LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY O God, within whose sight Thy Will from none withholds Full liberty. Lord, set Thy Churches free Lord, set us free! Let all past bitterness Lord, set the people free! Thy temple courts are wide, In peace, and side by side, God, grant us now Thy peace! God, send us peace! Peace in True Liberty, Peace in Equality, Peace and Fraternity, God, send us peace! FREEMEN Let no man stand between my God and me! I claim a Free man's right Of intercourse direct with Him, Who gave me Freedom with the air and light. God made me free. Let no man stand between Me and my liberty! We need no priest to tell us God is Love. Have we not eyes to see, And minds to apprehend, and hearts That leap responsive to His Charity? God's gifts are free. Let no man stand between Us and His liberty! We need no priest to point a way to heaven.God's heaven is here, -is there,- Man's birthright, with the light and air,— "God is His own and best interpreter." His ways are free. Let no man stand between Us and His liberty! Let no man strive to rob us of this right! For this, from age to age, Our fathers did a mighty warfare wage, And, by God's help, we'll keep our heritage! God says "Be Free!" And we, "NO MAN SHALL STAND BETWEEN OUR SONS AND LIBERTY!'' THE LONG ROAD Long the road, Till Love came down it! Dark the life, Till Love did crown it! Dark the life, And long the road, Till Love came To share the load! For the touch Of Love transfigures All the road And all its rigours. Life and Death, Love's touch transfigures. Life and Death And all that lies In between, Love sanctifies. Once the heavenly spark is lighted, Once in love two hearts united, Nevermore Shall aught that was be As before. THE CHRIST The good intent of God became the Christ. And lived on earth-the Living Love of God, That men might draw to closer touch with heaven, Since Christ in all the ways of man hath trod. THE BALLAD OF LOST SOULS With the thirty pieces of silver, They bought the Potter's Field; For none would have the blood-money The Place of Blood for the Price of Blood, And that was meet, I ween, For there they would bury the dead who died In frowardness and sin. And the first man they would bury there And that was as dreadful a burying For the sick earth would not keep him; Each time it thrust him out, And they that would have buried him And others they would bury In that unhallowed spot, But honest earth would none of them, Because of Iscariot. And oh, it was a fell, fell place, With dead black trees all round, And a quag that boiled and writhed and coiled Where had been solid ground. For every tree that stood there, And in despair they left him there, And there his body lay, Till his sad soul came, all black with shame, And carried it away. And those denied a sepulture In that most dismal spot, Gibbered and flew, a ghastly crew, Incensed with rage, that grew and grew, For their souls were all in torment, And never a moment's rest was theirs, That was a place of wailings, And the grisly things of Death, The bare black arms of the trees above, No light of the moon fell on it, On the quivering face of that dread place, |