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THE DIVINE PARADOX, by                    
First Line: A god and yet a man
Last Line: By reason's power to reach it. / believe and leave to wonder!
Variant Title(s): Wit Wonders
Subject(s): Religion; Theology


A god and yet a man?
A maid and yet a mother?
Wit wonders what wit can
Conceive, this or the other?
A god, and can he die?
A dead man, can he live?
What wit can well reply?
What reason reason give?
God, truth itself, doth teach it;
Man's wit sinks too far under
By reason's power to reach it.
Believe and leave to wonder.








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