Even the Christian beauty

Defects—after Samothrace;

We see τὀ καλόν

Decreed in the market place.

Faun’s flesh is not to us,

Nor the saint’s vision.

We have the press for wafer;

Franchise for circumcision.

All men, in law, are equals.

Free of Peisistratus,

We choose a knave or an eunuch

To rule over us.

O bright Apollo,

τίν’ ἀνδρα, τίν’ ήρωά, τίνα θεὀν,

Shall I place a tin wreath upon!

IV

THESE fought in any case,

T

and some believing, pro domo, in any case ...

Some quick to arm,

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