Leslie Fish - Rimmon lyrics

Duly with knees that feign to quake— Bent head and shaded brow,— Yet one more time, for my father's sake, In Rimmon's House I bow. The curtains part, the trumpet blares, The eunuchs howl aloud; And the great, gilt, swag-bellied idol glares Insolent over the crowd. "This is Rimmon, Lord of the Earth— "Fear Him and bow the knee" And I watch my comrades hide their mirth Who rode to the wars with me. For we remember the sun and the sand And the rocks whereon we trod, 'Til we came to a scorched and a scornful land That did not know our God; And we remember the sacrifice Dead men by hundreds laid— Slain while they served His mysteries, And still He would not aid. ( Praise ye Rimmon, King of Kings, Who ruleth Earth and Sky! And again I bow as the censer swings And the God Enthroned goes by.) Ay, we remember His sacred ark And the virtuous men who knelt To the dark and the hush behind the dark Wherein we dreamed He dwelt; Until we entered to hale Him out, And found no more than an old Unclean image girded about The with cloth of silver and gold. Him we overturned with the bu*ts of our spears— Him and his vast designs— To be the scorn of our muleteers And the jest of our halted lines. The priests hushed the matter before it was known, And returned to our fathers afar, And hastily set Him again on His throne Because He had won us the war. Therefore with knees that feign to quake— Bent head and shaded brow— To this dead dog, for my father's sake, In Rimmon's House I bow!