Pan and Æolus: Poems
To plunder and burn and slay:

God was with man in Eden,

But where is God today?

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THE STORY OF MOSES.

This is the story of Moses,

The earliest scribe that we keep:

Void was the earth and formless,

And dark was the face of the deep,

Till God's word flashed in lightning,

Beautiful, bountiful, bright,

And night was the name of the darkness,

And day was the name of the light.

This is the story of Moses—

(Doubt it, if ever you can)—

The world was too good to begin with,

So God made Adam, the man;

And for Adam He made the woman,

And He gave them laws to obey;


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