Humble because of knowledge, mighty by

sacrifice.

But ye say, "It will mar our comfort." Ye say, "It will minish our trade."

Do ye wait for the spattered shrapnel ere ye learn how a gun is laid?

For the low, red glare to southward when the raided coast-towns burn?

(Light ye shall have on that lesson, but little time to learn.)

Will ye pitch some white pavilion, and lustily

even the odds,

With nets and hoops and mallets, with rackets

and bats and rods?

Will the rabbit war with your foemen-the red

Teraphs

master of many a shire.

deer horn them for hire?

Your kept cock-pheasant keep you?-he is

Arid, aloof, incurious, unthinking, unthanking, gelt,

And the

whe

Will ye loose your schools to flout them till their browbeat columns melt?

When y

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or ballot them back from your shore?

Will ye pray them or preach them, or print them,

When t

boa

1 your workmen issue a mandate to bid them

strike no more?

1 ye rise and dethrone your rulers? (Because

ye were idle both?

de by insolence

purged by sloth?)

chastened? Indolence

doubt but ye are the People; who shall make you afraid?

o your gods are many; no doubt but your gods shall aid.

Is of greasy altars built for the body's ease; ud little brazen Baals and talking fetishes; aphs of sept and party and wise woodpavement gods

se shall come down to the battle and snatch you from under the rods?

m the gusty, flickering gun-roll with viewless salvoes rent,

I the pitted hail of the bullets that tell not whence they were sent.

en ye are ringed as with iron, when ye are scourged as with whips,

en the meat is yet in your belly, and the boast is yet on your lips;

When ye go forth at morning and the noon beholds you broke,

Ere ye lie down at even, your remnant, under the yoke.

No doubt but ye are the People-absolute, strong, and wise;

Whatever your heart has desired ye have not

withheld from your eyes.

On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin

and the saving lies!

Set each other by the ears,

(But the Prophets, Saints, and Seers

The Word came down to Satan that raged and roared alone,

'Mid the shouting of the peoples by the cannon overthrown

Then t

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Till he

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And

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For each would claim the marvel as his own):

And th

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"Rise

up, rise up, thou Satan, upon the Earth

Fo

'As thy skill shall serve to break it or bring low."

And