The Earth Gods
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And made you breed in the cage?
giant sun warmed your bosom
to give me birth?
I bless you not, yet I curse you;
For even as you h life
So I have burdened man
But less cruel have I been.
I, immortal, made man a passing shadow;
And you, dying, conceived me deathless.
Yesterday, dead yesterday,
Surn ant tomorrow,
t I may bring you to judgment?
And h lifes second dawn
t I may erase your earth?
ould t you mighe dead of yore,
till ts oter fruit,
And all tagnant he slain,
And ility.
third God
Brothers,
the song.
And now she singer.
Like a fawn in glad surprise
Sreams
And turns o every side.
Oal intent,
the eye of purpose half-born;
t quiver
itaste of promised delight!
flower has fallen from heaven,
flame has risen from hell.
t startled t of silence
to thless joy and fear?
dream dreamt ,
t gave o the wind
t he drowsing valley
And made c?
Second God
the sacred loom is given you,
And t to he fabric.
t shall be yours for evermore,
And yours t,
And yours the gold.
Yet you .
Your hands have spun mans soul
From living air and fire,
Yet nohread,
And lend your versed fingers to an idle eternity.
First God
Nay, unto eternity unmoulded I would gi