Brightest of the Divinities, where hast thou not been sung?
Other worships pass away; the idols for whom pyramids were raised lie in the desert crumbling and almost nameless; the Olympians are fled, their fanes no longer rise among the quivering olive-groves of Ilissus, or crown the emerald-islets of the amethyst Aegean! These are gone, but thou remainest.

There is still a garland for thy temple, a heifer for thy stone.

A heifer?
Ah, many a darker sacrifice.

Other blood is shed at thy altars, Remorseless One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever cease singing?
In Kingly and Heroic ages, 'twas of Kings and Heroes that the Poet spake.

But in these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch.