Stones from The Quarry or, Moods of Mind. By Henry Browne [i.e. Henry Ellison] |
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FAITH. THE SCEPTIC “MALGRÉ LUI. |
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FAITH. THE SCEPTIC “MALGRÉ LUI.
If I do wound thee, 'tis as those who litThe funeral pyre, in fashion of old Rome;
Who, when consigning Dearest to the tomb,
Anguish'd and looking-back set light to it:
As holding sight of such sad act unfit!
So, under cónstraint of more dreaded doom,
In veriest shadow, not mere semblable,
Of Death himself, I deed enforc'd commit,
Entomb and kill! First, lest I see the thing
I do, put out my very sight of sight,
Belief; although my inmost soul it wring!
Then, as not bearing loss so infinite,
I light the pyre, and by Faith's dead side fling
Myself thereon, by her death slain outright!
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