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They journeyed on from Zuphim's sea until / They reached the sacred mount and heard the solemn / Decalogue. The mount was robed in blackness -- / Heavy and deep the shadows lay; the thunder / Crashed and roared upon the air; the lightning / Leaped from crag to crag; God's fearful splendor / Flowed around, and Sinai quaked and shuddered / To its base, and there did God proclaim / Unto their listening ears, the great, the grand, / The central and the primal truth of all / The universe -- the unity of God.
Only one God -- / This truth received into the world's great life, / Not as an idle dream nor speculative thing, / But as a living, vitalizing thought, / Should bind us closer to our God and link us / With our fellow man, the brothers and co-heirs / With Christ, the elder brother of our race.