SCAZONS Since I believe in God the Father Almighty, Man's Maker and Judge, Overruler of Fortune, 'Twere strange should I praise anything and refuse Him praise, Should love the creature forgetting the Creator, Nor unto Him in suffering and sorrow turn me: Nay how could I withdraw me from His embracing? But since that I have seen not, and cannot know Him, Nor in my earthly temple apprehend rightly His wisdom and the heavenly purpose eternal; Therefore will I be bound to no studied system Nor argument, nor with delusion enslave me, Nor seek to please Him in any foolish invention, Which my spirit within me, that lovely beauty And hateth evil, hath reproved as unworthy: But I cherish my freedom in loving service, Gratefully adoring for delight beyond asking Or thinking, and in hours of anguish and darkness Confiding always on His excellent greatness. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THOMAS MACDONAGH by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE PARTED FRIENDS by JAMES MONTGOMERY THE PLUMPUPPETS by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY KITTY NEIL by JOHN FRANCIS WALLER ON THE DESERTED VILLAGE by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD MOUNT RAINIER by HERBERT BASHFORD A 'FIRST IMPRESSION': TOKYO by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |