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 | The complete works, poetry and prose, of the Rev. Edward Young prefixed, a life of the author, by John Doran ... With eight illustrations on steel, and a portrait. In two volumes |  |
Why disbelieve, Lorenzo?—“Reason bids,
All-sacred Reason.”—Hold her sacred still;
Nor shalt thou want a rival in thy flame.
All-sacred Reason! source and soul of all
Demanding praise, on earth, or earth above!
My heart is thine: deep in its inmost folds
Live thou with life; live dearer of the two.
Wear I the blessed Cross, by Fortune stamp'd
On passive Nature before Thought was born?
My birth's blind bigot! fired with local zeal!
No; Reason re-baptized me when adult,
Weigh'd true and false in her impartial scale;
My heart became the convert of my head,
And made that choice which once was but my fate.
“On argument alone my faith is built:”
Reason pursued is Faith; and, unpursued,
Where proof invites, 'tis Reason then no more;
And such our proof, that or our Faith is right,
Or Reason lies, and Heaven design'd it wrong.
Absolve we this? what then is blasphemy?
All-sacred Reason.”—Hold her sacred still;
Nor shalt thou want a rival in thy flame.
All-sacred Reason! source and soul of all
Demanding praise, on earth, or earth above!
My heart is thine: deep in its inmost folds
Live thou with life; live dearer of the two.
Wear I the blessed Cross, by Fortune stamp'd
On passive Nature before Thought was born?
My birth's blind bigot! fired with local zeal!
No; Reason re-baptized me when adult,
Weigh'd true and false in her impartial scale;
My heart became the convert of my head,
And made that choice which once was but my fate.
“On argument alone my faith is built:”
Reason pursued is Faith; and, unpursued,
Where proof invites, 'tis Reason then no more;
And such our proof, that or our Faith is right,
Or Reason lies, and Heaven design'd it wrong.
Absolve we this? what then is blasphemy?
| The complete works, poetry and prose, of the Rev. Edward Young prefixed, a life of the author, by John Doran ... With eight illustrations on steel, and a portrait. In two volumes | |