ON THE PROOFS OF A DEITY.
ORIGINAL.
Talk not of proofs: God must be seen, and felt,
And known by meditation; not deduced
Like some hard problem, or a riddle spelt
By frequent guessing. Proofs on proofs adduced,
Speak they so plainly as the wailing cry
Of her first infant tells the mother’s heart
A mother’s love doth well from God on high?
Who hath not heard, in solitude apart,