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The Pagan's myths through marble lips are spoken	A
And ghosts of old Beliefs still flit and moan	B
Round fane and altar overthrown and broken	A
O'er tree grown barrow and gray ring of stone	B
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Blind Faith had martyrs in those old high places	C
The Syrian hill grove and the Druid's wood	D
With mother's offering to the Fiend's embraces	E
Bone of their bone and blood of their own blood	F
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Red altars kindling through that night of error	G
Smoked with warm blood beneath the cruel eye	H
Of lawless Power and sanguinary Terror	G
Throned on the circle of a pitiless sky	H
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Beneath whose baleful shadow overcasting	H
All heaven above and blighting earth below	I
The scourge grew red the lip grew pale with fasting	H
And man's oblation was his fear and woe	I
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Then through great temples swelled the dismal moaning	H
Of dirge like music and sepulchral prayer	J
Pale wizard priests o'er occult symbols droning	H
Swung their white censers in the burdened air	J
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As if the pomp of rituals and the savor	G
Of gums and spices could the Unseen One please	K
As if His ear could bend with childish favor	G
To the poor flattery of the organ keys	K
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Feet red from war fields trod the church aisles holy	L
With trembling reverence and the oppressor there	J
Kneeling before his priest abased and lowly	L
Crushed human hearts beneath his knee of prayer	J
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Not such the service the benignant Father	G
Requireth at His earthly children's hands	M
Not the poor offering of vain rites but rather	G
The simple duty man from man demands	M
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For Earth He asks it the full joy of heaven	A
Knoweth no change of waning or increase	N
The great heart of the Infinite beats even	O
Untroubled flows the river of His peace	N
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He asks no taper lights on high surrounding	H
The priestly altar and the saintly grave	P
No dolorous chant nor organ music sounding	H
Nor incense clouding tip the twilight nave	P
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For he whom Jesus loved hath truly spoken	A
The holier worship which he deigns to bless	Q
Restores the lost and binds the spirit broken	A
And feeds the widow and the fatherless	R
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Types of our human weakness and our sorrow	I
Who lives unhaunted by his loved ones dead	S
Who with vain longing seeketh not to borrow	I
From stranger eyes the home lights which have fled	S
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O brother man fold to thy heart thy brother	G
Where pity dwells the peace of God is there	J
To worship rightly is to love each other	G
Each smile a hymn each kindly deed a prayer	J
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Follow with reverent steps the great example	T
Of Him whose holy work was 'doing good '	-
So shall the wide earth seem our Father's temple	T
Each loving life a psalm of gratitude	U
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Then shall all shackles fall the stormy clangor	J
Of wild war music o'er the earth shall cease	N
Love shall tread out the baleful fire of anger	J
And in its ashes plant the tree of peace	N

John Greenleaf Whittier

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