Before the Eternal with burnt offerings?
Hath not the Eternal showed thee what is good,
That thou do justly and mercifully, and walk
Humbly with the Eternal?
O, irony of the Master-dramatist,
Who set once more those lists; and sent His truth
Unrecognised, as of old, to fight for life
And prove itself in struggle and raise once more
A nobler world above the world out-worn,
Crushing all easy sophistry, though it stood