Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ZEAL AND LOVE, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN


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First Line: And would'st thou reach, rash scholar mine
Last Line: Nor gifts, when faith was dead.
Subject(s): Hate


AND would'st thou reach, rash scholar mine,
Love's high unruffled state?
Awake! thy easy dreams resign,
First learn thee how to hate: --

Hatred of sin, and Zeal, and Fear,
Lead up the Holy Hill;
Track them, till Charity appear
A self-denial still.

Dim is the philosophic flame.
By thoughts severe unfed:
Book-lore ne'er served, when trial came,
Nor gifts, when faith was dead.





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