The Shemite's roving eye is keen from his tent,
He sees the obvious and speaks sentiment;
His nation a brood under Israel's hem
He knew but one city, Jerusalem.

Enter the Roman with world-wide polity! —
" Believe what ye will but be subject to me! "
As from the rushes had Moses pedigree,
Joshua, the straw-born, thought in poetry:

" Freer this sun the strangers' helmets flash,
Happy Israel whose creeds no longer clash!
Gentiles we hated have stricken off our clogs,
Nobler are mankind than the harsh synagogues! "

That sublimation like a blowing seed
Fell in the furrow that was smoking to breed:
Rome had oped the world with her ploughshare feet,
Joshua went forth and sowed it with bright wheat.

Moralizing without labor is disease.
Catch-cure-workers snare themselves in mysteries.
Agitation agitates sweet sleep away.
Science lay not with the Jew nor Joshua.

The ghost tales creep in the blood of conquerors.
A sure church ever toleration abhors.
Little miracles his followers must see,
And Jove's fatherhood vouch for democracy.

Superstitions strove and his girl head was bowed,
Tears came between him and the simple crowd,
Winds, understood not, whispered from the sky
Imaginations of the old Genii.

Youth is the quickening, age the mummifying,
Youth thinks of loving and age thinks of dying:
Joshua, distempered, counted life a loss,
The beauty of the lilies droops at his cross.

When we know nothing of our own planet's plan,
Fancy must prophesy and priest dream for man,
Joshua who loved the Earth, his one pet bird,
Never to his singing mate has since said word.

Stubborn idolatry mistakes all it can.
Jew-named Christians burnt alive their fellow-man.
Science with miracles to shame sorcery
Bent to the Roman priest the pagan-freed knee.

Japhet in the West took Physics for his mate
And she nursed him like the wolf the twins of state,
Walled her Europe with the towers that suns descry,
FelTher hemispheres of breasts the globe's angury.

Arsenalled her arms with chemistry's retorts,
Made old Rome her polity, chivalry her forts;
States gave stability to tribes' disarray:
Europe for poetry set up Joshua;

Fought for his grave and his peasantry set high,
Put his brethren in its shields of victory;
Joshua's living type they banished and slew:
Europe took the Jewish and enslaved the Jew.

Wider than Joshua, Spinoza loved Space,
In his matter-loving thought all worlds had grace;
Socialistic Joshuas a new earth drew
But the church of Joshua rejected Jew.

We have with us Joshua perfectly new
In the juvenescence of each sanguine Jew,
In his friendly vehemence, Shemite to brim,
But the doors of Japhet's race are shut to him.

He, in Joshua's delight, hails the events,
His disbanded nationhood to all presents,
Drives his golden wedge into Japhet's schism
Profiting honestly by his optimism.

Joshuas arrogate anarchistic powers,
Build themselves no sepulchre but lie in ours;
Joshua, pastoral, preaches and roams,
Turning mobs against the genius of homes;

Rails at society that taketh providence
As the roving Arabs hate Yemen's defense,
Hates the riches that refine and in us dwell
For the riches that o'erburden Ishmael.

Joshua pushes hard as if earth were slow,
And he imperium in imperio;
Unto him as Caesar's coin we render odds,
But refuse to his assault the things of Gods.

Joshua never sought Kepler's wonder laws:
Sentimental, sensuous, effect and cause
Unto him were platitudes: genius wild,
He is reigning and will reign, the little child.