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SPIRITUAL SONNET: ON THE SUPERNATURAL by WILLIAM WRIGHTSON EUSTACE ROSS

First Line: WE MUST AFFIRM THE SUPERNATURAL
Last Line: OF NATURAL EXPLANATION THIN AND VOID.
Subject(s): SUPERNATURAL;

We must affirm the supernatural
However doubtfully we have looked upon
Its bare existence in the time that's gone,
For it is ever near and ever real;
As we shall find. We love the natural.
The human reason seated on a throne,
Creator of kingdoms for itself alone,
Is conscious of no zone ethereal.
But to an end with all this lower view,
The cause illusory, vain and yet employed;—
Angels there are and kindly daemons too,
Their throng, removed from faulty human sight,
In the unseen worlds as we should know in spite
Of natural explanation thin and void.



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