Led in the lines of law, and linked in their differing glory
Star unto star to the end, until God folds them up as a vesture!”
Crying, “Fit rule of the Few, and a serfdom meet for the Many!”
Thundering out of the smoke, as the Voice on the summit of Sinai,—
Then on the great Third Day, when the trumpet was loud, and the lightnings
Leaped in the mount, and the people fell down at the Voice of Jehovah,—
Thundering out of the smoke with the final august proclamation:
“Nay! but the larger Hope, and the limitless future of Manhood!”
(Nathless a nation elect, a people led forth out of bondage,
Led of the cloud and led of the fire, and upheld in the battle,