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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THOUGHT, by HUMPHRY DAVY
First Line: Be this our trust, that ages
Last Line: Showing its glorious and eternal source.
First Line: Be this our trust, that ages
Last Line: Showing its glorious and eternal source.
BE this our trust, that ages (filled with light
More glorious far than those faint beams which shine
In this our feeble twilight) yet to come
Shall see distinctly what we now but hope, --
The world immutable in which alone
Wisdom is found, the light and life of things,
The breath divine, creating power divine,
The One of which the human intellect
Is but a type, as feeble as that image
Of the bright sun seen on the bursting wave --
Bright, but without distinctness; yet in passing
Showing its glorious and eternal source.
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