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The Immortal Gods

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The gods are there, they hide their lordly faces     From you that will not kneel -     Worship, and they reveal,      Call - and 'tis they!     They have not changed, nor moved from their high places,      The stars stream past their eyes like drifted spray;     Lovely to look on are they as bright gold,     They are wise with beauty, as a pool is wise.     Lonely with lilies; very sweet their eyes -     Bathed deep in sunshine are they, and very cold.

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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