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Name of God's Name!

Red murder reigns;

All hell is loose;

On gold autumnal air

Walk grinning devils, barbed and hoofed;

While high on hills of hate,

Black-blossomed, crimson-sky'd,

Thou sittest, dumb.

Father Almighty!

This earth is mad!

Palsied, our cunning hands;

Rotten, our gold;

Our argosies reel and stagger

Over empty seas;

All the long aisles

Of Thy Great Temples, God,

Stink with the entrails

Of our souls.

And Thou art dumb.

Above the thunder of Thy Thunders, Lord,

Lightening Thy Lightnings,

Rings and roars

The dark damnation

Of this hell of war.

Red piles the pulp of hearts and heads

And little children's hands.

Allah!

Elohim!

Very God of God!

Death is here! Rh