Here is an exquisite vindication of one of the least popular of the condemnations in the Syllabus—that of non-intervention.
It is called “On the Refusal of Aid between Nations”:
“Not that the earth is changing, O my God!
Nor that the seasons totter in their walk,—
Not that the virulent ill of act and talk
Seethes ever as a wine-press ever trod,—
Not therefore are we certain that the rod
Weighs in thine hand to smite the world; though now
Beneath thine hand so many nations bow,
So many kings:—not therefore, O my God:—