'YES, write it in the rock!' Saint Bernard said, 'Grave it on brass with adamantine pen! ''Tis God himself becomes apparent, when 'God's wisdom and God's goodness are display'd, 'For God of these his attributes is made.'-- Well spake the impetuous Saint, and bore of men The suffrage captive; now, not one in ten Recalls the obscure opposer he outweigh'd. God's wisdom and God's goodness!--Ay, but fools Mis-define these till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness, they are God!--what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore? This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules; 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WITH AN ALBUM by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR THE OLD BRIDGE AT FLORENCE; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW FARRAGUT by WILLIAM TUCKEY MEREDITH SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 109 by PETRARCH THE IDEA by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON AT A COWBOY DANCE by JAMES BARTON ADAMS LIKE A SICK CHILD by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING MEMORIES by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON THE CANTERBURY TALES: THE MERCHANT'S TALE by GEOFFREY CHAUCER |