Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . Browning Tis dangerous to touch on BrowningAnd set the Brownies all a-frowning,But hes a preacher like the rest,And only a poet at his best. Hear Paracelsus where he tells us,Or rather Brownings about to tell,All we would know of Heaven and Hell,How he peters out and fails usLeaving the hard question dubiousBy giving the Mediums old worn bare through constant use—Even Spirits are not much better had he admittedHe did not know—and just said so. But hes preacher like the rest,And only a poet at his best. [271] Digitized b
Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . Browning Tis dangerous to touch on BrowningAnd set the Brownies all a-frowning,But hes a preacher like the rest,And only a poet at his best. Hear Paracelsus where he tells us,Or rather Brownings about to tell,All we would know of Heaven and Hell,How he peters out and fails usLeaving the hard question dubiousBy giving the Mediums old worn bare through constant use—Even Spirits are not much better had he admittedHe did not know—and just said so. But hes preacher like the rest,And only a poet at his best. [271] Digitized by Microsoft®. Carlyle Could Carlyle be alive todayAnd have a bomb drop Chelsea wayIt would not altogether charm him,In fact I think it would alarm might his worship much abateOf certain Heroes he calls great. I think in reading history Distance aids philosophy, A bomb-shell dropped in our back-yard Creates not brotherly regard Towards those regarded formerly As almost of the family. Is this the meaning of Christs word?In Heaven peace, on Earth the Sword? [272] Digitized by Microsoft® Goethe or Psychic Conchology There lies a priceless Pearl withinTheologys calcareous shell,A word—by Science scarcely seen—Which humbler eyes oft call that shell ConchologyScience might solve the mystery. Tis there as in a bag of tricks Exists the Theologic mix— Sin, Satan, liate, Free-will and Grace, Where Man and Nature, face to face, Forever fight; but is this so? For when we to great Goethe go He cries, My friends, look on the whole. Solves this the saving of the Soul? Or does the Devil sti
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