And fear’d, and sought to slay them; for

The battle-brood of gods is battle-born.

But they endured; nor in the thunder found

Harm, or the bolt of death.

 

And God look’d down and spake, and thro’ the Earth

The murmur ran, terranean like the shock

When central earthquakes jar, until the Deep

Foams tingling to the icèd poles; and said,

To these I give the World.

Andamans, 1886-7.

Andamans, 1886-7.

 

 Death-Song of Savagery

Death-Song of Savagery

Death-Song of Savagery

Death-Song of Savagery

Death-Song of Savagery

I have heard it—I have heard the Forest

Strive to bring me comfort, and the Ocean

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