THE ALTAR OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS
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A word whose echoes were wonder and music of fears
overcome,
Bade Sinai bow, and the thunder of godhead on Horeb
be dumb.
The childless children of night, strong daughters of
doom and dread,
The thoughts and the fears that smite the soul, and its
life lies dead,
Stood still and were quelled by the sound of his word
and the light of his thought,
And the God that in man lay bound was unbound from
the bonds he had wrought.
Dark fear of a lord more dark than the dreams of his
worshippers knew
Fell dead, and the corpse lay stark in the sunlight of
truth shown true.
