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EPILOGUE . F there be breath of God in ocean 's rise and fall, 1 If there be God behind the stars and sullen blue, If all our dreams that we would proudly hold as true Are shadows from the light of God who is the All ; If we who looked adoringly in Nature 's eyes , And we who find in Love the highest truth we know And bear the blazing torch of song aloft to show Divinity indwells the lovely forms we prize ; If we , then , poets , dare believe as we dare see The God above , among us , who is God indeed , O Thou , who gave us voice and vision to …
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Harold Monro . Oh, if there be no God , by whom and why Was Consciousness erected from the sod ? Though I hate life , I swear I will not die Until I have discovered — Who is God ? Joscelyn . By God, I cannot tell you . If your tale Be true, ' tis strange and terrible indeed . My only business is to sell my ale John . Have you no Church and no religious Creed ? Joscelyn . Church ! On the sabbath , surely . In the week I earn my bread . God knows , I cannot spare An hour - John ( looking up the road ). Ah, who is this ? I'll make him speak ! Josc…
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Harold Monro . God is the Truth , and , if you doubt it, look Into the pages of His sacred book . John . I have read that through and through Henry . Read once again ! God makes His meaning absolutely plain . He demonstrates that , when the world began , He made a solemn covenant with man ; Tells how , and where the fatal tree was set In Eden ; furthermore, how woman ate; Yea , how Eve tempted Adam and he fell , Necessitating everlasting Hell . Praise be to Him whose wisdom could invent That final word to every argument ! Thou hast the Light - …
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Harold Monro . Go to the heart of all, and watch the seed Strive godward and at last become the flower. Once , long before the birth of time, a storm Of white desire , by its own ardour hurled , Flashed out of infinite Desire , took form , Strove , won , survived : and God became the world . Next , some internal force began to move Within the bosom of that latest earth : The spirit of an elemental love Stirred outward from itself , and God was birth . Then outward , upward , with heroic thew , Savage from young and bursting blood of life , Desi…
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…To feed a starving louse ; And I must beg , or I must steal , Or moulder in the House . Will any kindly clergyman Explain the reason why God set me here to mar His plan Of earth and sea and sky ? ** THERE IS A CHAOS THRONED ABOVE THE THRONE .” AST night the God of bitter dread Who shadowed my forgotten years, The God I struck and left for dead When hate had grown above my fears , Came drifting back from farthest space , From ghosts of gods and ghosts of men , And found me in the haunted place Where he and I were lonely then . So small and weak …
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…. Oh , learned master , solve our grief ! By whom were we uplifted from the sod ? We lean upon thy wisdom : tell us brief , Who , who is God ? Bernardo . God ? God ! There is no GOD . 146
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Harold Monro . John . God . Henry . The righteous God -- Dives . God never fought ! Joscelyn . Hail, good and learned Dives . Tell us then Andrea . Aye, what know you of Him ? Dives . When battles cease He moves among the busy marts of men , Revealed in trade , prosperity and peace . When I was young I put my faith in war, And felt Him stir like battle in my heart; But manhood brought me wisdom and I saw God in the subtle contest of the mart . He loves the man of square and stubborn power , Who bides in concentrated watchfulness The perfect mom…
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… MUSIC PICTURE . (Written while music was being played .) DALING fires of instant blue 1 Throb the lower heavens through ; In the higher God is fire . Green the calling of the hills ; Silver -noted sing the rills ; In the paling east doth rise All the fire that flames and dies ; In the glowing west is set The banner of the lost regret ; In the midst betwixt the skies God looks through the clouds and dies . Lying on a bank of green , All the grey is clearest seen ; All my floating thoughts arise To the place where God still lies . In my thought …
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Harold Monro . A beast without a home, a coward, a scourge : God never would have made you , had He not Made me as well to punish and to purge. He, by a ruling immemorial , Is Master of the judges of the land ; My pen inscribes the sentence , but in all He stands behind me, and directs my hand . Should I invent one truthless explanation , Or fail one sacred precedent to keep , I could no more kneel down in adoration I think I could not even eat or sleep . So, in the name of God , on your confession , Thief, I arrest you, that His wrath may fall…
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…d I' ve trod ; He cannot hear [ Andrea enters . Ah , comrade , what say you ? Henry . Aye , thou hast fought His battles — John . Who is God ? Andrea God is all action . It is He who cares For each man singly when the battle rolls . He loves us so He even counts our hairs . He keeps a special record of our souls . He guards the nations in adversity ; He sends them forth on their appointed ways . Fear Him ! He is the Lord of Hosts — and He Listens whenever anybody prays . He never sleeps , but watches day and night ; God is the God of thunder , …
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H . O . Meredith . First man creating his first God In his own image dimly known , More treacherous than the quaking sod , And harder hearted than the stone ! Tiger and snake who hunted me , The thunder crash , the swollen stream , I worshipped - wanton cruelty , Mad perils of a maniac dream . I peopled earth a new found hell With the new devil of my soul , That thought might find a place to dwell And the dire chaos seem a whole . For strange I saw my first sun rise And felt his warmth upon my flesh And screaming , with distorted eyes Fled from…
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…is dear But ever questionable ; Sorrow alone can fix love over fear , Throned upon certainty , all doubts removed . Even so' tis nothing God to have proved Mid colours of the day , Nothing to find his footsteps in the stars : For these are bright , Filling our soul with vintage of delight , Poured from inexhaustible jars Quenching dismay . But if man found him in the infinity Beyond the infinities of time and place , The space that is no space , The time that is no time , A Law where Law is not That were a God of certainty , To make each partic…
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… men ! There came to me the Magdalen : Her blue robe with a cord was bound , Her hair with knotted ivy crowned . " Arise ," she said , " God calls for thee , Turned to new paths thy feet must be. Leave the fever and the feast, Leave the friend thou lovest best; For thou must walk in barefoot ways, On hills, where God is near to praise . Then answered I, “ Sweet Magdalen , God 's servant, once beloved of men , Why didst thou change old ways for new , Thy trailing red for corded blue , Roses for ivy on thy brow , That splendour for this barren vo…
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H . 0 . Meredith . How should the world or sea or land The senseless grass , the unthinking beast , Reach up to God ? How understand What links the greatest with the least ? Or how should God , who throws afar Time 's weft across the warp of space , Who communes not with any star , Nor the sun 's radiance finds his face , Stoop and observe a spinning ball His hand in one slight moment twirled , Half idly sundering from the All That last least particle , the world ? Man 's flesh is rooted in the ground , Whose mind , yet , reaching up the sky Fa…
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… upward to itself again . Out of the lives of heroes and their deeds , Out of the miracle of human thought, Out of the songs of singers, God proceeds ; And of the soul of them his Soul is wrought. Nothing is lost : all that is dreamed or done Passes unaltered the eternal way , Immerging in the everlasting One , Who was the dayspring and who is the day . Joscelyn . Good poet , cease , and quaff some ale with me . John . You have not said who raised me from the sod . Henry . Your speech is rank and hellish blasphemy . Caspar . Nay , nay ,- and ye…
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Harold Monro . Lazarus . Thy soul ! Joscelyn . 'Tis Lazarus . Lazarus . Dives , thou hast none. God knows thee not. I speak in no extreme: The rich have forfeited their souls — not one Can enter Heaven . Do not thou blaspheme ! Men praise the rich : once I was one of those . But, now I know the restfulness of dearth , I would not sacrifice my tattered clothes For all the gathered fortunes of the earth . [ Lazarillo appears . God is not found in strife , nor in the mart ; He is not on the land nor in the sea , But deep in the recesses of the hea…
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Harold Monro . And God ! High -throned He dwells in farthest sky, Into whose presence none shall ever pass , Save by the flesh of Jesus Christ, which I Reveal to all believers in the Mass . Ah , when His Holy Spirit amid fumes Of incense lifts me out of self - control , No heretic can dream how He illumes The innermost recesses of my soul . That is a mystery I alone may scan , Privileged in my character of priest ; So now in my capacity of man , I ask you all to come with me and Caustic . - feast . Innocent . Sir, who are you ? Caustic . A man …
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…But in mysterious darkness there is life . Look deep into my eyes , and thou shalt see Not theory , creed or law , but self-belief ; Not God or Jesus , but Reality ; Not poverty or riches , but - a thief. Aye, do not start ! Not one among you all Has my heroic courage ; for although You have the instincts of the criminal , You lack the resolution to be so. Search , hypocrites , your hearts, and sound them true : I rid the rich of superfluities ; No man has ever starved through me -- but you Cheat and despoil the humble poor with lies . And as f…
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Victor B. Neuburg . This I knew when long ago I came to God suffused in woe , And he gave his life to me, And he died upon the tree, And the tree gave fruit and bloom , And it grew a god 's green tomb . And he rose again to be All the pulsing world to me. "SEASCAPE . ACROSS the sandy shallows The salt winds cry and mourn ; The little twittering swallows Cry out their notes ; forlorn The grass at the sea 's edge On the cliff ledge . A cold grey sky ; the wind Rustles through the trees ; Chilled grasses weep ; unkind To them the icy breeze . Brow…
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…ominion , power, angel, throne , For unimaginable ends, and hiss , And fall. The heralds trumpet ; they are gone. Tread softly — 'tis in God ' s house thou hast been And fearfully — ' tis God that thou hast seen . 157