This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...of penalty to satisfy The most severe; but did I use my faith Too roughly? Nay, in that my faith itself Is still unchanged, and in material guise I am afflicted, surely faith it was That proved too hard for me; my inward self Moved on unheedful of the outward need For caution; so did Eucharis move on, Only, more ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...of penalty to satisfy The most severe; but did I use my faith Too roughly? Nay, in that my faith itself Is still unchanged, and in material guise I am afflicted, surely faith it was That proved too hard for me; my inward self Moved on unheedful of the outward need For caution; so did Eucharis move on, Only, more faithful in that she resigned Much more than I, her outward self was wrecked The sooner; I am left to float along, My pristine faith, thank God unchanged, un-changed, That there is truth and firm reality Where most men see but clouds. That we have failed (If we have failed, ) to reach it, matters not; It mattered not that some were beaten back By fear or baffling winds, from searching out The mysteries of the western continent; Columbus found it; so, when time is ripe, That wind of God which for the admiral Two months blew westward, contrary to wont, Shall bear some on to land upon the shore We failed to touch, if we have failed indeed. There was not less dinned in the ears of those Who sailed with him, of their impiety, Than will be preached upon our history's text. Than will be; for my mind is firmly bent To write her memoir and to publish it, That all may know her as she truly was. Nothing is lost by truth, but all things gained; Gain to her memory, lest, oozing out, The bare facts of our marriage should be made With some a cause for holding up of hands, And villainous constructions of her nature; Gain to the world, lest some, without the faith To bear her baptism, should be bold to sit Upon the seat which is at God's right hand. You would withhold me? If you would, I care not; No man shall breathe upon her memory And hold himself by ignorance excused; And none shall dare to follow after her Save by the gate through which she entered in, --The gat.
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