The Earth Gods
First God
Eternal Altar! ouldst t
A god for sacrifice?
Nohen, I come, and coming I offer up
My passion and my pain.
Lo, t of our ancient eagerness,
And to the wind.
And in t dancing and in t singing
A god is slain hin me.
My god- hin my human ribs
Ss to my god- in mid-air.
t t o divinity.
ty t he beginning
Calls unto divinity.
I he call,
And now I yield.
Beauty is a pat leads to self self-slain.
Beat your strings
I o h.
It stretco another dawn.
third God
Love triumphs.
te and green of love beside a lake,
And ty of love in tower or balcony;
Love in a garden or in t untrodden,
Love is our lord and master.
It is not a on decay of the flesh,
Nor the crumbling of desire
ling;
Nor is it fles takes arms against t.
Love rebels not.
It only leaves trodden destinies for the sacred grove,
to sing and dance its secret to eternity.
Love is youth chains broken,
Manhe sod,
And womanhe flame
And s of han our heaven.
Love is a distant laug.
It is a t o your awakening.
It is a neo th,
A day not yet achieved in your eyes or mine,
But already acs oer .
Brothers,
t of dawn,
And t.
the valley.
A day too vast for recording.
Second God
t been since t morn
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