Bunyan and Spinoza
[ AFTER DR. JOWETT'S SERMON ]
Together , Prophets, have ye trodden earth,
Happy that neither might the other know:
Else what so huge as the Homeric flow
Of the great Hebrew's rich compassionate mirth
At the great Tinker's frenzy? save the dearth
Of Bunyan's charity for Heaven's foe,
Spilth of the Patmian's seven-vialled woe,
A living death! an inauspicious birth!
Now are the souls wrought of such diverse woof,
Twin sons and saints of God acknowledged, each
Straight in his love and in his scorn awry.
Truer, be sure, is Verity's own speech
Affirmative, than thunder of reproof;
Truest, if listening Love stand smiling by.
Together , Prophets, have ye trodden earth,
Happy that neither might the other know:
Else what so huge as the Homeric flow
Of the great Hebrew's rich compassionate mirth
At the great Tinker's frenzy? save the dearth
Of Bunyan's charity for Heaven's foe,
Spilth of the Patmian's seven-vialled woe,
A living death! an inauspicious birth!
Now are the souls wrought of such diverse woof,
Twin sons and saints of God acknowledged, each
Straight in his love and in his scorn awry.
Truer, be sure, is Verity's own speech
Affirmative, than thunder of reproof;
Truest, if listening Love stand smiling by.
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