 | 'Twixt Kiss and Lip or Under the Sword. By the author of "Women Must Weep," [i.e. F. W. O. Ward] Third edition |  |
FROM GLORY TO GLORY.
Eternal progress is the law of man,
Eternal death is every falsehood's doom;
And though the flower of folly thrive and bloom,
It lies beneath a dark and fatal ban.
Eternal death is every falsehood's doom;
And though the flower of folly thrive and bloom,
It lies beneath a dark and fatal ban.
And should the evil mock the better plan,
Yet is its root in nothing but the tomb,
And if the arts of error well began,
They still must end in miserable gloom.
Yet is its root in nothing but the tomb,
And if the arts of error well began,
They still must end in miserable gloom.
Though history all be but a lying story,
And graven in the chronicles of shame,
Or writ on battle fields in letters gory;
And graven in the chronicles of shame,
Or writ on battle fields in letters gory;
Earth soils no soul (if it defiles the name),
That simple love and purity enframe,
And it shall pass from glory unto glory.
That simple love and purity enframe,
And it shall pass from glory unto glory.
| 'Twixt Kiss and Lip or Under the Sword. By the author of "Women Must Weep," [i.e. F. W. O. Ward] Third edition | |