Ballads and Other Poems / Fourth Edition, Revised

by George Lansing Raymond

And courting smiles from bigotry appeased,

And grinning hell that holds the whole its own,

Preach up the crucifixion of the soul

To save the body, save the outward form.

A church is His no more, whose rites or creeds

Keep souls untrue to truth within that shows

God’s tempering there, the touch that makes man man.”

LXIII.

I swore it should not be, it could not be;