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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AD ASTRA: 129, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE
First Line: Had not the greeks of old as fine a sense
Last Line: In that first sign and sacrament of heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): God; Holy Ghost; Religion; Holy Spirit; Theology
First Line: Had not the greeks of old as fine a sense
Last Line: In that first sign and sacrament of heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): God; Holy Ghost; Religion; Holy Spirit; Theology
Had not the Greeks of old as fine a sense
Of true discernment betwixt Right and Wrong?
An intellectual manhood as intense?
A soul that soar'd the highest gods among?
Yet knew they not the song Isaiah sung!—
To them the Holy Spirit was not given
In that first sign and sacrament of Heaven.
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