Christianity and Greek Philosophy / or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles

by B. F. Cocker

Reared by their strange diversities of form,

With ruthless war so broke their proper paths,

Their motions, intervals, conjunctions, weights,

And repercussions, nought of genial act

Till now could follow, nor the seeds themselves

E'en though conjoined in mutual bonds, co

Thus air, secreted, rose o'er laboring earth;

Secreted ocean flowed; and the pure fire,

Secreted too, toward ether sprang sublime.

But first the seeds terrene, since ponderous most