This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...and priestess The sash and mantle white, Broidered with many a magic thread To give these Gods delight, And save our cherished homes from harm And our fields from flood and blight. And tales we tell by the evening Same Of how the Earth was made, And the tribes came up from the Under-world To people plain and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...and priestess The sash and mantle white, Broidered with many a magic thread To give these Gods delight, And save our cherished homes from harm And our fields from flood and blight. And tales we tell by the evening Same Of how the Earth was made, And the tribes came up from the Under-world To people plain and glade, --Tales that will echo round our hearths Till the last glow shall fade; And of the two immortal youths, Twin children of the Sun,1 Who eastward led their faltering bands To find where morn begun, --To gain the stable, midmost lands, And the trembling borders shun; And of Po'-shai-ank'-ya, the master,20 Whose help we never lose, Who bade us turn from hate and guile And ever the noblest choose, And said that whoso smites a man His own heart doth bruise. Of Earth and the Gods he taught us, --How slope and plain to till, And the streams that fall from the mountain snows To turn and store at will; And how to trace the glorious Sun North and south to his goal; And straight, when the body's life is done, Set free the prisoned soul! His voice was sweet as the summer wind, But his robe was poor and old, And, scorned of men, he journeyed far To the city the mists enfold, --Far to the land where his treasured lore And secret rites were told; And there with a chosen few he dwelt And made their darkness day, Till lo! while his words yet thrilled their hearts, Unseen, as the summer wind departs, He vanished in mist away!--Passed to the splendor of the Sun, He, the divine, the gracious one, To hear Out prayers for aye! And still our holy fires we keep, And the sacred meal we strow, With many a prayer to the Gods of the air And the Gods that dwell below, --The Gods of the Great Six Regions: The yellow, dreadful North; The West, with the blue of sea and...
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