Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By Arthur Hugh Clough (18191861)Old things need not be therefore true
“OLD things need not be therefore true,” | |
O brother men, nor yet the new; | |
Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, | |
And yet consider it again. | |
The souls of now two thousand years | 5 |
Have laid up here their toils and fears, | |
And all the earnings of their pain,— | |
Ah, yet consider it again! | |
We! what do we see? each a space | |
Of some few yards before his face; | 10 |
Does that the whole wide plan explain? | |
Ah, yet consider it again! | |