Earth shall itself bear witness to my prayerful tear.
Command shall issue: “Loud proclaim the acts thou’st seen.”
The earth, the rocks, a tongue shall find, to tell what’s been.50
Philosophers deny this, in their pride of mind;
But tell them: “Dash your heads against a wall, ye blind!”
The speech of earth, of water, and of plastic clay,
Is audible unto the ears of saints that pray.
Philosophers who will deny God’s saving grace,
Are strangers to the powers of saints’ inspired race.
He holds that inclination, working on man’s brain,