![You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children, You must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted,By a demon or a god. You who stand above them now, your hatchets blunt and bloody, You were not there before, When I lay upon a mountain And my father’s hand was trembling with the beauty of the word.
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You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children,
You must not do it anymore.
A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted,
By a demon or a god.
You who stand above them now, your hatchets blunt and bloody,
You were not there before,
When I lay upon a mountain
And my father’s hand was trembling with the beauty of the word.
