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Then forth to the folk strode he,

And called them about his fold,

And showed that Sign of the King to be,

The fleece and the horns of gold.

Then, then, the world was changed;

And the Father, where they ranged,

Shook the golden stars and glowing,

And the great Sun stood deranged

In the glory of his going.

Lo, from that day forth, the East

Bears the sunrise on his breast,

And the flaming Day in heaven

Down the dim ways of the west

Driveth, to be lost at even.

The wet clouds to Northward beat;

And Lord Ammon's desert seat

Crieth from the South, unslaken,

For the dews that once were sweet,

For the rain that God hath taken.

'Tis a children's tale, that old

Shepherds on far hills have told;

And we reck not of their telling,

Deem not that the Sun of gold

Ever turned his fiery dwelling.

Or beat backward in the sky,

For the wrongs of man, the cry

Of his ailing tribes assembled,

To do justly, ere they die!

Once, men told the tale, and trembled;