pace.
Yet I would fort you,
I would make serene your clouded sphere;
And though equal we are in power and judgement,
I would sel you.
When out of chaos came the earth, and we, sons of the beginning, beheld each other in the lustless light, we breathed the first hushed, tremulous sound that quied the currents of air and sea.
Then we walked, hand in hand, upon the gray infant world, and out of the echos of our first drowsy steps time was born, a fourth divinity, that sets his feet upon our footprints, shadowing our thoughts and desires, and seeing only with our eyes.
And uh came life, and unto life came the spirit, the winged melody of the universe. And we ruled life and spirit, and none save us khe measure of the years nor the weight of years nebulous dreams, till we, at noontide of the seventh aeon, gave the sea in marriage to the sun.
And from the inner chamber of their nuptial ecstasy, we brought man, a creature who, though yielding and infirm, bears ever the marks of his parentage.
Through man who walks earth with eyes upoars, we find pathways to earths distant regions; and of man, the humble reed growing beside dark waters, we make a flute through whose hollowed heart we pour our voice to the silence-bound world. From the sunless north to the sun-smitten sand of the south.
From the lotus land where days are born
To perilous isles where days are slain,
Man the faied, overbold by our purpose,
Ventures with lyre and sword.
Ours is the will he heralds,
And ours the snty he proclaims,
And his love trodden courses are rivers, to the sea of our desires.
We, upon the heights, in mans sleep dream our dreams.
We urge his days to part from the valley of twilights
Aheir fullness upon the hills.
Our hands direct the tempests that sweep the world
And summon man from sterile peace to fertile strife
And on to triumph.
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