FRAGMENTS.

I.
THE CERTAINTY OF FAITH.

What thou of God and of thyself dost know,

So know that none can force thee to forego;

For oh! his knowledge is a worthless art,

Which, while it forms not of himself a part,

The foremost man he meets with readier skill

In sleight of words, can rob him of at will.

Faith feels not of her lore more sure nor less,