They strike at noble and ignoble things,

Immortal Love with the old world's out-worn lies,

But even now, a wind from clearer skies

Dissolves in smoke their coteries and wings.

See, their divorced idealist re-divorces

The wife he stole from his own stealing friend!

And these would pluck the high stars from their courses,

And mock the fools that praise them, till the end!

Well, let the whole world praise them. Truth can wait

Till our new England shall unlock the gate.