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PROMETHEUS—CHRIST.
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Prometheus, we reject thy gifts for Christ's!
Selfish and hard were thine; but His are sweet—
"Sell what thou hast and give it to the poor!"
Him we must follow to the great Commune,
Reading his book of Nature, growing wise
As planet-men, who own the earth, and pass;
Him we must follow till foul Cant and Caste
Die like disease, and Mankind, freed at last,
Tramples the complex life and laws and limits
That stand between all living things and Freedom!