 | Sonnets and Other Poems Chiefly Religious |  |
And Jesus climbed the Temple's pinnacle,
And gazed adown the dizzy height, and saw
The people as they came and went. A Voice
Like that which in the desert spake of bread—
Or was it only thoughts within His heart?—
Whispered—
And gazed adown the dizzy height, and saw
The people as they came and went. A Voice
Like that which in the desert spake of bread—
Or was it only thoughts within His heart?—
Whispered—
“By faith the Righteous One shall live:
Now prove thy faith! now cast Thee headlong down,
And God will give His angels charge of Thee
To bear Thee up in safety; and the crowds
Shall see, and fear, and wonder, and believe;
And Thou shalt teach the prating Pharisee
Who vaunts his works, what wonders faith can work;
And Thou shalt teach the contrite publican
That God is near the lowly and the meek.”
Now prove thy faith! now cast Thee headlong down,
And God will give His angels charge of Thee
To bear Thee up in safety; and the crowds
Shall see, and fear, and wonder, and believe;
And Thou shalt teach the prating Pharisee
Who vaunts his works, what wonders faith can work;
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That God is near the lowly and the meek.”
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