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THE ALTAR OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS
For the light that lived in the sound of the song of his
speech was one
With the light of the wisdom that found earth's tune in
the song of the sun;
His word with the word of the lord most high of us all
on earth,
Whose soul was a lyre and a sword, whose death was a
deathless birth.
Him too we praise as we praise our own who as he stand
strong;
Him, Æschylus, ancient of days, whose word is the
perfect song.
When Caucasus showed to the sun and the sea what a
God could endure,
When wisdom and light were one, and the hands of the
matricide pure,
A song too subtle for psalmist or prophet of Jewry to
know,
Elate and profound as the calmest or stormiest of waters
that flow,
