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The day of truth is dawning I behold	A
O'er darksome hills the trailing robes of gold	A
And silent footsteps of the gladsome dawn	B
The morning breaks by sages long foretold	A
Truth comes to set upon the world her throne	C
Men lift their foreheads to the rising sun	D
And lo the reign of Reason is begun	D
Fantastic phantasms fly before the light	E
Pale gibbering ghosts and ghouls and goblin fears	F
Man who hath walked in sleep what thousands years	F
Groping among the shadows of the night	E
Moon struck and in a weird somnambulism	G
Mumbling some cunning cant or catechism	G
Thrilled by the electric magic of the skies	H
Sun touched by Truth awakes and rubs his eyes	H
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Old Superstition mother of cruel creeds	I
O'er all the earth hath sown her dragon teeth	J
Lo centuries on centuries the seeds	I
Grew rank and from them all the haggard breeds	I
Of Hate and Fear and Hell and cruel Death	K
And still her sunken eyes glare on mankind	L
Her livid lips grin horrible her hands	M
Shriveled to bone and sinew clutch all lands	M
And with blind fear lead on or drive the blind	L
Ah ignorance and fear go hand in hand	N
Twin born and broadcast scatter hate and thorns	O
They people earth with ghosts and hell with horns	O
And sear the eyes of truth with burning brand	N
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Behold the serried ranks of Truth advance	P
And stubborn Science shakes her shining lance	P
Full in the face of stolid Ignorance	Q
But Superstition is a monster still	R
An Hydra we may scotch but hardly kill	R
For if with sword of Truth we lop a head	S
How soon another groweth in its stead	S
All men are slaves Yea some are slave to wine	T
And some to women some to shining gold	A
But all to habit and to customs old	A
Around our stunted souls old tenets twine	T
And it is hard to straighten in the oak	U
The crook that in the sapling had its start	V
The callous neck is glad to wear the yoke	U
Nor reason rules the head but aye the heart	V
The head is weak the throbbing heart is strong	W
But where the heart is right the head is not far wrong	W
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Men have been learning error age on age	X
And superstition is their heritage	Y
Bequeathed from age to age and sire to son	D
Since the dim history of the world begun	D
Trust paves the way for treachery to tread	S
Under the cloak of virtue vices creep	Z
Fools chew the chaff while cunning eats the bread	S
And wolves become the shepherds of the sheep	Z
The mindless herd are but the cunning's tools	A2
For ages have the learned of the schools	A2
Furnished pack saddles for the backs of fools	A2
Pale Superstition loves the gloom of night	E
Truth like a diamond ever loves the light	E
But still 'twere wrong to speak but in abuse	B2
For priests and popes have had and have their use	B2
Yea Superstition since the world began	C2
Hath been an instrument to govern man	C2
For men were brutes and brutal fear was given	D
To chain the brute till Reason came from heaven	D
Aye men were beasts for lo how many ages	D2
And only fear held them in chains and cages	E2
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Wise men were priests and gladly I accord	F2
They were the priests and prophets of the Lord	F2
For love was lust and o'er all earth's arena	G2
Hell fire alone could tame the wild hyena	G2
All history is the register we find	L
Of the crimes and lusts and sufferings of mankind	L
And there are still dark lands where it is well	H2
That Superstition wear the horns of hell	H2
And hold her torches o'er the brutal head	S
And fright the beast with fire and goblin dread	S
Till Reason come the darkness to dispel	H2
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How hard it is for mortals to unlearn	G2
Beliefs bred in the marrow of their bones	I2
How hard it is for mortals to discern	G2
The truth that preaches from the silent stones	I2
The silent hills the silent universe	J2
While Error cries in sanctimonious tones	I2
That all the light of life and God is hers	K2
Lo in the midst we stand we cannot see	L2
Either the dark beginning or the end	M2
Or where our tottering footsteps turn or trend	M2
In the vast orbit of Eternity	L2
Let Reason be our light the only light	E
That God hath given unto benighted man	G2
Wherewith to see a glimpse of his vast plan	G2
And stars of hope that glimmer on our night	E
Lo all pervading Unity is His	E2
Lo all pervading Unity is He	L2
One mighty heart throbs in the earth and sea	L2
In every star through heaven's immensity	E
And God in all things breathes in all things is	E2
God's perfect order rules the vast expanse	P
And Love is queen and all the realms are hers	K2
But strike one planet from the Universe	J2
And all is chaos and unbridled chance	P
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And is there life beyond this life below	N2
Aye is death death or but a happy change	O2
From night to light on angel wings to range	O2
And sing the songs of seraphs as we go	N2
Alas the more we know the less we know we know	N2
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God hath laid down the limits we cannot pass	P2
And it is well he giveth us no glass	P2
Wherewith to see beyond the present glance	P
Else we might die a thousand deaths perchance	P
Before we lay our bones beneath the grass	P2
What is the soul and whither will it fly	Q2
We only know that matter cannot die	Q2
But lives and lived through all eternity	E
And ever turns from hoary age to youth	R2
And is the soul not worthier than the dust	E
So in His providence we put our trust	E
And so we humbly hope for God is just	E
Father all wise unmoved by wrath or ruth	R2
What then is certain what eternal Truth	R2
Almighty God Time Space and Cosmic Dust	E

Hanford Lennox Gordon

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