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THE LIGHT OF THE GODS 
 
WITH GOLD AND IVORY GLEAMING BRIGHT.' 
 
 Frontispiece . 
 
THE LIGHT OF THE GODS 
 
 GRACE GRANGER 
 
 New York 
 
 The Cosmopolitan Press 
 
 1911 
 
Copyright 1911 by 
 Grace Granger 
 
 C1.A303420 
 
GAZE AV\ E-STRUCK ON THY WONDROUS FACE. 
 
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THE PARTHENON 
 
 THE sun sinks slowly in 
 the west, 
 The purple shadows 
 creep apace, 
 And we too, ere we go to rest. 
 Gaze awe-struck on thy won- 
 drous face. 
 
 We pause, for this is holy 
 ground. 
 The spot where gods once 
 dwelt with men. 
 Thou wert the home of her who 
 crown' d 
 This whole hill like a diadem. 
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The Light of the Gods 
 
 With gold and ivory gleaming 
 bright, 
 She dwelt within thy inmost 
 shrine. 
 She had no need of day nor 
 night, 
 For from her brow came light 
 divine. 
 
 That light still gilds these shat- 
 tered walls 
 As passing centuries onward 
 roll, 
 Adown the ages still she calls 
 And answers to our inmost 
 soul. 
 
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Copyrighted In i ndin'-ooa Sr UndrnvooJ^ N. } . 
 
 "THAT LIGHT STILL CJILDS THESE SHATTERED WALLS. 
 
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Cofyrighted hy Underwood s I'd, ., .V. ) . 
 
 "A HIGHER LIGHT HAS COME TO MAN. 
 
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The Parthenon 
 
 A Higher Light has come to man, 
 A Light of which she showed 
 the dawn. 
 Rejoicing in that Light we can 
 Still praise and bless her glor- 
 ious morn. 
 
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The Light of the Gods 
 
 SUNIUM 
 
 A ROCKY height, a sky of 
 blue, 
 A deep, deep sea of azure 
 hue; 
 A stilhiess that our senses steep, 
 And Sunium lies at noon asleep. 
 
 And we from distant lands astray 
 In yonder temple watch and 
 
 pray, 
 As in the past men did before. 
 When this lone hill strange 
 
 altars bore. 
 
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Photograph 
 
 "A ROCKY HEICHT, A SKY OF BLUE. 
 
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Photograph takeri hy Dr. A. S. Cooler. 
 
 ■'SUXIUM LIES AT NOON ASLEEP. 
 
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Sunium 
 
 We see them climb the winding 
 
 steep, 
 We hear their voices low and 
 
 deep, 
 The incense burns, the priests 
 
 arise 
 And offer up the sacrifice. 
 
 Ah! not in vain the prayers they 
 
 said, 
 Though Sunium' s fires be cold 
 
 and dead. 
 Ah! not in vain the hymns they 
 
 sang. 
 That soft through Sunium' s 
 
 temple rang. 
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The Light of the Gods 
 
 So as the hours go Hngering by. 
 And white sails hang twixt sea 
 
 and sky, 
 From vanished past, from ashes 
 
 grey 
 Comes clearer light and hope 
 
 to-day. 
 
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FROM VANISHED PAST, FROM ASHES GREY." 
 
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Mars Hill 
 
 MARS HILL 
 
 OH ! Hill of Mars, divinely 
 fair, 
 Thy noble height shines 
 soft to-day ; 
 The gentle winds of Attic air 
 About thy lofty summits play. 
 
 This hill so bare once teemed 
 with life. 
 Thy councils e'en the gods 
 did grace; 
 And from the world of toil and 
 strife 
 Men came to gaze upon thy 
 face. 
 
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The Light of the Gods 
 
 And gazing felt their souls re- 
 newed 
 As thy stern mandates evil 
 chid. 
 And 'neath thy brow crushed 
 and subdued 
 The awful shades of conscience 
 hid. 
 
 Here once with murderous brow 
 overcast, 
 And hands with mothers' blood 
 imbrued. 
 Came one who here found peace 
 at last 
 And the wild powers of sin 
 subdued. 
 
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Mars Hill 
 
 Here first from gods to man was 
 given 
 The greatest gift gods can be- 
 stow — 
 The grace that Ufts the soul to 
 heaven 
 While tears of penitence over- 
 flow. 
 
 And later on came one who here 
 More clearly yet that grace 
 had showed; 
 Since blind with light, and dumb 
 with fear, 
 He met his Master in the 
 road. 
 
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The Light of the Gods 
 
 Ah! greater than the poet's tale 
 His halting speech our memo- 
 ries fill — 
 From mystic shrine to rend the 
 veil 
 Stood the Great Saint upon 
 Mars Hill. 
 
 Oh blessed hill his feet hath trod 
 The sacred message to pro- 
 claim, 
 He who declared the '' Unknown 
 God'' 
 Adds lustre to thy deathless 
 fame. 
 
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"FROM MYSTIC SHRINE TO REND THE VEIL. 
 
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The Fountain of Peirene 
 
 THE FOUNTAIN OF 
 PEIRENE 
 
 THE flying horse sank 
 slowly down 
 To where the waters 
 from the side 
 Of the grim mountain's rocky 
 crown 
 To each and all their need 
 supplied. 
 
 Bursting and rushing from the 
 ground 
 Flowed the cool stream his 
 thirst to stay. 
 He paused, and gazing shy around 
 Drank, rose, and soared from 
 sight away. 
 
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The Light of the Gods 
 
 Soon in the hot and dusty town 
 
 That water to a fountain fared, 
 
 And thirsting strangers stooping 
 
 down 
 
 By morn, by noon, its solace 
 
 shared. 
 
 So we too, passing by in haste 
 And wand' ring down the 
 ruined way; 
 The old, old fountain, sore 
 defaced, 
 Yet showed that once its cool- 
 ing spray 
 To each and all had solace given, 
 
 As in the olden time betide 
 The winged horse came down 
 from Heaven. 
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HAT WATER TO A FOUNTAIN FARED. 
 
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[G 18 1911 
 
One copy del. to Cat. Div. 
 
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