"In Hebrew tents the Lord that led
His leprous slaves to fight and jar;
"Yahveh,* Adon or Elohim,
the God that smites, the Man of War.

* Jehovah.

"The lovely Gods of lib'ertine Greece,
those fair and frail humanities
"Whose homes o'erlook'd the Middle Sea,
where all Earth's beauty cradled lies,

"Ne'er left its blessed bounds, nor sought
the barb'arous climes of barb'arous gods
"Where Odin of the dreary North
o'er hog and sickly mead-cup nods:

"And when, at length, 'Great Pan is dead'
uprose the loud and dol'orous cry
"A glamour wither'd on the ground,
a splendour faded in the sky.

"Yea, Pan was dead, the Nazar'ene came
and seized his seat beneath the sun,
"The votary of the Riddle-god,
whose one is three and three is one;

"Whose sadd'ening creed of herited Sin
spilt o'er the world its cold grey spell;