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Rh Served in building the buildings that last longer
 * than any,

Served the Hebrew, the Persian, the most ancient
 * Hindostanee,

Served the mound-raiser on the Mississippi—served
 * those whose relics remain in Central America,

Served Albic temples in woods or on plains, with
 * unhewn pillars, and the druids, and the bloody
 * body laid in the hollow of the great stone,

Served the artificial clefts, vast, high, silent, on the
 * snow-covered hills of Scandinavia,

Served those who, time out of mind, made on the
 * granite walls rough sketches of the sun, moon,
 * stars, ships, ocean-waves,

Served the paths of the irruptions of the Goths—
 * served the pastoral tribes and nomads,

Served the incalculably distant Kelt—served the
 * hardy pirates of the Baltic,

Served before any of those, the venerable and harmless
 * men of Ethiopia,

Served the making of helms for the galleys of
 * pleasure, and the making of those for war,

Served all great works on land, and all great works
 * on the sea,

For the mediæval ages, and before the mediæval
 * ages,

Served not the living only, then as now, but served
 * the dead.

I see the European headsman, He stands masked, clothed in red, with huge legs,
 * and strong naked arms,

And leans on a ponderous axe.