93. Faith against Sight
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"As it was in the days of Lot, so shall it
be also in the day
of the Son of Man." |
THE world has cycles in its course, when all |
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That once has been, is acted o'er again:— |
| Not by some fated law, which need appal |
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Our faith, or binds our deeds as with a chain; |
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But by men's separate sins, which blended still
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The same bad round fulfil. |
Then fear ye not, though Gallio's scorn ye see, |
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And soft-clad nobles count you mad, true hearts! |
These are the fig-tree's signs;—rough deeds must
be, |
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Trials and crimes: so learn ye well your parts. |
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Once more to plough the earth it is decreed,
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And
scatter wide the seed.
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Off Sardinia.
June 18, 1833.
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