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The Search For The Truth Not Vain
Is that Philosophy, which doth declare,That man the Truth may seek, but never find?
Do all its teachings end but in despair?
Knows it but this, that Wisdom's self is blind?
Such might the ancient sages have confessed,
On whom the Truth, undimmed, had never shone;
Not he, whose mind its noon-day beams have blessed,
And who, from earliest years, its words have known.
Those words to Him who spake them ever lead,
To Christ, to God, who doth the truth inspire;
Not vain the search, if in his Word we read,
And of the Sacred Oracles inquire;
Where he, who seeks the Truth, will surely find
The world's True Light, which lightens every mind.
Poem No. 303; c. 20 February 1864
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