And now, was there really no dalliance with the Muses in times that brought to the front such fighting Gospellers as we have talked of?
Yes, even Thomas More did write poems—having humor in them and grammatic proprieties, and his Latin prosody is admired of Classicists: then there were the versifiers of the Psalms, Sternhold and Hopkins, and the Whittingham who succeeded John Knox at Geneva—sharing that Scotchman’s distaste for beautiful rubrics, and we suspect beautiful verses also—if we may judge by his version of the Creed. This is a sample:—
“The Father, God is; God, the Son;
God—Holy Ghost also;
Yet are not three gods in all
But one God and no mo.”
From the Apostles’ Creed again, we excerpt this:—
“From thence, shall he come for to judge
All men both dead and quick.
I, in the Holy Ghost believe