Who to say of Him, ‘I believe’?
Who is there ever with a heart to dare
To utter, ‘I believe Him not’?
So in poetry, Tennyson, the poet of modern thought, touches the deepest chords when he asks—
Are God and Nature, then, at strife?
and paints in the sharpest contrast on the background of the unknown, the conflict between the faith that
God is love indeed,
And love creation’s final law,
and the harsh realities of nature, which
Red in tooth and claw