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The gods are brethren. Wheresoe’er They set their shrines of love or fear In Grecian woods, by banks of Nile, Where cold snows sleep or roses smile, The gods are brethren. Zeus the Sire Was fashioned of the self-same fire As Odin, He, whom Ind brought forth, Hath his pale kinsman east and north; And more than one, since life began, Hath known Christ’s agony for Man. The gods are brethren. Kin by fate, In gentleness as well as hate, ’Mid heights that only Thought may climb They come, they go; they are, or seem; Each, rainbow’d from the rack of Time, Casts broken lights across God’s Dream.
The gods are brethren. Wheresoe’er They set their shrines of love or fear In Grecian woods, by banks of Nile, Where cold snows sleep or roses smile, The gods are brethren. Zeus the Sire Was fashioned of the self-same fire As Odin, He, whom Ind brought forth, Hath his pale kinsman east and north; And more than one, since life began, Hath known Christ’s agony for Man. The gods are brethren. Kin by fate, In gentleness as well as hate, ’Mid heights that only Thought may climb They come, they go; they are, or seem; Each, rainbow’d from the rack of Time, Casts broken lights across God’s Dream.
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- R. Buchanan (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
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Page 97 · printed citation: R. Buchanan (Balder the Beautiful). · compiler notes excluded
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