Versos English Charles Sprague Not to the Pagan's mount I turn

English poem

Not to the Pagan's mount I turn

by (1857–1902)

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Not to the Pagan's mount I turn, For inspiration now; Olympus and its gods I spurn— Pure One, be with me, Thou! Thou, in whose awful name, From suffering and from shame, Our Fathers fled, and braved a pathless sea; Thou, in whose holy fear, They fixed an empire here, And gave it to their Children and to Thee.