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THE ALTAR OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS
Man crucified rose again from the sepulchre builded to be
No grave for the souls of the men who denied thee, but,
Lord, for thee.
When Bruno's spirit aspired from the flames that thy
servants fed,
The spirit of faith was fired to consume thee and leave
thee dead.
When the light of the sunlike eyes whence laughter
lightened and flamed
Bade France and the world be wise, faith saw thee
naked and shamed.
When wisdom deeper and sweeter than Rabelais veiled
and revealed
Found utterance diviner and meeter for truth whence
anguish is healed,
Whence fear and hate and belief in thee, fed by thy
grace from above,
Fall stricken, and utmost grief takes light from the lustre
of love,
