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Then forth to the folk strode he,
⁠And called them about his fold,
And showed that Sign of the King to be,
⁠The fleece and the horns of gold.

⁠Then, then, the world was changed; [Strophe 2.
⁠And the Father, where they ranged,
Shook the golden stars and glowing,
⁠And the great Sun stood deranged
In the glory of his going.

⁠Lo, from that day forth, the East
⁠Bears the sunrise on his breast,
And the flaming Day in heaven
⁠Down the dim ways of the west
Driveth, to be lost at even.

⁠The wet clouds to Northward beat;
⁠And Lord Ammon's desert seat
Crieth from the South, unslaken,
⁠For the dews that once were sweet,
For the rain that God hath taken.

⁠'Tis a children's tale, that old [Antistrophe 2.
⁠Shepherds on far hills have told;
And we reck not of their telling,
⁠Deem not that the Sun of gold
Ever turned his fiery dwelling.

⁠Or beat backward in the sky,
⁠For the wrongs of man, the cry
Of his ailing tribes assembled,
⁠To do justly, ere they die!
Once, men told the tale, and trembled;