THE EQUINOX
Appear, most awful and most mild,
As it is lawful, to thy child!
Tue Corvus. For of the Father and the Son
The Holy Spirit is the norm;
Male-female, quintessential, one,
Man-being veiled in woman-form.
Glory and worship in the highest,
Thou Dove, mankind that deifiest,
Being that race, most royally run
To spring sunshine through winter storm.
Glory and worship be to Thee,
Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree!
First SeMicHorus. Men. Glory to thee from gilded tomb!
SECOND SEMICHoRUS. WoMEN. Glory to thee from wait-
ing womb!
Men. Glory to Thee from earth unploughed!
Women. Glory to Thee from virgin vowed!
MEN. Glory to Thee, true Unity
Of the eternal Trinity!
Women. Glory to Thee, thou sire and dam
And self of Iam that Iam!
MEN. Glory to Thee, beyond all term,
Thy spring of sperm, thy seed and germ!
Women. Glory to Thee, eternal Sun,
Thou One in Three, Thou Three in One!
Cuorus. Glory and worship unto Thee,
Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree!
(These words are to form the substance of the an-
them; but the whole or any part thereof shall be
set to music, which may be as elaborate as art can
devise. But even should other anthems be au-
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