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A Temple Service.
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Sliding from end to end of earth with ease.
Love! we will love our women and our homes,
And spurn our enemy into darkest hell.
He loved no home, no woman, poor white Christ!
Up, men; up, brothers; put your wolf-hood on
As I do, and lay low these Christian lambs;
We are strong oaks and elms, and they are osiers;
We are as oak, boar, stag,—all wild strong things;
Strength let us worship; let us not bow down
Before our enemy as cowards, hares,
And call it high humility, Christian meekness,
And hope for gold crowns in another world,
Being not men enough to win them here!
Hew ye like madmen for free life, free strength,
Home, wife and children; death to Christ and shame!
Men of the primal heath and flood be we,
Heathen for ever, glory in that name!
Love! we will love our women and our homes,
And spurn our enemy into darkest hell.
He loved no home, no woman, poor white Christ!
Up, men; up, brothers; put your wolf-hood on
As I do, and lay low these Christian lambs;
We are strong oaks and elms, and they are osiers;
We are as oak, boar, stag,—all wild strong things;
Strength let us worship; let us not bow down
Before our enemy as cowards, hares,
And call it high humility, Christian meekness,
And hope for gold crowns in another world,
Being not men enough to win them here!
Hew ye like madmen for free life, free strength,
Home, wife and children; death to Christ and shame!
Men of the primal heath and flood be we,
Heathen for ever, glory in that name!
CLXXII.
A Temple Service.
(Ordained in Israel after the deliverance from Moab.)
priests.
The days were drawn towards the sun,
Kissed every one,
By lips red-ripe with summer sweet,
From brow to feet.
Kissed every one,
By lips red-ripe with summer sweet,
From brow to feet.