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Rh Nor will He come like carnal kings of old,

With pomp of pilfered gold;

Nor like the Pharisees with pride of prayer;

Nor as the stumbling foolish stewards dream

In tedious argument and milkless creed,

But in the passion of the heart-warm deed

Will come the Man Supreme.

Yea, for He comes to lift the Public Care—

To build on Earth the Vision hung in air.

This is the one fulfilment of His Law—

The one Fact in the mockeries that seem.

This is the Vision that the prophets saw—

The Comrade Kingdom builded in their dream.

No, not as in that elder day

Comes now the King upon the human way.

He comes with power: His white unfearing face

Shines through the Social Passion of the race.

He comes to frame the freedom of the Law,

To touch these men of Earth

With a feeling of life's oneness and its worth,

A feeling of its mystery and awe.

And when He comes into the world gone wrong,

He will rebuild her beauty with a song. 20