"TRUTH is an Idol," spake the Christian sage. "Thou shalt not worship Truth divorced from Love. Truth is but God's reflection: Look above!" So Pascal wrote, and still we muse the page. "Truth is divine," said Plato, "but on high She dwells, and few may be her ministers, For Truth is sad and lonely and diverse: Heal thou the weakling with a generous lie!" But thou in Truth delightedst! Thou of soul As subtle-shimmering as the rainbow mist, And still in all her service didst persist. For no one truth thou lovedst, but the Whole. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1877 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THERE WAS A BOY (VERSION 1) by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH CHRISTMAS, 1917 by BRENT DOW ALLINSON LINES TO A TEAPOT by JOANNA BAILLIE THE EVE OF BANNOCKBURN by JOHN BARBOUR TWELVE SONNETS: 9. WEARINESS by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) TO THE MEMORY OF H-- M-- by BERNARD BARTON INTERNAL FIRESIDES by MATHILDE BLIND WRITTEN FOR A LADY'S COMMON-PLACE BOOK by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD |