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Knowledge and Truth
Knowledge is not like truth, of heavenly birth,It partial is, and may be done away;
Too often proud, and selfish, born of earth,
Its light grows dim before truth's purer ray.
One we acquire with eager, thirsting mind,
Curious to search, and prove possess and hold;
The other is a gift; who seek shall find;
Truth's ever young, but knowledge groweth old.
Increase of knowledge oft doth sorrow bring,
For it can never fill the human soul;
That longs to drink of a diviner spring,
To know the truth; man's rest, and highest goal.
While here we knowledge seek with restless mind,
May we not fail the heaven-born truth to find.
Poem No. 312; c. 9 October 1875
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