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Rh Then came the Christ, the Saviour and the Brother,
 * With truth and freedom once again the seed;

"Woe to the rich! Do ye to one another
 * As each desires for self"—man's primal creed.

But, lo! they took the Saviour and they bound him.
 * And set him in their midst as he were free;

They made His tied hands seal their deeds around Him,
 * And His dumb lips condemn fair Liberty!

"Then woe!" cried those faint-hearted; "woe for dreaming.
 * For prayers and hopes and suflferings all in vain!"

Souls despondent at the outward seeming,
 * Here at the cry, behold the light again!

Here at the cry, the answer and solution:
 * When strong as Death the cold usurper reigns,

When human right seems doomed to dissolution,
 * And Hope itself is wrung with mortal pains;

When Christ is harnessed to the landlord's burden;
 * His truth to make men free a thing of scorn;

God hears the cry, and sends the mystic guerdon,—
 * Earth thrills and throes—another Queen is born!