pearl and blossom shorn	M
Through thee in novel wiles to win disguise	O
Seen are the pits of the disruptor seen	P
His rebel agitation at our root	H
Thou hast him out of hawking eyes	O
Nor ever morning of the clang	N
Young Echo sped on hill from horn	M
In forest blown when scent was keen	P
Off earthy dews besprinkling blades	Q
Of covert grass more merrily rang	N
The yelp of chase down alleys green	P
Forth of the headlong pouring glades	Q
Over the dappled fallows wild away	R
Than thy fine unaccented scorn	M
At sight of man's old secret brute	H
Devout for pasture on his prey	R
Advancing yawning to devour	S
With step of deer with voice of flute	H
Haply with visage of the lily flower	S
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Let the cock crow and ruddy morn	M
His handmaiden appear Youth claims his hour	S
The generously ludicrous	T
Espouses it But see we sons of day	R
Off whom Life leans for guidance in our fight	H
Accept the throb for lord of us	T
For lord for the main central light	H
That gives direction not the eclipse	U
Or dost thou look where niggard Age	V
Demanding reverence for wrinkles whips	U
A tumbled top to grind a wolf's worn tooth	W
Hoar despot on our final stage	V
In dotage of a stunted Youth	W
Or it may be some venerable sage	V
Not having thee awake in him compact	H
Of wisdom else the breast's old tempter trips	U
Or see we ceremonial state	H
Robing the gilded beast exact	H
Abjection while the crackskull name of Fate	H
Is used to stamp and hallow printed fact	H
A cruel corner lengthens up thy lips	U
These are thy game wherever men engage	V
These and majestic in a borrowed shape	X
The major and the minor potentate	H
Creative of their various ape	X
The tiptoe mortals triumphing to write	H
Upon a perishable page	V
An inch above their fellows' height	H
The criers of foregone wisdom who impose	Y
Its slough on live conditions much for the greed	H
Of our first hungry figure wide agape	X
Call up thy hounds of laughter to their run	Z
These that would have men still of men be foes	Y
Eternal fox to prowl and pike to feed	H
Would keep our life the whirly pool	A2
Of turbid stuff dishonouring History	B2
The herd the drover's herd the fool the fool	A2
Ourself our slavish self's infernal sun	Z
These are the children of the heart untaught	H
By thy quick founts to beat abroad by thee	B2
Untamed to tone its passions under thought	H
The rich humaneness reading in thy fun	Z
Of them a world of coltish heels for school	A2
We have a world with driving wrecks bestrewn	Z
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'Tis written of the Gods of human mould	H
Those Nectar Gods of glorious stature hewn	Z
To quicken hymns that they did hear incensed	H
Satiric comments overbold	H
From one whose part was by decree	B2
The jester's but they boiled to feel him bite	H
Better for them had they with Reason fenced	H
Or smiled corrected They in the great Gods' might	H
Their prober crushed as fingers flea	B2
Crumbled Olympus when the sovereign sire	S
His fatal kick to Momus gave albeit	H
Men could behold the sacred Mount aspire	C2
The Satirist pass by on limping feet	H
Those Gods who saw the ejected laugh alight	H
Below had then their last of airy glee	B2
They in the cup sought Laughter's drowned sprite	H
Fed to dire fatness off uncurbed conceit	H
Eyes under saw them waddle on their Mount	H
And drew them down to flattest earth they rolled	H
This know we veritable O Sage of Mirth	D2
Can it be true the story men recount	H
Of the fall'n plight of the great Gods on earth	D2
How they being deathless though of human mould	H
With human cravings undecaying frames	E2
Must labour for subsistence are a band	H
Whom a loose cheeked wide lipped gay cripple leads	I
At haunts of holiday on summer sand	H
And lightly he will hint to one that heeds	I
Names in pained designation of them names	E2
Ensphered on blue skies and on black which twirl	F2
Our hearing madly from our seeing dazed	H
Add Bacchus unto both and he entreats	E2
His baby dimples in maternal chaps	E2
Running wild labyrinths of line and curl	F2
Compassion for his masterful Trombone	Z
Whose thunder is the brass of how he blazed	H
Of old for him of the mountain muscle feats	E2
Who guts a drum to fetch a snappish groan	Z
For his fierce bugler horning onset whom	G2
A truncheon battered helmet caps	E2
The creature is of earnest mien	Z
To plead a sorrow darker than the tomb	G2
His Harp and Triangle in tone subdued	H
He names they are a rayless red and white	H
The dawn hued libertine the gibbous prude	H
And if we recognize his Tambourine	Z
He asks exhausted names her she has become	H2
A globe in cupolas the blowziest queen	Z
Of overflowing dome on dome	I2
Redundancy contending with the tight	H
Leaping the dam He fondly calls his girl	F2
The buxom tripper with the goblet smile	J2
Refreshful O but now his brows are dun	Z
Bunched are his lips as when distilling guile	J2
To drop his venomous the Dame of dames	E2
Flower of the world that honey one	Z
She of the earthly rose in the sea pearl	F2
To whom the world ran ocean for her kiss	E2
He names her as a worshipper he names	E2
And indicates with a contemptuous thumb	H2
The lady meanwhile lures the mob alike	K2
Ogles the bursters of the horn and drum	H2
Curtain her close her open arms	E2
Have suckers for beholders she to this	E2
For that she could not save in fury hear	L2
A sharp corrective utterance flick	M2
Her idle manners for the laugh to strike	K2
Beauty so breeding beauty without peer	N2
Above the snows among the flowers She reaps	E2
This mouldy garner of the fatal kick	M2
Gross with the sacrifice of Circe swarms	E2
Astarte of vile sweets that slay malign	Z
From Greek resplendent to Phoenician foul	O2
The trader in attractions sinks all brine	Z
To thoughts of taste is 't love bark dog hoot owl	O2
And she is blushless ancient worship weeps	E2
Suicide Graces dangle down the charms	E2
Sprawling like gourds on outer garden heaps	E2
She stands in her unholy oily leer	N2
A statue losing feature weather sick	M2
Mid draggled creepers of twined ivy sere	N2
The curtain cried for magnifies to see	E2
We cannot quench our one corrupting glance	E2
The vision of the rumour will not flee	E2
Doth the Boy own such Mother shoot his dart	H
To bring her countless as the crested deeps	E2
Her subjects of the uncorrected heart	H
False is that vision shrieks the devotee	E2
Incredible we echo and anew	Z
Like a far growling lightning cloud it leaps	E2
Low humourist this leader seems perchance	E2
Pitched from his University career	N2
Adept at classic fooling Yet of mould	H
Human those Gods were deathless too	Z
On high they not as meditatives paced	H
Prodigiously they did the deeds of flesh	P2
Descending they would touch the lowest here	N2
And she that lighted form of blue and gold	H
Whom the seas gave all earth all earth embraced	H
Exulting in the great hauls of her mesh	P2
Desired and hated desperately dear	N2
Most human of them was No more pursue	Z
Enough that the black story can be told	H
It	H