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Is proven prophecy—

One watchword through our armies,

One answer from our lands—

'No dealings with Diabolus

As long as Mansoul stands.

A pedlar from a hovel,

The lowest of the low,

The father of the Novel,

Salvation's first Defoe,

Eight blinded generations

Ere Armageddon came,

He showed us how to meet it,

And Bunyan was his name!

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THE HOUSES

(A SONG OF THE DOMINIONS)

1898

'Twixt my house and thy house the pathway is broad,

In thy house or my house is half the world's hoard;

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