The Earth Gods
o be no more.
I could not but c way;
to follo ty of the years;
to soo c t the soil;
to call ts hiding place
And give it strengto nestle its own life,
And to pluck it worm laug;
to raise man from secret darkness,
Yet keep s clinging to th;
to give for life, and make death his cupbearer;
to endoh pain,
And exalts h longing,
And fadet embrace;
to girdle s h dreams of higher days,
And infuse s,
And yet to confine s
to table resemblance;
to make ain,
And as tempests of the seas,
And yet to give him hands slow in decision,
And feet ion;
to give he may sing before us,
And sorro o us,
And to lay him low,
h in her hunger cries for food;
to raise
t aste our tomorrow,
And to keep he mire
t forget erday.
to time,
Governing t began hers crying,
And ends ation of his children.
First God
My ts, yet I drink t blood of a feeble race,
For tainted, and tage tter to my mouth.
Like t to breathing forms
t crept out of my dripping fingers unto the hills.
Like ths of beginning life
And c crao rocky s.
Like ty thereof
For a lure t seizes yout to generate and multiply.
Like to shrine,
And turned e fear of things unseen
to tremulous faited and the unknown.
Like tempest over his head
t b