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in the constraint put upon our abased intellects to acknowledge, in them all, 

 the proofs of a beneficent Providence and an infinite Divine Intelligence. 



O marvellous credulty of man ! 



If God indeed kept secret, couldst thou know, 

 Or follow up the mighty Artizan, 



Unless he willed it so ? 

 And canst tlmu of the Maker think in sooth 



That of the made He shall be found at fault. 

 And dream of wresting from Him hidden trutli 



By force or by assault ? 

 But if he keeps not secret — if thine eyea 



He openeth to His wondrous work of late— 

 Think how in soberness thy wisdom lies. 



And have the grace to wait. 

 Wait, not against the half learii'd lesson fret. 



Nor chide at old belief, as if it err'd ; 

 Because thou can't not reconcile as yet 



The Worker and the yVoid.- (Jean Iiijelow.) 



