SCAZONS Since I believe in God the Father Almighty, Man's Maker and Judge, Overruler of Fortune, 'Twere strange should I praise anything and refuse Him praise, Should love the creature forgetting the Creator, Nor unto Him in suffering and sorrow turn me: Nay how could I withdraw me from His embracing? But since that I have seen not, and cannot know Him, Nor in my earthly temple apprehend rightly His wisdom and the heavenly purpose eternal; Therefore will I be bound to no studied system Nor argument, nor with delusion enslave me, Nor seek to please Him in any foolish invention, Which my spirit within me, that lovely beauty And hateth evil, hath reproved as unworthy: But I cherish my freedom in loving service, Gratefully adoring for delight beyond asking Or thinking, and in hours of anguish and darkness Confiding always on His excellent greatness. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SLAVE'S DREAM by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE BLESSED DAMOZEL by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI A SONG OF LIFE by ABRAHAM IBN EZRA A POEM, DEDICATED TO WILLIAM LAW, PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY by ROBERT BLAIR THE RING AND THE BOOK: BOOK 10. THE POPE by ROBERT BROWNING TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE JACKDAW by EDWARD CARPENTER |