"Gospel hardened"? Can the Word Harden hearts, though daily heard? Can the Saviour's graciousness Curse the lives it fain would bless? Can the Love that lived and died, Mocked, neglected, crucified, While it only seeks our good Fix our hearts in hardihood? As the living waters roll Can they petrify the soul? "Gospel hardened"? Rather say: "Hardened in the devil's way, Riches hardened, pleasure bound, Fixed in fashion's silly round, Cast in some scholastic mold, Iced with scepticisms cold, Or congealed in barren toil Like a post in frosty soil." "Gospel hardened"? 'Tis absurd! "Mammon hardened" is the word. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STORY OF THE END OF THE STORY by JAMES GALVIN ENVOYS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON IDEA: TO THE READER OF THESE SONNETS, INTRODUCTION by MICHAEL DRAYTON DISAPPOINTED by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE BRONCHO THAT WOULD NOT BE BROKEN by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY RAIN IN SUMMER by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY by JOHN MILTON |