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 Behold that heaven where Thou Didst deem He reigns in all of His glory! Cloudless, serene, it smiles quietly on With its insensible blue smile. As 'twas Before, so 'twill be after Thee. So too The fowls flying the air and every beast Inhabiting the earth has lived and lives According to one law, that is my law. The strong forever shall absorb the weak. 'Tis so with man. And this whole wide, wide world Is my kingdom. Because I am the Life. I rule. I sit enthroned in hearts, in souls. No one shall ever banish me, nor Thou, Nor Thy Father. Thy kingdom of God is A dream. That dream I leave to man for e'er!

Behold, how calmly Rome's centurion Speaks with the scribe in white beneath Thy cross! 'Twill ever be thus. They are now heirs of Thy words, Thy dreams. One shall change his idols, The other his Jehovah for Thy name, And on the world shall live as I ordain.

Why didst Thou not then take all those kingdoms And this world's glory from my gen'rous hand? Thy youthful life would not have thus been spent In shameful torture. Happily couldst Thou Have lived and brought millions Thy happiness. But what bring’st Thou? Dath and discord Thou spreadst.