Stones from The Quarry or, Moods of Mind. By Henry Browne [i.e. Henry Ellison] |
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SCHOOL-BOARD WRANGLES.
While fools and knaves, and rabid sectariesWould education bring to a dead-lock,
Leaving to chance, or worse, the poor lost flock,
In steals the Devil, in the shepherd's guise,
And turns it back while pointing to the skies:
Lest tender consciences nice points should shock,
And Faith find common-sense a stumbling-block,
Religion starves on empty “'ologies.”
Ye hypocrites! ye would set up your stones
And stocks in place of God, and truth, and love,
And give us for the grace of life dry bones!
Religion, which is from, to draw above,
Must speak with other voice; ay, as with tones
And tongues of angels, and have power to move!
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