RESTITUTION
ENOUGH! the lie is ended. God only owns the land;No parchment deed hath virtue unsigned by His own hand;Out on the bold blasphemers who would eject the Lord,And pauperize His children, and trample on His word!Behold this glorious temple, with dome of starry sky,And floor of greensward scented, and trees for pillars high;And song of birds for music, and bleat of lambs for prayer,And incense of sweet vapors uprising everywhere.Behold his table bounteous spread over land and sea,The sure reward of labor, to every mortal free;And hark! through Nature's anthem there rises the refrain,"God owns the world, but giveth it unto the sons of men."But see, within the temple, as in Solomon's of old,The money-changers haggle, and souls are bought and sold;And that is called anowner'swhich can only be the Lord's,And Christ is not remembered—nor His whip of knotted cords.But Christ has not forgotten, and wolfish human greedShall be driven from our heritage; God's bounties shall be freed;And from out our hoary statutes shall be torn the crime-stained leaves,Which have turned the world, God's Temple, into a den of thieves.
ENOUGH! the lie is ended. God only owns the land;No parchment deed hath virtue unsigned by His own hand;Out on the bold blasphemers who would eject the Lord,And pauperize His children, and trample on His word!Behold this glorious temple, with dome of starry sky,And floor of greensward scented, and trees for pillars high;And song of birds for music, and bleat of lambs for prayer,And incense of sweet vapors uprising everywhere.Behold his table bounteous spread over land and sea,The sure reward of labor, to every mortal free;And hark! through Nature's anthem there rises the refrain,"God owns the world, but giveth it unto the sons of men."But see, within the temple, as in Solomon's of old,The money-changers haggle, and souls are bought and sold;And that is called anowner'swhich can only be the Lord's,And Christ is not remembered—nor His whip of knotted cords.But Christ has not forgotten, and wolfish human greedShall be driven from our heritage; God's bounties shall be freed;And from out our hoary statutes shall be torn the crime-stained leaves,Which have turned the world, God's Temple, into a den of thieves.
ENOUGH! the lie is ended. God only owns the land;No parchment deed hath virtue unsigned by His own hand;Out on the bold blasphemers who would eject the Lord,And pauperize His children, and trample on His word!
ENOUGH! the lie is ended. God only owns the land;
No parchment deed hath virtue unsigned by His own hand;
Out on the bold blasphemers who would eject the Lord,
And pauperize His children, and trample on His word!
Behold this glorious temple, with dome of starry sky,And floor of greensward scented, and trees for pillars high;And song of birds for music, and bleat of lambs for prayer,And incense of sweet vapors uprising everywhere.
Behold this glorious temple, with dome of starry sky,
And floor of greensward scented, and trees for pillars high;
And song of birds for music, and bleat of lambs for prayer,
And incense of sweet vapors uprising everywhere.
Behold his table bounteous spread over land and sea,The sure reward of labor, to every mortal free;And hark! through Nature's anthem there rises the refrain,"God owns the world, but giveth it unto the sons of men."
Behold his table bounteous spread over land and sea,
The sure reward of labor, to every mortal free;
And hark! through Nature's anthem there rises the refrain,
"God owns the world, but giveth it unto the sons of men."
But see, within the temple, as in Solomon's of old,The money-changers haggle, and souls are bought and sold;And that is called anowner'swhich can only be the Lord's,And Christ is not remembered—nor His whip of knotted cords.
But see, within the temple, as in Solomon's of old,
The money-changers haggle, and souls are bought and sold;
And that is called anowner'swhich can only be the Lord's,
And Christ is not remembered—nor His whip of knotted cords.
But Christ has not forgotten, and wolfish human greedShall be driven from our heritage; God's bounties shall be freed;And from out our hoary statutes shall be torn the crime-stained leaves,Which have turned the world, God's Temple, into a den of thieves.
But Christ has not forgotten, and wolfish human greed
Shall be driven from our heritage; God's bounties shall be freed;
And from out our hoary statutes shall be torn the crime-stained leaves,
Which have turned the world, God's Temple, into a den of thieves.