II. Never yet was Truth assail'd, But the struggle gave it strength; "Great is Truth and has prevail'd," Always comes to pass at length: Never yet was Good attack'd, But the very foe that smote Whiten'd up what slander black'd, And abjured what malice wrote! III. What is Good?-the pure and kind; What is Truth?-the wise and right; And, in Matter as in Mind, Both will live in death's despite : But the bad, the false, the base, Barely breathe one feverish hour; Dying out of every place, Like a rootless nosegay flower. IV. comes it, that so oft n droop, and good things drown? Lies are throned aloft, many Truths die down? For just a little while, just a herd of fools, praised, and shams beguile, is stout where Satan rules. V. look a little higher, post your eager eye, gloriously aspire, GOD and Right rely; hes-forsake it, od dies-renounce its sway, Good, for treasure take it, ecure the True to-day! Chaos Crystallizing. GIVE it only time enough, Every thing shall find its place; Every creature wins its race, Though the course be rough. All is not Mistake on earth ; And Creation, down to man, Justifies its birth. ds her Babel tower, -since Wisdom well permits, Old Sin a Nimrod sits his human hour: ttle time have fled, anon it topples down; we tear away the crown om that usurper's head! ll yet be right at last; ing Day shall clear it up; Creation's stirrup-cup weeten all the past. achieves its glorious ends; n for Evil's transient reign te of guilt and grief and pain Making rich amends. |