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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BITTER-SWEET: CRADLE SONG [OR, BABYHOOD] by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND SIXTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR by ALFRED TENNYSON TO THE RIGHT HON! WILLIAM EARL OF DARTMOUTH by PHILLIS WHEATLEY IMMORTALIA NE SPERES by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE |