The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no!
Silence 'tis awe decrees.
The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!
There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!
He guides me and the bird. In His good time!
You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt.