Stones from The Quarry or, Moods of Mind. By Henry Browne [i.e. Henry Ellison] |
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FAITH AND HOPE IN VIEW OF THE “AUTOMATIC
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FAITH AND HOPE IN VIEW OF THE “AUTOMATIC ACTION OF MATTER” THEORY.
And shall that Flower of rarest growth, with dewsOf heaven reared, towards heaven lifting high
Its head, and pérfuming Humanity
With efflorescence so divine, profuse,
Its vital air and sap sustaining lose;
At top be blighted and at root too die,
And like a vile weed, cast on dunghill, lie,
Disclaimed of Heaven, to Earth of no more use?
And with it too must die that other bloom
Of earthlier growth, but yet perennial,
Which, dying out on Earth, seeds in the tomb
Flowers of Amaranth that ne'er shall fall!
O Thought, which turns all light to outer gloom,
Prayer to the Desert-lost's despairing call!
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