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/ The gods, who could loose and bind / In the long ago, / The gods, who were stern and kind / To men below, / Where shall we seek and find, / Or, finding, know?
/ Where Greece, with king on king, / Dreamed in her halls; / Where Rome kneeled worshiping, / The owl now calls, / And whispering ivies cling / To mouldering walls.
/ They have served, and have passed away / From the earth and sky, / And their Creed is a record gray, / Where the passer-by / Reads, "Live and be glad to-day, / For to-morrow ye die."
/ And shall it be so, indeed, / When we are no more, / That nations to be shall read, -- / As we have before, -- / In the dust of a Christian Creed, / But pagan lore?