The Poetry of Real Life A New Edition, Much Enlarged and Improved. By Henry Ellison |
PARALLEL BETWEEN THE ARCHITECTS OF CATHEDRALS,
AND OF THE MORAL FABRICS OF SOCIETY. |
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PARALLEL BETWEEN THE ARCHITECTS OF CATHEDRALS, AND OF THE MORAL FABRICS OF SOCIETY.
As, when some Genius hath planned a pileOf scope perdúrable, where Faith her wings
May spread at large, and to the invisible things
Of God upsoar, the multitude meanwhile
The tool, the instrument, (though blind, not vile,
For it, though labouring darkly, cleaves and clings
To the great work it works out) which he brings
To bear, and doth adapt and reconcile
To his great hand—so the true architects
Of Time foreshape the age that is to be,
Which generations, each in its degree,
Opinions, creeds, religions, systems, sects,
The united labour of Humanitie,
Work out, whilst God, the Master, all directs!
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