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SOUTH of the Line, inland from far Durban, / A mouldering soldier lies-your countryman. / Awry and doubled up are his gray bones, / And on the breeze his puzzled phantom moans / Nightly to clear Canopus: "I would know / By whom and when the All-Earth-gladdening Law / Of Peace, brought in by that Man Crucified, / Was ruled to be inept, and set aside? / And what of logic or of truth appears / In tacking ‘Anno Domini' to the years? / Near twenty-hundred livened thus have hied, / But tarries yet the Cause for which He died. "