They do and say, for show, before a welcome guest.
What use of sound of harp, of bass or treble notes,
For deaf or senseless ear, that on no music dotes?”
“Our God has made the earth, the sky, and all between;
His light, and eke His fire, upon that stage is seen.140
The Lord without a purpose gave not musk its scent.
For odour ’twas, not for diseased nostrils, meant.
The earth He stretched forth, and fixed as man’s abode.
The heavens He upreared to be by angels rode.
Th’ inferior creature, man, ’s at strife with all on high;