Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

Harold Monro . Joseph (quickly ) Glory to His Name, Which Heaven and earth eternally adore , Who was, and is, and shall be evermore ! He made thy body , and He made thy soul: He is Jehovah , everlasting Lord , And while eternal ages onward roll Creation shall be subject to His word . Thee , thou profane , thou double -damned leech , He had confounded in thy godless mirth , But that His unimagined mercies reach From earth to Heaven and from Heaven to earth . He is the all in all, the first and last ; In Him the beginning and the end unite ; He is the future and He is the past : He is the finite and the infinite . I will not dare His wonder to proclaim Which do not thou endeavour to besmirch . Ye who desire to glorify His Name , [ Geoffrey enters . Go - Joscelyn . Welcome poet ! John . Who is God ? Joseph . - to church Geoffrey . To church ! I heard a sermon once in spring , When last I went to church five years ago Such a dry , withered , cracked and crabbed thing As might have made the trees forget to grow . To church ! God is a spirit , not a creed ; He is an inner , outward - moving power : 143