I am not worthy that Thou shouldst come under my roofe.
Thy God was making hast into thy roofe;
Thy humble faith and feare keepes him aloofe.
Hee'll be thy guest, because He may not be;
Hee'll come—into thy house? No, into thee. Cr.
XLIII.
Christus accusatus nihil respondet. Matt. xxvii. 12.
Nil ait: ô sanctae pretiosa silentia linguae!
Ponderis ô quanti res nihil illud erat!
Ille olim verbum qui dixit, et omnia fecit,
Verbum non dicens omnia nunc reficit.
And He answered them nothing.
O mighty Nothing! unto thee,
Nothing, wee owe all things that bee.
God spake once when Hee all things made,
Hee sav'd all when Hee Nothing said.
The world was made of Nothing then;
'Tis made by Nothing now againe. Cr.
ANOTHER VERSION.
'Nothing He said.'
O precious silence of that sacred tongue!
O what vast interests on that Nothing hung!
He who once spoke the word, and all things made,
Now re-makes all, when not a word is said. G.