Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE WORSHIPPER. EVER have I been a worshipper Of all the changing gods. Strange beings in the twilight have I honored, Whose remembrance has vanished from the earth. To Ra have I given glory in the sunlight, And praised him in the waters of the Nile. On the peaks and in the deep caverns of Asra I have bowed before the Dragon of the Sun, And Siva sitting in darkness. Yea, when the waters lay deep upon the continents I worshipped Ea in Eridu; And with the sunrise kneeled to Shamash in Sippara. To Oannes, rising amid the islands of the sea, Have I made obeisance; And bowed down before Baal in Babylon. Before Assur have I borne fire and water; And lifted the Serpent in the wilderness, Following Jehovah. By winding rivers and by inland seas of the Kassites Have I adored their strange gods; And have come up out of long darkness singina; of Pharamond. I have heaped the red fires of Moloch in the forests, And razed them for the shrines of the White Christ. Yea, I have chanted with the abbots in AppenzeU- In Britain and in Staffa have I builded sanctuaries; And have vanished with the Druids of Stonehenge And their beacon lights upon the Celtic hills. Amid far waters I planted the True Cross beneath the palm trees; And held the crucifix to the lips of Montezuma; By the long waves on a frozen shore I sought the liberty of God, singing His mercies. And now in these last days, Behold, I fling His banner to the stars, Giving glory unto the Highest, World without end! THE DEWDROP. THE cycle of the dewdrop and the cycle of the sea, The smallest and the greatest, 'tis a question of degree. 'Tis the same within the ocean and the drop of water small; And the dweller in the dewdrop has felt and known it all- Yea, I, within my dewdr...