A STAR COMES SINGING
Ships, cities, and markets, customs and sciences.
And ever with it, out of love, the home life,
Tenement room to spreading palace,
And songs and music, and all of love's sweet ways:
And out of both have grown
The final winter of civilizations,
The entomber, war.
And ever with it, out of love, the home life,
Tenement room to spreading palace,
And songs and music, and all of love's sweet ways:
And out of both have grown
The final winter of civilizations,
The entomber, war.
Seared by these punishing whips
Romance has grown great and stately,
Art flings his iridescent glamor over dumb things,
Making them eloquent;
Glory comes, and a great light
Shining in men's eyes.
Romance has grown great and stately,
Art flings his iridescent glamor over dumb things,
Making them eloquent;
Glory comes, and a great light
Shining in men's eyes.
In icy and desolate space
Godlike forms are fantasied,
Mad Ashtoreth of love, and sea-spray Aphrodite,
Soft Ceres and staid Vesta for the humbler needs,
Red Mars, ice-locked Thor, heaven-thundering Jehovah.
There have been gentler gods and teachers—
Ingazing Buddha and lowly Jesus.
Godlike forms are fantasied,
Mad Ashtoreth of love, and sea-spray Aphrodite,
Soft Ceres and staid Vesta for the humbler needs,
Red Mars, ice-locked Thor, heaven-thundering Jehovah.
There have been gentler gods and teachers—
Ingazing Buddha and lowly Jesus.
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