They are maddened and are blind!” said the Strong Ones;
“Black decay has come where they have trod;
They will break the world in twain if their hands are on the rein—”
“What is that to me?” saith God.
“Ye have made them in their strength, who were Strong Ones,.
Ye have only taught the blackness ye have known:.
These are evil men and blind?—Ay, but molded to your mind!.
How shall ye cry out against your own?.
Ye have held the light and beauty I have given.
Far above the muddied ways where they must plod:.