CAN History prove the truth which hath Its record in the silent soul? Or Mathematics mete the path Whereby the spirit seeks its goal? Can Love of aught but Love inherit The blessing which is born of Love? The spirit knoweth of the spirit: The soul alone the soul can prove. The eye to see: the ear to hear: The working hand to help the will: To every sense his separate sphere: And unto each his several skill. The ear to sight, the eye to sound, Is callous: unto each is given His lorddom in his proper bound. The soul, the soul to find out heaven! There is a glory veiled to sight; A voice which never ear hath heard; There is a law no hand can write, Yet stronger than the written word. And hast thou tidings for my soul, O teacher? to my soul intrust Alone the purport of thy scroll: Or vex me not with learned dust. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX [APRIL 9, 1865] by HERMAN MELVILLE CALIBAN [ON THE ISLAND], FR. THE TEMPEST by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE SONNET: 128 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 19. THE HEART, LOVE'S BUTT by PHILIP AYRES THE SOLITARY TOMB by BERNARD BARTON WRITTEN AT SEA by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE |