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NEVER nobler was the Senate	A
Never grander the debate	B
Rome's old gods are on their trial	C
By the judges of the state	B
Torn by warring creeds the Fathers	D
Urge to day the question home	E
'Whether Jupiter or Jesus	F
Shall be God henceforth in Rome '	G
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Lo the scene In Jove's own temple	C
As of old the Fathers meet	H
Through the porch to hear the speeches	I
Press the people from the street	H
Pontiffs rich with purple vesture	J
Pass from senate chair to chair	J
Learned augurs still as statues	K
Voiceless statues too are there	J
Vestal virgins white with terror	J
Mutely asking what has come	L
What new light shall turn to darkness	F
Vesta's holy fire in Rome	E
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Answer Quindecemvirs Surely	M
Of this wondrous Nazarene	N
Ye must know who keep the secrets	O
Of the prophet Sibylline	N
Nay no word Here stand the Flamens	O
Have ye read the omens priests	O
Slain the victims white and sable	C
Scanned the entrails of the beast	P
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Priest of Pallas see the people	C
Ask for oracles to day	Q
Silent Priests of Mars and Venus	O
Lo they turn dumb lipped away	Q
Priest of Jove Flamen dialis	O
Here in Jove's own temple meet	H
In debate the Roman Senate	A
And Jove's priest with timid feet	H
Stands beyond the altar railing	R
Gods I feel ye frown above	S
In the shadow of Jove's altar	J
Men defy the might of Jove	S
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Treason riots in the temple	C
At the sacrilege profound	T
Virgins mocked and augurs banished	U
And divinities discrowned	U
Hush Old Rome herself appeareth	V
Pleading for the ancient faith	V
Urging all her by gone glory	M
That to change the old were death	V
Rudely answer the patricians	O
Scoffing at the time worn snare	J
Twice a thousand years of sacrifice	O
Have melted into air	J
Twice a thousand years of worship	W
Have bitterly sufficed	U
To prove there is no Jupiter	J
The Senate votes for Christ	U
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Not aimless is the story	M
The moral not remote	U
For still the gods are questioned	U
And still the Senates vote	U
Men sacrifice to Venus	O
To Mars are victims led	U
And Mercury is honored still	X
And Bacchus is not dead	U
But these are minor deities	O
That cling to human sight	U
Our twilight they but Right and Wrong	Y
Are clear as day and night	U
We know the Truth but falsehood	U
With our lives is so inwove	S
Our Senates vote down Jesus	O
As old Rome degraded Jove	S

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