And the hideous Image of Gold.
Who and what are these strangers?
Bid them worship before the shrine
Where we, the gods of the new world,
Sit o'er the cards and wine!

So they derided the strangers--
Those gods whom the old folk call
Courage and Honour and Faithfulness
And Love which is greater than all.
But when the night was over
And the new day pierced within,
The half-gods were gone from the temple,
And the gods had entered in.




CONTENTS


PART I

I. Ennui
II. Adieu
III. The Gift
IV. Toby
V. Discipline
VI. The Abyss
VII. Larpent's Daughter