Had I wist that now I wot For to have found that now I find, I would have done that I did not. But feigned faith did make me blind And by great oaths fixed in my mind His faith to be faithful to trust. The deed now proved, I find unjust. It is not the thing that I pass on. Of his faith though I had assurance, Of that no more I will trust on Than of a thing that lieth in balance. Truth laid apart falsed is. His maintenance, Ever double, never will be true. Rooted at the heart must needs continue. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OLD LEM by STERLING ALLEN BROWN CREDO by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG by ANNIE CHAMBERS KETCHUM HORATIUS [AT THE BRIDGE], FR. LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY THE DEFENSE OF THE ALAMO [MARCH 6, 1835] by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER TWILIGHT AT THE HEIGHTS by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER |