The strange, disturbing beauty of her face.

“New seeing came upon the eyes of men,

New life ran pulsing in the veins of Earth:

It was a sifting of the souls again,

The weighing of the ages and their worth.

II

“Man burst the chains that his own hands had made;

Hurled down the blind, fierce gods that in blind years

He fashioned, and a power upon them laid

To bruise his heart and shake his soul with fears.