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LASHED to the planet glaring at the sky	A
An eagle at his heart the Pagan Christ	B
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Why is it Mystery O dumb Darkness why	A
Have always men with loving hearts themselves	C
Made devils of their gods	D
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The whirling globe	E
Bears round man's sweating agony of blood	F
That Might may gloat above impotent Pain	G
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Man's soul is dual he is half a fiend	H
And from himself he typifies Almighty	I
O poison doubt the answer holds no peace	J
Man did not make himself a fiend but God	K
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Between them what Prometheus stares	L
Through ether to the lurid eyes of Jove	M
Between them Darkness	N
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But the gods are dead	O
Ay Zeus is dead and all the gods but Doubt	P
And Doubt is brother devil to Despair	Q
What then for us Better Prometheus' fate	R
Who dared the gods than insect unbelief	M
Better Doubt's fitful flame than abject nothingness	N
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O world around us glory of the spheres	S
God speaks in ordered harmony behold	T
Between us and the Darkness clad in light	U
Between us and the curtain of the Vast two Forms	V
And each is crowned eternally and One	W
Is crowned with flowers and tender leaves and grass	X
And smiles benignly and the other One	W
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With sadly pitying eyes is crowned with thorns	Y
O Nature and O Christ for men to love	M
And seek and live by Thine the dual reign	G
The health and hope and happiness of men	Z
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Behold our faith and fruit	A2
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What demon laughs	B2
Behold our books our schools our states	C2
Where Christ and Nature are the daily word	D2
Behold our dealings between man and man	E2
Our laws for home our treaties for abroad	F2
Behold our honor honesty and freedom	G2
And last our brotherhood For we are born	H2
In Christian times and ruled by Christian rules	I2
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Bah God is mild or he would strike the world	J2
As men should smite a liar on the mouth	K2
Shame on the falsehood Let us tell the truth	L2
Nor Christ nor Nature rules but Greed and Creed	M2
And Caste and Cant and Craft and Ignorance	N2
Down to the dust with every decent face	O2
And whisper there the lies we daily live	M
O God forgive us Nature never can	E2
For one is merciful the other just	P2
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Let us confess by Nations first our lines	Q2
Are writ in blood and rapine and revenge	R2
Conquest and pride have motive been and law	S2
Christ walks with us to hourly crucifixion	W
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As Men Would God the better tale were here	T2
Atom as whole corruption shrewdness self	M
Freedom A juggle hundreds slave for one	W
That one is free and boasts and lo the shame	U2
The hundreds at the wheel go boasting too	V2
Justice The selfish only can succeed	M2
Success means power did Christ mean it so	W2
And power must be guarded by the law	S2
And preachers preach that law must be obeyed	X2
Ay even when Right is ironed in the dock	Y2
And Rapine sits in ermine on the bench	Z2
Mercy Behold it in the reeking slums	A3
That grow like cancers from the palace wall	B3
Go hear it from the conquered how their blood	F
Is weighed in drops and purchased blood for gold	T
Go ask the toiling tenant why he paid	X2
The landlord's rent and let his children starve	M
Go find the thief whose father was a thief	M
And ask what Christian leech has cured his sin	C3
Honesty Our law of life is Gain	G
We must get gold or be accounted fools	I2
The lovable the generous must be crushed	D3
And substituted by the hard and shrewd	E3
What is it Christ this thing called Christian life	M
Where Christ is not where ninety slave for ten	Z
And never own a flower save when they steal it	F3
And never hear a bird save when they cage it	F3
Is this the freedom of Thy truth Ah woe	W2
For those who see a higher nobler law	S2
Than his the Crucified if this be so	W2
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O man's blind hope Prometheus thine the gift	G3
That bids him live when reason bids him die	A
We cling to this as sailors to a spar	H3
We see that this is Truth that men are one	W
Nor king nor slave among them save by law	S2
We see that law is crime save God's sweet code	I3
That laps the world in freedom trees and men	Z
And every life around us days and seasons	J3
All for their natural order on the planet	K3
To live their lives an hour a hundred years	S
Equal content and free nor curse their souls	L3
With trade's malign unrest with books that breed	M2
Disparity contempt for those who cannot read	O
With cities full of toil and sin and sorrow	W2
Climbing the devil builded hill called Progress	M3
Prometheus we reject thy gifts for Christ's	N3
Selfish and hard were thine but His are sweet	O3
'Sell what thou hast and give it to the poor '	-
Him we must follow to the great Commune	P3
Reading his book of Nature growing wise	Q3
As planet men who own the earth and pass	X
Him we must follow till foul Cant and Caste	R3
Die like disease and Mankind freed at last	R3
Tramples the complex life and laws and limits	S3
That stand between all living things and Freedom	G2

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