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That led to dream-lit, vast, inviting lands--
Far backward to the bourne of history
And forward to the House not made with hands.
You gave the husbandman a richer yield
Than any that his granary may hold;
You called his children from the shop and field,
Taught them to sow and reap an undredfold.
To sow the seed of truth and hope and peace,
And take the root of error from the sod;
To be of those who make the sure increase,
Forever growing, in the lands of God.
THE NEW WORLD
Idle gods of Old Olympus--Zeus and his immortal clan,
Grown in stature, grace and wisdom, meekly serve the will of man.
Every elemental giant has been trained to seek and raise
Gates of the "impossible" that lead to undiscovered ways.
Man hath come to stranger things than ever bard or prophet saw.
Lo, he sits in judgment on the gods and doth amend their law.
Now reality with wonder-deed of ancient fable teems--
Fact is wrought of golden fancy from the old Homeric dreams.
Zeus, with thought to load the fulmen gathered for his mighty sling,
Hurls across the ocean desert as 'twere ut a pebble-fling;
Titans move the gathered harvests, push the loaded ship and train,
Rushing swiftly 'twixt horizons, shoulder to the hurricane.
Hermes, of the winged sandal, strides from midday into night.
Pallas, with a nobler passion, turns the hero from his fight.
Vulcan melts the sundered mountain into girder, beam and frieze.
Where the mighty wheel is turning hear the groan of Hercules.
Eyes of man, forever reaching where immensity envails,
View the ships of God in full career with light upon their sails.
Read the tonnage, log, and compass--measure each magnetic chain
Fastened to the fiery engine towing in the upper main.
Man hath searched the small infernos, narrow as a needle's eye,
Rent the veil of littleness 'neath which unnumbered dragons lie.
Conquered pain with halted feeling, baned the falling House of Life,
As with breeding rats infested, ravening in bloody strife.
Change hath shorn the distances from little unto mighty things--
Aye, from man to God, from poor to rich, from peasants unto kings.
Justice, keen-eyed, Saxon-hearted, scans the records of the world,
Makes the heartless tyrant tremble when her stem rebuke is hurled.
Thought-ways, reaching under oceans or above the mountain height,
Drain to distant, darkened realms the ceaseless overflow of light.
In the shortened ways of travel Charity shall seek her goal,
Find the love her burden merits in the commerce of the soul.
Right must rule in earth and heaven, though its coming here be slow;
Gods must grow in grace and wisdom as the mind of man doth grow;
Law and Prophet be forgotten, deities uprise and fall
Till one God, one hope, one rule of life be great enough for all.
FAITH
Faith, Bill? You remember how ye used to wake an' cry,
An' when I lit a candle how the bugaboos 'u'd fly?
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