Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . [110] Digitized by Microsoft® Rhyme The power of Rhyme, Uke that of Time,Must cause the loftiest Bards to bow,And make them use time after timeThe silly rhymes Im using should the wind but bow a boughThat bough for sake of rhyme must sough,Or should the wild wind prove unkindSome solitary leaf twill findAnd tear it from the soughing bough—Thus making its brief life more briefAnd like this ending a [Ill] Digitized by Microsoft® Nineteen Fifteen Could Science make Faith scientific,Thus a Religion a la mode,Wed find that such a cre

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Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . [110] Digitized by Microsoft® Rhyme The power of Rhyme, Uke that of Time,Must cause the loftiest Bards to bow,And make them use time after timeThe silly rhymes Im using should the wind but bow a boughThat bough for sake of rhyme must sough,Or should the wild wind prove unkindSome solitary leaf twill findAnd tear it from the soughing bough—Thus making its brief life more briefAnd like this ending a [Ill] Digitized by Microsoft® Nineteen Fifteen Could Science make Faith scientific,Thus a Religion a la mode,Wed find that such a creed eclecticWould need the broadest kind of road. For now the ancient roads seem Star of Bethlehem grown greetings far too their lovely hymn. Instead with glad hymn megaphonicWe greet a new electric Star,And as we fondly gaze upon itHope we have seen the end of War. Now Peace on Earth men hear the nations see delightedThat Peace, a dove—^like Aeroplane—But fully armed—^has just alighted.

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