The joyful younger choir may clap the wing. }
TO
MR DRYDEN,
ON
RELIGIO LAICI.
'Tis nobly done, a layman's creed profest,
When all our faith of late hung on a priest;
His doubtful words, like oracles received,
And, when we could not understand, believed.
Triumphant faith now takes a nobler course,
Tis gentle, but resists intruding force.