THE ALTAR OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS
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All the names wherein the incarnate Lord lived his day
and died
Fade from suns to stars, from stars into darkness
undescried.
Christ the man lives yet, remembered of man as dreams
that leave
Light on eyes that wake and know not if memory bid
them grieve.
Fire sublime as lightning shines, and exults in thunder
yet,
Where the battle wields the name and the sword of
Mahomet.
Far above all wars and gospels, all ebb and flow of time,
Lives the soul that speaks in silence, and makes mute
earth sublime.
Still for her, though years and ages be blinded and
bedinned,
Mazed with lightnings, crazed with thunders, life rides
and guides the wind.
