Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GERMAN AND FRENCH GOSPELS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER


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GERMAN AND FRENCH GOSPELS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How do these eloquent lecturers of france
Last Line: With atmospheres of philosophic breath!
Subject(s): Religion; Theology


How do these eloquent lecturers of France,
And more uncouth expositors of lame
Teutonic Saviours, on our creeds advance,
And push, in crowds, for Messianic fame!
Some in 'great swaths' of learning and untruth
Utter themselves, and vent, in weary tomes,
Their cruel day-dreams, without pause or ruth,
Staunch to a worse apostacy than Rome's;
Others, in tenderer tones, our hopes decry,
And blight all careless hearts with moral death,
And, with sweet voices, summon us to die;
But, all alike, reduce our grand old faith,
Our full-orb'd creeds, to merest nuclei,
With atmospheres of philosophic breath!





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