03.05.2012, 20:40
Reconciliation
I SAW of late one running here and there
About the world, who beat his breast and cried,
"O God, art Thou dethroned and dost Thou hide,
All impotent, in his infernal lair
Who now, meseems, Thy Godhood seeks to wear
And Thy just laws in scorn to over-ride,
Bestowing pain where joy should most abide,
And cursing Innocence with Hell's despair?" -
Then saw I later one of ordered mien,
With meekest dignity he passed along,
And said (as to a friend at his right hand),
"Foolish my cries, who ne'er of pain had seen
The heart divine, - O Lord, forgive the wrong!
Now have I suffered, and now understand."
I SAW of late one running here and there
About the world, who beat his breast and cried,
"O God, art Thou dethroned and dost Thou hide,
All impotent, in his infernal lair
Who now, meseems, Thy Godhood seeks to wear
And Thy just laws in scorn to over-ride,
Bestowing pain where joy should most abide,
And cursing Innocence with Hell's despair?" -
Then saw I later one of ordered mien,
With meekest dignity he passed along,
And said (as to a friend at his right hand),
"Foolish my cries, who ne'er of pain had seen
The heart divine, - O Lord, forgive the wrong!
Now have I suffered, and now understand."