Reincarnation.
High in the place of outraged liberty, He ruled the world, an emperor and god His iron armies swept the land and sea, And conquered nations trembled at his nod. By him the love that fills man's soul with light, And makes a Heaven of Earth, was crucified; Lust-crowned he lived, yea, lived in God's despite, And old in infamies, a king he died. Justice begins now. Many centuries In some vile body must his soul atone As slave, as beggar, loathsome with disease, Less than the dog at which we fling a stone.
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"High in the place of outraged liberty,..."
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